The Payoffs Factors That Influence The Choice of Strategies

24 Corden , and Adam Levine. John Carney‟s Begin Again is a bitter yet warm- hearted movie which tells about some people who can heal their damaged life through music Hood, 2014. This movie tells about people who are in their lowest condition of their life and they can lighten up their life by working with music. Mark Ruffalo played as Dan Mulligan, a producer in a famous record label who finds some complicated problems because he does not make contract with new artists in several years. Furthermore, he is cheated by his wife which makes him live apart from his family. On the other side, Keira Knigthely played as Gretta James, a young woman musician who follows her boyfriend to build his career in New York. However, she is also cheated by her boyfriend and she decides to break up with his boyfriend. In this study, there will be two other characters that will be used as the subject of this study, namely Dave Kohl and Steve. Dave Kohl is Gretta‟s boyfriend and this character is played by Adam Levine. Dave Kohl aims to be a singer by moving on to New York and starts his career, but then Dave Kohl cheats on Gretta that makes them breaks up. Meanwhile, Steve who is Gretta‟s close friend is played by James Corden. Steve is Gretta‟s close friend who helps Gretta when she breaks up with Dave Kohl. Besides, Steve also helps Gretta and Dan when they are working on their album. Hood 2014 states that Begin Again movie is related to Christian faith because it delivers the message that there will always change to start over. As shown in the scene when Dan is depressed and Gretta is broken heart, they are willing to start their life again. The result of what they are doing through music can make them find their “missing life”. Besides, this movie also gives a moral PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 25 value about the failure that happens in life will make somebody stronger. Hood 2014 adds that “Dan and Gretta‟s character arcs are one of reconciliation, redemption, and resurrection.” The example can be seen at the scene when Dan is being approached by a missionary on the subway who distributes the pamphlets related to the religion. In Begin Again movie, John Carney as a director did not make common ending which usually happens in the drama movie. In the middle of the movie, the audiences will guess the ending that Dan and Gretta will fall in love to each other. However, John Carney turned the story up that Dan and Gretta are not falling in love to each other. They keep their relationship as a producer and an artist or as colleague. Even though John Carney did not make romantic story between Dan and Gretta, he built a happy ending. As the ending, Dan can gather with his family and Gretta can continue her life because she decides to forgive her ex-boyfriend. This movie wants to make people believe that there will always be a way out to solve the problems that they face. From this movie, there is another moral value according to Hood 2014 that we can rebuild our lives when we can join together in forgiveness and love.

6. Review of Related Research

Politeness is a behavior of people in using the language as a communication device. Politeness is a study under the scope of sociolinguistics which connects the social behavior and the study of linguistics. There are some strategies of politeness which can be applied in the communication in order to make the communication either polite or less polite. In this section, the writer will PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 26 provide an example of the study of politeness strategies which had been done by the previous researchers. An example of the study of politeness strategies has been done previously by Heribertus Hercules Anggi Oktorio 2015. The study is entitled A Study of Politeness Startegies Used by The Four Main Characters of Yes Man. The study which is written by Oktorio 2015 analyzed the types of politeness strategies used by the four main characters in Yes Man movie and the factors which influence the four main characters in choosing the types of politeness strategies. The researcher employed the theory from Brown and Levinson 1987 about the types of politeness strategies and the factors that influence the four main characters in choosing the types of the politeness strategies. The method applied for this study was document analysis which analyzed the movie script of Yes Man movie. Another example of the study of politeness strategies had been done previously by Tunggul Kumoro Damarjati 2014. The study is entitled A Study of Politeness Strategies and The Degree of Politeness by the Main Characters in “King’s Speech”. In his thesis, Damarjati 2014 analyzed the politeness strategies used by the main characters with a reference from the politeness strategies theory proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987. Damarjati 2014 also analyzed the degree of politeness of the main characters‟ utterances by using the theory from Leech 1983. In his thesis, the researcher employed document analysis as the method in doing the research. The research written by Oktorio 2015 and Damarjati 2014 are significant for the writer of this study as references in finding the theories.