Monday, July 21, 2014

MOVIES AND ACADEMIC ESSAYS Sample of Student's Essay Movie "3 Idiots" SAMPLE 1



PROMINENT CHARACTERS in ‘3 IDIOTS’
THE ESSAY
Watching movies and drama have become a favorite pastime to many people. Comedy based drama can be watched by people of all ages. The movie ‘3 idiots’ is about the life of 3 Indian engineering student who share a room in a hostel at the Imperial College of Engineering. This movie potrays interesting events and incidents that the audience can learn from. The three prominent character in the movie ‘3 idiots’ are Rancho, ViruS and Chatur.
The first prominent character in 3 idiots is Rancho who is a brilliant and caring person. He applies physics application in the bathroom  incident. He also invented a power inventer to convert a car battery into electricity. Despite being intelligent, he is also caring. He helps Farhan and Raju face their problems. He still cares for his best friend although they had lost contact. So, Rancho is potrayed as a brilliant yet caring character.
ViruS, who is competitive and egoistic person, is also one of the prominent character in the movie. He tells his experience in a  speech in the morning assembly about how to survive in life. Furthermore, he was  too obsessed with the university’s ranking until some of the students got depressed. Besides that, ViruS has his own ego. He thinks that neither Farhan nor Raju will get a job in the job interview. He also had a thought that all of his decisions were the best for everyone. Hence, ViruS is represented as a competitive and egoistic character.
Next, the third prominent character in this movie is Chatur or known as ‘The Silencer’ who is potrayed as selfish and boastful. He gives porn magazines to students during the study week to distract them from studying. In addition, he gives urine – expulsion everywhere  and fart wherever he wants. He only thinks of himself without considering the confort of the people around him. He is also boastful of himself. He speaks only in English when all the other students spoke only Hindi. Moreover, he was chosen to give speech during Teacher’s Day. Thus, Chatur is potrayed as a selfish yet boastful character.
To sum up, the movie ‘3 idiots’ potrays three different characters with different personalities; Chatur, ViruS and Rancho. Selfish and boastful characteristics are often shown in most of the events in this movie by the character of Chatur. He willing to do anything as long as he gets everything he wants. Next, ViruS expressed himself as a competitive and egoistic person most of the time. He keeps his life at his pace and refuse to allow  anyone to be  better than him.  Rancho shown himself as a brilliant and caring character. He cares too much about his best friend and he uses his intelligence study hard. To conclude, this movie shows many different personalities of the protagonist and antagonist. Watching how these characters behave allows us to  understand people around us.
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