SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT NAME: WONG DE-VIN

STUDENT ID NO: 0319814

FILMS SELECTED: X-MEN / THE WOLVERINE

WORD COUNT: 1015

ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: APRIL 3RD, 2015

COMPARE- CONTRAST ESSAY There are many type of genres of movies nowadays like horror , drama, comedy and so on.Science Fiction or most people nowadays named it ‘Sci-Fi’ is one of my favourite genres of movies nowadays. Science Fiction is basically a genre dealing with imaginary content of our future world such as time travel and extraterrestrial lives. With the technology of editing and graphic designing in the 21st century , Sci-Fi movies are getting really interesting and sometimes you even feels like the story in the movies is currently happening in our real world. Marvels arguably the best sci-fi producing film company in the21st century. They have produced many record breaking Sci-FI movies like the Avengers and X-men. My favourite Sci-Fi movie until now is still the X-Men series.The two movies I will be comparing is X-men and The Wolverine. The two specific characters that I will be comparing is between Charles Xavier from the X-men series who mostly go by the name ‘Professor X’ which is play by both Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy and Logan, The Wolverine who is played by Hugh Jackman. Professor X and Logan both are amazing characters and kind hearted , but both of them have an unique way of their of handling their problems. Both professor X and Logan are mutants, which means that their genes are somehow mutated which cause them to have what we call ‘superpowers’. The power that professor X was born with is that he can read anybody's mind and even control them if he manage to control his power properly.He was born with an extremely high IQ due to his powerful brain which also make him a genius in science at a very young age. On the other hand, Logan contains a wolf’s genes when he was born, he can extend 3 sharp claws out from his fist whenever he wants. At first when they realize that they are mutants, they cannot control their own powers. Professor X was using his wrongly when he was younger , he tends to get really bad headaches when he was younger. Logan, on the other hand cannot control when he is able to extend the claws out from his fist. Professor X has a more calm and relaxed mind. He always prefer to settle his problems without using his powers. He always talk first and try to convince people to use their powers properly and doesn't harm anyone. He only uses his power when he needed to , like self defense and stopping people from doing something stupid. One of the part that catches me the most is that he always ask for permission before he reads anybody mind even though he can do it without them knowing. Logan has a more aggressive character compare to professor X. He always fight for justice , professor X will talk and convince to people to make them realize they are wrong but Logan, he tend to always extend his claws and threaten people to make them not making their mistakes again , and if they do not listen, he will hurt them or sometimes even killing them . Both professor X and Logan do not know what happened to them or what they should do with their powers. During their childhood, both of them suffered to grow up like a normal child. Logan was always isolated from the society because the society cannot accept a mutant like him. He then got really angry and upset about that and decided not to just not making friends, but more and more enemies. He has a brother , Victor which is also a mutant like Logan , all those years

Victor and Logan grew up together and they have killed numerous amount of people throughout the years they grew up. But one day he realizes that what he was doing was wrong so he left Victor and decided not to fight or kill anymore innocent people. Charles Xavier had a different way of growing up compared to Logan. When he was 9, he thought that he went crazy because he start hearing voices and screams everyday but after that he realizes that those voices were actually on other peoples head. He grew up listening to voices he doesn't want to hear , images that he doesn't want to see. He always inject a hormone that was invented by his lab assistant, Hank to temporary disable his powers just to be able to sleep and not hear anyones trouble. Professor X and Logan both have strong but limited powers. Professor X has a limited distance of mind he can read or image. He cannot read a person’s mind if you are few hundred miles away from him. To actually use his power in a more effective way, Hank built a machine for him which is named Cerebro. Cerebro is actually a machine where Professor X have to put this helmet on and then Hank will turn on the machine and it will enhance the distance of his telepath. The Cerebro is mostly used when Professor X is looking for other mutants. Logan was born with claws made out of materials like our bone which means it is still breakable. He was caught by a man called William Stryker who is a general that works in the U.S Military. Stryker has always wanted to catch Logan and turn him into an indestructible machine that kills for Stryker. He sent Victor to catch Logan and then brought him to the Military base and inject Adamantium in to Logan which will turn all Logan’s bone into Adamantium. But right before he can insert a chip into Logan’s brain, Logan manage to escape from the military base and after that day Logan is known to be immortal because there is no element on Earth that can break Adamantium. In conclusion, both X-men and The Wolverine are really good movies. They both teaches us how to fix our problems in a better way and not to give up easily in our way of struggling. I personally prefer to watch X-men because it contains more interesting characters.