CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Intrinsic Theory
Film has intrinsic and extrinsic elements. Intrinsic elements are the internal forms of film such as plot, characters, characterizations, theme, setting, and sound;
meanwhile extrinsic elements are the external forms of film such as history, sociology, and also culture when film has been created. In this research, the writer
concentrates on the analyses of the characters, the characterizations and the thought of Betty Friedan as an extrinsic element of the film.
1. Character in Film
The characters will be one of the ways to interest the spectators because they seem real, understandable, and worth caring about.
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The character is the person that the actor plays.
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The actors must throw their personalities when they act because they will present other personalities of other persons. They must understand the
behaviour of characters so that they can perform the action naturally and believably. Moreover, they can go into the motivating desires of characters.
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Joseph M. Boggs, The Art of Watching Films Third Edition California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1991, p.53.
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Ronald Hayman, Techniques of Acting United States of America: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, p. 65.
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Charles McGaw, Acting is Believing: A Basic Method 2
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ed. San Francisco: Rinehart
Press, 1995, p. 97.
The major character is the protagonist and the opponent’s character is the antagonist.
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The major character is the essential character because it will be no plot in the first scene without its action. The major character is usually round character or
three-dimensional character which has number of qualities and traits so that it creates the capacity for growing and changing. The minor characters are stock characters
because their actions just complete the natural part of the situation which needs their presences. They usually play as flat characters who have limited number of qualities
and traits. Furthermore, they are not changed by circumstance throughout the story. The performance of characters will be divided into two parts; dynamic and
static. The dynamic characters are deeply affected by the action of the plot internal, external, or both. Therefore, they will undergo some important changes such as the
personality, the attitude, or the point of view of life as the result of actions in the story. Besides of that, the characters which do not have significant changes in the
story are called by static characters.
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2. Characterization in Film
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