SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGNTHE DESIGN SCHOOLFOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: NGO JIA HAUR

STUDENT ID NO: 0320144

FILMS SELECTED: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

IRONMAN 2

WORD COUNT: 910 WORDS

ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: APRIL 3RD, 2015

Since I was a kid, I always love to watch superhero cartoon. Sometimes, I

also love to read my superhero comics. Nowadays, They complied them into

movie theatre and produce some real motion movie based on Marvel’s character,

such as Thor, Spiderman, X-Men: Days of Future Past and other. I like to watch

Captain America: The First Avenger the most and Ironman.

Contrast the character of Captain America and Ironman 2, we can found a

lot of difference from these two character. First, They came from difference

background. Steve Rogers who is the Captain America was born on early

twentieth century, His father was a soldier who fought and died in the First

World War. His mother is a nurse, died of tuberculosis. He was designed as a

patriotic super-soldier. According to the movie The First Avenger, Steve want to

enter in the America armed force but he ‘s small physique fail to achieve the

requirement and military rejected. Fortunately, he got the chance for an

experiment program in a secret lab that will turn him become a super-soldier

and muscular during the Second World War. However, Tony Stark, who’s the

Ironman suit inventor was born in twenty-first century, the owner of the

prominent US firm, Stark Industries. He is an genius in engineer who were the

genius who created a powerful suit of armor which is Ironman suit to defeat the

enemy.

Both Captain America and Ironman also gain their difference power and

weapon. The movie Captain America: The First Avenger had fully represent

Steven’s pinnacle of human physical perfection. He was evoluted to the

superhuman level through a secret experiment. He’s metabolism is seven times

faster than normal human and had a very high intelligence as well as agility,

strength, speed, and reaction time superior. The Captain America’s shield is his

primary weapon. The shield is disc shaped with a star in the center of shield

within silver, red and blue. The shield made by three unique components which

similar with alloy. It’s very hard and Captain America used it to defeat his enemy.

On the other hand, Tony Stark had not represent the human physical perfection.

He just a normal human being but fortunately he was talented for controlling

machines, he built a powerful suit of armor which can let him fly across the sky

and the weapon installed around the Ironman suit to defeat the enemy, and the

high technology program –JARVIS, which is the Tony Stark’s home computer

systems. It’s taking care everything to do about him. He also built some suit with

difference Armor, design and upgrade his suit. Actually he is a self-made

superhero, without the Ironman suit, he just a simple human being.

In contrast, the storyline of Captain America: The First Avenger also

totally difference with Ironman. The First Avenger represents a patriot, Steven

Roger wants to join the America Force Army during the second World War but

military rejected because he has not been able to achieve the physical ability

requirement. He got the opportunity to take part in a experiment program and

become a muscular superhero and rename Captain America. He leads the

America army to fight against the known Hydra bases and the megalomaniacal

evil Red Skull. Red Skull was the head of Hydra organization and he want to

control the whole world with a high-tech energy weapons but fortunately,

everything stopped by Steve. The ending part is the most interesting part for me.

In a hug cockpit, Red Skull fires his cube-energy pistol at Steve but deflect the

shot by his shield. The shot deflected and destroyed the cockpit’s center console.

At the same time, Red Skull lift up the cube, suddenly a portal appeared above

him and crumbled him. After the thrilling battle in the hug cockpit, the console

damaged causing the cockpit lost control. Steve plan to sacrifice him self pushes

the control panel to flied the plane into glacier and crashes it before the plane fly

to Eastern Seaboard.

Since the first Ironman movie produced in 2008, Ironman 2 also release

on to the movie theatre 2010. Tis movie represent the billionaire playboy Tony

Stark conscious to the world that he is the Iron man. He is very popular because

his hot and high- technology. He faces a lot of pressure from government and

public to share his armor to the military, but the secret of his armor suit fall into

wrong hand, Ivan Vanko. Ivan is the son of Russia physicist who wants to remove

Stark from people. Tony approached by Nick Fury of S.H.E.I.L.D, who provides

him with a chest of his father's old artifacts. He built a new triangular cheat that

can cures his poisoning. At the same time, Vanko has been created more new and

powerful armor suit with remote-controlled armors or enemies. Finally, the

agent of S.H.I.E.L.D – Natalie able to give Rhodes control of his armor again so

that he and Stark combined their powers and successfully take Vanko down.

In conclusion, both of Captain America and Ironman are very famous

super hero in the world. Even both of these movies difference from the storyline,

hero’s background and their intangible, they bring out the strong massage of

never surrender to the evil and to be true to yourself and your values, and when

you know you're right and you're awesome, just do what you want to do. I hope

the next episode with getting more interesting for each movie.

Reference

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) – Synopsis retrieved 8 APRIL 2015 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/synopsis

Ironman 2 (2008) - Synopsis Retrieved April 8, 2015, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn

Writing a compare and contrast essay Retrieved April 8, 2015, from https://www.sbcc.edu/clrc/files/wl/downloads/WritingaCompareContrastEssay.pdf