Movie Characters Research Articles

Positive Politeness Strategies Used In The Perfect Date Movie

Positive politeness tends to minimize social distance, meanwhile negative politeness expands the social distance, however still showing respect behavior towards the interlocutor. The aim of this study is to find out positive politeness strategies used by the main character in The Perfect Date movie. The data of this study were taken from a movie and the script entitled The Perfect Date Movie. This study used the observation and note taking as a technique of collecting data. The method used to analyze the data in this study was qualitative method. This study was conducted based on politeness theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The result of this study showed that all the fifteen strategies are used by the characters in the movie. Almost all politeness strategies used in the main characters' utterances. That is because the interlocutors of the main characters in the film are mostly family, schoolmates, and people of the same age as the speakers.

Personality recognition in Digital Humanities: A review of computational approaches in the humanities

Abstract One of the most fascinating aspects of human beings is their personality. Two models that are currently being researched and widely used in computational approaches are the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator and the Big Five (or OCEAN). In this study, we will briefly examine the history of these two models and the current state of their applications in the Digital Humanities field. Although categorizing research in Digital Humanities is a challenging task, we have chosen to include works that, while primarily psychological in nature, use methodologies and methods from Digital Humanities, specifically in literary texts. Consequently, we can divide this research into two categories. On the one hand, there are works that aim to study and identify the personalities of fictional characters in literature or movies. On the other hand, there are works that aim to recreate personalities in virtual characters based on a predetermined model. We will therefore examine the works proposed by the scientific community for both approaches.

IMAGES OF FEMALE WARRIORS IN THE FILM WORKS OF MICHELLE YEOHAS AN INDICATOR OF RETHINKING THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY

The article studiesthe work of film actress Michelle Yeoh, in particular, the evolution of the images of female warriors created by her. It is shown that the various stages of the actress' creativity reflect the global processes of reinterpretation of female characters in adventure, fantasy, spy movies, wuxia and kungfu movies. It has been proven that the dramatic talent of Michelle Yeoh is fully revealed in adulthood and complements the images of female warriors with Taoist-Buddhist values.The subject of the article is the images of female warriors in the works of film actress Michelle Yeoh.The research methodology is based on search, system-historical, analytical and comparative methods, which allowed to carry out a comprehensive artistic analysis of Michelle Yeoh's creativity at various stages of her film career.It was concluded that several types of warriors can be distinguished in Michelle Yeoh's work: "a girl with a gun"; master of martial arts; protector - sorceress - mentor; superheroine from science fiction films; a multifaceted dramatic character focused on universal existential questions. It is emphasized that the creative path of M. Yeoh is consistent with the general process of feminization of world cinema, the transfer of emphasis from the patriarchal understanding of the role of women in society to the issue of gender equality and the study of the deep nature of femininity.Key words: Chinese cinema, Michelle Yeoh, wuxia action films, kung fu films, feature film.

Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album

Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album

Exploring Heroic Characters in Red Chinese Movies: A Multimodal Perspective

Red Chinese movies depict heroic individuals who make significant contributions to the nation, and these films play a vital role in constructing the national image of new China. This paper explores the images of heroic individuals in red Chinese movies using multimodal action theory. The findings indicate that these individuals are characterized by their selfless sacrifices for their country, fearless perseverance, embodiment of international communist ideals, and unwavering devotion and warmth. The study also reveals that facial expressions, body movements, and language serve as critical mediational means in shaping these characters, while other forms of mediation are underutilized. Recommendations include employing more mediational means to create more nuanced and complex characters in future red Chinese movies.

The Research on the Changing Image of Suits in Chinese Films after China's Reform and Opening Up

Suits have undergone tremendous changes, from their introduction into the Chinese market to their current popularity. Changes can be shown in various aspects, such as suit sales, market profits, frequency of appearance of suits in Chinese films, etc. This study will study the changing meanings of suits in Chinese films. Through this particular aspect, people can have a different understanding of Chinese history and obvious the growth of the Chinese economy. The study will study the suits in particular Chinese films after Chinas reform and opening up. This research believes that suits can stand for different meanings in different eras. The suits from the middle of the 1980s stand for capitalism and entrepreneurship. Characters in movies with a nationalistic and global themewhich often include portrayals of historical figures and everyday people in societywere what the 90s suits were describing. Following the 2000s, new prosperity was ushered in by Chinese cinema and social openness due to policy opening up and social and cultural development. The shifting function of suits in the movie can also be interpreted as the personification of power for individuals, which is also connected to the explosive growth of China's economy.

Semantic Structure of a Movie Hero Favored by Teenagers

The authors used the psychosemiotic content analysis, projective method, personal differential, and factor analysis to study the semantics of a movie character preferred by teenagers. An incomplete-sentence test and a blog analysis revealed eight categories and nineteen corresponding analysis units based on the occurrence / non-occurrence of selected units in the text and their frequency. Osgood’s matrices revealed the measure of the random coincidence of classification units (≥ 70 %) with other categories. The integrative semantic structure of the favored movie hero was determined by such categories and content units as a) gender (male); b) appearance (look); c) intellect (mental abilities); d) interaction (relations with other people); e) character traits (moral and volitional qualities, attitude to others, attitude to work); f) actions (struggle for justice, readiness to do something for others); g) attitude to the family (willingness to sacrifice with something for the family).

The Analysis of Woman Language Feature and Function Used by Women Character in the Romantic Movie "6 Years"

The Analysis of Woman Language Feature and Function Used by Women Character in the Romantic Movie "6 Years"

The Analysis of Woman Language Feature and Function Used by Women Character in the Romantic Movie “6 Years”

This article, is entitled The Analysis of Women’s Language Features and Functions Used by Women Characters in the Romantic Movie “6 Years”. It examines the types of women’s language features found in the movie and script entitled “6 Years”, as well as the functions that occur in women’s language features. The main theory applied in this study is Lakoff’s theory of women’s language features, along with Pearson’s theory of language function. The method used in this article is documentation and observation for collecting and analyzing data using the theories by Lakoff and Pearson. The analysis showed that the women’s linguistic features found in the movie include lexical hedges, rising intonation on declaratives, “empty” adjectives, intensifiers, super polite forms, and avoidance of strong words, and their functions include expressing uncertain feelings, expressing feelings or opinions, and softening an utterance. The women’s linguistic features uttered by women are not frequently shown in the movie because women could also use non-women’s language features.

Skills training collaboration with social work and cinematic art educators to develop innovative practices among those impacted by PTSD

ABSTRACT The number of individuals who meet the criteria for PTSD diagnoses during the pandemic increased exponentially, creating the need for more effective teaching of treatment methods for PTSD. This paper provides educators with an interdisciplinary learning tool to conduct a thorough assessment of a unique movie character with PTSD. A collaborative effort that incorporates teaching practices of the cinematic arts with social work can possibly fill in gaps in knowledge about PTSD. Authors demonstrate how combining the skills training of social work educators with cinematic art educators can lead to the development of innovative solutions.

In What Ways Can We Have Positive Responses to Evil Characters in Film?

This article is based on the fact that more and more evil characters are liked by the audience in the process of shaping movie characters. Through examples, I have read many reference articles and got the following points after thinking: the point of audiences, the point of society, and aesthetic form of film. It would explore and discuss with the development of our films, why audiences are gradually obsessed with some evil characters and some evil characters even are more attractive and captivating than some ideal heroes. Furthermore, these evil characters in these movies even be madly pursued by a lot of fans, which also pose some negative or positive effects to the society. This is completely different from the appreciation habits of the audience before. Through research, the evil characters are loved by the audience, which is inseparable from our audience's sympathy, life experience, social reality, and aesthetic changes. This kind of research provides a certain reference value for the future analysis of these evil roles, shaping the evil roles and reflecting on our society.

Advanced Dance Choreography System Using Bidirectional LSTMs

Recently, the craze of K-POP contents is promoting the development of Korea’s cultural and artistic industries. In particular, with the development of various K-POP contents, including dance, as well as the popularity of K-POP online due to the non-face-to-face social phenomenon of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) era, interest in Korean dance and song has increased. Research on dance Artificial Intelligent (AI), such as artificial intelligence in a virtual environment, deepfake AI that transforms dancers into other people, and creative choreography AI that creates new dances by combining dance and music, is being actively conducted. Recently, the dance creative craze that creates new choreography is in the spotlight. Creative choreography AI technology requires the motions of various dancers to prepare a dance cover. This process causes problems, such as expensive input source datasets and the cost of switching to the target source to be used in the model. There is a problem in that different motions between various dance genres must be considered when converting. To solve this problem, it is necessary to promote creative choreography systems in a new direction while saving costs by enabling creative choreography without the use of expensive motion capture devices and minimizing the manpower of dancers according to consideration of various genres. This paper proposes a system in a virtual environment for automatically generating continuous K-POP creative choreography by deriving postures and gestures based on bidirectional long-short term memory (Bi-LSTM). K-POP dance videos and dance videos are collected in advance as input. Considering a dance video for defining a posture, users who want a choreography, a 3D dance character in the source movie, a new choreography is performed with Bi-LSTM and applied. For learning, considering creativity and popularity at the same time, the next motion is evaluated and selected with probability. If the proposed method is used, the effort for dataset collection can be reduced, and it is possible to provide an intensive AI research environment that generates creative choreography from various existing online dance videos.

The Patriotism Values in Main Characters in The Red Cliff Film By John Woo: Sociology of Literature Review 吴宇森对 《赤壁》电影中主角爱国主义价值观：文学社会分析

<p>This research discussed the values of the main character in the Chinese movie "The Red Cliff" by John Woo. The goal of this research is to describe the main character's patriotism values as well as the impact that character's patriotism values have on the film. This research is based on Budiyono's patriotism theory. The theoretical basis used is the sociology of literary theory. This research used a descriptive qualitative method and also used listening and note-taking techniques for the data collection. This research also used Miles and Huberman's data analysis method. Based on the analysis of the Red Cliff film, it was found that some data was depicted through the two main characters. Zhūgé Liàng (诸葛亮), the main character, was awarded five data points: self-sacrifice value, courage value, unyielding value, united value, and loyalty value. Zhōu Yú (周瑜), the other main character, received four data points, which were divided into courage value, loyalty value, unyielding value, and unifying value. Thus, John Woo's Red Cliff film proved that the values of patriotism were illustrated by the two main characters.</p><div id="gtx-trans" style="position: absolute; left: 140px; top: 22px;"> </div>

Albanian Doctors Through the Movie Lens

The medical profession has been surrounded from mixed feelings of admiration, mysticism, as well as of fear and refusal. Authors and enthusiastic directors have dedicated serials and movies to the physicians’ everyday work, in their ebbs and tides. Albanian cinema produced a score of titles dedicated to the medical profession, with some movies focusing on the physician as the principal role, and some others more peripherally. The physician as a movie character underwent serious changes in the way the directors and scripts defined it, and maybe even in the way the general audience perceived the same. Changes in this modeling of physician’s character were part of the maturation process of the Albanian cinematography that has otherwise been strongly politicized from scholars; this trend could as well, or mainly, be related to the intrinsic alterations of the Albanian society from the immediate post WWII, until the fall of the totalitarian regime.

The Representation of Female Character in Iron Lady

Female characters in movies often carry the gender prejudice and stereotypes of the filmmaker and society at the time. With the development of feminism, the appearance of female roles has become more and more diverse. By analyzing the character biographical film "Iron Lady", the relationship between the presentation of female characters and the authenticity and artistry of the film is analyzed. The research focuses on the content beyond the female surface to critically analyze Thatcher's performance as a female character and the balance of authenticity and artistry in this film. The results show that the reasonable relationship between film authenticity and artistry should be constructed according to the film structure and storyline, and biographical films should objectively portray the positive and negative aspects of real characters. Emotions should be avoided on the gender issue of movies, and the female characters presented in the movie should be considered essentially through real social issues, so as to allow movie observers to change their attitudes and behaviors.

Psychological Analysis of the Main Character as Influenced by External Conflicts in the Movie Entitled “Gone Girl”

This study entitled “Psychological Analysis of The Main Character as Influenced by External Conflicts in the Movie Entitled “Gone Girl”. It is focused on psychological condition of the character as influenced by external conflicts. The aims of this study are to find out the types of external conflicts faced by the main character and to analyze the effect of those external conflicts that the main character faced to her psychological condition as found in the movie entitled “Gone Girl”. This study used theories from Stantont (1956) and Koesnosoebroto (1988) to find out the types of external conflicts and Bernhardt (1953) to analyze the psychological aspect of the main character. Descriptive and qualitative methods were used to analyze the data while observation methods were used to collect the data. The result found that there are 33 external conflicts and 16 internal conflicts faced by the character and in this study the writer will focused on analyzing the external conflicts faced by the main character in Gone Girl movie that influenced her psychological condition.

Three Dimensions Analysis of The Main Character in UP Movie

The aim of this study is to analyse the three dimensions of the main character in UP movie. The data which are used in this study are taken from a movie entitled UP. This study applied a theory proposed by Egri (1960) to analyse the three dimensions of the character. The data were collected by using documentation method and note taking technique. Descriptive and qualitative method were used to analyse the data. Based on the analysis, it shows that the main character in UP movie is Carl Fredricksen. In the movie, it shows all of the three dimensions of the character. The physiological dimension of Carl is Carl is an elderly. Based on the sociological dimension, Carl is a widower, a retired man, and he has a bad relationship with construction workers. Based on psychological dimension, Carl was quiet and shy when he was child, after the death of his wife he becomes short-tempered and stubborn but actually a nice person, Carl is faithful and loves his wife, and he also a smart person.
 
 
 

Types of Politeness Maxim and its Scale Found in Emma 2020 Movie

Politeness is the primary notion in this study. The objective was to find the types of politeness maxim and its scale applied by the character in Emma 2020 movie. The analysis was conducted based on the theories proposed by Leech (1983) who formulated the six types of politeness maxim. Leech (1983:123) also proposed the three scales of politeness and two scales based on the theory by Brown and Gilman (1960). The data were taken from the British romance movie entitled Emma 2020. The qualitative method was used for analyzing the data. The analysis found six types of politeness maxim and five types of politeness scale applied by the movie characters with the types of 13 approbation maxim and 24 cost-benefit scales was extremely appear. In addition, there are two types of politeness maxim compete by the same character found in this analysis, and the goals of conversation affected the politeness maxim application.

The Research on the Gender Stereotype Elimination of Women Figures in Superhero Movies

This research is about the gender stereotype elimination in female film characters, the paper is mainly focus on those women characters in superhero movies. This type of movie is originally created from American comics then started to being played in the cinema years after. The paper mainly researches on audience’s impressions on female superhero movie characters and their feelings after watching those type of movies, whether being encouraged or impressed. This paper is using methods of questionnaires to collect the data from audiences in China from Wechat and Weibo about their impression of view after watching movies and their opinions on those type of female characters. The key results this research found is that this type of movies become increasing popular among the audiences, and majority of the audience will have a better impression of female characters and willing to help as much as possible raising female sautés in society. To conclude, the new evolution of female superhero characters in the film industry has affected audiences around the world. By maintaining these innovative and new looks in film, fewer people will suffer from the pressure of stereotyping. There will be less discrimination and greater awareness of gender equality and women's rights.

Reflections of the Female Identity Constructions in Animation Movies: An Analysis on of Disney and Hayao Miyazaki Movies

It is observed that women have a series of roles that are positioned within the framework of beautiful and attractive adjectives in the traditional order of social structure and they do not have a life away from home. It has been seen that the identity elements of women have begun to change during the transition to the process of modernism. Within the scope of the study, the changes that the female identity has undergone from the traditional period to the present were analyzed through the female characters in animated films. Twenty posters of Disney and Hayao Miyazaki animated films made between 1984 and 2022 were analyzed by semiotics in the context of female identity construction. The answer to five basic questions were sought, which include the roles identified with women's identity in the posters, the imposition of beauty, the existence of environmental pressure elements on women, as well as the reflections of the change that women's identity has experienced until the postmodern period. According to the research results; over time, the representation of women in Disney animated posters has changed and the characters became more individualized women who pursue their freedom. Additionally, research results showed that Hayao Miyazaki's female characters in animated movies were not subjected to the imposition of beauty, did not need a male hero, and even had an identity structure in which they were positioned in the role of savior.