Compare And Contrast High School Musical And How I Met Your Mother

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High School Musical and How I Met Your Mother, two different types of primary production, for two disparate audiences, are both influential Emmy award-winning franchises. The movie trilogy and television show presents contrasting views to life -- with one being idealistic and the other more realistic. Though both successful, they represent the differences of thinking when at a young age, and a little naive, versus older, and perhaps more jaded. The Walt Disney Company, on the one hand, actively funneled efforts into milking the High School Musical franchise of all it was worth, marketing secondary spin-off products in every company division. CBS, on the other hand, promoted secondary spin-off products, but of a lesser amount and less fervently. …show more content…

The movies are largely popular with tweens and have been compared as a modern adaptation of Grease, or even Romeo & Juliet. The main characters are star-crossed lovers, so to speak, because they come from rival cliques. Troy Bolton, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez, brainiac of the Scholastic Decathlon team, share a love of singing and end up auditioning for the spring musical together. When word gets out, their best friends, Chad Danforth and Taylor McKessie, team up to split the pair apart. All the while, sibling-duo Sharpay and Ryan Evans are throwing obstacles their …show more content…

High School Musical catapulted Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens to fame. The movie musical also launched the acting careers of Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman. It is, to date, some of these actors’ most recognizable works. Some say that High School Musical, paved the path for high school musical television projects like Glee, which premiered in 2009. That isn’t to say the franchise didn’t have it’s own spin-offs. In 2011, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel reprised their roles as Sharpay and Ryan Evans in the film Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure, which takes a look at Sharpay’s life after graduation. The franchise was also adapted into spin-offs for different geographic market, including Latin America and China. High School Musical: The Challenge, is the English translation for the 2008 High School Musical: El Desafío released in Mexico, and for the 2010 High School Musical: O Desafio released in Brazil. A Chinese version of the film, translated as High School Musical China: College Dreams, was produced in

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