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1. Name: Ee Yun Shan
Id: 0319990
Module: English 2
[Session] August, 2014

2. Contrast and Compare Essay–Science friction films
(Robocop and Avatar)
Nowadays, people like to watch movies for entertainment especially the young. They like
to watch movies with their friends together which they feel more enjoyable and fun. So,
they will go to the cinema or watching DVD at home by using laptop or television. It was
many different type of movies, frictional movies is the type of movie that I feel most
interesting. The creation of new fictional characters in media every year has always
been attractive to the public. There are two films that i feel most interest are Robocop
and Avatar. They have an acquired massive fans base. With all of the fan wars the
power of characters and their secret identities which are so attract my gaze. There are
some differences between this two movies although they are in the same genre.
First, the events happened in both films are totally different. In Robocop, the
incident took place in the earth that was Detront Michigan. The city unable to secure a
bailout so the city council is forced to denationalize the police force. The rights were
bought by Omni Consumer Products, they wanted to replace them with commercial enforcers as
part of the "Delta City" project. The police refuse the business, so the company moves to test.
The first, a bipedal combat droid codenamed ED-209, is rejected after it kills an armed
management by mistake. The second, a cyborg police officer impending by marketing expert Bob
Morton, is accepted. The Robocop is been create. In the other hand, the incident in Avatar took
place outside the Earth which was on a densely forested habitable moon orbiting the gas gaint
Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system called Pandora. Humans almost finish the
sources in the Earth, so have to discovery severe energy predicament by 2154. The Resources
Development Administration (RDA) collieries for some valuable mineral was unobtanium on
Pandora. So, the humans have some strategy to get it.
Besides that, let talk about Robocop. In another hand, the scientific-field involved in
Robocop was mostly physical science and technology. Alex Murphy was converted into Robocop
which is a machine with the objectives of protecting the innocent, upholding the law, and
defending the public interest. Robocop goes on to singlehandedly purge Detroit of crime, earning
Morton praise and a promotion, but his memory was erasure by the company and he just killing
the criminal. However, the scientific-field involved in Avatar is different. It was mostly life science
and biology. The scientist used Na’vi-human hybric which is “avatar”, worked by genetically
matched human with investigate the pairing and converting human’s DNA. Jake Sully in order to
explore Pandora’s biosphere. In conclusion, avatar could be said as a remotely
positioned body, a biological body. Then they started to acquire the valuable minerals.
Moreover, the cultures between both films are different. In the films Robocop, it
mostly about the technology of the company and the police culture. It talked about the
Invention of Robocop and how the Robocop wiped out the criminal by using the power of
the machine. Unlike Avatar was an incarnation of Hindu god taking a flesh form. The
human technology in the future is capable of inserting a human’s aptitude into a
remotely located body means that in our future the science technology can make a
gigantic changes to the humans and the world.
Lastly, both of them show different relationship among their characters. Robocop
showed a family relationship. Alex Murphy is mortally wounded in a car bombing; and
accident that destroys most of the Detroit cop’s body. An old man Dr. Dennett Norton, an

3. OCP employee on a deadline to deliver an up-to-spec and on-time cybernetic cop. Dr.
Dennett Norton gets his chance on convert Alex to the Robocop make Alex can have a
technical body to live normally even made him to be a more powerful cop. They felt
thankful to each other and their relation like father and son. In the other hand, Avatar
showed a lover relationship between Neytiri and Jake in the films. It applied a star-
crossed love came from totally different cultures that were contemptuous of their
relationship and forced them choose between the competing communities. Jake started
to adapt and learn about their habit and life-style attentively.
In the conclusion, although both of them are science-friction films Robocop and avatar
have a lots of differences at themes, story, events, characteristic and others. Their stories,
characters, specific event were so attract my minds. Science frictional movies is a literary
genre movie that makes imaginative use of scientific knowledge or conjecture. Its make the
imagination of humans came true unbelievable. For an example, long time ago the humans
did not believe that we have the opportunity to arrive the Moon, but we did it by invention the
rocket. So, I have a faith and believe that the event at the Robocop and Avatar will be
happens one day in the future. Lastly, both of them are my favourite movies and make me
watch them numerous. I also bought the DVD of both of them back home to watch them
when my leisure time as well.

4. References
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/
- http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/
- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017712-robocop
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZEIBpUvUw
Pre-Writing
Constrast and Compare Essay(Robocop & Avatar)
Events
Robocop
-city unable to
secure
-company create a
robocop
-a man who
injured and
damaged his body
have been convert
into robocop
Avatar
-found a moon
called pandora
-RDA find some
valuoble minerals
-started have some
strategy to get it.
Sciencetific-
field
Robocop
-physical science
and technology
-converted into
Robocop (a
machine with the
objectives of
protecting the
innocent)
-killing criminal
Avatar
-life science and
biology.
-The scientist used
Na’vi-human
hybric which is
“avatar”, worked
by genetically
matched human
-get the minerals
Culture
Robocop
-police culture
-Invention of
Robocop
-Robocop wiped
out the criminal
Avatar
-an incarnation of
Hindu god taking a
flesh form
-technology in the
future is capable
of inserting a
human’s aptitude
into a remotely
located body
relationship
Robocop
-a family
relationship
(father & son)
-Alex Murphy
destroy his body in
an accident.Dr.
Dennett Norton
have a deadline to
deliver a robocop
-accident.Dr.
Dennett Norton
convert alex to
robocop make
them feel thankful
to each other
Avatar
-lover relation
(couple)
-Neytiri and Jake
falling love.
-a star-crossed
love came from
totally different
cultures