FNBE 0814 ENGLISH 2 assignment 1 compare and contrast essay science fiction lucy and avatar movie genre

1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: YEO KAI WEN
STUDENT ID NO: 0319844
FILMS SELECTED: AVATAR & LUCY
WORD COUNT: 725 WORDS
ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 8TH
APRIL 2015

2. Avatar & Lucy
What is movie genre and what is science fiction? Movie genre is
general term that used to breakdown into different catergories such as
documentary, thriller, romance, comedy, action, fantasy and so on. Science
fiction is a genre of fiction that explores our imagination and the
development with science and technology. It is quite broad category in genres
that crossingover with comedy, romance, adventures, actions and others. The
setting of science fiction stories mostly will occur in the future, in galaxy of
universe or in present.
I love watching movie, and my favourite genre movie is science
fiction. Especially when I'm watching sci-fi movies, it helps me to release my
stress from the lots of tons assignments and also it brings me into the world
of fantasy so called the world of imaginary where everything is on the far
side of my imaginations. It can be in the world of fantasy, the world in space
or even the world with full technologies. I had watched two sci-fi movies
recently which are Avatar(2009) and Lucy(2014). I found out that this two
movies are interesting in their storylines, settings and endings.
About the storyline of Avatar, it is about Jake Sully's brother, Tom
Sully was killed by a thief who attempted to steal his wallet. Thus, Jake
decided to takeover his brother's mission at another planet which named
Pandora. Jake learns to corporate the native humanoid of ''Navi'' or Avatar to
exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his leg. His colonel, Miles
Quaritc aim to mine Pandora's woodland valuable minerals. In contrast, its a
storyline of Lucy Miller it is about a woman who had accidentally implant a
packet of blue crystal drug which named CPH4 in her abdomen. Firstly, she
visited taiwan with her week-long boyfriend, Richard. Richard tricked Lucy
to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a business man, Mr.Jang, a Korean
business man. She was caught up and turned up to drug mule. As the drug
leaking into Lucy's system her body began to change and she was amazed it.
She started to do something interesting.
The differences between Avatar and Lucy though, is the setting.
Avatar this movie sets in year 2154 of Pandora. Avatar takes place on

3. Pandora, a fictional planet like moon in the universe of the star system ,a
planet where has treasure trove with natural resources and minerals. The
background of the movies are in high definition of blue-ray and used
animated softwares programs which designed by professional illustrators
team. By using the programs, the designers can make the background into
more realistic. For example, the “Hallelujah Mountain” known as floating
mountain which likely as floating island as that circulates in magnetic current
like icebergs at seas, “The tree of souls” which capability to connect to
human nervous system, “The tree of voices” which could be heard through
neural queue contact with the trees and so on. The movie of Lucy's setting
mostly in the cities such as Taiwan, France and Germany. When she realized
that her abdomen was implant with blue crytal drug. She can sensed
everythings such as she can hear from the outsiders conversation neither
phone or chattings, reads the different language signs, manipulate the
electronics such as she can call professor without using a phone and so on.
Last and the most interesting differences is the ending part of the
movies. The ending of the Avatar, it happens when Jake began to build the
bond relationship with the ''Navi'' he fell in love with the beautiful alien
which named as Neytiri. The Colonel was mad and he used his tactics to
attack them. Lastly, the Navi of Pandora had won the battle. In the ending of
Lucy, it happens when Lucy's body dissapeared and lefted her clothes behind
when Mr. Jang wanted to shoot her. A French policeman, Del Rino shooted
Mr. Jang to death. There's a black matter in the room disapears and morphs
into flash drive that land's in Norman's hand.Del Rino asked where she is and
herself answered on his phone said that ''I'm everywhere''.
Conclusion, these movies of Avatar and Lucy are science fiction movies
but their storylines, settings and endings are totally different. I enjoyed the
movies very much even though I had watched several times. This is due to
the story of the movies are interesting it made me remembered vividly.

4. References
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Pandora Locations. (n.d.). Retrieved March 20, 2015, from http://james-
camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Pandora_Locations
Lucy. (n.d.). Retrieved March 24, 2015, from http://www.the-
numbers.com/movie/Lucy#tab=summary
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