1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: CHEW UNG HENG
STUDENT ID NO: 315397
FILMS SELECTED: THE LION KING & ALADDIN
WORD COUNT: 960
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 5TH DECEMBER 2013

2. Nowadays, popularities of animated movies among the teenager
increases as the animation of the movies are becoming more vivid and
attractive. So it is no doubt that there will have very strong competition
between those animated movies to get more attention from the teenager. I as
a teenager, I am also a part of the animated movies lovers since I was 5 years
old. For me, I would like to compare the similarities of my two favourite old
animated movies, which is The Lion King that produced in 1994 and Aladdin
that produced in 1992. I chose this two animated movies as they gave me the
same sensitivity and feeling which attractive me a lot after I watch them.
Basically, The Lion King tells us the story of Simba, a young lion who succeed
his father, Mufasa, as a king and the Aladdin isbased on the story in Arab
folktale of Aladdin and the magic lamp from One Thousand and One Nights.
The first similarities that I had found in both animated movies are the
adventure they had gone through in the stories. In The Lion King movie, the
lion cub, Simbawas teaching by his father, Mufasa the responsibilities of being
a king and the circle of life. However, Mufasa’s younger brother, Scar is
jealous and resentful of Simba so he tricked Simba various times in order to
kill samba as he wanted to step forward to become a king. So Simbawas
going through a lot of fighting and killing which made him in danger until
Simba found his father’s body in gorge. For the Aladdin movie, Aladdin
ordered by Jafar, Grand Vizier to the Sultan of Agrabah to enter the Cave of
Wonder to retrieve a magical oil lamp that containing a Genie but he failed
and he was arrested for thievery by Sultan. Aladdin was also trapped into the
cave when they tried to escape from the cave that was collapsing while he
tried to retrieve the oil lamp for Jafar who tried to kill him for the second times.

3. So it shows that Aladdin had also gone through the adventure life which is
similar to The Lion King movie.
Then, the next similarities that had shown in both animated movies are
loyalty of love. In the Lion King movie, Nala as the best friend of Simba since
they are young and they had gone through the adventure life which made
their relationship tighter and closer. When they grew up, they fall in love in
each other and Nala agreed to help him fight when Simba realized that he can
no longer run from his past. After the war end, Simbalooks down happily at his
kingdom with Nala who already became the important partner of his life. In the
Aladdin movie, Aladdin and Sultan’s daughter, Jasmine began their friendship
when she flees to Agrabah’s market place as she frustrated with her life in the
palace. Jasmine was heartbroken when Jafar lied to her that Aladdin was
already executed. They were falling in love with each other and Aladdin hope
Genie make him as a prince in order to be legally able to court Jasmine. After
the frustration he had met, he had finally married with Jasmine after the law
had been changed by the Sultan. So the love stories of both movies make me
feel very romantic and touching.
Next, sympathy and kindness of the main character had shown in both
movies. In The Lion King movies, at the pride land, Scar tauntedSimba over
his "part" in Mufasa's death, but when Scar pushedSimba to the edge of Pride
Rock, he admited that he killed Mufasa. Then Simba jumped to Scar’s back
and forced him to reveal the truth to other lions and Scar attempted to escape
but failed. Then, Scar cornered by Simba at the top of Pride Rock and he beg
Simba for mercy and saying that he is one of his family members. Simba felt
sympathy with Scar and spared his life commanded him to forever leave the

4. Pride Land. For the Aladdin movie, while Aladdin was trapped in the cave, he
was unexpectedly released Genie who revealedhe will grant Aladdin three
wishes from the lamp. When Aladdin contemplating his wishes, Genie
admitted he would wish for freedom and Aladdin promised to free Genie as
his last wish. In the end, Aladdin decided to keep his promises and wish for
Genie’s freedom. So the main character had shown their sympathy to let their
enemy or friend freedom.
The last similarities of both animated movies are the main character of
both movies became the lord of their kingdom which has the happy ending of
the movies. In The Lion King movies, Simba had been trained to become a
king since he was young. In the way of being a king, he met some of the cruel
characterwho tricked him in order to grab the king throne from Simba.
Fortunately, he did not give up and succeed to become a king after he
defeated his enemies in the battle. In the Aladdin movie, Aladdin was a
civilian in his country who tried to become a prince in order to marry with
Jasmine. He knew that the dream is hard to be achieved but with the help of
the Genie he was successfully married with Jasmine and became a king of
Aragbah. In both movies, the two main characters had succeeded to become
a king to their country.
Last but not least, there are some similarities that I had found between
these two movies that inspired me a lot in the way of being succeed in my
studies so it is no doubt that I had learnt something from the movies.

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