AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL BARRIER FACED BY SCOTT THOMAS AS
AMERICAN TRAVELER IN ALEC BERG’S
FILM “EUROTRIP”
THESIS
By: YULIANA
08360153
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL BARRIER FACED BY SCOTT THOMAS AS
AMERICAN TRAVELER IN ALEC BERG’S
FILM “EUROTRIP”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By: YULIANA
08360153
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on November 14, 2012
Approved by:
M O T T O :
Katakanlah : “ Hai orang-orang yang beriman, jadikanlah sabar dan shalatmu
sebagai penolongmu, sesungguhnya Allah beserta orang-orang yang sabar”
(Surat Al-Baqarah:153)
Berangkat dengan penuh keyakinan-Berjalan dengan penuh keikhlasan-Istiqomah
dalam mengadapi ujian.
“Yakin,Ikhlas,Istiqomah”
DEDICATION :
This Thesis Dedicated To : My Beloved Parents
(My Father Miswadi and My Mother Yatiha)
My Beloved Family
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alhamdulillahirobil’alamin my praise is gratefully only dedicated to Allah SWT. For His Almighty and Merciful guides and blesses, the writer can finish this thesis. Sholawat and Salam are always given to the prophet Muhammad SAW.
The writer realizes that this thesis will never get the success without any help from other people. Therefore, thewriter would like to give sincere gratitude to:
1. Mrs Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M and Mr Drs. Mas’udi, M.Ed as her advisors for their advices, suggestions, guidances, critics, and correction in completing this thesis.
2. The writer’s beloved family, her father Miswadi, mother Yatiha, big brother M.Nanang Sujito, big sister Siti Madenang Chaliq, small brother Dian Friska and Febri. There is no word for you , so many sacrifices you have given to get the writer’s success. Thanks for the pray and support.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... i
LEGALIZATION... ii
MOTTO & DEDICATION... iii
ABSTRACT... iv
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1. Literature ... 5
2.2. Film... 6
2.3. The Similarities and Differences between Film and Drama ... 6
2.3.1. The Similarities between Film and Drama ... 7
2.3.2. The Differences between Film and Drama ... 7
2.4. Types of Film ... 8
2.5.2. Character, Characteristic, and Characterization ... 11
2.5.3. Conflict ... 13
2.5.4. Theme ... 13
2.5.5. Setting ... 14
2.6. Culture Barrier... ... 14
2.6.1. The Definition of Culture Barrier... ... 15
2.6.2. Aspects of Culture Barrier... ... 15
2.6.3. The Effects of Culture Barrier... ... 16
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METODHOLOGY
3.1. Research Design ... 19
3.2. Approach ... 19
3.3. Object of Study ... 21
3.4. Data Collection ... 21
3.5. Data Analysis ... 21
CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1. Findings ... 23
4.1.1. Culture Barrier faced by Scott Thomas as American Traveler in Alec Berg’s film “Eurotrip” ... 24
4.1.2. The Effect of Culture Barrier faced by Scott Thomas as American Traveler In AlecBerg’s film “EuroTrip ... 27
4.1.3. The Ways Scott Thomas Solved His Culture Barrier ... 32
4.2. Discussions... 34
4.3. Lesson ... 37
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION 5.1. Conclusions ... 38
5.2. Suggestions ... 39
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APPENDIX 1 SYNOPSIS
Scott Thomas just graduated from high school when his girlfriend drops him. Brokenhearted, he emails Mieke, an Internet pen pal in Berlin, Germany, with whom he has been corresponding for years. Scotty always thought that Mieke was a German boy's name. Mieke is flying to America and wants to get together with Scotty. Scotty's friend Cooper convinces him that Mieke wants a boyfriend and Scotty freaks out and emails Mieke never to write again. Scotty discovers that Mieke is a cute girl and even though he has never met her, she may be `The One'. Scotty and Cooper fly to London en route to Berlin to meet Mieke. They get together in Paris with their high school twin friends, Jenny and Jamie. They have a wild and wacky trip across Europe going to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and finally Rome.
to Paris for a Manchester United game, where they eventually meet up with their fraternal twin friends, Jenny and Jamie, who are touring Europe together. They decide to accompany Scott and Cooper to Berlin to find Mieke, and plans to visit other parts of Europe together, since this will be the last summer the four of them will spend together before going off to college. In Amsterdam, Jamie lost his luggage that included his money, passport etc.after that Scott and friends collect their money to be able to go Berlin.
With no choice but to hitchhike to Berlin, they manage to get a truck driver to pull over. However, he does not speak English, and Scott, saying that he speaks some German, crudely asks the driver if he can take them to Berlin. The driver mentions Berlin in his reply numerous times, but he is actually saying he is going nowhere near Berlin, as he is wanted there for assaulting a horse. The group ultimately end up in Bratislava, where they are horrified by the desolation of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War. They talk to a Slovak man named Tibor, who loves 1980s American pop culture. Deciding to have some fun, the group goes to a nightclub owned by a man named Kristoff , whom Jenny met at the railway station in Paris earlier.
APPENDIX II BIOGRAPHY
Alec Berg is an American comedy writer, best known as a writer for the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the films The Cat in the Hat, EuroTrip, and The Dictator. In addition, Berg is an executive producer of and directed numerous episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
In the Seinfeld episode "The Face Painter", Berg's name is given to an attorney friend of Jerry's who gives Jerry some New York Rangers playoff tickets. When Jerry fails to thank Berg's character for the tickets, Berg does not offer Jerry tickets for another game that week. In that episode, Jerry jokes that Berg has a great "John Houseman name", pronouncing it jokingly in a Houseman accent. Alec Berg is a Swedish-American.
1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This research presents such topic as: background of the study, statements of the problems, purposes of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation, and definition of the key terms. Each section is presented as follows:
1.1Background of the Study
Literature is attractive to be analyzed because literature always gives the application of certain properties of language. It has relationship with language. On the basis of the very fact, literary work is a verbal work of art. Meanwhile, language is defined as the material substance of the writer or of the work.
In addition, Koesnosoebroto (1988:2) states, literature exists because it pleases people. Literature pleases people by imitating life, or more precisely, by displaying its writers’ vision of life as it should be. It means literature can give
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happened in the past. For the next bright future life, people can take the lesson and positive message by the film itself. Film is also one media of communication and education which represents the situation and condition of human life. Because of that reason, the writer is interested in analyzing film because it always related to human life which gives messages and lessons to people who watch and enjoy it. So, one of the messages and knowledge can be learnt from this film is about the culture barrier.
Based on the explanation above, “EuroTrip” film is chosen because it tells about Scoot Thomas’s travelling from Ohio (America) to Berlin (Europe) to meet
Mieke. On his travelling to Europe, Scott Thomas gets a lot of cultural barriers before he meets Mieke.
As written by Richard G Lipsey and K Al (www.cultural barrier), cultural barrier is defined as “All countries and world regions have different cultural norms that dictate things such as emotional or behavioral constraints. Language and religion
are also an aspect of culture that may create barriers between two people”. Thus, it is
important to conduct a research on cultural barrier so that, when people traveling to foreign country, they will easily breakdown the barrier by communicating with people. Then, one of the films that show us the cultural barrier is existed in
“EuroTrip” Film.Thus, this analysis will discusses about the cultural barrier faced by
3 1.2Statement of the Problems
Based on the background of the study above, the writer states the problems in the form of questions as follows:
1. What were cultural barriers faced by Scott Thomas as American Traveler in Alec Berg’s Film “EuroTrip”?
2. What were the effects of cultural barriers faced by Scott Thomas as American Traveler in Alec Berg’s Film “EuroTrip”?
3. How did Scott Thomas overcome cultural barriers as American Traveler in Alec Berg’s Film “EuroTrip”?
1.3Purposes of the Study
Based on the problems above, the purpose of this study are:
1. To find out the cultural barriers faced by Scott Thomas as American Traveler in Alec Berg’s Film “EuroTrip”
2. To know the effects of cultural barriers faced by Scott Thomas as American Traveler in Alec Berg’s Film “EuroTrip”
4 1.4Significance of the Study
Theoretically, this thesis is expected to give significant contribution to other students who want to analyze film. It is also expected to be an input for lecturers who teach literature and anyone who likes literature as well.
Practically, by reading this thesis, it is hoped the readers can have a better understanding about culture barrier that happen in the “EuroTrip” film.
1.5Scope and Limitation
The scope of this study is the culture barrier which happens when someone faces with the new culture. Meanwhile, the limitation of tis study is culture barrier,faced by Scott Thomas as American traveler in Alec Berg’s film “EuroTrip”.
1.6Definition of Key Terms
The writer presents several definitions of key terms in this analysis in order to make it more understandable. It formulates as follows:
1. Cultural barrier is a barrier when some one does not know the main language, religion, behavioral, emotional, of the country and they need a process to adaptation (wiki.answers.com) so that culture barrier is a feeling of confusion and anxiety caused by contact with another culture
2. Traveler is the trip that is passed through by Scott Thomas from America to Europe to meet her pen pal (pen-friend)
3. Alec Berg is the author of EuroTrip film.
