SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: CHONG YI QI

STUDENT ID: 0304898

FILMS SELECTED: FROZEN AND TANGLED

WORDS: 792

ENGLISH 2 (ENGL0205)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 19TH SEPTEMBER 2014

With the social development and progress of times, there are too many films

are released in each year. Sometimes it is hard for the audience to select which is

good or bad film to watch. This year, there is a musical film which drawn everyone

attention by Walt Disney Pictures – Frozen. Nevertheless, after Frozen was released,

there are numerous comparisons between “Tangled” and “Frozen”. So let’s take a

look at some of these comparisons of two animated musical fantasy-comedy films

and see if they have any merit.  

To start off, both of the main protagonists are the princess with power. From

the film “Frozen”, Elsa, princess of Arendelle, possesses the cryokinetic power,

which she is able to produce ice, frost and snow at will by her hands. In “Tangled”, a

golden flower capable of healing any decay or injury. As the flower has healed the

queen before she gives birth to Princess Rapunzel. Therefore Rapunzel’s hair

possesses the healing properties of the flower, but that cutting the hair will causes it

to lose its magic.

Initially, Anna and Rapunzel have stayed in the palace and tower in their

entire youth life but then they both actually walk out from their comfort zone for

love one and dreams. After Elsa have frost the kingdom in a endless winter, Anna

teams up with rugged moutain man, Kristoff and his reindeer, Sven and with the

snowman, Olaf to seek out Elsa and persuade her to return back to the kingdom, end

the winter and mend their relationship. In the other hand, Rapunzel is curious of the

outside world and dreams to leaving the tower to see the floating lights on her

birthday but Mother Gothel refuses to let Rapunzel go out of the tower. When a

charming thief, Flynn Ryder seeks for refuge in Rapunzel’s tower, she convinces him

to escort her to see the floating lights in exchange for the crown. He accepts the deal

and they start a hair-raising journey of discoveries and chased by the guards, the

bandits and Mother Gothel after escapes from the tower.

Even though Elsa and Rapunzel have the supernatural powers, they have

very limited knowledge about their power when they are young. In Frozen, once

Elsa accidentally loses control and injures Anna in her childhood, she is afraid of

hurting her sister again; therefore she spends most of her youth time alone in her

room until she learns to control her powers. In the other side, after the Mother

Gothel knows that the flower’s magical powers are growing within the golden hair

of Rapunzel; to stay young she kidnaps Rapunzel when she is little and locks her in a

hidden tower. Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire youth life and nearing her

eighteenth birthday, she does ask Mother Gothel for permission to leave the tower

but Gothel refuses. In the meantime, both of them have lost their freedom during

their youth times even they have the ability of superpower.

Lastly, the moral lesson of both films is don't judge a book by its cover. In

Frozen, Hans, the charming and handsome prince, is fooling first Anna and then Elsa

through his charm at first then soon he turns out to become a manipulative, power

hungry man who will kill whoever it takes in order to secure a seat on the King’s

throne. Besides, people think Elsa is evil as she isolater herself from eveyone on the

mountain after knowing she has the ability of superpower and incident of curse the

kingdom into infinite winter. In fact, she fears her power will hurt anyone especially

her sister. Meanwhile, in "Tangled", Flynn comes off as cocky, arrogant bandits who

overly concerned about money and wealth at firsr, but actually he is helpful, laid-

back, and good hearted. Furthermore, Mother Gothel repeatedly telling Rapunzel

people are evil and the world is dangerous place and she is protecting her from the

evil world but indeed she locks Rapunzel in her hidden tower is for her greedy to

retain her youth.

In conclusion, I believe that everyone has the right to pursue their dreams

and happiness. Never give up on achieving your dreams no matter how bad or hard

the situation. Both of the films do show some positive value to the audience that we

should not judge a book by its cover; people may change to the good or bad side of

them due to different experiences and environments. We should not label others in

the first place when we barely know them. People make mistakes, but doesn't mean

they have to pay for the rest of their life. Sometimes good people make bad decision,

but it doesn't mean they are bad. Everyone does deserve a second chance and

forgiveness.

Reference:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(2013_film)

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/

Pre-writing

1. introduction2. story of frozen and tangled3. the power of main protagonists4. hurt anna in childhood5. been kinapped by Mother Gothel6. lock in room and tower7. walk out their comfort zone8. chase her dreams9. find elsa and pursue her to end the winter10. moral lessons learned in frozen and tangled11. don't judge a books by it covers12. conclusion