English Zootopia Essay

Zootopia

Over the past two weeks, we have been learning about and watching the movie Zootopia.
This is the essay I wrote about the movie and which character changed the most.

In the movie Zootopia, I think Nick changed the most. We see at the start of the movie Nick is quite arrogant and only cares about himself and making money. Throughout the movie, he changes a lot. In the beginning, Nick believes that people should stick to what they are supposed to do but towards the ending, he realises that it doesn’t matter when he joins the ZPD.

In Zootopia there is a scene where Nick tells Judy that she’s never going to be a cop because she is a bunny. This could make Judy feel like a failure because someone telling her she can’t succeed in her dream job would break her heart.  Nick says “You think you can be anything you want, but you can’t” and “You’re just a dumb bunny”. I think this makes Nick look really disrespectful and arrogant like he doesn’t care about anything or anyone around him.

During the middle of the movie, Chief Bogo asks Judy for her badge because Judy had failed at finding Mr Otterton. When Judy is about to give Chief Bogo her badge, Nick interrupts their conversation and says “We still have 10 hours left, so if you don’t mind, we still have a case to solve”. In my opinion, Nick does this because of the way Chief Bogo was treating Judy by stereotyping her as weak because she is a bunny because when Nick was younger he himself was stereotyped when he was joining boy scouts, the other kids put a muzzle on him because he was a predator and an “untrustworthy fox”.

Towards the end of the movie, Judy asks Nick to join the ZPD but when Judy is reporting to the media, she says that only predators go savage which upsets Nick because he is a predator. At the very ending of the film, we see Judy and Nick sitting on a chair together in the ZPD and Nick is wearing a police suit which means he did eventually join. Chief Bogo had also changed towards the end because he says “Hopps, Wilde, parking duty… just kidding” which proves he is over it as well. I think it’s really great that by the ending everyone is over the whole stereotypes thing because I believe that anyone can be anything they want to despite their gender, colour, ethnicity etc.

In conclusion, I think Nick changed the most because at the beginning of the film he was just an arrogant fox who didn’t really care about anyone but himself and making money, but by the end of the film, he started to open up more to Judy and started caring for others. He and many others in the film didn’t care about stereotypes anymore at the end. I think the director's purpose of this film was to teach people about stereotypes and that they don't matter at all and everyone can be whatever they want to be while still being the person they are.