because in its role, character is a person who is responsible for the thought and actions within a story, and every character has hisher own personality.
Character is presumably an imagine person who inhabits a story.
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The character is usually recognizably human that can be defined as people created by a
playwright, and imagined by the audiences, and it brings plays to life. Although it cannot be directly equated with actual people but as a character in literary term, it
could explain as the picture of human‟s real life which includes kinds of problems and behaviors. Character is also not only creates the plot of story but also helps
the viewer to know the totality of story. It is a fictional person in a story to emphasize the character‟s experience “because those characters are representative
of humanity in general; they serve as cinematic vehicles to illustrate some widely and universally acce
ptable truth about human nature.”
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2. Characterization
Characterization is the process that the director reveals personality of a character. It can be known that it has a different meaning with character.
Character is showing at perpetrator of presented story or the player of the story, whereas characterization is portraying of clear picture about someone who present
in a story.
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“Characterization means how the writer tells the readers about the physical and non physical characteristic of the person told in the story. It might be
done by giving descriptions in words or by being shown in actions or through the
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X. J. Kennedy, Literature “An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama” New
York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991, p. 47.
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Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie 2000, op. cit. p.18.
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X. J. Kennedy 1991, op. cit. pp. 153-154.
comments given by other character.”
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The manners of describing a character also can be done through the events, author direct statement, character direct
statement, conversation, and through statement from others characters.
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So it can be said that, character as one person who play a part of figure which is presented by means of description, through their actions, speech, and
thoughts. Characterization i tself is the writer‟s explanation to convey information
about character development, which is the way of narrator to submit an attitude, interest, desire, emotion, and moral principle that had by the figure in hisher
story. In defining or depicting all of character figure in the story recognized by
three kinds of way, such as, analytically, where the author explain in detail his figures character, dramatically; the author do not explain directly but he use the
other way by defining place, setting of the figure, or by presenting the dialog among one figure to another‟s, by narrating deed, behavior, or figure reaction to
an event, and alliance between analytic and dramatic in this case between analytic and dramatic have to complete each other.
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There are some characterization methods in film that explained in book The Art of Watching Film. First, characterization through appearance. A major
aspect of film characterization is revealed visually and instantaneously. The minute we see most actors on the screen, we make certain assumptions about them
because of their facial features, dress, physical build, and mannerisms and the way
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Stephen Martin, An Introduction Guide to English Literature Essex: Longman Group Ltd, 1984, p.
14
Burhan Nurgiantoro, Teori Pengkajian Fiksi Jogjakarta: Gajahmada University Press, 1988, pp. 164-165.
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X. J. Kennedy 1991, op. cit. p. 165.
they move. Our first visual impression may be proven erroneous as the story progresses. Therefore, the writer watches the film more than one time to make an
accurate analysis. Characterization in film is also through dialogue. Characters in a fictional film naturally reveal a great deal about themselves by what they say.
But a great deal is also revealed by how they say it.
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B. Abnormal Psychology
