The movies being compared are 22 Jump Street and Hot Fuzz. The genre that has been selected is Crime. In 22 Jump Street officers Schmidt(Jonah Hill) and Jenko(Channing Tatum) are back in a sequel to solve and eliminate the new trade of the new drug “Wyhphy”(Work hard, Yes, Play hard, Yes). Which happened to kill a student who was photographed buying it on campus. The two officers infiltrate the college by going undercover. Jenko joins the football team while Schmidt joins the Bohemian art major scene. The mission begins to pull the two apart as they have separate beliefs on whether the football team are the suppliers or not after finding a series of tips. Jenko does not want to turn in his new friends while Schmidt has other ideas in mind,
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The first similarity that these two movies have is that both groups of criminals try to befriend and distract the person they think is the biggest threat. For instance in the scene “Kill the messenger” in Hot fuzz the towns lone reporter Tim Messenger schedules an interview with Officer Angel during the towns annual festival to give and get some information about all of the mysterious murders around town for his next story. The group fears Messenger knows too much so they distract Officer Angel by making him announce the winner of the raffle drawing during the time of his supposed interview. By the time Angel figures out he is purposefully being distracted and leaves to meet with Messenger it is too late and he is dead in what the group would want to appear as another accident. An example in 22 Jump Street would be when Schmidt is dating the roommate of the woman who was responsible for bringing in all the drugs. The woman later on in the movie explains to Schmidt that she knew he was too old to be in college and that she was only being nice to him so that he wouldn’t figure out what she was up too. Another similarity the two films have in common would be how both groups of criminals blend into society as the least suspecting individuals to be criminals. In 22 Jump Street two of the main drug dealers of “Whyphy” lived right across the hall from Jenko and Schmidt’s dorm room. Both befriending the two …show more content…
This compare and contrast is valuable because it provides insight, comparisons, and contrasts on what a movie in this genre should depict. It’s important to have a understanding of what the plot of a certain genre should portray because a certain factor could determine which film is decided on to watch. Because who wants to spend 2 hours of their lives watching a movie that doesn’t appeal to
The first similarity that these two movies have is that both groups of criminals try to befriend and distract the person they think is the biggest threat. For instance in the scene “Kill the messenger” in Hot fuzz the towns lone reporter Tim Messenger schedules an interview with Officer Angel during the towns annual festival to give and get some information about all of the mysterious murders around town for his next story. The group fears Messenger knows too much so they distract Officer Angel by making him announce the winner of the raffle drawing during the time of his supposed interview. By the time Angel figures out he is purposefully being distracted and leaves to meet with Messenger it is too late and he is dead in what the group would want to appear as another accident. An example in 22 Jump Street would be when Schmidt is dating the roommate of the woman who was responsible for bringing in all the drugs. The woman later on in the movie explains to Schmidt that she knew he was too old to be in college and that she was only being nice to him so that he wouldn’t figure out what she was up too. Another similarity the two films have in common would be how both groups of criminals blend into society as the least suspecting individuals to be criminals. In 22 Jump Street two of the main drug dealers of “Whyphy” lived right across the hall from Jenko and Schmidt’s dorm room. Both befriending the two …show more content…
This compare and contrast is valuable because it provides insight, comparisons, and contrasts on what a movie in this genre should depict. It’s important to have a understanding of what the plot of a certain genre should portray because a certain factor could determine which film is decided on to watch. Because who wants to spend 2 hours of their lives watching a movie that doesn’t appeal to