From the newspaper, to comic books, to television and now to digital animation cartoons have been altered. The 1998 movie, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer: The Movie and the 2004 The Polar Express are Christmas movies that show a change in the different animation. Not to mention as children grow older, and people tell them different things about Santa and how Christmas works, they also teach valuable lessons about treating others with respect, to never stop believing in what you believe.
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie or Rudolph is one of the classic type of cartoon comics. Although it is always a family favorite, the animation is good for the 90's but in this day and age, its not the most exciting thing to watch. Rudolph is about one of Santa's reindeer who has to guide the sleigh to each house on Christmas! At first, all his friends make fun of him but after he saves Christmas he gets the respect he deserves. Just like in the song, "Rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight? Then how the reindeers loved him..." This song uses one of children's favorite holidays to show how everyone should treat each other. In my opinion, every parent should show this movie to their child around Christmas time to show what it really means to act correctly in different situations.
The Polar Express has incredible animation that blows me away. Robert Zemeckis, the director, had a great vision that worked extremely well. The Polar Express is a digital 3-D animation film that is so realistic it's like the characters were acted out by real people. Even a snowflake looked realistic. The Polar Express is about a true-believer of Santa clause who on Christmas evening takes a magical train containing other passengers who truly believe. When they reach the North Pole the boy is chosen by the man himself, Santa Clause, to receive "The First Gift Of Christmas". Throughout the movie there is a bell that only true-believers can hear ring. This movie teaches children to continue to believe what they believe and to not change their beliefs with what others stay. Because Santa is a big controversial argument on whether he is real or not, kids should learn to believe what they truly do and not what others tell them too.
Even if Santa Clause is different for every lucky child, the spirit of Christmas should never die. I will never regret all those Christmas' where I would look outside my window on Christmas eve for hours waiting for Santa and the reindeer all lined up in two by twos like in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie. Rudolph leading with his red nose of course, then in pairs, Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixon, Comet and Cupid, Doner and Blitzen and last of all Santa in the sleigh himself. If those movies didn't teach me to keep believing, I wouldn't have ever enjoyed Christmas as much as I did, and still do.
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Steph,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog. I love Christmas so it was easy for me to relate to. I also thought it was good how you used movies that are widely known, which makes it easier for people to understand and relate to.
However, your first sentence was a little confusing. Try to be careful of the words you use and punctuation. Also, although your commentary was good, you should try to expand what you're saying just a little more.
Good Job!
Dear Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteI'm going to get the criticism over with.I did notice a few typos like 'clause'... that is the type of clause in a sentence. I think that you might have wanted to give more opinion here rather than mostly summaries.
I really liked how Santa is different for every kid, because that really is true... down to when they don't believe anymore. I liked how you got a lot of background for the Polar Express because it shows that you know what you're talking about.
I LOVE YOU AND YOUR BLOG <3 Rach
The next to last paragraph is a miasma of awkward sentences and forgotten proofreading. I like the commentary there, but it's hard to get past some of the more glaring communicative mishaps.
ReplyDelete"Not to mention" is a transition that you can leave in the transition basket. First of all, you never should start a sentence with it, and second, if you state "not to mention", then why are you mentioning it at all? Whenever people say "not to mention", they then immediately mention the thing they said they were not going to reference. I understand the rhetorical usefulness of the phrase, but do you?