Class Assignment 2

In the second assignment, we were required to choose to compare historical or musical movie. I chose musical movie because I felt that I'm more familiar to musical movie and I also love musical movies. The two movies I choose to compare were 'The School of Rock' and 'Rock of Ages'. I have to watch 'The School of Rock' again for the sake of this assignment. As for 'Rock of Ages', it was my first time watching it and I found it quite interesting, but yet still 'The School of Rock' is better. In my essay, I compared the similarities of both movie, which is the element of rock music, the crowd of the concert and also the same characteristic of the character from both movie. Throughout the assignment, we were required to make references from the writing skill book. To be honest, I didn't buy that book, but yet I still manage to finish the essay by comparing these two movies. I improved my writing skills on writing a compare/contrast essay through this assignment and also the ability to analyze.

Below is the essay that I wrote :

  Musical movie can be said that is a combination of songs and acting. The songs will be performed by the actor in the movie. They usually dance along when they are singing. Due to there are different types of music, such as classical music, rock music, techno music and others, there is also different types of musical movies. For an example, if the songs of the movie are rock music, then it can be classified as rock musical movie. The reason I like musical movies is because that I can listen to music and watch a movie at the same time. Therefore, I’m going to compare two musical movies that I have watched.

 One of them is called ‘School of Rock’ and the other one is ‘Rock of Ages’. In my opinion, I think that these two movies are rock musical movies. ‘School of Rock’ is a movie about a rocker encountering a downfall in his career and how he had risen up. “Rock of Ages’ is a movie about how an unknown rocker has gone famous. Both of the movies are not really the same, but they have certain similarities. Lots of people are the fans of rock music and research has shown that most of the people that like rock music think that their souls are being released whenever they go to a rock concert.

 The first similarity that both of the movie have in common is that the music of the both movies are rock music. Therefore, I categorized both of the movies as rock musical movie. In terms of the style of the music, ‘Rock of Ages’ is better because it is more stylish and they’re written by rockers. But, in terms of the way that it is being performed,  ‘ School of Rock’ is better because it is basically performed by a band that is formed by young students lead by an adult, whereas, the ‘Rock of Ages’ is more on the solo performance. For me, I would prefer the rock songs from ‘School of Rock’ because the songs are reflecting the students themselves. For example, they expressed their bitterness as a student through the rock music. By comparing both movies in terms of the rock music, I would choose the ‘School of Rock’ because I’m also a student.

  The second similarity of both movies is the place of where they performed the music, which is the crowd in the concert. In terms of the size of the crowd, ‘Rock of Ages’ has a bigger crowd in the concert because the rocker is a famous rocker in the movie, unlike ‘School of Rock’, they are just students and nobody knows them. In terms of the craziness of the crowd, I would think that the crowd from ‘School of Rock’ is crazier because when the lead singer performs a stage dive, the crowd is willing to catch him. Although the crowd from ‘Rock of Ages’ is not so crazy, but they are more enthusiastic. The reason I say this is because that they are willing to go for the concert even the government is trying to ban the concert. In other words, they are willing to go against the government just for the rock music. The crowds from these two movies are common in a way which is they are willing to pay any price just for the rock music.

  

  The third similarity of both movies is the hardwork of the unknown rocker pays off. I think that the main character from the ‘School of Rock’ which is leading the band is more hardworking than anybody else. This is simply because that when he encountered the downfall in his career, he never gave up. He gave in all his effort in training a group of students to become a rock band. In the end, the band was so famous that lots of organizers want to have them in their event. Compared to ‘School of Rock’, the main character from ‘Rock of Ages’ can be only said he tried his best but didn’t go beyond that. Therefore, I like the main character from ‘School of Rock’ because he is hardworking and full of enthusiasm to his career.

 In conclusion, both these movies have certain similarities, but not all the same. If I were to choose which is better from these two movies, I would say ‘School of Rock’. The reason is simply because the music is better than the other one. Besides, the storyline of the movie is much more interesting than the other one also. The hilarious acting skill of the main character has also made this movie much better than the other one.