This article is mostly a review of the new movie Interstellar but also a comparison of
its success to Disney’s Big Hero 6.
Disney’s new animated film, Big Hero 6,
did much better than Interstellar, a
thriller directed by Christopher Nolan. In this article, written by Ben Fritz,
Fritz hopes to comment on how much more successful Big Hero 6 has been than Interstellar
while also staying neutral. This article first use of rhetorical device is
in the title where the article takes advantage of denotation. The header to
this review is, “’Big Hero 6’ Shoots Past ‘Interstellar’, at first glance it
appears that Fritz is just stating the obvious, that Disney’s movie has made
more money than Nolan’s, but when read closer it seems that the author is using
the literal meaning of interstellar. By saying that Big Hero 6 shot past interstellar, means that it did better than
the best than it could do and that it was a great movie. Ben Fritz also uses
expert testimonies to boast the success of Big
Hero 6 without a bias. Fritz quotes Paramount’s “president of
world-wide distribution and marketing” Megan Colligan who says that, “With
[‘Interstellar’], every single weekend is like opening it again.” One would
think that this is a compliment to the success of Interstellar, but in actuality it is again promoting Big Hero 6. Because Disney’s movie shot
“past ‘Interstellar’” this statements seems to say that it did amazingly, even
better than Nolan’s film. This article, while it presents its facts to be
neutral, is really a presentation of Disney’s Big Hero 6 success over Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and a promotion of the film to the public.
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