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BAB II Gambaran Umum Film the Boy in the Striped Pajamas Dalam Bab BAB II Gambaran Umum Film The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Dalam bab ini peneliti akan membahas mengenai objek yang akan diteliti berupa profil film, dan siapa-siapa saja yang terlibat dalam pembuatan film The Boy in The Striped Pajamas mulai dari crew dan aktor-aktor terbaik yang telah dipilih oleh penulis skenario dan juga sutradara secara langsung. Tidak hanya itu, film ini juga beberapa kali memenangkan penghargaan film dan masuk sebagai nominasi di berbagai acara perfilman bergengsi lainnya. Hal-hal tersebut sudah peneliti paparkan di bagian-bagian bab ini. A. Perusahaan Produksi Films Film The Boy In The Striped Pajamas adalah hasil dari perusahaan produksi milik Miramax. Miramax (juga dikenal sebagai Miramax Films, bergaya sebagai MIRAMAX) adalah perusahaan hiburan Amerika yang terkenal karena memproduksi dan mendistribusikan film dan acara televisi. Berkantor pusat di Santa Monica, California. Miramax didirikan pada tahun 1979 oleh Bob dan Harvey Weinstein, dan merupakan perusahaan distribusi film dan produksi film independen terkemuka sebelum diakuisisi oleh Walt Disney Company pada tanggal 30 Juni 1993. Weinsteins mengoperasikan Miramax dengan kebebasan yang lebih kreatif dan finansial daripada divisi Disney lainnya, sampai 30 September 2005 ketika mereka memutuskan untuk meninggalkan perusahaan tersebut dan mendirikan The Weinstein Company. Miramax dijual oleh Disney kepada Filmyard Holdings, perusahaan patungan Colony NorthStar, Tutor-Saliba Corporation, dan Qatar Investment Authority, pada tahun 2010, yang mengakhiri kepemilikan studio Disney selama 17 tahun. Pada 2016, kepemilikan dipindahkan menjadi Media Group. Secara kolektif, Miramax telah membuat lebih dari 700 judul film dan TV Series telah menerima 278 nominasi Academy Award dan 68 Oscar (Anon 1, 2017). B. Biografi Produser 86 Gambar 2 1 David Heyman David Jonathan Heyman, sering disapa David Heyman ini lahir 26 Juli 1961 adalah seorang produser film asal Inggris dan pendiri Heyday Films. Pria berdarah Yahudi ini juga dikenal sebagai produser serial harry potter dari awal sampai seri yang terakhir yaitu ketujuh bertakjun Harry Potter and Deathly Hollow Part 2 (Anon 2, 2017). Heyman telah memenangkan banyak penghargaan, sebagian besar karena kontribusinya dalam produksi seri Harry Potter. Pada tahun 2011, Heyman menerima penghargaan "Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema" atas partisipasiya dalam seri Harry Potter di ajang BAFTA. Penghargaan lainnya diantaranya: Menang CineEurope producer of the Decade tahun 2011. Menang CinemaCon Hall Of Fame tahun 2011 untuk seri Harry Potter. Menang ShoWest's producer of the Year tahun 2003 menjadi produser Inggris pertama yang menerima penghargaan ini. C. Biografi Sutradara 87 Gambar 2 2 Mark Herman Mark Herman (lahir 1954) adalah seorang sutradara film dan penulis skenario asal Inggris yang terkenal menyutradarai sekaligus menulis skenario film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008 bersama John Boyne selaku penulis novel. Herman lahir di Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, Inggris. Proyek panjang Herman pertama adalah Blame It on the Bellboy (1992). Ia masuk ke dalam dunia perfilman sejak umur 27 tahun. ia mulai belajar film di Leeds Polytechnic, sekarang Leeds Metropolitan University. Ia kemudian dilatih sebagai animator di Sekolah Film dan Televisi Nasional (Anon 3, 2017). Filmografi 1. See You at Wembley, Frankie Walsh (1987) – a comedy based around the wedding of a Hull City fan; won a Student Academy Award in 1987. 2. Unusual Ground Floor Conversion (1987) 3. Blame It on the Bellboy (1992) 4. Brassed Off (1996) 5. Little Voice (1998) 6. Purely Belter (2000) 88 7. Hope Springs (2003) 8. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) D. Biografi Penulis Skenario John Boyne adalah seorang Novelist kontemporer asal Irlandia. Film The Boy In The Striped Pajamas merupakan salah satu debut Novel terbaiknya di tahun 2006 dan kemudian diangkat menjadi film produksi Miramax pada tahun 2008. John dibantu oleh Mark Herman dalam pembuatan skenario. John Boyne sendiri lahir pada tanggal 30 April 1971 di Dublin, Irlandia. Sebelumnya ia juga pernah menulis karya sastra besar seperti The Count of Monte Cristo, Robinson Crusoe dan Treasure Island. John merupakan lulusan dari Uniersity of East Anglia salah satu uniersitas ternama di Norwich. Boyne memulai karirnya dengan menulis cerita pendek dan membuat debut tulisan pertamanya dengan ceritanya, berjudul "Entertainments Jar", yang masuk dalam kategori Hennessy Literary Award. Pada tahun-tahun awal ia kebanyakan menulis cerita pendek dan menerbitkan sekitar 70 di antaranya. Bukunya yang berjudul The Boy In The Striped Pajamas yang diterbitkan pada tahun 2006 mendapat sambutan hangat. Buku tersebut menjadi New York Times Bestseller nomor 1 yang kemudian diangkat menjadi film. Buku tersebut telah terjual sebanyak 9 juta copy. Namun, ia juga mendapat kritik keras dari beberapa kritikus terkait isi cerita di dalamnya. Kritikus ini berpandangan bahwa Boyne mencoba meremehkan kengerian kamp-kamp perang yang berbasis di Jerman. 89 Sejak The Boy in the Striped Pajamas mendirikan posisi Boyne sebagai penulis anak-anak utama, dia menghasilkan tiga buku anak-anak yang lebih sukses. Diantaranya Noah Barleywater Runs Away, The Stay Where You Are And Then Leave dan Leae and Terrible thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket. John Boyne telah mendapatkan Irish Book Awards, Hennessy Literary Award dan The Qué Leer Award. Buku-bukunya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 51 bahasa. Dari 10 novel bestsellernya 3 diantaranya mengangkat cerita tentang Bangsa Yahudi. (Boyne, 2017). E. Biografi Pemain E.1 Assa Maxwell Thornton F. Butterfield Gambar 2.2 Asa Butterfield Asa Maxwell Thornton F. Butterfield lahir di London, Britania Raya, 1 April 1997 adalah seorang aktor dari Inggris. Ia mulai terkenal setelah berperan dalam film bertemakan Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). Produser David Heyman dan sutradara Mark Herman sedang mencari seseorang yang mampu memerankan tokoh utama yang lugu, sehingga mereka meminta setiap anak apa yang mereka tahu tentang Holocaust. Ia mengalahkan ratusan anak laki-laki 90 untuk peran itu dan juga berhasil lulus audisi untuk peranan dalam film Mr.Nobody yang audisinya ia ikuti pada waktu yang sama. Asa sempat berperan sebagai karakter utama, Hugo dalam film Martin Scorsese yang terbaru Invention Hugo Cabret 3D yang dirilis pada tanggal 9 Desember 2011. Pada tahun 2013, Asa berperan dalam film Ender's Game, sebuah film fiksi ilmiah, sebagai Ender, bocah jenius yang dididik untuk menyelamatkan bumi dari bangsa alien. Pada tahun yang sama, dia dalam masa pembicaraan untuk berperan dalam film King of the Kastle bersama Clive Owen. Selain itu, pada bulan Mei, dilaporkan telah bergabung bersama Chloe Moretz dan Andrea Riseborough dalam film The White Circus. Selanjutnya Asa terlihat dalam film X+Y sebagai Nathan, remaja yang pandai matematika dan bertindak sebagai wakil Inggris dalam olimpiade. Asa berperan sebagai Jude, anak dari Ethan Hawke yang kecanduan narkotika dalam film Ten Thousand Saints yang dirilis pada tahun 2015 (Anon 4, 2017). E.2 Vera Farmiga Gambar 2.4. Vera Farmiga Vera Farmiga adalah seorang aktris Amerika dengan nama asli Vera Ann Fermiga, anak kedua dari 7 bersaudara lahir pada tanggal 6 Agustus 1973 di Clifton, 91 America Serikat. Vera memulai karir aktingnya diawal tahun 1997 dengan debut pertamanya yakni sebagai pemain pengganti dalam serial drama TV "Taking Sides". Termasuk pertunjukan di "The Tempest", "Good", "The Seagull", dan dalam produksi off-Broadway "Second-Hand Smoke" (1997). Pada tahun yang sama, dia membuat debut televisinya sebagai pemimpin wanita, berlawanan dengan Heath Ledger, dalam serial petualangan Fox, Roar (1997). Vera selalu konsisten dengan dunia perfilman hingga saat ini. Terhitung kurang lebih ada 31 film yang telah ia perankan. Diantaranya yang populer adalah Autumn In New York (2000), The Departed (2006), The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (2008), Orphan (2009), Up In The Air (2009), Safe House (2012), hingga The Conjuring 1 (2013) dan The Conjuring 2 (2016). Konsistensi Vera dalam Berkarya tentunya membawa banyak peruntungan. Beberapa penghargaan telah berhasil ia dapatkan yakni masuk dalam 12 Nominasi, dan 4 kali menang dalam ajang penghargaan film di beberapa negara dunia (Anon 5, 2017). E.3 Jack Scanlon Gambar 2.5. Jack Scanlon 92 Jack Scanlon lahir di Canterbury, Inggris 6 Agustus 1998. Jack berperan dalam film bertema Holocaust yaitu The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008). Di dalam film tersebut ia berperan sebagai Shmuel. Jack aktif sebagai aktor hingga sekarang, namun ia hanya ikut serta dalam 4 film. Diantaranya Married Single Othjer (2010) sebagai Joe, Runaway (2009) sebagai Dean, dan Peter Serafinowicz Shjow (2007). Jack pernah masuk 1 nominasi sebagai Best Performance in an International Feature Film - Leading Young Performers The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008 (Anon 6, 2017). E.4 David Thewlis Gambar 2.6. David Thewlis David Thewlis (lahir di Blackpool, Lancashire, Inggris, 20 Maret 1963; umur 54 tahun) adalah aktor sutradara, penulis skenario, dan penulis asal Inggris. Thewlis mencoba karirnya sebagai sutradara. Ia menyutradai Hello, Hello, Hello pada tahun 1995, yang dinominasikan untuk mendapatkan Penghargaan BAFTA untuk Best Short Film. Ia juga menulis, mengarahkan dan membintangi film Cheeky (2003). Thewlis juga seorang penulis, novel debutnya, The Late Hector Kipling, 93 adalah komedi hitam yang dibuat di dunia seni dan diterbitkan oleh Simon & Schuster pada tahun 2007 (Southern, 2017). Thewlis memulai karirnya
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