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Similarities Between Big Daddy And Daddy Bee

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When thinking about civil law we depict a set of interpretation of rules that codify laws that we follow. Lawmakers are typically the essential individuals providing greater explanations of how the law applies. In the films “Big Daddy” and “Bee Movie” I was able to analyze a representation of Americas civil law systems with many different concepts. Big Daddy is a film where a man named Sonny Koufax has spent his entire life avoiding responsibility. Then one day his girlfriend dumps him so he decides to find a way to prove that he is ready to grow up. This is the moment when a five-year-old kid name Julian, comes knocking at his apartment door claiming that he is the father. Nevertheless, Julian is not actually Sonny’s kid but …show more content…

When thinking about these two films we can see how has civil law establish a representation of torts, negligence, product liability, compensatory damages, and many other things that relate to the analyzation of the American civil law portrayed in our media.
Torts in the bee movie were very visible. Being able to see that torts are typically application of common law principles that develop over time through the accumulation of precedents raises an awareness of what actually occurs in a case (Berk Lecture, 04/12/17). For example, in the Bee Movie the scene where another bee named Adam Flayman stings an individual named Layton it was not his intention to commit the injury but was still liable for doing so, because there was still someone who got hurt, and in order for there to be a tort there has to be an injury. As a result, having torts provide incentives for good conduct and disincentives for bad conduct, provides compensation, and fairness in the objective over other mechanisms (Feinman,145) Thus said, with Adam committing the injury he has to take responsibility for an action that he did.
Focusing on negligence in comparison to torts Big Daddy portraits a comparative negligence for the fact that the plaintiff was at fault. The reason behind this is because Sonny new that keeping the kid was not correct since he was not the legal guardian of the child. Thus in this case shows that Sonny did not assume the risk after taking Julian in as his

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