Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer won for Best Writing, and as Best Fantasy Film.
In 2006 MTV Movie Awards, Christian Bale won Best Hero. http:imdb.comtitlett0372784awards
Batman Begins
tells about Bruce Wayne who turns into a crime fighter named Batman who fights the crimes in his city, Gotham. Bruce Wayne has a
trauma with bats. It is caused when he was a child. He fell to the deep hole with so many of bats inside it. Bruce felt so scared when those bats were flying outside
the hole and crossing him. His trauma is haunting him until he learns to face and conquer it with help from Ducard and Ra’s Al Ghul.
After he has learned and experienced so many things, trained his physical abilities, learned the martial arts, and supported by technologies and gadgets,
Bruce Wayne decides to get back to his city, Gotham, and becomes a crime fighter and uses the bat as his symbol. His symbol is known as Batman.
Batman is Bruce Wayne’s alter ego. Bruce Wayne is a billionaire industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as
a child leads him to train himself to the peak of physical and intellectual perfection, don a costume, and fight crime.
Although it is the 5th live-action Batman movie since 1989, the movie is neither a prequel nor a sequel to either the previous Tim Burton or Joel
Schumacher movies, but rather a reboot into its own movie franchise. The film was both a critical and financial success.
B. Approach of the Study
Wellek and Warren state that a work may be the result of author understanding about social problems around him 1956: 95, in other words a
literary work may represent social problems. Concerning that reason, the writer believes that it will be very suitable to analyze the movie script from the socio-
historical point of view. Rohrberger states that socio-historical approach inserts the real condition
of social and history that influences the author in making a literary work, because the work itself cannot be separated from the social milieu and historical when the
play is created 1971: 9-10. It is important because literary works are not made without any purpose; it usually conveys a significant idea, values, or rules of the
society in which it occurs.
The approaches which are used in this thesis is socio-historical approach
because it is the most appropriate one to answer the question in the problem questions which is related with society and history. Using this approach, the writer
wants to figure out the condition in America through the movie script which becomes the object of study of this thesis. Moreover, the writer also wants to
compare the story with real fact and condition of America in that time. It will give
us a description of real society.
C. Method of the Study
It is a library research with the movie script as the object of the study regarded as the primary data source. The study done by the writer is supported
with some books and articles to provide the supporting evidences as the secondary data sources. It also uses the sources from the articles on internet.
There were some steps used by the writer in analyzing the object of the study. First step was to read the object of the study the movie script. It was done
in order to understand the story. The movie script was regarded as the primary data. Second was, to collect the data related to the movie script, including the
theories that would be used. Theory of character and characteristic is used to analyze Batman’s character and his characteristic in the movie script. The writer
analyzes about what Batman does, says, and thinks. He also does the same to Bruce Wayne because they are the same person. Theory of symbolism is used to
know the meaning of symbol of bat used by Batman Bruce Wayne as a crime fighter. The writer analyzes the symbol which is used to fight the crimes and the
symbol to hide his identity. Then the theory of American Dream is used to analyze the representation of Batman in America and his representation for the Americans.
The writer analyzes Batman Bruce Wayne’s life to find the dream and hopes of Americans from him.
Next step was to find the appropriate approach to analyze the script. After that, the writer answered the problems formulations by applying the theories that
were gained in the previous steps. The fifth step, the last one, was to take the conclusion from analyzing the object of the study with previous steps.
