Up Movie Analysis

For my last fieldtrip essay, I decided to watch a movie that was reference in Chapter 9(Cinema) of the ABH book. The movie that I chose was Up, an animated movie that was released in 2009 and later became Academy award winner. This award winning film depicted adventure, comedy and bravery. Up is animated movie based on a character name Carl Fredricksen written and directed by Peter Docter. As a young child, Carl idolized an explorer by the name of Charles Muntz. However, Charles Muntz was accused of forging the skeleton of a giant bird that he had claim he discovered in Paradise Falls in South America. Charles was stripped of explorer award and he swore he would not return home until he brings back a live giant bird from Paradise Falls.
There he meets energetic Ellie, a girl who is also fascinated with Charles Muntz, imitating Charles and pretending that she is on her way to Paradise Falls. From there, the two became friends and later got married and lived in same refurnished abandoned house. When Ellie was a child she had confided in Carl that she wanted move the abandoned clubhouse and put it on the cliff of Paradise Falls and showed Carl an adventure book that she wanted to put all her different adventures in. After being married for a while they decided they wanted kids however Ellie was diagnosed as being infertile. So they decided that they wanted to fulfil their lifetime dream to travel to Paradise Falls and tried saving money. However, something always came up and they would have to end up spending that money to either to fix a flat tire or to fix the roof of the house that was mashed up from a hurricane. Time passed and the two are now old and finally have pooled the money to go to South America but unfortunately Ellie became ill and
After surviving the storm the house is almost destroyed and lands close to Paradise Falls leaving them to walk on foot for the rest of the journey while hanging on to it. There, Carl befriends a colourful giant bird in the brushes and names it Kevin. Soon after they discovers that “Kevin” is not a male but a female. She was out looking for food to give her baby birds. Carl and Russell are later captured by a pack of dogs and bring them back to their master. There, Carl realized that the dog’s master is his long time hero Charles Muntz. Muntz invites them onto his airship and explains how he spend his years since being disgraced trying to captured the giant bird. Muntz soon feels that Carl and Russell are trying to steal Kevin. They flee the ship to save Kevin but Muntz later catch up to them and Carl chose to save his burning house and let Muntz capture