eng2 comparative essay

1.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: KHOO ZER KAI
STUDENT ID NO: 0320500
FILMS SELECTED: WAR OF THE WORLDS AND ALIEN VERSUS PREDATOR
WORD COUNT: 815 WORDS
ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: APRIL 8TH
, 2015

2. Nowadays,
sci-­‐fi
genre
film
is
very
popular
in
the
community.
Why
is
it
so
popular?
It
is
popular
because
sci-­‐fi
is
something
that
is
possible
to
happen
in
the
real
world
although
it
had
not
happen
yet.
Unlike
fantasy
movies,
it
is
impossible
to
happen
in
the
real
world,
horror
movies
are
only
jump
scare
that
want
to
frighten
people.
That’s
why
I
prefer
sci-­‐fi
movies.
These
two
movies
are
quite
famous
in
the
societies;
War
of
the
worlds
and
Alien
Versus
Predator.
There
are
a
few
contrasts
between
these
two
movies.
I
prefer
Alien
versus
Predator.
Why?
In
these
two
movies,
they
are
talking
about
aliens
killing
human,
but
the
different
is
War
of
the
Worlds
is
saying
that
the
alien
harvesting
human
blood
and
tissue
to
fertilize
red
weed,
which
was
the
alien’s
plant.
The
alien
plan
for
a
long
time
to
attack
the
Earth,
they
buried
their
killing
machine
underground
for
many
years
ago.
On
the
other
hand,
Alien
versus
Predator
they
are
talking
about
the
predator
is
the
one
who
teach
early
human
civilization
the
method
to
build
pyramid.
So
in
a
long
time
ago,
human
will
choose
some
people
to
go
in
to
the
pyramid
to
be
sacrifice
themselves
as
host
of
the
alien.
Every
100
years
predator
will
visit
the
Earth
and
have
an
“ultimate
hunt”.
Nowadays
they
don’t
have
any
human
willing
to
sacrifice
themselves,
so
they
use
some
method
to
attract
human
to
go
to
the
pyramid
to
become
the
host
of
the
aliens
to
let
the
aliens
grow
and
started
the
hunt.
As
for
the
main
character
for
War
of
the
Worlds
is
Ray
Ferrier.
He
is
a
divorced
crane
operator
longshoreman
who
works
at
a
dock.
He
estranged
himself
from
his
children.
He
has
a
10-­‐year
old
daughter
and
a
teenage
son.
After
the
alien
invasion
happened,
Ray
with
his
children
trying
their
best
to
survive
in

3. the
alien
invasion.
For
the
Alien
Versus
Predator,
the
main
character
is
Alexa
Wood.
The
main
character
is
a
woman
who
is
a
guide.
She
was
hired
by
a
wealthy
industrialist
Charles
Bishop
Weyland
to
discover
a
pyramid
beneath
an
island,
which
detects
by
a
satellite.
She
leads
a
group
of
archeologists,
linguistic
experts,
drillers,
and
mercenaries
to
investigate
the
mystical
pyramid.
From
the
main
character,
you
can
see
the
contrast
between
these
two
movies
are
the
gender
of
the
main
character
is
different,
and
Ray
is
the
one
who
leading
two
people
which
means
his
children,
and
Alexa
is
the
one
who
leads
a
group
of
people
which
means
the
group
that
going
to
investigate
the
pyramid.
In
both
of
the
movies,
you
can
see
love
and
sacrifice
in
it
but
the
different
is
for
the
War
of
the
Worlds
the
love
that
shows
is
love
between
family,
for
Alien
Versus
Predator
the
love
that
shows
is
love
between
friends.
In
War
of
the
World,
Ray
can
sacrifice
for
his
daughter
named
Rachel.
When
the
killing
machine
that
control
by
the
alien
catches
Rachel,
Ray
volunteers
to
let
the
alien
get
him
too.
After
that,
he
used
his
own
body
to
protect
Rachel
from
taking
away
by
the
alien.
Fortunately,
he
grabs
a
bunch
of
grenade
and
kill
the
alien
from
the
inside.
In
Alien
Versus
Predator,
Alexa
care
about
Weyland’s
condition
when
she
found
that
Weyland
had
asthma.
Alexa
also
care
about
all
the
teammates,
she
tell
everyone
to
stick
together
to
protect
each
other.
After
that,
Weyland
sacrifice
himself
by
fighting
with
the
predator
to
let
Alexa
and
Sebastian
to
have
enough
time
to
run
away
from
the
attack
of
predator.
In
the
War
of
the
Worlds,
you
can
see
that
human
is
cruel.
When
the
alien
invasion,
most
of
the
car
cannot
move,
but
there
is
a
car
just
finished
repair,
so

4. the
car
is
able
to
start.
Ray
drives
the
car
and
going
to
find
somewhere
safe,
but
when
he
drive
until
a
place
with
lots
of
people,
they
attack
Ray
for
the
car.
After
Ray
had
been
chase
out
from
the
car.
All
the
people
there
were
killing
each
other
for
the
car.
Ray
killed
Ogilvy
who
suffers
mental
breakdown
to
protect
himself
and
his
daughter
from
spotted
by
the
alien.
In
Alien
Versus
Predator,
Alexa
and
Sebastian
were
trying
to
stop
those
aliens
from
getting
out
from
the
pyramid
to
protect
the
people
that
were
living
in
city.
They
try
to
group
up
with
predator
to
kill
the
alien
together,
but
unfortunately,
Sebastian
had
been
implanted
alien
embryo
by
the
alien.
Alexa
killed
Sebastian
by
herself
to
let
Sebastian
stop
suffering.
In
these
two
movies,
they
are
the
same
genre
of
movie,
they
both
also
share
the
same
enemy,
which
means
the
alien,
but
there
was
many
contrast
between
these
two
movies.
But
for
me,
I
prefer
the
Alien
Versus
Predator,
because
the
graphic
are
nicer
and
the
storyline
was
unexpected.

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