CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
People were born in a different background. There are so many different backgrounds of life, such as, religion, states, and ethnicity. Those differences stimulate people act differently to each other. They want to keep their personalities based on their background. Realize it or not people will be separated by invisible wall from other groups of society; they make their own group with the same background.
Like in the New York City, many groups have different background over there. English, Dutch, Italian and German live in New York City for many years.
They can accept the background of each other because they have lived together for many years, and called of natives. When new comer comes, he can not be accepted directly. The natives can not receive the new comer style, the tradition even the region.
Everybody has ambition and he or she will do anything to reach his or her ambition. People have opportunity to do anything as what they want and like.
Although, there are people who do not like with their ambition but they have right to reach their ambition. The other people who not like with their ambition have no right to prevent them to reach their ambition.
Many different variations of popularity exist, and many ways to gain them.
General popularity usually involves respect in two directions: a popular person is
1 2
respected by peers and will reciprocate that respect, thus reinforcing the belief of deserving the popularity. Likewise, amicability is an important component of popularity, as a person who does not like others is unlikely to be liked by others.
This reciprocal nature of interpersonal popularity is often overlooked by people
(particularly the young) who are attempting to become popular: being loud may be successful in gaining attention, but is unlikely to provide mutual respect.
The psychology aspect is very interesting for the writer to create the literary work. Here, achieving popularity of the man as a part of psychological studies gets special attention from Wes Craven, one famous director. The ways that are done by one of major characters to fulfill his desire are clearly portrayed in one of his movies, Scream 4.
According to Fredenburg (1971: 4) everything in nature is unique, then it follows that every personality is different and must be studied in such a way as to capture this in this view; the psychology of personality is describing what is unique and peculiar to the individual.
According to the above explanatory, there is a relationship between literary work and psychology. That is the reasons why there are many authors displace the realism of life into the literary. One of them is Wes Craven who is the director of Scream 4 movie which is as researcher object.
One of the movies that is related to the individual psychology is Scream 4 directed by Wes Craven. Scream 4 stars Emma Robert as Jill Robert, Nico
Tortorella as Trevor, Kleren Culkin as Charlie, Erik Knudsen as Robbie, Hayden
Panettiere as Kirby, and Marlelle Jaffe as Olivia. The cinematography is Peter 3
Deming. It is edited by Peter McNulty. This movie is running for 105 minutes. It was released on 15 April 2011.
This drama movie is about murder people. Sherrie and Trudie (Lucy Hale and Shenae Grimes), two high schools girls, are stalked and then brutally killed by
Ghostface, but this is the opening scene to Stab 6, which Rachel and Chloe (Anna
Paquin and Kristen Bell) are watching. Rachel nags on about horror movie cliches, and then Chloe gets out a knife and stabs her, twice. This is the opening to
Stab 7, which Jenny and Marnie (Aimee Teegarden and Britt Robertson) are watching. After Jenny pranks Marnie, she is killed. Jenny is threatened over the phone by a voice, and then chased through the house by Ghostface himself, leading to her demise in the garage.
Ten years since the events known as "The Woodsboro Massacre", Sidney
Prescott (Neve Campbell) returns to her hometown as one of the stops on her book signing tour. However, things do not go well when Dewey Riley (David
Arquette, who is now the Sheriff town) interrupts the signing, claiming that the murder of Jenny and Marnie are linked to a cellular phone somewhere in the bookstore vicinity. Everyone is surprised when the phone is found in the trunk of
Sidney's rental car, along with bloody handprints.
While Dewey intends to find out what is going on, the incident quickly spreads across the town like wildfire. Gale Weathers Riley (Courteney Cox, who is Dewey's wife), gets her old spark back and in an effort to be in the spotlight again, intends to investigate what happened. 4
Dewey assigns a police detail to patrol the place where Sidney will be staying, which happens to be the residence of her aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell), and cousin Jill (Emma Roberts). It is here that Sidney has a moment, in going to her cousin room, only to see her cousin ex boyfriend Trevor (Nico Tortorella) sneaking out a nearby window after Jill has asked him to leave.
Later on that evening, Jill and her friend Kirby (Hayden Panettiere) are watching a movie, when Kirby gets a call from someone sounding like
'Ghostface.' The voice claims he is hiding in the closet, which Kirby checks, but finds no one. The voice then claims that he is not standing in Jill's closet. In the house next door, their friend Olivia (Marielle Jaffe) is shocked when the killer bursts from her closet and gruesomely kills her. Sidney hears what is going on, and breaks into Olivia's place, attempting to stop the killer. However, he escapes just as the police arrive.
Sidney is taken to the local hospital to be checked over, but is upset when her book signing publicist Rebecca (Alison Brie) claims that these new killings can help the sales of Sidney's self help book. Sidney fires Rebecca on the spot, who heads to the facility parking garage, only to be menaced and then killed, before her body is thrown off the top of the garage onto the roof of a nearby news van.
Gale is still trying to get to the bottom of the mystery, and convinces
Sidney to come with her to the local 'Cinema Club' at the high school, run by
Charlie Walker (Rory Culkin) and Robbie Mercer (Erik Knudsen). The two claim 5
that if the killer is attempting to kill people in a remake fashion. While some things may be similar, the killer style is not going to be exactly like the first time, and that to make the situation even more intense, they may even be recording the murders to post them on the internet.
When someone brings up that the end of the murder spree the first time was at a house party, Charlie and Robbie immediately assume that the killer may strike at their upcoming 'Stab-a-Thon,' where they will run all the movies in the
Stab series based on the original murders. Some question why hold the 'Stab-a-
Thon' in the first place, but the guys assume that they aren't the only party in town, as teenagers on a Friday night have plenty of other party options.
Gale manages to find the party and disguising herself, sets up cameras to view what is going on in the party. However, as she watches from her car, the cameras start to get covered up. Gale places a call to Dewey, before sneaking back into the party. While attempting to fix the camera in the rafters, she comes across a remote webcam, before being stabbed by the killer. Dewey shows up just as
Gale collapses to the ground floor, but the killer has once again eluded capture.
She survives and it taken to the local hospital.
Meanwhile, two police officers, Ross and Perkins, (Adam Brody and
Anthony Anderson) who are on watch outside Kate house, are both killed by
Ghostface. Sidney finds out the Jill snuck out and went to Kirby. When Kate gets back from shopping Sidney tells her that Jill went to Kirby. Kate attempts to call 6
her, she does not answer. As the two attempts to go over and get her, the killer appears and kills Kate. Sidney manages to escape and rushes over to Kirby place.
In the meanwhile, Jill, Kirby, Charlie, and Robbie are relaxing at Kirby’s place when Trevor shows up. Jill claims he was not invited, but Trevor claims he got a message from Jill's phone. Jill explains this to be impossible, as her phone has been missing recently. Kirby suggests that Jill should go to her room to look for it, and Trevor follows her.
Robbie indulges in some alcohol, and ends up going outside, where he is killed. Back inside, Kirby reveals to Charlie her penchant for horror movies, and that she finds him attractive. However, the moment is interrupted when Trevor reappears. Charlie and Trevor leave the living room, leaving Kirby alone. Jill comes from downstairs, and Sidney comes into the house, telling Jill and Kirby of
Kate death. Ghostface appears, and chases them through the house, where Jill hides under a bed and Kirby hides in the basement.
When Sidney comes down to the basement to find Kirby, they both find
Charlie on the porch, covered in blood. Ghostface appears and ties him to a chair.
Kirby's phone rings, and the killer claims he wants to play a game with her, testing her horror movie knowledge. With the killer busy, Sidney runs up the stairs to try to find Jill, to find her missing. When the voice on the phone stops,
Kirby rushes out, and attempts to untie Charlie only to have him stab her, upset that it took till now for her to find him attractive, which leaves her for dead. 7
Sidney is then attacked by Charlie with the knife, but manages to escape and she starts running to the front door and is then stabbed by Ghostface, confirming that there is a second killer. Ghostface removes his mask and it is revealed that Jill is also in on it. Jill then lets loose a torrid of hatred at Sidney, claiming that her cousin's fame was always rubbed in her face, and how sick she was of it. Jill now claims that soon, Sidney will die, and in the wake of the killer's spree, she will become famous instead. Charlie also assumes he is going to be part of the plan, but is shocked when Jill kills him as well. She then kills Trevor with a gun, and supposedly kills Sidney.
Jill then sets up the situation as if her ex boyfriend Trevor was the true killer, planting the knife, mutilating herself, leaving bits of her hair in his hand, and smashing and breaking things around the room. Dewey and the other officers eventually reach Kirby's place, and immediately, when it seems that Jill is still alive, the press descend and peg her as a survivor.
In the hospital, Dewey visits with Jill, who claims that maybe one day she can write a book with Gale, since they have the same injuries. Dewey also explains to Jill that Sidney will recover, revealing that she is still alive, and everything will be fine.
However, once he leaves, Jill gets out of her bed, and rushes to Sidney's room, intending to kill her cousin once and for all. Dewey manages to show up having realized that Jill slipped up mentioning similar injuries to Gale something she should not have been able to know, but is knocked out by Jill's use of a 8
bedpan. Gale and Deputy Officer Judy Hicks (Marley Shelton) are right behind him, but Jill manages to take Dewey's gun, and corner them behind a bed. Jill demands Judy's gun, and gets it, before shooting her. Jill then threatens Gale, only to have Gale buy time before Sidney manages to charge up a defibrillator and use the paddles to shock her cousin into submission. Everything seems to be ok, until
Jill rises for one last scare, and Sidney kills her cousin with a bullet to the chest.
The movie is interesting to be discussed; there are four reasons that make this film interesting. The first reason is because this movie is categorized as the box office film in this year. It creates a new box office record for a release in the last quarter of a year.
The second reason is because this movie is stared by the famous actor,
Emma Robert. That makes this film attractive.
The third reason is because the nuance and the reflection of the movie. The film portrayed murderer, ambition, and competition. The last reason, there is a good message that can be found in this movie. That is about act.
Based on the story of the film, the writer is interested in doing the research on the problem of Scream 4 by using an Individual Psychological Approach by
Alfred Adler to disclose an effort for achieving popularity of the major character
Jill Robert in his personality. The writer conducts a research entitled: JILL
ROBERT’S AMBITION TO GET POPULARITY IN SCREAM 4 MOVIE
(2011). AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH.
9
B. Literature Review
There are many students of English Department that have ever studied the individual psychological analysis as a research problem. But, for the title JILL
ROBERT’S AMBITION TO GET POPULARITY IN SCREAM 4 MOVIE
(2011). AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGYCAL APPROACH is never studied by the students of English Department in Muhammadiyah University of
Surakarta. So the researcher can not make the comparison with the other researcher because it is the first study in Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
C. Problem Statement
Problem statement is essential for the research, because it makes the writer more focus on the problem. Based on the background of the study, the writer proposes a single problem statement. The major problem of the study is “How is
Jill Robert’s ambition to get popularity reflected in Scream 4 movie?”
D. Limitation of the Study
In this study, the writer will focus on the analysis of main character, Jill
Robert (Emma Robert) which appears using the individual psychological approach.
E. Objective of the Study
Dealing with the problem statement above, the objectives of the study are as follows:
1. To analyze the structural elements of the Scream 4 movie. 10
2. To analyze the movie based on the individual psychological approach.
F. Benefit of the Study
There are two benefits of the study:
1. Theoretical Benefit
This research will become a reference to study literature, especially drama analysis using psychoanalytic approach and this research can give a contribution to English learning.
2. Practical Benefit
This research can give more understanding about the movie, especially the main character in Scream 4 movie from individual psychological approach.
G. Research Method
Research method is derived from research and method. Research is the process of solving the problem. Research also means an organized and systematic way or process of finding answer to questions using scientific method. Method is way for doing something.
In this part, the writer presents five points of research method. They can be explained clearly as follows:
1. Type of the Study
The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method. Here the researcher tries to relate the discussion of analysis based on the underlying theory. It purposes to analyze the movie using individual psychological approach.
11
2. Objects of the Study
The writer takes the film Scream 4 as the object of the study. This film is directed by Wes Craven.
3. Types of the Data and Data Source
There are two types of data namely primary data and secondary data that are needed to do this research. a. Primary Data
The primary data source is the movie it self, Scream 4 by Wes Craven. b. Secondary Data
The writer takes the secondary data source, including the script of the movie and the other information from the book and website from internet that were relevant to the subject matter.
4. Technique of the Data Collection
The technique of the data collection is library research, the steps are: a. Watching the movie repeatedly b. Taking notes of important parts in both primary and secondary data then
taking the image capture of the movie c. Classifying and determining the relevant data d. Browsing to the internet to get some information articles that are related to
the research. e. Analyzing the data f. Drawing conclusion based on the analysis data
12
5. Technique of the Data Analysis
The analyze the data used in the research, the writer does the following technique as follows: a. Analyze the structure elements of the movie b. Analyze the data based on Individual Psychological theory proposed by
Alfred Adler.
H. Research Paper Organization
The writer makes an organization of this paper in order to make an easy understanding. There are five chapters in this research paper. Chapter I is introduction including the background of the study, literature review, problem statement, limitation of the study, objective of the study, benefit of the study, research method, research paper organization. Chapter II is underlying theory. It deals with the notion of An Individual Psychological theory, the basic concepts of
An Individual Psychological and theoretical application. Chapter III is structural analysis of the film, including narrative and technical elements. Chapter IV is dealing with the analysis of the major character using An Individual Psychological approach. Chapter V is conclusion and suggestion of the research.