SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: Yap Yong Xing

STUDENT ID NO: 0314715

FILMS SELECTED: Aladdin and Ratatouille

WORD COUNT: 600

ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 5TH DECEMBER 2013

Nowadays , animated films has always attracted people attention ,

this is because a lot of people enjoy watching animation, because it gives

them a feel of what developed technologies exist today .Technology has

changed very fast in this industry which helps producers to make animated

films easier ,awesome graphics and more easier to produce sound .There are

many animated films but after much thought I have an ideas which animated

films I should contrast . They are Aladdin and Ratatouille that will be

contrasted in term of animation, setting and movie director ,producer and

release time . Two of the most popular animated films which are Aladdin

and Ratatouille .

First of the different is these films are produced in

different ways ,different director ,different producer and

different release time . "Aladdin " came to the cinemas for

the first time in 1992 and the Ratatouille came to the

cinemas for the first time in year 2007 .In year 1992

technology for produce animated films is not very advanced

enough than year 2007. It is obvious in year 2007

technology is better than year 1992 technology , for an

example the Ratatouille film 's graphics ,sound effect ,

scene ,light even substitute also better than Aladdin films .

The another difference about Ratatouille and Aladdin are

the storyline . For the Ratatouille , the main character is a

very capable idealistic and ambitious young rat, gifted with

highly developed senses of taste and smell .In the story ,

the rat helped the young guy control his movements by

pulling his hair to teach him how to cook .The young guy and

that feel very happy because rat helping a guy who doesn't

how to cook and the young guy feel very lucky when he

meets the rat. And for the Aladdin the main character is a

ordinary citizen, named Aladdin, from the start he meets the

Jasmine, the Sultan's daughter, frustrated with her life in the

palace, flees to Agrabah's marketplace. There she meets

street rat Aladdin and his monkey, Abu, and the two begin to

form a friendship. After Aladdin is arrested for thievery,

Jasmine orders Jafar to have him released. Jafar lies to her

that Aladdin was already executed, leaving Jasmine

heartbroken is arrested for thievery .

Futhermore , another difference from Aladdin with

Ratatouille are their final part .Final part for Aladdin is after

he defeated the jafar and he wish for Genie's freedom.

Seeing Jasmine's love for Aladdin, the Sultan changes the

law to allow her to marry whomever she deems worthy. The

newly free Genie leaves to explore the world while Aladdin

and Jasmine celebrate their engagement. And for the

Ratatouille the rat bring his family ,siblings and friends settle

in their new home in the bistro's roof for continue follow the

young guy for the new business .

In these kind of movies producers try to making their

people who watches which it is obvious in ‘’Aladdin’’. This

film is full of risky and nervous scenes that makes everyone ,

such as the final part when Aladdin fights with Jafar which is

really dangerous. And the touching scenes in ‘’The

Ratatouille’’ is the rat very patient for step by step teaching

a trainee become a chef .

The reason why these two movies have so much difference is because

the producer and director for both movies are the not the same. The movies

are directed and produced by  Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava (Ratatouille) and Ron

Clements, John Musker ( Aladdin) respectively. So, these are the

differences in both Aladdin and Ratatouille .