Stereotypes In The Movie Zootopia

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Animals are a great allegory for real life, it allows the storyteller to get to its main point quickly. The movie Zootopia starts off with a dream, where the main character Judy Hopps wanted to become the first rabbit cop. Throughout the story, Judy faced many difficulties and prejudices while accomplishing her dream, yet Judy managed to achieve her final success. Despite the stereotypes and prejudices people encounter while achieving their dreams, in the movie Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, successfully conveys the message that judgements are not there to break people down but are actually there to encourage people to move towards their final success or their dream. To start off, Judy grew up with her parents and hundreds …show more content…

Though at first, they were trying to find Emmitt Otterton only, but they work had done solved the entire case of the missing animals. The case was handled by Judy, as Otterton’s wife came in desperately to know what had happened to his husband, while Chief Bogo was careless, Judy wanted to help, and that made Chief Bogo very unhappy. Chief Bogo then forced Judy that if Judy were to take the case, she would have 48 hours, but if she failed to find Mr. Otterton, she would quit the job. This seem normal at first, but it seemed that Chief Bogo was only trying to get rid of Judy, because she is small and weak. In the process, Judy got Nick to help her, and when there’s finally some lead in the case, they found the driver for the day Mr. Otterton went missing, and not long after, the driver went crazing and attacked, and then the Police Force arrived. Even though Judy had made a big progress without support from the Department, Chief Bogo is still unhappy and wanted Judy to return her badge. This is where Chief Bogo’s prejudice came in, when the force arrived and the driver escaped, Chief Bogo thinks that a weak rabbit police only makes things worse, and will not believe a fox though Nick was a key witness. Such prejudice was not reasonable as Nick point out, that Judy was forced to solve a case in two days that the Department wasn’t able to solve in two weeks. Chief Bogo was only trying to get Judy to quit, but Judy’s strong faith helped her achieve her final

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