The writer accomplishes the research during the academic year 20132014, at library, home and Department of English Letters, faculty of
Letters and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University.
CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Previous Research
The Wreck-It Ralph film research which told that this film can teach people about life was taken from an analysis which written by Gerry Gavin
on his blog
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. In the study, Gerry Gavin found that the story of Wreck-It Ralph is a representation of human’s life. The problem which comes out in this story
is the imitation of human being’s problem. He said there is a powerful spiritual analogy here and it revolves around
the story line of the heroine Vanellope. She is presented to us as a computer glitch -- a broken character that feels that she is programmed to be a winning
car racer but who has been told that she cannot even compete. We come to later learn that the program to her memory and everyone elses memory had
been deleted -- but will re-set if she can overcome the odds and win the big race.
He added that this film has the same concept with the book, titled “Messages from Margaret”, that tells about human’s experience. Some people
have forgotten the greatness of spirit self, human’s true being and humans have settled into the roles and stories that we were born into.
So, he conclude that this film teaches us not to judge other people, because we are all a part of a much bigger story that we have all come here to
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Gerry Gavin,
“What Wreck-It
Ralph Can
Teach Us
About Life”,
http:www.huffingtonpost.comgerry-gavinwhat-wreck-it-Ralph-can-teach-us-about- life_b_2160988.html Accessed on March 5th 2014
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experience. They teach us that sometimes we are the good guy, sometimes we are the bad guy and sometimes we are townspeople waiting for a leader. Then
we remember a little more about who we all truly are, and the ripple effect is felt around the universe, and out of the wreckage a new world is born.
Gerry, in his research, only discuss about the characters of the film live in social life and relate the problem that owned by Ralph to the problem that
humans had in real life. Gerry did not analyze deeper about Ralph’s problem or what exactly happens with Ralph. He did not analyze Ralph through the
psychological approach so that he can know what Ralph needs in his life. Another research was not talking about the Wreck-It Ralph film, but the
research studied about how each level of Hierarchy of Human Needs were shown by a character in a film. The research was done by Gina Rizky
Ernanda an English Department, Faculty of Humanities student of Binus University. The research was titled The Development of Andy Dufresne’s
Character in the Film the Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont. This research discusses the basic needs of human being that are
revealed on the main character, Andy Dufresne by using hierarchy of needs by Abraham Maslow. This paper also examines the development of Andy
Dufresne’s character through the environment using elements of intrinsic, such as character, characterization, and setting. The aim of this study is to
find the hierarchy of needs of Andy Dufresne through The Shawshank Redemption film and also to find how the environment can change Andy
Dufresne’s character and life, as well as to discuss how great having a hope is
that it allows people to survive and change their character while serving jail time. For the result of the analysis, Andy Dufresne can fulfill his hierarchy of
needs and also shows his development character that is influenced by the environment and also his inmate friends in Shawshank prison.
The writer only told how every single level of hierarchy of human needs were fulfilled through the story of the main character in that film. There
were not found how a human struggle and faced any problem hisher needs in the research.
B. Characterization in the Movie
Characterization is the process of the actors interpreting a character in a movie. Characterization differs according to the actor, the character, the
screenplay, and the director. As narrative movies developed through their history, filmmakers increasingly left things out of their movies
characterization, or left them implicit, or left them to viewer to determine. Audiences learned to understand and accept these changing cinematic
conventions
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, automatically filling in what was missing and thus themselves becoming responsible for the verisimilitude of the actions.
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Here are some characterization method according to Boggs:
a Characterization through Appearance
Movie actors project certain qualities of character the minute they appear on the screen, characterization in movie has a great deal to do with casting. A
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Accepted systems, method, or customs by which movie communicate. Cinematic conventions are flexible; they are not rules
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Richard Barsam. Looking at Movies: an Introducing to Film 3rd Edition. New York: W. W. Norton Company, 2004. p. 137.