Thursday, June 16, 2016

Zootopia versus The Amazing Spider-Man

from moviepilot.com
This week's update was inspired by a Youtube commentary which really grabbed my attention.

The people at Couch Tomato strives to do the seemingly impossible by convincing the audience that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Zootopia are actually the same movie. It sounds like a stretch, but this video provides 24 instances in which both films had the same things going on. Everything from character development to the way the conflict in resolved gets broken down until the audience ultimately sees how similar the two films really are.

Couch Tomato has a plethora of videos which make the same kinds of connections between other movies. Which is why the slogan for the whole page is "You can't love a movie for the same reason you hate another...".

Each of the 78 videos takes seemingly unrelated videos and ties them together with arguably indisputable facts.

Some of the key connections he makes between Zootopia and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 are: an assassin who targets a luxury vehicle, graduation scenes at the end and beginning, a genetic mystery, and bad guys having access to important tapes.

Despite the overwhelming amount of  similarities between the two films, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 got less than positive reviews and Zootopia is an international sensation.

I think this demonstrates how important the smaller details are in deciding how a film is received by the public.

1 comment:

  1. This is a great blog post! Drawing connections between movies is something that I enjoy doing and this is a new and unique approach to two movies I have seen before. Reading this post makes me want to go and re-watch those movies to analyze them with this in mind.

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