1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: BENNY TAN SHIOWEE
STUDENT ID NO: 0315447
FILMS SELECTED: CINDERELLA AND BEAUTY & THE BEAST
WORD COUNT: 718
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 5TH DECEMBER 2013

2. Start from I knew how to watch movie, the first impression was the
Disney movie. I believe everyone still remember the Disney channel which
under the Astro service. Moreover, I also believe that still have a lot of
children and youth or even the aged watching Disney channel when I’m
writing this essay. Disney movie has many series of movie like hero story
series, love story series and etc. In the aspect of audience, Disney has many
audience for its movie which included men and women in all of the ages even
a children or the aged because the story of the movies are popularization and
easy to understand by people. Cinderella and Beauty & the Beast are
considered as the love story series. Director and screenwriter choose the
French Fairy Tales as the background of the movie story in both of them.
Both of the Cinderella and Beauty & the Beast are some of the movie
which involves prince and princess and consider as princess series in the
Disney movie. Indeed, story of Bella and Cinderella involve a future prince
who is handsome and treats them like the only one at the end. But there isn’t
smooth going in the movie of the two princesses, in the love story; they need
to find their ‘prince’ with pass through the entire obstacle.Same as normal
movie, the Cinderella and Beauty & the beast start out their story as poor and
become rich at the end. For Cinderella, she was become a maid because of
her step mother and sisters after her father died. Furthermore, Bella in Beauty
& the Beast also start out her story with came from a small family which only
she and her father in a village. Besides that, both of the Cinderella and Bella
aren’t born in the royal family as well.
In the aspect of their living, in the beginning, Cinderella and Bella have
a dead mother and live with father. Although their living is not very wonderful

3. within the poor family, but they both felt happy and have a lot of unorthodox
friends like mice, household objects and etc.
Actress in the movie is always the most beautiful girl in the movies, so
does Cinderella and Bella in Beauty & the Beast. Both of them are considered
as the most beautiful girls in the movie and this God’s gift bring them some
opposite impact which have to deal with some obstacles, only with Cinderella;
it was the step sisters and her step mother. For Cinderella, after her father
had dead, her step mother and sister treats her like crap and makes her a
maid because her step mother knows she is more beautiful than the other two
step sisters. Almost in the same misfortune, Bella in the Beauty & the Beast is
hated by most of the girls in the village for being beautiful than the others and
for being liked by the ‘hottest’ and most handsome guy in the town.
After met the prince, they have to pass through the obstacle which are
Cinderella need to find back the prince with her maid identity and the
intentionally blocking by her step mother and sister to prevent the retinue of
the prince let Cinderella try the shoes since they knew the glass slipper was
hers. In addition, Bella need to save her dad by became the prisoner of the
Beast. In the prisoner period, she need to save and help the Beast to change
back to a prince from a vicious curse of witch with a kiss though she don’t
know the Beast was cursed and the method to save him and there are also a
time limit for the saving by the dying of rose which also cursed by black magic
from witch.

4. The Cinderella and Beauty & the Beast have a happy ending as the
others movie. They two girl marry to the two prince respectively and became
princess through marriage. And of course, they both lived happily ever after.