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The movie “Monsters Inc.” which was made in 2001 and directed by Pete Docter. “Monsters Inc.” is about two monsters (Mike Wazowski and James P Sullivan who live in a city called Monstroplis which is powered by screams, then all of a sudden a human child named Boo) comes and they have to return her to the human world before the other monsters find out.) Randall was intended to be scary and malicious, the director does this by making Randall look like nightmarish through his appearance and other techniques such as language/personality and music/ and diegetic sounds that illustrates him as malicious and petrifying.
Randall is illustrated to be eerie/selfish through his appearance, the director illustrates this by making him look like a snake
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The director does this by making Randall say rude words or phrases such as in the scene where Su lley and Mike are near the lockers and Randall appears out of now where and says to Mike “what do you know it scares little children and little monsters”, he said that after turning invisible and slamming Mike’s locker. The phrase is rude and discriminative because he is referring to Mike as diminutive and timid. The word choice the director uses depicts Randall as mean and disrespectful. Randall was designed to be rude to make the audience dislike him because no one likes a rude person, an example of this is when Randall is scaring children on the scare floor and Sulley has just become the top scarer, he takes his anger out on his co-worker Fungus and says: “if you don’t get me a new door in my station within 5 seconds I will personally put you through the shredder”, in an angry tone, this is rude because he says it in a demanding voice. Randall is also selfish because he wants to become the best scarer no matter what, he does this by going to the scare floor and scaring boo after hours to get an unfair advantage, Randall also invents the scream extractor to become the top scarer, it works by sucking the scream out of the

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