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The Call Comparison

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How likely is it in this day and age that teenage girls get captured and tortured? News today seems to be filled with these types of horrors. In Taken, a 2008 a crime fiction starring Liam Neeson, two friends are kidnapped to be used as sex slaves. In The Call, a young girl is taken from a parking garage, taken to an underground hideout, and scalped for her blonde hair. The 2013 thriller stars Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin as the main characters of the movie. The Call uses more horror elements than Taken and keeps audiences on the edge of their seats, and that is why it is the better movie. Although the plots of The Call and Taken are unique in some ways, they are also very similar. To begin The Call, Casey Welson, a young teenage girl, …show more content…

The Call consists of the main rescuer, Jordan Turner, a teenage girl being kidnapped, Casey Welson, and a crazy kidnapper, Michael Foster. Taken also has a main hero, Bryan Mills, a helpless teenager, Kim Mills, and several unnamed kidnappers. Both main characters have the same mentality of never giving up. The two kidnapped girls of course are both panic stricken and in fear of their death. The kidnappers have one reason for taking the teenage girls. So, the characters mainly have the same personalities and goals. The difference between the two main characters is that Jordyn in The Call is a complete stranger to Casey, yet she still continues to search for her. Bryan on the other hand is the father of the Kim, the girl he is trying to rescue. Even though both The Call and Taken are both thrilling movies, Taken is lacking in several categories that The Call contains. The plot of The Call keeps the audience guessing and eager for what happens next. The main character in The Call had no prior relationship to the kidnapped teenager, which makes viewers wonder why the hero never gave up. The theme of The Call shows how and why revenge is sweet. If given the choice between the two movies, always pick The

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