LANDON CARTER'S PERSONALITIES DEVELOPMENT IN ADAM SHANKMAN’S A WALK TO REMEMBER MOVIE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

Abstract
AURORIA, RAHAJENG SARININGDYAH (2010)

This research paper elaborates the personalities development of Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember movie that are analyzed through psychoanalytic approach. The objectives of the research are to analyze the structural elements of the movie and to analyze the movie based on psychoanalytic approach. This research belongs to a descriptive qualitative research. The primary data of the research is the movie entitled A Walk to Remember movie whereas the secondary data source comes from the text of the movie being researched and secondary data source such as biography of the author, websites and other sources. The method to analyze the data is descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis toward the movie, the writer concludes that the personalities development of Landon Carter are shown by the structural elements which build the film such as characters, setting, plot, theme, and mise-en-scene and from psychoanalysis perspective through the system personality of Landon Carter.