bodyguard of the beautiful child, Pyta. Creasy has a unique character, because sometimes he will be a good man, but in the other hand, he will be a bad man.
The writer has chosen Tony Scott’s film Man on Fire as the subject matter of this paper because this film is different from the others; it was giving
meaningful message to the viewer.
1.2 The Scope of the Writing
The writer believes that there are many important aspects of film that can be discussed, but in this paper she talks one of them that is character. She will
concentrate on analysis of character in two parts: major character and minor character. Beside that, the summary of man on fire will be enclosed to help the
readers know the stories about.
1.3 The Purpose of the Study
In this paper the writer wants to analyze the characterization that can be found in Tony Scotts film Man on Fire. The writer divided the characters in film
in to two parts: 1 major characters such as Creasy and Pyta, and 2 minor characters such as Samuel, Lisa, Rayburn, Manzano, Mariana, Fuentes, Jordan,
Sister Anna, Daniel Sanchez, Aurelio Sanchez, Maria, Jorge Remirez, and Reina Rosas. By describing every character in this film, the writer hopes this writing
make the readers know that Man on Fire is a worth film to watch.
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1.4 The Significance of the Study
By writing this paper the writer and the reader will know the characterization of the film. Since it is one of the most important things in shaping
and developing the figure in the story of film. Besides that, the characterization includes the problem of the character, how it is characterized, and how it is
described in the story; so it is able to give a clear description to the viewer. More over, characterization takes a strategic position as the bearer and gives the
message, advice and morality to its viewer. And then, the writing hopes the reader will know the story of Man on Fire film.
1.5 The Method of the Study
In composing this paper, the writer applies library research. Clayton 2001:XII defines library research as “A terms which encompasses a number of
activities related to the development of the library’s collection, including the determination and coordination of selection policy, assessment of needs of users
and potential user, collection use studies, collection evaluation, identification of collection needs, selection of materials, planning of resource sharing, collection
maintenance and weeding”. That is done by collecting data through reading some books that are related to the topic of this paper and browsing internet to get some
information needed to complete this paper. In analyzing the data, there are three steps:
1. Watching the film.
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2. Identifying the character of Man on Fire film.
3. Analyzing the dialogues.
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
