disregard acts to spiritual and temporal duties. It may lead into sins of indifference, laziness, and carelessness Aspenleiter, 1959: 211.
C. Theoretical Framework
The first problem in this study is to understand the characteristics of John Doe by seeing descriptions in the screenplay. The theory of character and
characterization is used to know John Doe‟s characteristics through the
devices of characterization. In the next step, the characteristics of John Doe bring the writer to
analyze the second problem which is characteristics of psychopathic behavior and how his psychopathic behavior is related to seven deadly sins. In order to
be able to analyze the second question, the writer employs the concept of psychopath to find the detailed specifications of the characteristics of John
Doe which reveal the characteristics of psychopath. The writer uses theory of psychoanalysis and the concept of seven
deadly sins to uncover the dynamic of the unconscious of Doe motivating him to use seven deadly sins as the motivation of murder. The result for using
those theories and concepts to reveal the psychopathic behavior of John Doe which is related to seven deadly sins as formulated in chapter I.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of this study is a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker entitled
Seven
. The screenplay was printed in 1994.
Seven
consists of 122 pages. It is written by Andrew Kevin Walker who is a screenwriter that
specializes in
“violent and
dark noir-
type screenwriting”
http:pabook.libraries.psu.edupalitmapbiosWalker__Andrew_Kevin.html.
Seven
is his first screenplay. In order to finish
Seven,
it took several years for Walker to complete the story. This film is described as a dark film which is
showing a serial killer kills people based on the seven deadly sins.
Seven
had won 15 awards in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1999. In 1995,
Seven
won
Society of Texas Film Critic Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award,
and
National Board of Review, USA
as Best Supporting Actor, Kevin Spacey as John Doe. In 1996,
Seven
was successed to win
Universe
Reader’s Choice Award as Best Horror Film;
MTV Movie Awards
as Best Movie, Best Villain Kevin Spacey, and Most Desireable Male, Brad Pitt as
Mills;
Hochi Film Award
as Best Foreign Language Film, David Fincher as the Director;
International Fantasy Film Awards
as Best Film David Fincher and Best Screenplay Andrew Kevin Walker;
Chicago Film Critics Association Award
as Best Cinematography Darius Khondji;
Saturn Awards
as Best Make-up and Best Writing Andrew Kevin Walker; and the last one,
ASCAP Award
as Top Box Office Films. Then,
Seven
also won several awards in 1997, they were
Blue Ribbon Award
as Best Foreign Language Film,
Empire Award
in UK as Best Actor, Morgan Freeman as Somerset and Best Film,
ALFS Award
as Actor of the Year Morgan Freeman, and
Audience Award
as Best Foreign Film Mejor Película Extranjera by David Fincher. Another award was in 1999,
Seven
won
Golden Trainer Award
as Best of the Decade http:www.imdb.comtitlett0114369awards.
Seven
is a story which tells about two main characters, the detectives who want to discover the homicide case which is perpetrated by a psychopath
named John Doe. John Doe takes the seven deadly sins as his motivation for killing people.
Seven
is a good work to analyze the characteristics of psychopathic behavior as seen in John Doe which is related to seven deadly
sins as the motivation of murder.
B. Approach of the Study
To analyze the psychopathic behavior of John Doe and its relation to seven deadly sins in
Seven,
the approach that is used is psychoanalytic approach
since it helps to give explanation on “the hows and whys of human actions” Bressler, 1999: 148. Barry also mentions in
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
that psychoanalytic approach is the criticism of literature that applies psychoanalysis methods to interpret the
literature works 2002: 96. Psychoanalysis itself is a method to cure mental disorder through an investigation between the interaction of unconscious and
conscious mind Barry, 2002: 96.
Hence, the psychoanalytic approach is appropriate to analyze
Seven
to understand the characteristics of a psychopathic behavior as one of mental
disorders. Also, it is helpful to analyze the hidden motivation of John Doe using seven deadly sins to murder people by observing the thoughts and
actions of John Doe through his unconscious mind.
C. Method of the Study
The writer used a library research for analyzing
Seven
screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. The references used in this study were divided into
two parts; primary and secondary references. The primary one was the screenplay itself,
Seven
and the secondary one involved some books of theory, such as, Abrams and Ha
rpham‟s
A Glossary of Literary Terms
, Reaske‟s
How to Analyze Drama
, Zanjani ‟s
Screenplay: Movie Script or Literature?
, Cleckley‟s
The Mask of Sanity
, Coleman and Broen‟s
Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life
, VanderVeldt and Odenwald‟s
Psychiatry and Catholicism
, Lahey‟s and Ciminero‟s
Maladaptive Behavior: An Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
, Feist‟s
Theories of Personality
, Barry‟s
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
, Easthope‟s
The Unconscious
, Gemes‟
Freud and Nietzsche on Sublimation
, Vergote‟s
Ethics and Sublimation
, and Aspenleiter‟s God’s Plan.
In order to finish this study, the writer took some steps in analyzing the screenplay. The first step was to read the screenplay for several times to get
understandings of the idea of the story, and then specified systematically the problems of the study. The second step was to find the studies which were
