Chicken Run Film Essay

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Essay By Zea Timperley Chicken Run is an exciting, fun loving Claymation film, produced by the studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films. Directors, Peter Lord and Nick Park, create this fantastic movie using hilarious dialogue and characters, as well as the combination of different styles of cinematography, symbolism and music. Set in a sinister 1950s prisoner-of-war style Yorkshire chicken farm, this film centres around a band of chickens who live in fear under the watchful, vicious eye of Mrs. Tweedy and her buffoonish, suspicious husband. One of the chickens, Ginger, is determined to be freed from their prison, but has trouble receiving the help of any of her fellow hens, as the most of them are unspeakably incompetent and clumsy about their situation. When the egg industry doesn't seem productive enough for penny-pinching Mrs Tweedy, she decides that chicken pies are a better business endeavor, considering how plump most of the chickens are. With each attempted escape, Ginger earns solitary confinement in the coal bin, and when a chicken is axed for not producing enough eggs, Ginger is distraught. But when she spies Rocky, a cocky American rooster, flying through the air, she hatches an idea. Rocky literally falls into the flock of antsy hens, and believing he can fly, Ginger convinces him to teach her and the others to fly so they can finally escape. Rocky outwardly agrees, but hopes to make his escape as soon as possible, as it is soon revealed that Rocky is actually a circus performer, and his "flying" was more like falling in convenient grace. Ginger and Rocky lead a rocky romantic encounter, but when she learns he was an act, she is frustrated and shuns him. Rocky escapes on his own, but his conscience forces him back, where he leads the chicken in a truly miraculous and dramatic escape from the farm. The main
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