SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: Ho Hong Lok

STUDENT ID NO: 0323949
FILMS SELECTED: Avengers & San Andreas
WORD COUNT: 610
ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: GOPIGHANTAN MYLVAGANAM
SUBMISSION DATE: DECEMBER 4TH 2015

One of the movie I choose is The movie of avengers: Age of ultron. Avengers
age of ultron is the eleven movie set is the soul call marvel cinematic universe,
also includes 62 television episode, 31 comic book and 5 dvd only short film. This
movie all began with the first iron man movie where me meet Tony Stark, a
weapon designer with a computer butler name Jarvis. He is a genius and also a
complete freak. Right after that he is approach with a guy man nick fury who runs
a operation calls S.H.I.E.L.D. He said there are secret superhero around the world
and he is putting them together a team of them. But then they have another recruit

in mind Bruce Banner, the incredible hulk. Bruce was a scientist working with a
US government. The next guy included is Thor. He is a warrior prince comes from
extra dimensional planet call Asgard. Next one is the hawk guy name client who is
a soldier he only use his arrow and weapon for some reason. And the last one of
course is Captain America. The other movie I choose for comparison is the movie
San Andreas. In this movie San Andreas fall to splitting, earthquake, disasters,
building they fall and the main actor The Rock who is try to rescue people. In this
movie a lot of CGI Spectacles, building falling down and rescue scenes.
This Avengers movie are counted as adventure movie.Adventure movie are
very similar to the action genre, in that they are designed to provide an actionfilled, energetic experience the movie. Rather than the predominant emphasis on
violence and fighting that is found in action films. However, the viewer of
adventure movie can live vicariously through the travels, conquests, struggles and
situations that confront the main characters, actual historical figures or
protagonists.
Disasters movie have been the subject of film-goers' fascination since the time
of silent film epics, and this interest continues to exist up to the present time.
Catastrophes can take so many different forms and in this movie they are naturally
happens.This movie commonly portrayed disasters in films are natural or
environmental disasters or destruction such as earthquakes, floods, Tsunami,
tropical storms. And also accidents such as airplane crashes, ocean liners capsized.
This adventure films I choose were intended to appeal mainly to men, creating
major male or female heroic stars through the years. These courageous, patriotic,
or altruistic heroes often fought for their beliefs, struggled for freedom, or
overcame injustice.While the disaster movie I choose is concentrate on the chaotic
events surrounding the disaster, including efforts for survival, the effects upon
individuals and families. The best disaster films comment upon the negative
effects of advancing technology, demonstrate the 'hubris' of scientists and other
individuals, deliver uplifting moral lessons of sacrifice, and provide a 'how-to' in
terms of survival skills.
This disaster films have large-scale special effects just like the recent past's
mega-budget spectaculars, huge casts of stars faced with the crisis, a persevering
hero The Rock called upon to lead the struggle against the threat, and many plotlines affecting multiple characters. While the adventure movie come out with a lot
of heroes that serve their country to be safe from the evil or bad guys who tried to
concur the country. There are a lot of mega budget too in this movie because all
the characters are mainly a Hollywoods stars.
As you can see the adventure movie and the disasters movie are kindly the same
just coming out with a heroic and non-heroic. The disaster movie are more to the

natural element while adventure are man made kind or disasters.

References:
Peyton, B. (Director). (2015). San Andreas [Motion picture].
Whedon, J. (Director). (2015). Avengers [Motion picture].