1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: YVONNE CHIN YUN MIIN
STUDENT ID NO: 0315662
FILMS SELECTED: 1. THE INCREDIBLES
2. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
WORD COUNT: 1033 WORDS
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 18th
APRIL 2014

2. The Incredibles vs. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Ever since the superheros rose to prominence in comic books back in the
1940s, they were adapted to Saturday movie serial majorly aimed at children.
Unfortunately in the following decades, the decline of Saturday serial and turmoil
in the comic industry had put an end to superhero motion pictures, but with
exception of episodes of the superheros television series, the movie industry has
compiled them together and turned it into a theatrical release. Along the years and
inspired by the new interest of science fiction and fantasy films with the success of
Star Wars, the first ever major superhero movie Superman (1978) by Richard
Donner was proved a critical and commercial success. In the 20th
century, Marvel
Enterprise has brought in profitable franchises when it all began with a surprise hit
of 20th
Century Fox and Marvel’s X-Men film series. Now, you can see superhero
franchise stores in most of the shopping malls even now in Sunway Pyramid there
are two of the shops named DC Comics Superheros and Superheros United.
As much as I love to read superhero comic books, I have a craving of
watching superhero movies whenever it is released in the movie theatre. I tend to
imagine myself as the damsel in distress, waiting for her hero to save her and
whenever I think of it, it makes myself laugh. Most girls are just waiting for their
superman to swoop them up from their feet and fly into the night sky watching the
beautiful lights of the city coming alive and getting a closer glimpse at the shimmer
stars up above their heads. But most importantly, superheroes fight for justice and

3. they keep the city save from evil treacherous villains. The best ever animated
superhero movie I watched was The Incredibles, and recently I just watched my
favourite superhero movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Both of them are
amazing even if they are produced in different ways, having different storyline and
having different characteristics.
For the movie of The Incredibles, it was produced by Pixar Animation Studio
and released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2004. 3D animation is not as easy as it
seems. Unlike the tradition animation way, Bird himself found working in computer
animation difficult in a different way, finding animation softwares sophisticated and
unfriendly, which was very different from traditional ways like calling the camera’s
ability to easily switch angles in a given scene “marvelously adaptable”. It turned
out to be the most complex movie yet for Pixar. They had to create an all-human
cast which required new technology to animate detailed anatomy, hair and skin.
Even though they faced a lot of challenges in the way, it did not stop them by
creating a 3D animation of superheroes with different super abilities that looked
realistic in the movie using visual effects and so on. On the other hand, for live
action movie of Captain America. The actors have to act and react to portray their
character and to become one with their character. When they are in the zone the
ficitional world becomes their world and they have to put themselves out there for
all to watch which would make them feel vulnerable. Actors are not able to
analyze or observe their own performances but they have to do whatever the
director wants for multiple times until they achieve what he wants. The difficult for

4. them is to make it effortless and feel completely natural even though they just act
as what was written in the script. Most importantly is that casting of actors for a
film is very important since different actors brings different take on a character.
Furthermore, the storyline of The Incredibles is a lot more different than
Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The plot of The Incredibles is that it takes a
will to hide superhero talents from a world that still needs a hero, yet no longer
appreciate it. Going and living through a normal life and having a boring insurance
job, Mr. Incredible longs for the glory days of upholding law and order while his
superhuman family tries to fit in to the neighbourhood without revealing their
superhuman abilities. Years later, the family was relief from quiet suburbia to
uncover a diabolical plan of Sydrome the enemy and together the family must
bring their respective birth-given powers to save the day. In contrast, the movie
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve Rogers a.k.a Captain America is
living quietly in Washington DC, trying to adjust to the modern world. But when
S.H.E.I.L.D.’s second commander Nick Fury was attacked by an anonymous
assassin, he was embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at
risk. Joining forces with Agent Romanoff, Black Widow, Captain America
struggles to expose the conspiracy while fighting off assailants sent to silent him.
When the villainous plot of the Hydra was revealed, a new ally, Falcon was
enlisted to help Captain America and Black Widow. Disastrously, they soon
found themselves facing a formidable and unexpected enemy -- The Winter
Soldier.

5. Moreover, the characteristics between Mr. Incredible and Captain America
are different even though they share the similarities of having super strength. Mr.
Incredible was born with the super strength powers whereas Captain America was
just Steve Rogers before he participated in the “Super Soldier Serum” after he
encountered the Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities. He was the first test subject to
be injected with the serum and the process successfully altered his physiology
from its frail state to the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced
musculature and reflexes, which represented the pinnacle of human physical
perfection. Captain America has very high intelligence, as well as agility,
endurance, speed, strength and reaction time.
“Sometimes the truth is not enough, sometimes people deserves more.
Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded...”. In conclusion, both of
the movies differ from production, storyline and hero characteristics. However,
they both bring a strong message of a hero that stops anyone that jeopardize the
safety of the city and brings crime to justice.

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