Movie Characters Research Articles

Movie character re-identification by agglomerative clustering of deep features

Movie character re-identification by agglomerative clustering of deep features

AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS PRINCIPLES IN THE SMALLFOOT MOVIE

This research is a descriptive study on the use of politeness principle in the Smallfoot movie. The researcher employed descriptive qualitative method by collecting the utterances of the movie. This research aimed to identify the types of politeness principles used by the main character in the Smallfoot movie . This research analyze the politeness principles by using Brown and Levinson (1978) politeness theory. The result show that Smallfoot movie consists four types of politeness principles. They are 7 bald-on record, 8 positive politeness, 4 negative politeness and 2 off-record. In the types of politeness principles used by the main character consist 70 utterances they are 34 (48,5%) utterances of bald-on record, 25 (35,7%) utterances of positive politeness, 8 (11,5%) utterances of negative politeness and 3 (4,3%) utterances of off-record. Based on the result of this study, the researcher expects this study gives contributions to the researcher herself and the readers and for further researcher who interseted in analyzing movie

Analyze the innovative exploration of war history movies from "Eight Hundred"

War movies in the new era not only bear the box office, but also bear a nation's attitude towards history and its own cognition. The innovation of technology, the liberation of ideas and the increasing distance of time and space between the audience and history make the development of war films face new problems and challenges. More and more mainstream war movies still do not break the traditional mainstream war movies' plot conception, characterization and didactic meaning are too rigid. As one of the few successful war movies in recent years, Babai overturns the flat characters in traditional movies and uses imagistic symbols interspersed with each other, which is a major breakthrough. And in the plot of a large number of "black and white contrast" to the film invisibly added a bit of tragedy. At the end of the film, the image of the white horse and the rat will be displayed, and the artistic depth of the film will be raised abruptly. These new explorations in the film will undoubtedly become an important reference for future war films.

Деректі фильм теориясын оқытудағы Америка тәжірибесі

One of the genres of television journalism is a documentary. The history of documentary filmmaking develops in parallel with film production. This genre of cinema, which began its development in the second half of the XIX century, developed from Europe, the USSR, the USA. Currently, a documentary is a developed television genre. Documentaries are divided into several types depending on the type and content, chronos and facts, goals and interests. This is a pattern. The article focuses on the study of the theory of documentary film in practice in the USA. Currently, as the most developed country in the world, the US journalism is also leading. In the training of American journalists, a review of the practice of teaching the theory of documentary film is given. The article provides an overview of the practice of training American journalists, teaching the theory of documentary cinema. We tried to analyze individually 6 main types of a documentary in classification and meaningful transformation. In addition, a review of the history of the development of documentary films in the United States with creative contacts of world film heroes will be conducted. In the course of the study, the art and creativity of famous American movie characters were studied and analyzed. Among them are Robert Joseph Flaherty, Thomas Edison, Mark Dintenfass, Gus Bakker, Richard Koszarski, John Grierson, Margaret Bourke-White, Ralph Steiner, etc.

Research on pragmatic value in art films with character discourse in Wang Jiawei’s films

This paper focuses on the pragmatic analysis of the characters' discourse in Wang Jiawei's films, from which four types of pragmatic values are obtained: semantic value, relational value, emo-tional value and style value. Pragmatic value were applied to the discourse of movie characters, through the analysis of discourse, the relationship between characters in the movie could be effec-tively figured out, also the theme of the movie, and the director's creative intention. Meanwhile, the author puts forward personal opinions on the setting of characters' discourse in art films.

Expressive and Receptive Language Disorder of Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor Series

The autistic savant is a rare condition that occurs in people with autism that affects the ability in expressing and receiving language information appropriately. This study aimed to describe the expressive and receptive language disorder of Shaun Murphy as the autistic savant main character in The Good Doctor movie. It used descriptive qualitative method to get a deep understanding of the language disorder as portrayed in the movie. The data were taken from Shaun Murphy’s utterances transcribed from The Good Doctor movie. The analysis employed the theory of Carroll to describe how autistic savant person communicates with others. The findings from this study indicated that of the twelve utterances produced by Shaun Murphy, only four from six types of language disorders were found. They included stuttering, phonological disorder, difficulty in understanding the concept, and difficulty in following directions. Shaun Murphy dominantly produced stuttering. He often spoke with stammering, hanging, and repetition of sentences. In this case, the language disorders of the main character appeared when he was panic, happy, anxious, and unconfident; which could influence his way of communication.

Pragmatic Analysis of Searle’s Directive Acts Types in “Get Out Movie”

This descriptive qualitative research revealed directive acts types of characters’ directive utterances in a movie. The researchers took a thriller movie entitled Get Out as the data source and the characters' directive utterances were gathered as the data. Considering the data were collected through observation and note-taking, observational method and note-taking technique were applied. In analyzing data, the researchers employed pragmatic identity method and technique of pragmatic competence- in equalizing. The investigation was done by applying the theory parted by Searle (1979), which was further defined by Searle and Vanderveken (1985). The findings reported that there were 35 data of directive acts types and 10 directive acts types appeared in the utterances. Specifically, nine data were found in ask, command showed two data, order consisted of six data, one data in plead, beg, and entreat, permit got five data, request was discovered in two data, four data were found in advise, and invite consisted of four data. Among all types, the type of ask involved as the dominant type because the movie characters tended to convey directive utterances to direct other characters to answer questions. There was no type of pray conveyed in the characters' directive utterances as the characters did not privately speak to sacred figures or God.

일본의 요괴개념과 재해요괴 : ‘나마즈’와 ‘아마비에’를 중심으로

It has been said that yōkai (妖怪), which often appear as main characters in movies and animations, is a key concept for understanding Japanese culture. However, it is not well known that in premodern Japanese culture, the word yōkai meant “strange” and “mysterious” as an adjective. To demonstrate the complexity of this word, this article analyzes two disaster-related yōkai in the past and present, which I categorize as Disaster Yōkai (Saigai Yōkai). Namazu (catfish) is a yōkai that stands out through Namazu-e (catfish painting) after the great 1855 Edo earthquake while Amabie has become the symbol of COVID-19 as yōkai in Japan via social networking sites such as Twitter. Previous scholars of Yōkai Study (妖怪学), such as Yanagita Kunio and Komatsu Kazuhiko, focused on collecting and classifying supernatural beings in folklore and defined them as supernatural beings that control mysterious situations but differ from deities. However, this view does not explain the distinctive features of yōkai, especially Disaster Yōkai. Therefore, this article examines the process of becoming yōkai to understand the continuity between yōkai and deities. It concludes that the distinctions between yōkai and deities are too vague to grasp the full meaning of yōkai. The new approach to seeing yōkai, as a transformation of ordinary beings through certain processes using certain media makes a uniquely meaningful contribution towards discussing yōkai in specific disasters and towards understanding the broader complex of issues in the definition of monsters, deities, and supernatural beings in religious studies.

Analysis Cooperative Principle in Turning Red Movie: Pragmatic Approach

This study examined several cooperative ideas expressed by characters in turning red movies using Grice's theory. This study used descriptive qualitative analysis to interpret the data. Observational methods and taking a note were used to collect the data by Sudaryanto. Following that, the data were analyzed using the Matching technique and the Pragmatic Identity Method to examine the data in context. The cooperation principle contained four types of maxims. There were 54 maxims of total in the data. It was discovered the results of maxim quantity with 13 data, 9 data maxim of quality, 3 data for the maxim of relevance, and maxim of manner with 9 data. Simple terms, the quantity maxim was the most widely used data piece. The maxim of relation was the smallest principle that the Turning red movie characters used.

Boys don't cry (or kiss or dance): A computational linguistic lens into gendered actions in film.

Contemporary media is full of images that reflect traditional gender notions and stereotypes, some of which may perpetuate harmful gender representations. In an effort to highlight the occurrence of these adverse portrayals, researchers have proposed machine-learning methods to identify stereotypes in the language patterns found in character dialogues. However, not all of the harmful stereotypes are communicated just through dialogue. As a complementary approach, we present a large-scale machine-learning framework that automatically identifies character's actions from scene descriptions found in movie scripts. For this work, we collected 1.2+ million scene descriptions from 912 movie scripts, with more than 50 thousand actions and 20 thousand movie characters. Our framework allow us to study systematic gender differences in movie portrayals at a scale. We show this through a series of statistical analyses that highlight differences in gender portrayals. Our findings provide further evidence to claims from prior media studies including: (i) male characters display higher agency than female characters; (ii) female actors are more frequently the subject of gaze, and (iii) male characters are less likely to display affection. We hope that these data resources and findings help raise awareness on portrayals of character actions that reflect harmful gender stereotypes, and demonstrate novel possibilities for computational approaches in media analysis.

What Does Math Have to Do With Patterns in Fish?

When you think of fish, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of pet goldfish, movie characters like Dory or Nemo, or trout in a local river. One of the things that all these fish have in common is patterns in their skin. Nemo sports black and white stripes in his orange skin, and trout have spots. Even goldfish have a pattern—but it is just plain gold (and kinda boring). Why do some fish have stripes, others have spots, and others have plain patterns? It turns out that this is a tricky question, so scientists need tools from several subjects to answer it. In this paper, we use biology, math, and computer coding to help figure out how fish get different skin patterns.

A Deconstruction of Characters in “SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run”

This research discussed deconstruction of characters, which aimed to deconstruct a binary opposition between main character and minor character in SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. The researcher revealed other side of the characters having been not important in this movie becoming important because the minor characters formed a different character in the SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and figured out different character of SpongeBob. This researcher is based on Derrida's theory of deconstruction. A descriptive qualitative method in revealing data. There're two steps in deconstructing the text. The first is locating an opposition, and the second is determining which side is privileged. The researcher used note taking as an instrument to get valid data. Primary data in this study was taken from dialogue of the characters in "SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run" and watching in YouTube to get the data needed including the movie. So, secondary data in this study was taken from the movie and dialogue scripts in the movie by some of the characters in the movie. The findings showed that the main character in this movie was SpongeBob. SpongeBob is brave enough to defy a seven-seas king in order to save Gary, his pet.

Analysing Gautham Vasudev Menon as an Auteur

This study examines the commonality and identity in a few chosen films in order to demonstrate the limitations of “Auteur Theory.” The research presents the director’s personality in a distinctive way. The “Auteur Theory” is a French film theory that examines the character, skill, and inner meaning in movies that deal with the concept of Auteur notes. The director should emphasise on their unique aesthetic, point of view, methods, creativity, personality, and originality when crafting a film because these elements add fascination. According to the “Auteur Theory,” a director and a writer are on an equal footing because they both have unique artistic styles. The study paper examines the personal style of filmmaker Gautham Vasudev Menon in Cop trilogy films.

REPRESENTATION OF SELF-DEFENSE MECHANISM OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE BLIND SIDE MOVIE

This research discussed the self-defense mechanism found in the main character in The Blind Side movie by John Lee Hancock. The writer focused on the analysis of the main character in the movie, named Big Mike. The results of this research indicate that there are several actions taken by the main character towards building self-defense mechanisms. There are eight kinds of self-defense mechanisms in Big Mike's character, namely repression, reaction formation, displacement, rationalization, sublimation, aggression, fantasy, and denial, which represent how Big Mike's character tries to adapt to his new life and protect those closest to him. To achieve the research objectives, the writer uses literary criticism in analyzing Big Mike's character as well as psychological approaches and the theory of self-defense mechanisms proposed by Freud. The primary data for this study was collected from the script and dialogue of The Blind Side movie, which was then analyzed using qualitative methods to reveal various types of self-defense mechanisms contained in the character of Big Mike.
 

Acting and Race in Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Acting and Race in <i>Night of the Living Dead</i> (1968)

COMMISSIVE ACTS TYPES OF UTTERANCES IN “SENIOR YEAR” MOVIE

Movie becomes one of the increasingly popular media that has pragmatics phenomena. The existence of the phenomena is influenced by the involvement of speaker, interlocutor, and context as pragmatics elements. Through a pragmatic perspective, this descriptive qualitative research revealed the types of commissive acts in movie. This research took a 2022 movie entitled “Senior Year” as the data source. Data were all collected from commissive acts utterances uttered by all characters in the movie. The researcher collected data by implementing observational method with non-participatory technique. For the data analysis, the researcher analyzed by taking pragmatic identity method and pragmatic competence- in equalizing technique. Commissive acts theory discovered Searle and Vanderveken was used as the main theory to analyze data. As a result, this research confirmed that five commissive acts types were realized by the movie characters and there had 62 commissive utterances in total. 17 data were identified as accept, threaten and promise had nine data for each type, 16 data were found in offer, and refuse got 11 data. Dominant type belonged to accept as the characters frequently committed themselves to accept the offer of future action from other characters.

Role of fantasy in emotional clarity and emotional regulation in empathy: A preliminary study.

Fantasy is the experience of identifying with characters in movies, novels, plays, and other fictional situations. In social contexts, individuals take on the perspective of others by sensing their emotions through empathy. During this process, perspective-taking and emotional sharing affect one's metacognition, which deals with the distinction between and the understanding of one's emotions (clarity) and their regulation (repair); previous studies have primarily focused on these processes. However, perspective-taking-considering another individual's viewpoint-requires one to imagine their outlook; it also induces emotional responses. This study examined the role of fantasy in clarity and repair in metacognition, for which data derived from 475 Japanese participants were analyzed. The results of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index showed that fantasy was positively associated with clarity and repair in the Trait Meta-Mood Scale; these relationships were moderated by perspective-taking and personal distress. Our results revealed that the emotions experienced within oneself might be understood as the distinction between "imagining" (through their imagination; e.g., internal or mental pictures) and "imaging" (from an image; e.g., external pictures). Individuals imagine their immersion into others using lower-level automatic body sensations (emotional contagion), and the accompanying negative emotions are regulated by metacognition.

The Analysis of Social Deixis Used in the Downton Abbey and Made in Dagenham Movies Set in the Twentieth Century

Communication plays an essential role for humans in making great conversations where some addressee forms are used by the speakers to give respect to others. The researcher discusses how 20th-century society represents the usage of the addressee form in showing honor or relationship to their interlocutors using social deixis theory by Levinson and social dimensions by Holmes. The study aims to demonstrate the social deixis types used and its reference meaning and explain how external factors influence social deixis forms in Downton Abbey and Made in Dagenham movies set in 20th century. This study focuses on the pragmatic approach conveying the use of linguistic choices by all movie characters. The research design includes the descriptive qualitative type. In collecting the data, the researcher uses non-participatory observation. This research shows that the relational and absolute social deixis type existed in the movie characters' utterances in 20th-century society. However, the Authorized Speaker type of absolute social deixis is not found in both movies. Beside that, this study discovers all components of social dimensions that could figure the social factors which influenced the characters' addressee forms: solidarity, relative status, formality, and two functional scales.Keywords: social deixis, pragmatics, movie, social dimension, social factor

Influence of Voice Interactive Educational Robot Combined with Artificial Intelligence for the Development of Adolescents.

In the context of multicultural information, to explore and analyze the use effect of voice interactive educational robot in the classroom of adolescent students, and the physical and mental impact of movie characters on adolescent students, and to lay the foundation for studying the positive development of adolescents, under the guidance of positive psychology theory, the relationship between positive psychology and adolescent mental health is analyzed, the application of adolescent educational robot is discussed, and the relationship between adolescent educational robot combined with movies characters and positive development of adolescent is analyzed. The questionnaire is used to collect data, including the questionnaire on the influence of movie characters on the positive development of adolescents, the questionnaire of pre- and postpopularization of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary schools, and the satisfaction questionnaire of voice interactive educational robot. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire are analyzed. The results show that students who watch more than 20 movies are 20% in grade one and that is only 10% in grade three. 79% of the students think that the movie characters have an impact on themselves. The distribution of the number of the grade two students exposed to the movie is relatively uniform, 40% of them watch 10-20 movies, and 82% of them think that the movie characters have an impact on themselves; the Cronbach coefficient of classroom satisfaction questionnaire is 0.929 > 0.9, the average value of the correlation of total correction items of the corresponding item is 0.612 > 0.5, the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measurement value is 0.812 > 0.6, and the Sig value is 0.000 < 0.05, indicating that the reliability and validity of the questionnaire are very high and 92.3% of the students are very satisfied with the classroom. This shows that voice interactive educational robot combined with movie characters can promote the positive development of adolescents.

The Integration of Character Education in Freedom Writers Movie into ELT Materials

Education is necessary for students who are not only oriented to master subject matters but also to focus on character development. All students seemed to pursue value, rank, or medals, whereas the process of creating an actual character is more important than academic achievement. As a result, students grow up to be smart but characterless. The present study aims to explain the integration of character education in the Freedom Writers movie into ELT materials. These mixed methods study deeply investigated character education in the film which mean this research applying both quantitative data to calculate the frequency of the data and qualitative data to explain the results of the data. The data are dialogues and actions reflected on all the movie characters. The data were collected using theory of Bialik et al. (2015). The study shows that ethics is the most commonly found in the movie (81 items), followed by curiosity (80 items), mindfulness (59 findings), leadership (20 items), courage (19 results), and resilience (7 items). Moreover, the findings show the existing strengths in integrating character education into ELT materials for the students by adapting Model of Russell (2009). Hopefully, this research contributes as a reference to integrating character education into ELT materials.