4/11/2024 0 Comments Zootopia predators vs prey![]() US culture celebrates diversity of lifestyle and background within a shared American experience.īut at the same time, the country is riven with the discourse of hatred. A woman is running for the highest office in the land. So do Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and people from other ethnic backgrounds. An African American is president, and many others hold high office. Last year, the Supreme Court made the historic decision to legalise same-sex marriage. The US is not just a country of social progress or of social animosity – it is both. ![]() The timing of Zootropolis’ release illuminates the American paradox. No one is immune to the whipped-up threat to community. The resolution doesn’t negate the suspicion and fear. The crisis in Zootropolis passes, the furry and fanged find peace again, the villains get their just deserts. Of course, Zootropolis does not end there, with traumatised children and worried parents exiting the cinema. It doesn’t even have to be someone with bad intentions – even innocent and well-meaning citizens, citizens such as Judy Hopps, can cause serious damage by carelessly recycling the language of the “primitive”. We’re reminded that it is not just a Trump-ist politician or an evil genius who can incite conflict, splitting neighbours and partners. Panicked reporters ask if this means savagery will break out across Zootropolis – and Judy’s friendship with Nick Wilde breaks down as she stumbles further into the politics of “us v them”. In one of the film’s turning points, Officer Judy Hopps, now a hero, extemporises at a press conference that predators might be acting from “biology”, as they revert to primeval instincts. Indeed, the film is far more effective because its message is not just for The Donald and his supporters – it is a challenge to the American public as a whole. This is not a direct response to the politics of Donald Trump, as Zootropolis was in production long before the businessman announced his presidential candidacy. Sloth-paced administration is the least of this town’s problems. Soon, there are demands for all predators to be rounded up. TV channels break news of the latest attacks by predator on prey and prey on predator. A mother pulls her child closer when a lion sits down next to them on the subway. Workers cast worried glances at each other. All it takes is a malicious catalyst to destroy the delicate truce between the “prey”, who make up 90% of the Zootropolis population, and the “predators”.Īnd right on cue a power-hungry politician turns a series of disappearances into a climate of division and fear. ![]() This is far from a settled ascendancy, though. It’s not a sugary-sweet melting pot – Nick Wilde the fox is still a con-man, and rabbit police officer Judy Hopps must overcome discrimination – but Zootropolis is proof of America’s ascendancy over a “natural” state of conflict and aggression. All species, from the smallest to the largest, herbivore and carnivore, domesticated and formerly wild, live in harmony. Either that or the government offers more money to families with more children to encourage high birth rates and help the prey’s children reach maturity, hence why Judy has two hundred and seventy-five brothers and sisters.Zootropolis is a mega-city where citizens live an animal American dream. The 10% predator vs 90% prey rate wasn’t because the predators living there decided to become pescatarians… Given that their food would probably be heavily regulated, I imagine they would have a law for the amount of children predators are allowed. Otherwise, the predators would run out of food and their populations decrease. Also, in the wild there are more prey than predators. In fact, if they did that, they’d be more likely to see “savage” predators. They have to do something with the dead, and locking the meat in a box six feet underground seems like a huge waste when ten percent of the population can’t survive without meat. I imagine the predators are eating the deceased. Tapirs are mammals with interesting snoots (their toes are pretty cool, too!).
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