Film Studies

By Naomi Abraham

The Plot of Spirited Away

Ten-year old Chihiro and her parents are moving when her father takes a wrong turn. Her father thinks they've found an abandoned amusement park and insists on exploring. Chihiro, scared to be alone, accompanies her parents. They cross a dry riverbed. Chihiro's parents gorge themselves at an unattended restaurant stall while Chihiro wanders off. She finds an exquisite bathhouse. Suddenly a boy orders her to cross the river before dark. Spirits begin haunting the park, and when Chihiro returns to her parents, they have become pigs.Chihiro runs to the river, but it has flooded and is impossible to cross. The boy, whose name is Haku, finds her and says he has known her since she was little. He tells her to ask for a job from the bathhouse's boiler-man, Kamaji. Kamaji and the worker Lin send Chihiro to the witch Yubaba, who runs the bathhouse. Yubaba gives Chihiro a job but steals her name. She is renamed Sen (?), the first character of her name. Haku shows Sen her parents' pigpen. Among her belongings, she finds a goodbye card addressed to Chihiro. Sen realizes that she has already forgotten her name. Haku warns her that Yubaba controls people by taking their names. If she forgets hers like he has forgotten his, then she cannot leave the spirit world.At work, Sen invites a silent masked creature inside. A stink spirit arrives and is Sen's first customer. She discovers he is the spirit of a polluted river. In gratitude for cleaning him, he gifts Sen with a magic emetic dumpling. Secretly, the masked creature tempts a worker with gold, then swallows him Publically, the creature demands food and begins tipping extravagantly.

The next morning, Sen sees paper shikigami attacking a dragon. She recognizes the dragon as Haku transformed. When Haku crashes into Yubaba's penthouse, she runs upstairs. As she passes the masked creature, he offers her a heap of gold, but she refuses it.When Sen reaches Haku, a shikigami that stowed away on her back transforms into Zeniba, Yubaba's identical twin sister. Zeniba turns Yubaba's baby son Boh into a mouse and creates a decoy baby. Haku has stolen a magic gold seal from her, and she warns that it carries a deadly curse. Haku dives to the boiler room with Sen and Boh on his back. As they fall, Sen has a memory of being underwater. She feeds Haku part of the dumpling, and he vomits up the seal and a black slug that Sen crushes. She resolves to return the seal and apologize for Haku. Before she leaves, she confronts the masked creature, who is a monster named No-Face. No-Face has become disgustingly obese, so Sen feeds him the rest of the dumpling. He begins vomiting and angrily chases Sen out of the bathhouse. As he vomits, he returns to a normal size and a gentle demeanor.While Sen, No-Face, and Boh travel to Zeniba, Yubaba is furious at the damage caused by No-Face. She blames Sen for inviting him in and orders that her parents be slaughtered. Haku prods her into realizing that her baby is missing. He proposes to return Boh in exchange for Yubaba freeing Sen and her parents.Sen, No-Face, and Boh arrive at Zeniba's house. Zeniba reveals that Sen's love for Haku broke her curse. The black slug was how Yubaba controlled him. Haku arrives. As he flies her and Boh back to the bathhouse, Sen has another memory of being underwater: When she was little, she fell in the Kohaku River but was washed safely ashore. She realizes that Haku is the spirit of the Kohaku River and tells him his name.To break the curse

Disney Film Alice in wonderland Plot

On the bank of a tranquil English river, a young girl named Alice grows bored of listening to her older sister read aloud from a history book of William I of England. When her sister chastises Alice's daydreaming, Alice tells her cat Dinah that she would prefer to live in a nonsensical dreamland called Wonderland. Alice and Dinah spot a waistcoat-wearing White Rabbit passing by, and Alice gives chase as he rushes off claiming to be late for an unknown event. Alice follows him into a rabbit hole and falls into a labyrinth. Her dress balloons out and she begins to float. She sees the White Rabbit disappear into a tiny door and tries to follow, but the door's talking knob advises her to alter her size using a mysterious drink and food. Alice eventually manages to shrink and passes through the door's keyhole and into Wonderland. She meets several strange characters including the Dodo and Tweedledee and Tweedledum who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter."Alice eventually finds the White Rabbit in his house, but before she can ask what he is late for, she is sent to fetch some gloves. She eats a cookie and grows into a giant again, getting stuck in the rabbit's house. The White Rabbit, the Dodo, and chimney sweep Bill the Lizard believe Alice to be a monster and plot to burn the house down. Alice escapes by eating a carrot and shrinking down to the size of an insect. She meets and sings with some talking flowers, but they chase her away upon accusing her of being a weed. Alice is then instructed by the hookah-smoking Caterpillar to eat a part of his mushroom grow back to her original size. Alice decides to keep the remaining pieces of the mushroom on hand.Alice meets the Cheshire Cat who advises her to visit the Mad Hatter, March Hare and the Dormouse. The three are hosting a mad tea party and celebrate Alice's "unbirthday", a day where it is not her birthday. The White Rabbit appears, but the March Hare and Mad Hatter destroy his pocketwatch and throw him out of the party. Fed up with all the wonderlandians' rudeness and wackiness, Alice abandons her pursuit of the White Rabbit and decides to go home, but gets lost in the Tulgey Wood. The Cheshire Cat appears and leads Alice into a giant hedge maze ruled by the tyrannical Queen of Hearts and her smaller husband, the King of Hearts. The Queen beheads anyone who enrages her, and invites Alice in a bizarre croquet match using flamingoes and hedgehogs as the equipment.The Cheshire Cat appears again and pulls a trick on the Queen which she accuses Alice of doing, and Alice is put on trial. However, she eats the remains of the Caterpillar's mushroom and grows to an enormous height which the King claims is forbidden in court. Tired of Wonderland, Alice openly insults the Queen until she shrinks to her normal size and is forced to flee after the Queen orders her execution. Alice becomes pursued by

Comparing spirited away with Alice in Wonderland

In spirited away at the beginning of the film Chihiro is seen walking through the tunnel with her parents in to the other world. In Alice in wonderland, Alice falls down a hole and ends up in another world. This is similar because although they are in different worlds, as in Alice is a really old fashioned girl and Chihiro is from Japan, they both end up in different worlds. Also the characters of both places are similar . Chihiro - Alice Innocent, Young, Kind Girls Haku White Rabbit Helpful, Kind Yubaba Queen of Hearts Bad Guy, Spiteful, Selfish Cheshire Cat No Face Troublesome

Disney Film Enchanted plot

Giselle lives in "Andalasia", an animated fairy tale world devoid of problems, in which there are talking animals and "happy endings". Prince Edward, Giselle's designated "true love", saves her from the advances of a troll and they plan to get married the following day. Meanwhile, Queen Narissa, Edward's stepmother, schemes to protect the throne she currently occupies from Prince Edward before his marriage entitles him to become a king. The queen, disguised as an old hag, sends Giselle to New York City's Times Square, designating it as a "place where there are no happy endings".After a number of misadventures, including a minor car accident, an accidental subway ride with a crowd of people, and having her tiara stolen by a homeless man in the Bowery, Giselle runs into a brightly-lit billboard, featuring a huge pink castle, advertising "The Palace" casino. Mistaking the billboard image for an actual palace, Giselle attempts to enter the structure she perceives by climbing towards the image. However, Giselle falls and is rescued by Robert, a hardened, yet friendly, divorce lawyer. At the insistence of his daughter, Morgan, Robert lets Giselle stay at their apartment.Once Giselle is a resident at Robert's apartment, she revives the lifestyle of her home world and recruits urban animals pigeons, cockroaches and rats to do the housework while she fashions a dress out of the lawyer's curtains. However, Nancy Tremaine, Robert's girlfriend and a fashion designer, misunderstands the situation and leaves the apartment following a falling out with Robert.At Robert's law firm, the divorce lawyer's secretary, Sam, is unsuccessful in assisting Giselle's efforts to return to Andalasia. Robert eventually offers Giselle money in Central Park, desperate for them both to separate so that he can continue with his life. However, Giselle meets an old woman who remembers Prince Edward rescuing her after confronting an MTA bus in Times Square to save the old woman, and Giselle decides to give her the money from Robert. Meanwhile, Robert forms a belief that Giselle needs his presence for her own protection and rejoins her. Giselle proceeds to question the divorce lawyer about his expressions of affection towards Tremaine, eventually aiding the pair to reconcile by sending flowers and tickets to the "King and Queen's Ball".Meanwhile, Narissa's henchman, Nathaniel, follows Prince Edward and his chipmunk Pip, the two having journeyed to New York to rescue Giselle. Nathaniel has been given three poisoned apples, along with an order to use them on Giselle. For his first attempt, Nathaniel attempts to kill Giselle by disguising himself as a vendor and one of the poisoned fruits as a caramel apple. However, the plan fails when Giselle inadvertently throws the disguised apple in the air, lodging it in a cyclist's helmet where it singes a bald spot into his hair. Nathaniel questions his adoring, but servile, relationship with Narissa after watching a television soap opera, but he decides to fulfill the queen's order. At an Italian restaurant, Nathaniel serves Giselle a poisoned apple martini, but is stopped by Pip. Angered with her henchman's failures, Narissa visits New York City to kill Giselle.As Giselle and Robert spend more time together, Giselle discovers that the real world is much more complicated than she realized, while Robert is affected by her optimism and idealism. After a brief argument with Robert, Giselle realizes her own emotional growth and her growing feelings toward him. Edward continues to look for Giselle, eventually finding her at Robert's apartment. While Edward is eager to take Giselle home and marry, she insists that they first go on a date, which she has learned is customary in the real world. They end their date at the King's and Queen's Costume Ball. After Nancy and Prince Edward pair off to dance, Giselle dances with Robert. Giselle realizes that Robert is her true love as he sings the lyrics of the song to her. Edward and Nancy seem to realize the attraction between Giselle and Robert, and also discover a

Comparing Spirited Away with Enchanted.

This comparison is the same as Alice in wonderland. In Enchanted a princess falls down the tunnel and ends up in another world. In spirited away Chihiro at the start of the movie walks through a tunnel with her parents and ends up in the spirit world. This is why these two are similar.

My Opinion on the Films.

Spirited Away and Alice in Wonderland are two well known companies but they are made by two different companies. I think the target audience for both films are 10 and over.

Both films have exactly the same beginning. Both characters are very kind and innocent children. Both girls at the end of the film have proved to themselves that they can do anything if they put their mind to it.