Term Paper Outline: Zootopia Analysis

Introduction

A. Animated Feature Film:  Zootopia (108 min)
B. Thesis- In a city of anthropomorphic animals, physics is pushed beyond the limits of the natural world, the product is a humorous universe.

Body Paragraphs

1. Exaggerated Character Movements

-Judy does a backflip and moves far away from the direction she started in (3:41)

-Gideon pushes Judy, and she goes up before she goes in the direction of the push (4:52)

-Judy jumps off the boxing ring rope to fly into the fist of the Rhino, she is much smaller then then the rhinos fist and the rhino's fist moves with more speed than Judy (7:08).

-Judy does a lot of bouncing around that is not legitimate (17:20)

-elephants make quick movements that aren't real (19:55)

-Judy's mom goes to end the facetime call and the frame ends with her finger being in the middle of the display screen, implying the camera is in the bottom third of the phone (27:32)

-the projectile motion the weasel makes is inaccurate, he is running full speed far away from the fence and he tosses the bag in the air with a high velocity in the x direction, the bag lands directly on the other side of the fence with hardly any change in X (29:06)

2. Slowed/altered key spacing
-Judy is riding the train into Zootopia and they cut through the trees to view the train, and given the speed of the frames, the train is going very slow, because it needs to for the effect (10:09-12:00)

-Nick points and when the frame comes back he has moved a whole block (23:56)

-the weasel changes his shape to fit through the mouse tunnel forms (30:06)

3. Animals make inanimate objects shake
­-Judy almost gets smashed by a rhino walking on the street, and as he walks the ground shakes (25:16)

-the neighbors next door to Judy, are talking through the wall and when they talk a picture frame that has been assigned to each character moves in rhythm to their words (27:50)

Conclusion
-Physical laws are intentionally broken throughout the film.

-If I wasn't paying attention I would not notice the laws broken in physics, it gives the film more life, and add comedy and a sense of danger to normal everyday actions.