Stereotypes In Zootopia

At first glance, Zootopia seems like your average kids movie. Cute, unique characters, a bright and colorful story, lighthearted dialogue and issues. One could easily brush it off as just another ‘dumb movie for little kids’ and move on without another look back at it. But Zootopia is much more than that, with much bigger issues and deeper meanings. Using stunning visuals, amazing dialogue, and beautiful lighting, Zootopia tackles one of the most controversial issues in the country—racism—in a way that the whole family can understand and learn from.
Zootopia focuses on Judy Hopps, a rabbit living in a world of sentient animals. Ever since she was young she wanted to be a cop, to help make the world a better place. But because she was a rabbit, she was looked down on and disregarded; rabbits were puny little prey animals, and prey animals like her weren’t cut out for jobs like that. Despite this Judy works hard, and graduates from the police academy at the top of her class. Even with this under her belt, Judy is looked down upon and given mundane jobs such as writing up tickets, because she’s just a little bunny in a dangerous world.
After forcing her way into a large missing persons case, Judy works with a fox named Nick to solve the case. The two of them learn that animals were beginning to go …show more content…
There are quite a few scenes that use lighting effectively to convey the emotions of what is going on, but one that does it the best is Nick’s flashback to his childhood. When he was younger he had wanted to join the Junior Ranger Scouts, which was a group of children made up of all prey animals. Being the only predator he just wanted to fit in, and tried really hard to. But the prey animals don’t want him there; they push him to the ground and hold him down, strapping a muzzle onto him. They didn’t like him, they didn’t trust him, all because he was a