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3.3 Source of the Data
In doing investigation, I collect and analyze the data from the movie and its scripts as the main source. Meanwhile for supporting data, I get some
references from books both in the form of hard-copy and soft-copy, and articles that are taken from newspaper and internet.
3.4 Types of the Data
In this study, I use descriptive qualitative method as the type of data, which merely focuses on the analysis of textual data. Berg 1989:2-6 said that
quality refers to what, how, when, where of a thing, its essence and ambience. Here, the data taken from the movie and the script in the form of phrase, sentences
and written dialogues. Whilst, the data taken from video are in the form of pictures, mimic, body movements and dialogues.
3.5 Procedure of Collecting Data
3.5.1 Watching and Reading
The first step is watching the movie, Shallow Hal, for several times to understand of the story. By watching as the first step, it will enable me to
understand the whole story easily. After watching movie, I read its script to get a deeper understanding. After that, I do watch and read simultaneously. While
watching the movie, I am reading its script also to synchronize the dialogues both from the movie and the script itself.
3.5.2 Identifying the Data
The data are taken from both the movie and the script. The process of identifying will be explained as follows:
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1. Identifying the movie. Firstly, I watch the movie and make some record time and scenes that are
relevant to this study. b. Identifying the script.
After watching and reading the film script, I list the quotations from the script which are also relevant to the subject matters. The process of
quotation listing is by marking the dialogues with underline and giving symbol
α, symbol and symbol at the end of the dialogues. Symbol
α is to represent mental or emotional abuses to denigrate women both verbal and non-verbal. Furthermore, it will be specialized
into symbols α.2, α.2, and α.3 for verbal abuses, and α.4 for non-
verbal abuses. The symbol α.1 is for identifying the insulting
expression by labeling or naming the women with kind of animals to equalize them to the animals. The symbol
α.2 is for identifying the dictions of words or utterances to condescend women. The symbol
α.3 is for identifying the censuring expression of physical imperfectness. The
last is α.4 is for identifying the way men characters in gazing
sarcastically to women. Then the symbol is to describe the male characters see women’s
beauty. It reveals men’s narrow-mindedness in giving judgment which is determined by physical perfectness solely.
At last, the symbol to show the causes of men’s narrow-mindedness in seeing beauty both come from internal and external. The internal
factors are influences that come from the male characters themselves,
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those influences will be symbolized with .1. The external factors are influences that come from parents .2, friends .3 and media exposure
.4. All these symbolization will lead us to recognize the data easier.
3.5.3 Inventorying Data