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K. Sypnopsis of The Film
The Day After Tomorrow is Post-apocalyptic science fiction films and Action, Thriller film. It can also be categorized as a disaster and environmental
film since it describes about global warming which leads into a world natural disaster. In The Day After Tomorrow the director Roland Emmerich describes the
destruction of the earth in which the enemy is a very devastating force: that is the nature itself. This film takes a big-budget; special-effects-filled look at what the
world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including
multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age.
The center of the story is a paleoclimatologist Professor Jack Hall and his 17 year-old son Sam Hall. Jack Hall’s research indicates that global warming
could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet’s climate. The ice cores that he is drilled in Antarctica show that it happened before, ten thousand years
ago. And now he is warning the officials that it could happen again if they do not act soon.
The indication of the disaster begins when Hall witnesses a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island breaks off the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Then a series of
increasingly severe weather events start to unfold around the globe: hail the size of grapefruit batters Tokyo, record-breaking hurricane winds pound Hawaii; snow
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falls in New Delhi, and then a devastating series of tornadoes whips through Los Angeles.
A phone call from a colleague in Scotland, Professor Rapson, confirms Jack’s worst fears: these intense weather events are symptoms of a massive global
change. Melting polar caps has poured too much fresh water into the oceans and disrupted the currents that stabilize our climate system. Global warming has
pushed the planet over the edge and into a new Ice Age. Thus, it all will happen during one global super storm.
While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his son, Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have
been competing in a high school academic competition. He must now cope with the severe flooding and plummeting temperatures in Manhattan. Having taken
refuge inside the New York Public Library, Sam manages to reach his father by phone. Jack only has time for one warning: stay inside at all costs.
While full-scale, massive evacuations to the south begin, Jack heads north to New York City to save Sam. As Hall finally approaches New York, the storm
suddenly dissipates, as their last mile of journeying shows shockingly clear weather. He finds his son and the rest of their group have survived. The film ends
with people emerging onto the roofs of skyscrapers to be rescued and Jack with the library group being picked up by a helicopter.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Type of Research
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In this research, the researcher applies descriptive qualitative method. It is descriptive as the research describes the data as the way they are. Suryabrata
states that penelitian deskriptif adalah penelitian yang bermaksud untuk membuat pencandraan deskripsi mengenai situasi-situasi atau kejadian-kejadian
Suryabrata, 2004: 76. It means that descriptive research deals with the description of events and situations.
It is qualitative as the research focuses on description. According to Miles and Huberman, ‘the qualitative data are in the form of words or pictures rather
than numbers’ 1984: 15. Furthermore, Ruth G. McRoy in http:www.uncp.eduhomemarsonqualitative_research.html
states that qualitative research is concerned with non-statistical methods of inquiry and
analysis of social phenomena. It draws on an inductive process in which themes and categories emerge through analysis of data collected by such techniques as
interviews, observations, videotapes, and case studies. Bodgan and Taylor in Maleong, also argue that a qualitative methodology refers to the research
procedure, which brings about descriptive data both in written or spoken forms available to be examined 1990: 3. Thus, the written results of the research
contain quotations from the data to illustrate and substantiate the presentation. It means that this research focuses on finding, collecting, classifying, analyzing the
data, interpreting them and finally drawing the conclusion. B.
Data and Source of Data
The source of data in a research refers to the subject from which the data are obtained. Thus, this research studies about the elicitations, which appear in
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the dialogs of the main character in the film entitled The Day After Tomorrow. Hence, it is clear that the researcher uses a film entitled The Day After Tomorrow
as the source of data. It can also be concluded that the data of this study are all dialogs containing the elicitations employed by the main characters in the film
entitled The Day After Tomorrow and also the context that go along with it. The reason why the researcher takes this film as the main data is because
there are various different types of the elicitations employed by the main characters. They employ those elicitations based on certain reason or purpose
with respect to the participants’ statuses and roles in the film. Through The Day After Tomorrow film the researcher wants to show how the elicitations employed
by the main characters are influenced not only by the context of situation faced by them but also are influenced by their addressees and their own statuses and roles
customized in the film. In this way, it is clear that, the researcher uses a socio- pragmatics approach in doing this research.
This film is interesting since it describes the picture of the world when it hangs in the balance as global warming brings a natural disaster that happens
almost in the entire world, and it also shows how people react against this phenomenon. Since the film is about the forces of nature, it describes where
everything is not in the normal condition; therefore, how the characters in the film speak and act are mostly influenced and forced by their condition and situation.
Thus, this film conveys significant humanity messages.
C. Data Validity