ways to distort reality and exclude feelings from awareness so that we do not feel anxious.
D. Structural Elements of the Movie
There are two elements which are very essential in the totality of movie.
1. Narative element
a. Character and Characterization
In a play, characters are different with the novel because in the play the characters are elicited in their own dialogue. Kennedy 1983:
45 states that the character is presumably an imaged person who inhabits a story. Kennedy also divides the character into two, namely
the major character and minor character. The major characters are important in a story because they take a part in most of the story.
While minor characters are the characters that support the major characters to make them more alive. The playwright also serves the
characterization to make the play easier to understand.
b. Plot
The plot is important to build up the story in a movie. ―The term plot is used to describe everything visible and audibly present in
the movie before us‖ Bordwell and Thompson, 1990:57. The plot
includes, firstly, all the story events that are directly depicted. Secondly, the plot of the movie may contain material that is
extraneous to the story world. Discussing the term plot is similar to talking about dramatic structure. The dramatic structure found in most
productions is the beginning or exposition, the middle complication and climax, and the end or resolution
Douglas and Hamden, 1996:48. A beginning is about one quarter of the length of movie production. In this stage, the
moviemaker wants to explore the story by poses thing the hero or heroin and other major participants, setting, problems, and theme
Douglas and Hamden, 1996:48
c. Point of View
Point of view is one of the most interesting aspects in the narrative elements. For some story tellers, deciding whose point of
view to tell the story is a fundamental consideration in making a story Douglas and Harnden, 1996:31. In the movie, point of view relates to
the taking camera in each shot, as if the characters see the viewers, so the audience will see what the character sees.
d. Theme
Theme is ―the center, the moving force, the principle of unity‖ Kennedy, 1983:104. We can take a moral message of the story by
knowing theme Kennedy, 1983:103. Theme is very important, because theme can include the people to read the literary work such as
the movie.
e. Cast
In the process of making movies, cast is every important, through the process of casting, the actors and actress play their role as
their characters.
2. Technical Elements
