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research and revealed text relevance to the context or worldliness of the text. The notion of objectivity is actually an objective interpretation of the
text or ignores the relationship between the texts to the context. While in subsequent works such as Culture and Imperealism as well as on the cover of
the book is a reissue of Orientalism in 1995, Said argued that the presence of incredible consciousness revolution in the consciousness of women,
minorities and marginal groups influence directly on the idea of mainstream in the whole world . Study the appearance of Orientalism was so attracted all
the people who care about cultural studies, theoretical and scientific.
D. Character and characterization in the film
In every story- whether it‟s in a literary, fairy tale or movie-there‟s a
representation of human being as the agent who plays in the story; it‟s called
as a character. A character usually refers to human, animal or thing that has function to play its rule in a story. And every character has variety values to
make a story seems real, understandable, and worth caring about; the values could be moral, emotional, intellectual, or appearance value.
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To give impressive values toward character is called as characterization.
Characterization in film is different with characterization in literary works because film is visual story telling so that the characterization of character in
film more complicated and more detailed than in literary.
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Rosenhaim, JR, Edward W, What Happen in Literature Chicago: the Universitty of Chicago Press, 1960, p. 79.
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Characterization of character in a film can be given in some ways; such as characterization through appearance, dialogue, through external and
internal action, and through reaction of other characters. And even setting has contribution as the characterization of character in a film; it can be a
determiner of character and reaction of character.
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Characterization in film has a great deal to do with casting since the minutes viewers usually see most actor on the screen, they make certain
assumption about tem because of their facial features, dress, physical build, and mannerisms and they way they move; it‟s called as characterization
through appearance. And the next characterization in film is through dialogue; characters in film naturally reveal a great deal about themselves by
what they say and they say it, in other words, the values of character could be interpreted through their word choice when they talk to other characters. Even
appearance is an important measure of a character‟s personality, but the reflections of appearance are often misleading. So, another aspect that could
be considered is their action in facing some situa tion; it‟s kind of
characterization through external action. The reactions of other character are also influence viewers in interpreting the characterization of certain character.
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Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie, The art of watching film California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999, p. 50.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
