Term Paper Outline: Rise of the Guardians

Introduction
A. Introduce Rise of the Guardians
B. Thesis - The movie may look convincing, but there are some physics it has to break by using magic.

Body

The speed that the guardians travel and the way they stop (Slow out)
- The sleigh should have taken more time to have stopped at the tooth palace.
- All of the guardians or legends have incredible speed
Wind is able to push or make Jack Frost Fly
- Incredible speed of Guardians getting teeth and leaving gifts.
- How the kids and guardians stop at the end of the ice road that jack made.

Only the Guardians seem to be almost weightless 
- All of the Guardians landed on their feet (especially North) from jumping out of the tooth palace.
- Fight between Sandy and Pitch, when Sandy throws him around with a whip, Pitch should have been very injured.
- Wind is able to push or make Jack Frost fly
- Effortless backflip jump that Frost makes onto Jamie's desk
- Guardians land sometimes effortlessly at the last battle
- Jack being thrown to an ice wall by Pitch and landing about 3-4 stories down.
- Effortless backflip jump that Frost makes onto Jamie's desk

Only Guardians are able to understand each others helpers or minions
- North's Yetis and elves do not speak or speak gibberish
- Bunny Mund's eggs and egg statues do not speak
- Tooth's faires chirp or squeak
- Sandy doesn't even talk at all and nor do his dreams.
 
Ice and moss seem to be just as slippery as each other
- North's ice tunnel for getting out with his sleigh
- Bunny giving the other guardians a try out in his tunnels

Conclusion
- The movie is made to feel realistic, but it uses magic to break some of the laws of physics in order to convince the audience that the characters are believable.

Random tidbits:
- As children start to lose beliefe in the Guardians, more the guardians be come "realistic" or more human.
- Everyone is standing on top of a frozen lake (even the sleigh)