An analysis of AVA and Tanzie's character in Material Girls movie

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Material Girls Movie”. Thesis. Jakarta: English Letters Department. Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta.

This research is aimed at finding out the character of Ava and Tanzie are presented as major female characters in Material Girls movie. This research analyses two the main characters in Material Girls movie based on the theory of Representation. By using the representation theory, the writer tries to describe the two main characters. This movie is analyzed carefully and accurately using relevant theory in Material Girls movie.

The writer uses qualitative method with a descriptive analysis. The writer observes the film describing the main character by analyzing the dialogues, pictures, scenes and actions. First, this study discusses about the characteristics of white people that described by Ava and Tanzie as main characters in Material Girls such as ignorant, hard worker, emotional, materialist, careless, romantic, and friendly. The writer also finds some stereotypes in their appearances like their skin, eye, and hair. Last, the writer also finds their social life such as jet set, glamour, inattention. The conclusion above the writer tries to show the viewer on The Material Girls movie that the character of Ava and Tanzie are represented as white people.

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CHARACTER IN

“MATERIAL GIRLS”

MOVIE

A Thesis

Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty

in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of letters scholar

By: Saiful Bahri 204026002793

Approved By: Advisor,

Elve Oktafiyani, M.Hum Nip: 19781003 200112 2 002

ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT

LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY

STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY

SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH

JAKARTA

2010

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A thesis entitled “An analysis of Ava and Tanzie’s character in Material Girls Movie” has been defended before the Letters and Humanities Faculty’s Examination Committee on January, 13, 2010. The thesis has already been accepted as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Strata 1 in Department of English letters.

Jakarta, January 13, 2010

Examination Committee

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1. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan, M.Pd (Chair Person) (……….) (……….) NIP.19650919 200003 1 002

2. Drs. Saefuddin, M,Pd ( Secretary ) (……….) (……….) NIP. 19640710 199303 1 006

3. Elve Oktafiyani, M.Hum (Advisor) (………) (………..) NIP. 19781003 200112 2 002

4. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan, M.Pd (Examiner) (……….) (……….) NIP.19650919 200003 1 002

5. Innayatul Chusna, M.Hum (Examiner) (……….) (……….) NIP. 19780126 200312 2 002

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I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgment has been made in the next.

Jakarta, January13, 2010

Saiful Bahri

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In the name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful. All praised be to Allah The lord of the world who has been giving mercy and blessing until the writer can completing this thesis without any obstacle in her opportunity. Peace and Salutation be upon to the Nobel Prophet of Islam, Muhammad SAW, and his household, his companions, and his faithful followers.

The writer is absolutely conscious that he could not carry out this work without helping of others, both material and spiritual. For that reason, the writer would like to express his greatest love and honor to his beloved mother and father, also his brother for their endless prayers and motivation.

The great gratitude is also dedicated to these amazing people. Particularly to: 1. Prof. DR. Komarudin Hidayat, MA. The Head of State Islamic University,

Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta.

2. Dr. H. Abdul Chair, M. A. The Dean of Letters and Humanities Faculty 3. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan M.Pd. The Head of English Letters Departments 4. Special thank goes to Elve Oktafiayani, M.Hum. The writer’s advisor for

continuing guidance and support in this research.

5. All of the Lectures in Letters and Humanities Faculty, who have given contribution and support directly or indirectly.

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May Allah, the Almighty bless them all, Amien.

Finally, the writer realizes that this thesis still has some weaknesses and mistakes. Therefore, the writer would like to accept any constructive suggestions to make this thesis better.

Jakarta, January 13, 2010

The writer

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ABSTRACT ... i

APPROVEMENT ... ii

LEGALIZATION ... iii

DECLARATION... iv

ACKNOWLEDGMENT ... v

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION... 1

A. Background of the Study ... 1

B. Focus of the Study... 4

C. Research Question ... 4

D. Objective of the Research ……… 5

E. Significance of the Research ... 5

F. Research Methodology ... 5

1. The Method ... 5

2. Technique of Data Analysis ... 5

3. Research Instrument... 6

4. Unit Analysis... 6

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B. The Representation... 10

C. The stereotype of white upper class female ... 14

CHAPTER III ANALYSIS ... 16

A. Description of Data ………. 16

B. The Description of Ava and Tanzie ... 17

1. Appearances ... 17

2. Social Life ... 21

a. Jet-Set Society... 21

b. Glamour ... 23

3. Characteristics ... 24

a. Ignorant……….24

b. Hard worker ... 26

c. Emotional ... 28

d. Materialists... 29

e. Careless ... 29

f. Romantic ... 30

g. Friendly ... 31

C. The Representation of White upper class female………... 32

CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 34

A. Conclusion ... 34

B. Suggestion ... 35

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A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Film is one of media to convey some certain expressions or emotions to the certain enjoyer. With film people who have some opinions or messages about life can convey it to the enjoyer. The people who have sense of art can create film to convey his or her feeling but how about another people who do not have sense of art. They cannot express their own feeling about what they feel. It happens because only the certain people who have sense of art can use a film as a media to convey their own feeling about what they feel.

Nowadays’ people who do not have sense of art can create their own film only using his or her hand phone or mini camera. Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating or indoctrinating citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.

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Society likes film because it is considered as an entertainment to them, and also as a media to teach their children about life. Usually a film raises certain message or issue to be conveyed to the readers. Usually, a film maker takes certain person to be an actor or actress in his or her film because of that the role of the character on a movie is the important one. The characters that have good talents usually are taken by the film maker to portray some specific roles that are considered as difficult role.

The character on the stage who can present neither convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behavior or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things, the more acute the experience the less articulate its expression.1

On Materials Girls movie, the characters of Ava and Tanzie were presented as the major female characters. These two girls had same characteristic, they liked shopping and going to night club. It was because they had much money to do what they wanted. In the beginning of the movie those two characters were presented as the daughters of Victor Marcetta, Both of them lead the company. When they led the company of cosmetic the staff and secretary of company, named Lukas Hass wanted to sell their company because he wished to monopolize the company. Tanzie had weakness in taking position or decision in leading company. However Ava was an assertive woman in taking decision.

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However her life was full of prestige and naïve because their life was much influenced by modern life style.

When a scandal involving one of the company's products turned into an investigation, the girls found their assets frozen and must adjust to live without their fortune. Just when it seemed like things couldn't get any worse, disaster stroke again. When fire burned their home, Ava quickly took all her clothes while Tanzie, carried all her father’s belonging, such as her dad's TiVo and some clothes.

They were tempted to listen to their advisors and sold the company to their biggest competitor (Fabiella) for just over $60 million dollars each. While this meant that they could return to the lifestyle that they were accustomed to, nonetheless they decided to honor their father's memory by trying to turn it around themselves. Finding inspiration in Erin Brockovich, the girls decided to get to the root of the scandal. In the end, the girls successfully managed to clear the Marchetta name and reclaimed the company. Nearly seven months after the scandal began. The girls were seen leading the company, with Ava as the CEO and Tanzie worked as a lab technician.

The interesting issue of this movie that the two major women characters, Ava and Tanzie, those two major characters were considered have same characteristic as modern white people. Ava and Tanzie had some characteristics to represent white people in general. In America, the white people identically with night life and glamour, in America we know certain people who have glamour life

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is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society, because they only don’t have much money and power but usually they also have influence to their country.

Based on this consideration the writer is interested to raise the issue about the glamour society in America who is represented by Ava and Tanzie. Using the theory of representation the writer would like to analyze whether the characters of Ava and Tanzie represent the glamour white people especially in America, finally through those considerations the writer decides to entitle this thesis “An Analysis of the Character of Ava and Tanzie on Materials Girls Movie”.

B. Focus of the Research

This research is focused on the characters of Ava and Tanzie that is considered as the representation of white people in America.

C. Research Question.

According to the background of the study above the writer formulates the question as follows:

1. How are Ava and Tanzie described in Material Girls movie?

2. How do the characters of Ava and Tanzie represent the characteristics of white upper class female on Materials Girls movie?

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D. Objectives of the Study

In general research aim to know a main character presented in Material Girls movie.

1. To know the character of white people presented by Ava and Tanzie in this film.

E. Significance of research

The writer hopes this research will help the readers to understand the movie especially how to analyze a character in movie.

F. Research methodology

This research method covers some important aspects in research, like method, data analysis, research instrument, and unit analysis.

1. The Method

The writer uses qualitative method with a descriptive analysis. The writer watches the movie of Material Girls, captures of the scene and analyze of Ava and Tanzie’s character in Material Girls movie.

2. Technique of Data Analysis

Data analysis in this research is using the representation theory. The writer would analyze the data by analyzing the main character in Material Girls movie. The writer wants to analyze Ava and Tanzie’s character represented in Material Girl movie.

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3. Research Instrument

The instrument of this research is the writer himself to collecting the qualitative data about the meaning of the representative theory by reading some books and browsing internet about representative theory and film, and find its correlation with the characterization of Ava and Tnzie as the main characters in Material Girls movie by watching the whole film of Materials Girls, grouping the dialogues and capturing the pictures.

4. The Unit of Analysis

The unit of analysis is a film entitled Materials Girls movie directed by Martha Coolidge and released in America in 2006.

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CHAPTER II

THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. Character and Characterization

A story cannot be called as a story without any characters in it. In narrative or dramatic and film works. It usually uses the term characters and characterizations. In the theory of characters and characterization, usually many authors will take two ways or methods to provide and consider the character in their film.

Many writers insist that character is the single most important intrinsic element in the story, the things that characters do and say are more obvious than are the logic and meaning of the pattern in which they say and do them.

The intrinsic elements are divided into plot, character, setting, point of view, theme and style. Character is describing of the story. The character can influence a story to become more really in emotional the reader. {suharianto, 1982:31}2

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life we generally find that its character act in a reasonably consistent manner and the author has provided them with motivation.

A character on the stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behavior or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things. The more acute the experience the less articulate is its expression.3

It can be seen from the role and story the importance of character in a story, there is important pertained of character and presented to be continuous so that felt predominates some of stories and conversely, there is character which only be peeped out once or several times, every story in a literature has character or usually is called as with figure. So character is people or human (whosoever) what does certain the actual of story either that is human or non-human.

Typically, character actors lack some of the stereotypical physical attributes associated with stars. A character actor may be very short or very tall, heavy or thin, balding, or simply unconventional-looking. Many older actors find their access to lead roles limited by age as well. Similarly, actors of color often barred from roles for which they were otherwise suited; some found work performing ethnic stereotypes. A character actor is usually playing a character that does not go through a major change in the course of the movie. They tend to

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help the leading character aspire the major change that always occurs to him/her.

This leads us to some basic definitions. Characters in fiction are customarily divided into several types. Round and dynamic character are more lifelike. They exhibit greater subtlety in terms of behavior and motivation. They have dimension hence round. Round characters, however, present us with more facets-that is, their authors portray them in greater depth and in more generous detail. Strictly speaking, a dynamic character is on who undergoes some significant change during the course of the event related. He or she is generally rounded. However, not every rounded character is dynamic.

Major character are likely to be round, while minor characters are apt to be flat. Thought the play’s language and the actions of the characters, readers learn whether the players are multi-dimensional characters, skimpily developed characters, characters whose main purpose is to shed light on more important character.

Characterization is the means by which writers present and reveal character. 5 Character creation is the art of characterization what the author does to bring a character to life, to provide the reader with a sense of that character’s personality, to make that character unique. Authors can characterize or develop a character directly or indirectly. In direct characterization, the narrator or a

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character summarizes or tells the reader what another character looks like or what kind of person he or she is. In indirect characterization, narrators and characters describe, with out comment, a character’s appearance or dress. In this way they suggest something about the character’s personality. A character’s repeated gesture or a facial tic, for example, may imply a character’s arrogance or nervousness. 6

B. The Representation

Representation describes the signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation people know and understand the world and reality through the act of naming it. Signs are manipulated in order to make sense of the world.

For many philosophers, both ancient and modern, man is regarded as the "representational animal" or homo symbolicum, the creature whose distinct character is the creation and the manipulation of signs – things that "stand for" or "take the place of" something else.

Representation has been associated with aesthetics (art) and semiotics (signs). Mitchell says "representation is an extremely elastic notion, which extends all the way from a stone representing a man to a novel representing the day in the life of several Dubliners"

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The term representation carries a range of meanings and interpretations. In literary theory representation is commonly defined in three ways.

1. To look like or resemble

2. To stand in for something or someone 3. To present a second time to re-present

Representation began with early literary theory in the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and as evolved into a significant component of language, Saussurian and communication studies.7

Stuart Hall, one of the founders of culture studies in Britain and a leading contributor to many of debates in cultural studies since the 1970s.

Stuart Hall is a modern British communications researcher, his most famous study being his work on the "Model of Communication". Hall believed that all texts (any piece of media or art including aspects of video, audio or written information) are embedded with meaning by the creator of such a text. The "meaning" is what the creator wants people to understand from the information- what the point of the piece is. The creator is titled the "encoder". 8

Stuart Hall has given many contributors in cultural studies. One of his theories is the representation. The representation is one of the key practices by which meaning are produced.

There are three possible senses to the word ‘represent’.

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• To ‘represent’ meaning to stand in for, as in the case of the country’s flag, which when flown at a sporting event, for example. Signals that country’s presence at the event.

The flag stands for symbolizes a nation, distinguishing France from China or Ireland from the USA. In Britain, the Royal Standard represents/ symbolizes the royal family and the institution of monarchy.

• To ‘represent’ meaning to speak or act on behalf of, as in the sentence ‘A spokesperson on behalf lesbian mothers voiced the concerns of the group on television. ‘Members of parliament represents represent the concerns of their constituents. A person represents a group in this sense may also serve a symbolic function. An example might be the pope, who speaks and acts on behalf of the Roman Catholic community but might also stand as a symbol of Roman Catholicism.

• To ‘represent’ meaning to re-present. In this sense, a biography or historical writing re-represent the events of the past. Equally, a photograph re-represents a moment or event which has already occurred-it presents the occasion again. A photograph or painting can also, of course, represent someone or something in the sense of standing in for. Posters of rock stars, religious paintings and public statues all fulfill this function. Images that function in this way are said to be iconic.9

Giles, Judy and Tim, Middleton. Studying Culture. A Practical Introduction. Oxford (Blackwell Publisher Ltd 1999.P.56-57.

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Aristotle went on to say it was a definitively human activity. From childhood man has an instinct for representation, and in this respect man differs from the other animals that he is far more imitative and learns his first lessons though imitating things. Aristotle discusses representation in three ways.

1. The object: The symbol being represented. 2. Manner: The way the symbol it is represented. 3. Means: The material that is used to represent it.

The means of literary representation is language. An important part of representation is the relationship between what the material and what it represents. The questions arising from this are, "A stone may represent a man but how? And by what and by what agreement, does this understanding of the representation occur?"

One apprehends reality only through representations of reality, through texts, discourses, images: there is no such thing as direct or unmediated access to reality. But because one can see reality only through representation it does not follow that one does not see reality at all… Reality is always more extensive and complicated than any system of representation can possibly comprehend, and we always sense that this is so-representation never "gets" reality, which is why human history has produced so many different and changing ways of trying to get it.

Consequently, throughout the history of human culture, people have become dissatisfied with language's ability to express reality and as a result have

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developed new modes of representation. It is necessary to construct new ways of seeing reality, as people only know reality through representation. From this arise the contrasting and alternate theories and representational modes of abstraction, realism and modernism, to name a few.10

C. The stereotype of white upper class female

A stereotype the upper class female is leveled at a socio-economic and ethnic class of American women who exhibit particular traits thought common to their group. The upper middle class is a sociological concept referring to the social group constituted by higher-status members of the middle class. This is in contrast to the term lower middle class who is used for the group at the opposite end of the middle class stratum and the regular middle class. The American upper middle class is defined similarly using income, education and occupation as the predominant indicators. In the United States, the upper middle class is defined as consisting mostly of white collar professionals who not only have above-average personal incomes and advanced educational degrees but also a high degree of autonomy in their work, leading to higher job satisfaction.11

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climbing the socioeconomic ladder into white-collar jobs, and their trials to "fit in" with more educated, upper-class offspring. Due to changing demographics, it is an increasingly relevant as the age, ethnic, and economic class it referenced is becoming increasingly insular in its native territory, which no longer considers itself part of LA County.12

A Valley Girl can be described as colloquial English-speaking, materialistic, self-centered, hedonistic, quirky/cute but not necessarily physically attractive (subjective) and sometimes sexually promiscuous. Valspeak is also a form of this trait, based on an exaggerated version of '80s California English. During the 1980s and the 1990s, in common with the trend in community orientation, interest, and education, the term metamorphosed into a caricature and stereotype of such women: a "ditzy" or "airhead" personality, and unapologetically "spoiled" behavior that showed more interest in shopping, personal appearance and social status than in intellectual development or personal accomplishment. 13

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING A. Description of Data

In this chapter three, the writer would like to describe about the data description of the research. The writer wants to analyze the main characters, Ava and Tanzie in the film of Material Girls. The writer would like to discuss and tries to describe the main characters’ stereotype of white upper class female.

No Corpus Description

1. Ava : Hi. We need a suite.

Ava : And can you have the room service people, send up two orders of your wasabi mashed potatoes as soon as possible?

Ava : We are in serious need of comfort food. Right away.

Tanzie : Mic still isn't answering. Neither is Tommy.

Women : So sorry. Your credit card has been declined.

Ava : What? No. This is a

corporate platinum card. It has no Limit. Try it again. (Material Girls, 00:25:46,244 -->

00:25:49,111)

Jet-Set society

2. Man : Hello, ladies. Let me

help you with that

Tanzie : Thanks. The keys are inside, okay? Just try to

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be careful.

Man : Thank you. Let’s go man, now.

(Material Girls.00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:38,080)

Careless

3. Man : Let me take this.

Ava : thanks

Tanzie : thanks

Man : no, problem, Miss

marchetta

Tanzie : thanks

Man : you said that already . (Material Girls: 0.34:1:00)

Friendly

4. Policeman : Tanzania Marchetta. Trespassing and attempted theft, that’s $ 20,000 bail.

Ava : $20,000!!! What kind of criminal has $ 20,000? What is wrong with the justice system?

Policeman : it ought to be peanuts for you, missy.

(Material Girls, 01:13:44,820 --> 01:13:49,223)

Emotional

Generally the white people in their stereotype bring a positive impact toward their own personality; this is because society in the world assumed that white people have different lifestyle than black people. A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics (in general) to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her membership in it.

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Stereotypes can be used to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group.14

In Material Girls movie, the writer shows that there are some characteristics that owned by Ava dan Tanzie who play as two main characters in Material Girl movie, which is represented whole of the characters of white people there are: the stereotype, social life and characteristic.

B. The Description of Ava and Tanzie

In the Material Girl movie, the writer wants to show the stereotype, the social live, the individual and the characteristic of white skin that showed in Material Girl movie. Most Europeans identify themselves as white and occupy the same human physical characteristics. The most notable trait describing people who identify as white is light skin, thin hair, and narrow noses. People with lighter phenotypes tend to classify themselves and be classified by others in the "white" category.15

1. Appearance

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hair, eye and skin complexion. In this topic the writer wants to explain step by step about the hair, eye and the skin.

Generally, white girls have flaxen haired. In the Material Girl movie that director wants to show or describe the physical of the white girl in his movie especially in America, because in the play of the main characters are girls. For the detail, the writer shows the picture below.

(Picture 1)

(Tanzie gets a ring from her boy friend)

From the picture above, two major characters have different the hair style. We can see in those characters that hairs are flaxen haired but deferent fashion of the hair. They want their hair look good and different each others because live style is important for making their life more comfortable. Every people in this world have different skin, hair and eye. Asian have brown eyes but the writer do not do research for Asian people.

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Actually, the writer wants to do research on white girls especially in America. In the Material Girls movie two the main characters Ava and Tanzie have beautiful royal blue eyes.

(Picture 2)

(Tanzie negotiates to policemen)

If we more intensive see to the picture above that Ava and Tanzie we can call them as blue-eyes girl. The major characters in this film have the beautiful blue-eyes that describe as white people in general. Commonly, many white people have beautiful blue-eyes. It means the major female characters describe white people and it can be seen from both of their eyes.

In the movie of Material Girls the writer sees also that the two major characters have fair complexion skin color is a quantitative trait that varies continuously on a gradient from dark to light, white people are archetypically distinguished by light skin16. It is because they are American people. White people (in American English also Caucasian, see White American) a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the

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light pigmentation of their skin. Rather than a straightforward description of skin color, the term white also functions as a color terminology for race, often referring narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe.17

Mostly in America there are many people have fair complexion. Base on the theory of representative that some groups or individual can represent a community or nation. So the writer concludes that Ava and Tanzie described as the character of white people especially in America because they fit the characteristic of white people. In film Material Girls the manager describes how whites to like to do treatment for their skin, like facials, pampers their body. In this films both of the figures pampers their face with masker. How the importance of facial for woman can be seen from scene which is describes them put masker of rose water with tea tree oil and avocados on their face.

(Pictures 3 and 4)

(Ava and Tanzie treatment body)

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In other scene expressing them to like by doing to pamper their body that is saunas, it’s the function is limber up stiff body and represses their body that body and face they seen respects.

2. Social Life

The writer wants to show how the social life in America especially white girl’s social life. In the movie of Material Girls showed the white girls social life is in Ava and Tanzie’s life such as living in jet-set society, glamour style in dressing up and being indifferent to other.

a. Jet-Set society

The interesting issue of this movie is the two major women characters, Ava and Tanzie, those two major characters are considered have same characteristic as modern white people. Ava and Tanzie have some characteristics that show as white people in general. In America, the white people identically with night life and glamour, in America we know certain people who have glamour life is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society, because they only don’t have much money and power but usually they also have influence to their country.

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Material Girls when they wish rent a room in one hotel. Almost many jet sets people they make transaction without pay every thing with cash, one both of them give their credit card to the receptionist of the hotel for paying a room that they wish to rent.

Ava : Hi. We need a suite.

Ava : And can you have the room service people, send up two orders of your wasabi mashed potatoes as soon as possible?

Ava : We are in serious need of comfort food. Right away.

Tanzie : Mic still isn't answering. Neither is Tommy.

Women : So sorry. Your credit card has been declined.

Ava : What? No. This is a corporate platinum card. It has no Limit. Try it again.

(Material Girls, 00:25:46,244 --> 00:25:49,111)

For the glamour people they always want to be served with a real maximum service and pay a rent. The jet-set people does the transaction using credit card, and the main figures in this film describe jet-set people and also do the same thing when they pay for the rent using credit card. Even they apply corporate platinum card.

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control expenses and save money, while helping your business travelers to work more productively18.

b. Glamorous

Commonly, the major female characters in this movie have same characteristic, they like going to night club and wearing luxurious jewelry. It makes them seen so glamour. In general, white people like wearing luxurious jewelry and going the party at midnight.

Ava : Okey, how do I look?

Tanzie : Total Rock star

Ava : Thank you.

Tanzie : Liking

Ava : Loving

Tanzie : I love it

Ava ; loving it

(Material Girls, 00:01:52,579 --> 00:01:54,444)

From the picture and dialog above, the writer assumed that Ava and Tanzie really happy when she arrived in one clubbing.

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(Picture 7)

(Ava and Tanzie attending the launching cosmetic)

When both of them arrived in place of the event, they are greeted hilariously by the journalists who wish to expose them. The door of limousine opened by a Valet and directly greeted by a woman which beginning of women towards place of event which they will attend. From quotation above, they have a rose colored luxurious car when they go to an opening event. It is describing as glamour people.

3. The Characteristics

The purpose of the individual is, the writer wants to explain about the characteristic white girls in America. In the film of Material Girls many characteristics of American girls showed by characters Ava and Tanzie. Such as: Ignorant, Hard worker, Emotional, Materialists, Careless, Romantic and friendly.

a. Ignorant

Basically, the character of white girls is they almost don’t care to their surrounding. This is because, they only think about themselves. The scene that describes the character of Ava and Tanzie in Material Girls movie also have the same character with other white people commonly, they don’t care their surrounding.

Tanzie : why do we have dogs?

Man : we got them last year after all the break-ins.

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Man : you guys didn’t pay any attention to the business, did you?

Ava : no apparently not

Tanzie : no kind of

(Material Girls, 00:56:52,642 --> 00:56:54,735)

From the picture and dialog above we can conclude that the character of Ava and Tanzie do not really care about the situation around them. Because they are too busy with their task, the character of Ava and Tanzie are describing a whole of characters of white girls mostly.

Inez : Good night

Ava : why does all this stuff, Look so familiar?

Tanzie : 'Cause it used to be ours, Daddy must have given it to her. I didn't even recognize it at first. My puppy sticker collection is still here. My popcorn scratch-and-sniff! (SNIFFS) It still smells like popcorn. I feel like Daddy's still alive, and he's just gonna come and save us.

Ava : Well, he's not

(Material Girls, 00:30:16)

From these dialogue above it’s shown that white people are often don’t care about their stuff that they ever had but actually it still useful. They ignore their stuff because they are used to live in sufficiency. These are the white people habit toward their stuff, but when they get their stuff which they ever had before they realize that it’s still used for them and it must be kept.

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The example diffraction is seen by picture and dialogue above, they are heedless their own mattress, actually they parents has given it to Inez after they are bought a new mattress.

b. Hard worker

White people are recognized as a hard worker. Mostly many people in America work to maintain their life. The writer tries to describe that it is true that white people are hard worker. Two major characters in Material Girls Ava and Tanzie describe white people that are recognized as hard worker.

One of scene showing that Ava and Tanzie are described as hard working, they still hold on as leader of their company.

(Picture 10)

(Ava and Tanzie are leading the meeting)

It can be seen in this picture, Ava and Tanzie are rich people but there are still working to maintain their life. Their actions that still work although they become rich represent white people. It proves that white

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people are hard worker, there are still working although they have become rich.

Other one of scene showing their character is when they look for the truth of beauty product case they reported on in a television that product they can be destroy skin, thought they try questioning to everyone who has tried the product and they are asking through via phone call that their product have destroyed their face skin. They always phones all day long and though have been fatigue they still look for soybean cake to people who to apply the product.

(Picture 11)

(Ava and Tanzie are looking for data)

It can be seen in the above picture that they work hand to get their company.

They character which are a hard-worker also can be saw through their effort to look for evidence required to save their company, They plunge direct to field to look for evidence without surrendering, they do impersonation to be able to take file in Tommy’s room and even Tenzie go

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through risk to look for evidence required, until Tanzie enter to prison by security because Tanzie carving a way though of the office.

Tanzie : Yeah, that's right. So, I was wondering if I couId just get a IittIe Iook-see in that fiIe room.

Information: Oh, I am not authorized to do that. I'm gonna be in so much troubIe.

Tanzie : My boss needs them for a TV emergency. If you couId just heIp me this eensie-weensie IittIe bit?

Information : You're gonna be quick, right? Hurry! What the heII's going on in here, Gene?

Security : WeII, weII. What have we here?

Information : Her boss is having a TV emergency. Gene, you must be a stone moron.

Security : Do you know who that is? That's Tanzie Marchetta.

Information : No.

Security : You're in big trouble.

(Material Girls, 01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:39,971)

c. Emotional

Beside that Ava is emotional person. The white people have an emotional character overly than the black people. We can get that information from the dialog below.

Policeman : Tanzania Marchetta. Trespassing and attempted theft, that’s $ 20,000 bail.

Ava : $20,000!!! What kind of criminal has $ 20,000? What is wrong with the justice system?

Policeman : it ought to be peanuts for you, missy.

(Material Girls, 01:13:44,820 --> 01:13:49,223)

From the quotation above between ava and police, we can see that Ava was emotion, when she knows that she must pay the tax her sister

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about $ 20,000. The characteristic that was showed by Ava in Material Girls movie described the white people character generally. Ava has represented the white people generally in Material Girls movie.

d. Materialists

The character of Ava is beside emotional Ava also the person who has a materialistic character. Materialistic person is the person who really happy with a luxurious things. The writer describes that Ava is a materialistic person, this is because she got a ring from Mic, she was really happy. It can be seen from this quotation below:

Ava : it is huge. How romantic is he? Look at that! He has such great taste.

Tanzie : Ava, you picked that out

Ava : well, yeah, but he likes it.

Tanzie : do you like it.

Ava : oh, yes.

(Material Girls 00:23:44, 67--> 024:48)

From the quotation above we can conclude that Ava was very happy when she knows that Mic sends the diamonds ring, so that she adores Mic. What Ava did is described the character of materialistic person. Basically white people are sleazy about luxurious things. It can be seen from Ava’s character which represents the character of white people.

e. Careless

The character of Ava and Tanzie in Material Girls movie categorized as a careless person. This is because they can easily give their

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car to the person that they claimed a Valet, whereas they really$ don’t know the person before. What they did, can be seen from the quotation below:

Man : Hello, ladies. Let me help you with that

Tanzie : Thanks. The keys are inside, okay? Just try to be careful.

Man : Thank you. Let’s go man, now.

(Material Girls.00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:38,080)

From the quotation and the picture above can be seen that Ava and Tanzie are careless person. This is because, when they wanted to sleep in Inez house, they give the car easily to the person whom they didn’t know. Their act can be called as doing careless.

f. Romantic

In this film the character of Ava described as a character which always makes surprised to another people, it makes Ava considered has a special in herself. She always gives praise to interlocutor, and she is welcome with the praise which is given by other people. Ava shows white people who have sense of romantic. It can be seen in this dialog below:

Henry : hey sexy.

Ava : hey counselor. Did I ever tell you? You look so great in men’s warehouse?

Henry : come on, it’s Nordstrom’s, sales rack.

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From the dialog between Ava and Hendry we can see that how Ava adore, Ava tries to say that clothes that he worn is very suitable. Here, we can see that the Ava’s romantic sense makes Henry feels happy. In this movie, she knows how to make another person happy with her words and her acts. It indicates that the character of Ava has a romantic sense. So, the character of Ava can be called as a representative of white people who have romantic sense.

g. Friendly

Generally friendly is one of the characters of white people, it can be seen when they have a higher function, they respect to say thank you with other people. In Material Girls movie, Tanzie has it. She is friendly with other people. although she has a higher function in her company, she respect to say thank you to other people who work there, and gives smile to valet in the office, friendly in the character of Tanzie can be seen in this dialog below:

Man : Let me take this.

Ava : thanks

Tanzie : thanks

Man : no, problem, Miss marchetta

Tanzie : thanks

Man : you said that already

. (Material Girls: 0.34:1:00)

Other scene showing is a friendly. When Tenzie is being in the middle of prison and does conversation making friends with people who to

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stay one cell with her, though scene is scene where they just met for the first time for her.

Tanzie : You know, 'cause if I could just get myself more organized...

Women : You got some soft skin.

Tanzie : Yeah.

Women : It's Iike a baby's. How you do that?

Tanzie : Okay, the key to soft skin like mines exfoliation.

Women : exfoliation.

Tanzie : Yes. Now, laporscha, all of that makeup is really hard on your skin. You need to be kinder to your pores.

. (Material Girls: 01:13:00)

We can see from conference they friendly though that is meeting they which are first. That Tanzie can do friendly with the criminal as well as Tanzie assists them by giving correct face cures. So it can conclude that white people are easy to make friends with they are new recognized.

C. The Representation of white upper class female.

The interesting issue of this movie is the two major women characters, Ava and Tanzie, those two major characters are considered have the same characteristic as modern white female upper class. Ava and Tanzie have some characteristics which they can be categorized as white people in upper class in general.

From the descriptions that have explained before the writer sees in the Material Girls movie that many of white people in upper class can be

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seen from the hair, eye and skin complexion. In the Material Girls also manifests into several actions represent white people such as physical, they care and maintenance about their hair, eye and skin.

Their daily treatments to be more special to other people in general, these actions are classified as physical treatment because these actions represented as white girls in America. Their lives are full of heritage and wealth because they live in upper class female. In this research the writer concludes that it was the symbol that being represented for symbolizes a white people style, distinguishing white people in upper class from middle class as the representation of white people.

Commonly, the white people in upper class were almost dominated by the capitalist people, who have big company. The white people in the United States were forged primarily by White people, many of them have company and they were wealthy land-owners.

As in the Material Girls movie on the main character Ava and Tanzie that they have company, they were rich girl, and they always in different style, have many relation to other people. Their wealthy which they had represents as the white people in upper class. These are the material that is used to represent the white people in America, distinguishing white people in upper class from middle class as the representation of white people.

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As whites are the dominant racial and cultural group, and white people culture constitutes the general cultural mainstream, causing non-White culture to be seen as deviant, in either a positive or negative manner. In the Material Girls movie the white people in upper class in America tend to be disproportionately represented in powerful positions, controlling almost all, economic, company and cultural institutions. Whites are most commonly unaware of their "privilege" and the manner in which their culture has always been dominant in the US.

The American white people of life are individualistic, dynamic, and pragmatic. It affirms the supreme value and dignity of the individual. As in the Material Girls movie only the certain people who have glamour life is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society, because they only don’t have much money and power but usually they also have influence to their country.

Therefore white people in high class have different to others levels because they are the privileged people and the upper middle class is a sociological concept referring to the social group constituted by higher-status members of the middle class. This represents the main characters Ava and Tanzie in the Material Girls movie as white people high class such as living in jet-set society, glamorous.

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From these two main characters Ava and Tanzie in the Material Girls movie are symbolize the culture of white people style and the American Way of life. The writer concludes that it was the symbol of a person represents a group in this sense may also serve a symbolic function that being represented for symbolizes a white people style, distinguishing white people in upper class from middle class as the representation of white people.

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CHAPTER IV

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

After analyzing the story of The Material Girls movie the writer concludes that the two main characters Ava and Tanzie on the Materials Girls movie, the characters of Ava and Tanzie were presented as the major female characters. This movie narrates about the effort of life and life style white people in upper class. Their life full of heritage, they were rich, and have special treatment. Therefore white people in high class have different to others levels because they are the privileged people than upper middle class people.

The character Ava and Tanzie described about white people of girls especially in America. These two main characters represent white people in general, whom they had represents as the white people in upper class. These are the material that is used to represent the white people in America, distinguishing white people in upper class from middle class as the representation of white people.

Ava and Tanzie had same characteristic, they like shopping and going to night club. However her life was full of prestige and naïve because their life was much influenced by modern life style. their wealthy and their glamour life style which is the only certain people who have glamour life is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society, because they only don’t have much

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money and power but usually they also have influence to their country. These actions are classified as representation.

B. Suggestion

Finally, the writer hopes this research will enrich reader’s knowledge and useful as reference.

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Aristo, Salman. Seminar Membaca Film. Ciputat. 8 April 2008

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Diyann, Robert, literature Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Singapore: 2000. Encyclopedia American: volume 6, 1985

Farkhan, Muhammad, Proposal Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra: Jakarta, Cella, 2007 Farkhan, Muhammad, Penulisan Karya Ilmiah: Jakarta, Cella, 2006

Judy, Giles and Tim, Middleton. Studying Culture. A Practical Introduction. (Oxford Blackwell) Publisher Ltd 1999

Hayman, Ronald, Techniques of Acting: United State, 1971.

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Budaya,universitas Gadja Mada, Bulaksumur Yogyakarta..

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IN “MATERIAL GIRL” MOVIE

A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating or indoctrinating citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.

Usually a film raises certain message or issue to be conveyed to the readers. Usually, a film maker takes certain person to be an actor or actress in his or her film because of that the role of the character on a movie is the important one. The

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specific roles that are considered as difficult role.

On Materials Girls movie, the characters of Ava and Tanzie were presented as the major female characters. These two girls had same characteristic, they liked shopping and going to night club. In the beginning of the movie those two characters were presented as the daughters of Victor Marcetta, Both of them lead the company. When they lead the company of cosmetic the staff and secretary of company, named Lukas Hass wanted to sell their company because he wished to monopolize the company.

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and Tanzie, those two major characters were considered have same characteristic as modern white people. Ava and Tanzie had some characteristics to represent white people in general. In America, the white people identically with night life and glamour, in America we know certain people who have glamour life is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society, because they only don’t have much money and power but usually they also have influence to their country.

B. Research Methodology

The writer uses qualitative method with a descriptive analysis. The writer watches the movie of Material Girls captures of the scene and analyze of Ava and Tanzie’s character in Material Girls movie. Data analysis in this research is using the representation theory. The writer would analyze the data by analyzing the main character in Material Girls movie.

The instrument of the research is the writer itself as a subject by reading, collecting data from any references of books, browsing internet. The writer technically takes the media that considered important for the research. The unit of

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Martha Coolidge and released in America in 2006. C. Theoretical Framework

In this research the writer uses the theory of Representation to understand the person who represents a group in this sense may also serve a symbolic function. The theory of Representation which is used in this research is the theory of Stuart Hall, which is related to re-present the event which has already occurred, it presents the occasion again. The writer chooses Representation theory of Stuart Hall as references to analyze the character of Ava and Tanzie.

1. Character and Characterization

Character is presumably an imagined that inhabits a story. Most stories feature a central character, usually we recognize, in the main character of the story, human personalities that become familiar to us. If the story seems true of life we generally find that its character act in a reasonably consistent manner and the author has provided them with motivation.

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articulate is its expression.1

It can be seen from the role and story the importance of character in a story, there is important pertained of character and presented to be continuous so that felt predominates some of stories and conversely. So character is people or human (whosoever) what does certain the actual of story either that is human or non-human.

Typically, character actors lack some of the stereotypical physical attributes associated with stars. A character actor may be very short or very tall, heavy or thin, balding, or simply unconventional-looking... A character actor is usually playing a character that does not go through a major change in the course of the movie. They tend to help the leading character aspire the major change that always occurs to him/her. 2

Characters in fiction are customarily divided into several types. Round and dynamic character are more lifelike. They exhibit greater subtlety in terms of behavior and motivation. They have dimension hence round. Round characters, however, present us with more facets-that is, their authors portray them in greater depth and in more generous detail. Strictly speaking, a dynamic character is on who undergoes some significant change during the course of the event related. He or she is generally rounded. However, not every rounded character is dynamic.

Major character are likely to be round, while minor characters are apt to be flat. Thought the play’s language and the actions of the characters, readers learn

Ronald Hayman, Techniques of Acting: United State, 1971. p. 71

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characters whose main purpose is to shed light on more important character.

Characterization is the means by which writers present and reveal character. 3 Character creation is the art of characterization what the author does to bring a character to life, to provide the reader with a sense of that character’s personality, to make that character unique. Authors can characterize or develop a character directly or indirectly. In direct characterization, the narrator or a character summarizes or tells the reader what another character looks like or what kind of person he or she is. In indirect characterization, narrators and characters describe, with out comment, a character’s appearance or dress. In this way they suggest something about the character’s personality. A character’s repeated gesture or a facial tic, for example, may imply a character’s arrogance or nervousness. 4

2. The Representation

Stuart Hall, one of the founders of culture studies in Britain and a leading contributor to many of debates in cultural studies since the 1970s.

3_{Ibid. pp.54-55}

Ibid. p. 95

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is the representation. The representation is one of the key practices by which meaning are produced. There are three possible senses to the word ‘represent’.

• To ‘represent’ meaning to stand in for, as in the case of the country’s flag, which when flown at a sporting event, for example. Signals that country’s presence at the event. The flag stands for symbolizes a nation, distinguishing France from China or Ireland from the USA. In Britain, the Royal Standard represents/ symbolizes the royal family and the institution of monarchy.

Giles, Judy and Tim, Middleton. Studying Culture. A Practical Introduction. Oxford (Blackwell Publisher Ltd 1999.P.56-57.

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It originally referred to the ever decreasing number of semi affluent and affluent middle-class and upper-middle class girls living in the bedroom community neighborhoods of San Fernando Valley; however, popular media often portrayed the stereotype as lower-middle class white girls in families climbing the socioeconomic ladder into white-collar jobs, and their trials to "fit in" with more educated, upper-class offspring. Due to changing demographics, it is an increasingly relevant as the age, ethnic, and economic class it referenced is becoming increasingly insular in its native territory, which no longer considers itself part of LA County.8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker

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In this chapter, the writer analyzed the main characters, Ava and Tanzie in the film of The Material Girls. The writer would like to show the stereotype, the social live, the individual and the characteristic of white skin that showed in Material Girls movie.

1. Appearance

Actually, two main characters in Material Girls movie have a characteristic which is not different from white people but white people have physical matter that they have different than other people, we can see from the hair, eye and skin complexion. In this topic the writer wants to explain step by step about the hair, eye and the skin.

Generally, white girls have flaxen haired. In the Material Girls movie that director wants to show or describe the physical of the white girl in his movie especially in America, because in the play of the main characters are girls. They want their hair look good and different each others because live style is important for making their life more comfortable. Every people in this world have different skin, hair and eye. Asian have brown eyes but the writer do not do research for Asian people.

In the movie of Material Girls the writer sees also that the two major characters have fair complexion skin color is a quantitative trait that varies continuously on a gradient from dark to light, white people are archetypically distinguished by light skin9. White people (in American English also Caucasian, see White American) a term which usually refers to human beings characterized,

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straightforward description of skin color, the term white also functions as a color terminology for race, often referring narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe.10

2. Social Life

a. Jet-Set society

The interesting issue of this movie is the two major women characters, Ava and Tanzie, those two major characters are considered have same characteristic as modern white people. Ava and Tanzie have some characteristics that show as white people in general. In America, the white people identically with night life and glamour, in America we know certain people who have glamour life is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society, because they only don’t have much money and power but usually they also have influence to their country.

White people in high class or in jet-set society have different with others low levels because in this movie they always showed their simple and practical activity. This is described by two characters in the film of Material Girls when they wish rent a room in one hotel. Almost many jet sets people they make transaction without pay every thing with cash, one both of them

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they wish to rent.

b. Glamorous

b. Hard worker

White people are recognized as a hard worker. Mostly many people in America work to maintain their life. The writer tries to describe that it is true that white people are hard worker. Two major characters in Material Girls Ava and Tanzie describe white people that are recognized as hard worker.

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carving a way though of the office. c. Emotional

Beside that Ava is emotional person. The white people have an emotional character overly than the black people. We can get that information from the dialog below.

Policeman : Tanzania Marchetta. Trespassing and attempted theft, that’s $ 20,000 bail.

Ava : $20,000!!! What kind of criminal has $ 20,000? What is wrong with the justice system?

Policeman : it ought to be peanuts for you, missy.

(Material Girls, 01:13:44,820 --> 01:13:49,223)

From the quotation above between ava and police, we can see that ava was emotion, when she knows that she must pay the tax her sister about $ 20,000. The characteristic that was showed by Ava in Material Girls movie described the white people character generally. And Ava has represented the white people generally in Material Girls movie.

d. Materialists

Ava : it is huge. How romantic is he? Look at that! He has such great taste.

Tanzie : Ava, you picked that out

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Ava : oh, yes.

(Material Girls 00:23:44, 67--> 024:48)

e. Careless

The character of Ava and Tanzie in Material Girls movie categorized as a careless person. This is because they can easily give their car to the person that they claimed a Valet, whereas they really don’t know the person before, it can be seen that Ava and Tanzie are careless person. This is because, when they wanted to sleep in Inez house, they give the car easily to the person whom they didn’t know. Their act can be called as doing careless.

f. Romantic

Henry : hey sexy.

Ava : hey counselor. Did I ever tell you? You look so great in men’s warehouse?

Henry : come on, it’s Nordstrom’s, sales rack.

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adore, Ava tries to say that clothes that he worn is very suitable. Here, we can see that the Ava’s romantic sense makes Henry feels happy. In this movie, she knows how to make another person happy with her words and her acts. It indicates that the character of Ava has a romantic sense. So, the character of Ava can be called as a representative of white people who have romantic sense.

g. Friendly

When Tenzie is being in the middle of prison and does conversation making friends with people who to stay one cell with her, though scene is scene where they just met for the first time for her.

Tanzie : You know, 'cause if I could just get myself more organized...

Women : You got some soft skin.

Tanzie : Yeah.

Women : It's Iike a baby's. How you do that?

Tanzie : Okay, the key to soft skin like mines exfoliation.

Women : exfoliation.

Tanzie : Yes. Now, laporscha, all of that makeup is really hard on your skin. You need to be kinder to your pores.

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which are first. That Tanzie can do friendly with the criminal as well as Tanzie assists them by giving correct face cures. So it can conclude that white people are easy to make friends with they are new recognized.

B. The Representation of white upper class female.

From the descriptions that have explained before the writer sees in The Material Girls movie that many of white people in upper class can be seen from the hair, eye and skin complexion. In The Material Girls also manifests into several actions represent white people such as physical, they care and maintenance about their hair, eye and skin.

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B. The Representation of white upper class female.

From the descriptions that have explained before the writer sees in The Material Girls movie that many of white people in upper class can be seen from the hair, eye and skin complexion. In The Material Girls also manifests into several actions represent white people such as physical, they care and maintenance about their hair, eye and skin.

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As in The Material Girls movie on the main character Ava and Tanzie that they have company, they were rich girl, and they always in different style, have many relation to other people. Their wealthy which they had represents as the white people in upper class. These are the material that is used to represent the white people in America, distinguishing white people in upper class from middle class as the representation of white people.

As whites are the dominant racial and cultural group, and white people culture constitutes the general cultural mainstream, causing non-White culture to be seen as deviant, in either a positive or negative manner. In TheMaterial Girls movie the white people in upper class in America tend to be disproportionately represented in powerful positions, controlling almost all, economic, company and cultural institutions. Whites are most commonly unaware of their "privilege" and the manner in which their culture has always been dominant in the US.

The American white people of life are individualistic, dynamic, and pragmatic. It affirms the supreme value and dignity of the individual. As in The Material Girls movie only the certain people who have glamour life is called as jet set society, jet set society is recognized as special society,

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because they only don’t have much money and power but usually they also have influence to their country.

Therefore white people in high class have different to others levels because they are the privileged people and the upper middle class is a sociological concept referring to the social group constituted by higher-status members of the middle class. This represents the main characters Ava and Tanzie in the Material Girls movie as white people high class such as living in jet-set society, glamorous.

From these two main characters Ava and Tanzie in The Material Girls movie are symbolize the culture of white people style and the American Way of life. The writer concludes that it was the symbol of a person represents a group in this sense may also serve a symbolic function that being represented for symbolizes a white people style, distinguishing white people in upper class from middle class as the representation of white people.

E. Suggestion

The writer suggests for the English student who wants to analyze about the character of film, they have to know about the character itself and the theory that they want to uses as the object of their research. Finally, the writer hopes this research will enrich reader’s knowledge and useful as reference.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anonymous, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman Group Ltd, 1978 Aristo, Salman. Seminar Membaca Film. Ciputat. 8 April 2008

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson, Film Art an Introduction fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, 1993

Diyann, Robert, literature Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Singapore: 2000. Encyclopedia American: volume 6, 1985

Farkhan, Muhammad, Proposal Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra: Jakarta, Cella, 2007 Farkhan, Muhammad, Penulisan Karya Ilmiah: Jakarta, Cella, 2006

Judy, Giles and Tim, Middleton. Studying Culture. A Practical Introduction. (Oxford Blackwell) Publisher Ltd 1999

Hayman, Ronald, Techniques of Acting: United State, 1971.

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The writer was born at Jakarta, June, 12 1985. The formal education from 1991-1997 Elementary School of Al-Falah II Jakarta. 1997-2000 Junior High School of Al-Hidayah Serang Banten. 2001-2004 Senior High School of Ummul Quro Al- Islami- Bogor.

The Degree of Strata 1(s1) 2004-2010 English Letters Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.

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