AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE ENTITLED ORPHAN BASED ON ITS
INTRINSIC VALUE
Dyah Ayu Kusumaningrum
e-mail: dyah.ayu260@gmail.com
English Education Study Program Language and Arts Department Sekolah Tinggi
Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikaan (STKIP) Siliwangi Bandung
ABSTRACT
The objectives of this research entitled “An Analysis of The Movie Entitled Orphan Based on Its Intrinsic
Value” were to find out the intrinsic value and the beneficial inputs of analyzing intrinsic value of the
movie. In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative method. The instrument of the research was
the movie script entitled “Orphan”. The subject of the research were all the dialogue. The data were
collected by downloaded the movie scripts, reading all the movie scripts and watching the movie in order
to discover the elements of intrinsic value. The collected data were identified, classified, analyzed, and
interpreted based on Abrams’s theory. The research findings were written in colorful paper. The results of
the research showed that: the theme of the movie was adoption an orphan. The main characters are Esther,
Kate, John, Daniel, Maxime, and Abigail. The setting in this story was in Canada, in the cities of
Burlington and the plot which was forward, covering the exposition that described the main characters,
rising action described adopting an orphan from orphanage, climax described Esther began to kill one by
one from the John’s family, falling action described who the real Esther, and the resolution described
Kate managed to destroy Esther and save Max. Point of view in this movie, the writer used first person of
view because the writer used “I” and mentioned the name. The beneficial inputs of analyzing the intrinsic
value of this movie were it can be used as the instructional media to learn English for future teachers, and
we can get a lot of information that can be transformed to our students, and the advice that watching
positive English movie is very useful for learners.
Key Words: Movie, Intrinsic Value, Orphan
Based on the background, the writer analyzes of
the movie entitled “Orphan” based on its intrinsic
value. The writer can give the information to students
in the future that watching movie can improve their
knowledge, improve their listening ability, can
improve their vocabulary, they can have critical
thingking, and they can have positive character.
A. BACKGROUND
Being future teachers, we have to study literature.
Literature is included into the subject of proficiency.
By studying literature we can improve our
knowledge, improve our vocabulary, improve our
pronunciation, improve the four language skills
(listening, speaking, reading and writing), and build
our character. We can also learn the cultural
perspective and described anything from creative
writing to more technical or scientific works but the
term is most commonly refers to literary works
consist of poetry, prose and play or drama.
Movie or film is part of literary works. For
example, the movie entitled Harry Potter is
performed based on the novel entitled Harry Potter,
other examples, Sangkuriang is the movie which is
developed based on the legend entitled Sangkuriang,
and the movie entitled The Tempest is developed
from the text play which is entitled The Tempest
written by Shakespeare.
The writer analyzes the movie based on its
intrinsic value which is the same way as analyzing
the play. It means it is analyzed based on its theme,
character, plot, setting of time and place, style
suspense and fore shadowing, dialogue actors and
actresses, art director, music director, and audience.
B. LITERATURE REVIEW
1. Definition of Literature
According to Robert and Henry (1993) stated that
“The word literature in a broad sense, to mean
compositions that tell stories, dramatize situation,
express emotions and analyze and advocate ideas”.
Moreover Quinn (2006:243) “literature is usually
understood to refer to “creative” works in the form of
poetry, fiction, and drama”.
According to Baldick (2001:152):
Literature a body of written works related by
subject-matter (e.g. the literature of computing), by
language or place of origin (e.g. Russian
literature), or by prevailing cultural standards of
merit. In this last sense, 'literature' is taken to
include oral, dramatic, and broadcast compositions
that may not have been published in written form
but which have been (or deserve to be) preserved.
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literary work we have to stand back from the text and
see what of short of general experience or subject of
the form of expression”.
2. What is Movie and It’s Relationship to Literary
Works
Movie or film is part of literary works. For
example, the movie entitled Harry Potter is
performed based on the novel entitled Harry Potter,
other examples, Sangkuriang is the movie which is
developed based on the legend entitled Sangkuriang,
and the movie entitled The Tempest is developed
from the text play which is entitled The Tempest
written by Shakespeare. However, the way how to
analyze the movie is the same way as analyzing the
play or drama.
b. Character
According to Abrams (1999:32):
Characters are the persons represented in a
dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by
the reader as being endowed with particular moral,
intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences
from what the persons say and their distinctive
ways of saying it the dialogue.
According to Baldick (2001:48) “Characterization
is representation of persons in narrative and dramatic
works”.
3. Definition of Movie
According to Kindem (2000:1) “Movies are both
art and commerce, creative expressions of
national/cultural interests and preoccupations and
part of a global entertainment market”. According to
Quinn (2006:1) “Film is a general term for a
particular motion picture or for motion pictures in
general”.
c. Setting
According to Quinn (2006:384) “Setting is the
time and place of a narrative and drama and, by
extension, the social and political context of the
action”.
Abrams (1999:284) said that:
The overall setting of a narrative or dramatic
work is the general locale, historical time, and
social circumtances in which its action occurs; the
setting of a single episode or scene within such a
work is the particular physical location in which it
takes place.
4. Definition of Intrinsic value
According to Abrams (1999:52):
Instead it describes the literary product as a selfsufficient and autonomous object, or else as a
world-in-itself, which is to be contemplated as its
own end, and to be analyzed and judged solely by
“intrinsic” criteria such as its complexity,
coherence, equilibrium, integrity, and the
interrelations of its component elements.
According to the writer’s classroom experience
when attending the lecture in the class, intrinsic value
is one of the approaches which are used for analysis
novel based on the elements of novel. There are some
elements which consist of intrinsic value in novel:
they are theme, character, setting, plot, and point of
view.
d. Plot
According to Abrams (1999:224) ”Plot it
constituted by its events and actions, as these are
rendered and ordered toward achieving particular
artistic and emotional effects”.
This is the figure of the plot which is divided into
five stages. (Peck and Coyle 1989, and Kimtafsirah,
2011)
Exposition : Introduction of the main
characters.
Rising
: The problem which is encounted
action
by the main characters.
Climax
: The most difficult problem in
encountered by the main
characters.
Falling
: The series of event, which take
action
place off set the climax; it is
where the protagonist must react
to changes that occur during the
climax of the story.
Resolution : The end of the story.
The writer concludes that plot is the structure or
stafge of a story. The stages of plot in figure are
provide below:
5. The Elements of the Movie that should be
Analyzed
In this study, the writer focuses on intrinsic value
as the way to analyze the literary works. And we can
analyze the elements of literary work especially
movie. The intrinsic value that can be analyze from
the movie are theme, character, setting, plot, and
point of view.
a. Theme
Abrams (1999:258) stated that “Theme is a salient
abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s
treatment of its subject-matter; or a topic recuring in a
number of literary works”. In other opinion like Peck
and Coyle (1989:141) said that “Theme is large idea
or concept it is dealing. In order to grasp the theme of
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Climax
Rising action
C. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Research Method
According to Crowl (1996:9) “Types of
Educational research are: historical, descriptive,
correlational, and group comparison”. In analyzing of
the data which have been evaluated, this research was
based on descriptive research. The writer used the
descriptive research method to analyze the movie
entitled Orphan by Jaume Collet Serra so the writer
can found the intrinsic values of the movie.
Falling action
PLOT
Exposition
Resolution
The plot based on Freytag’s Pyramid
2. Research Instrument
According to Oxford Dictionary (2008:231)
“Instrument is tool or device used for a particular
task, esp delicate or scienctific work.”
According to McMillan (2001:189) “Instrument is
a tools or implement, especially something used in
performing an action, e.g, in scientific work”.
Instrument of this study was the movie scripts entitled
“Orphan”.
e. Point of View
Abrams (1999:231) said that:
Point of view is signifies the way a story gets
told―the mode (or modes) established by an
author by means of which the reader is presented
with the characters, dialogue, actions, setting, and
events which constitute the narrative in a work of
fiction.
3.
f. Style
Abrams (1999:303) explained that “has
traditionally been defined as the manner of linguistic
expression in prose or verse―as how speakers or
writer say whatever it is that they say”. According to
Peck and Coyle (1989:121) “style means the writer’s
characteristic manner of expression”.
Research Subject
The subject of the research were all the dialogue.
4.
Data Collection Technique
The data were collected by downloaded the
movie scripts, reading the movie scripts and watching
the movie.
5.
Data Analysis Technique
The collected data were identified, classified, and
analyzed based on the intrinsic value or the elements
of Literature to find out the intrinsic value on movie
entitled Orphan by Abram’s theory.
6. Synopsis
John and Kate adopted Esther from an older
orphan after their third child was stillborn. She
seemed perfect at first, but she couldn’t grow well,
she looked like a child even though 33 years old.
Kate suspected Esther and she wanted to find out
who real Esther in Orphan House. Esther was kept in
an Estonain mental institute where she was the most
violent patient. She managed to escape and pose as a
child in order for a family to adopted her and take her
to the U.S. Esther had killed a string of families once
the father of each family rebuffs her seduction
attempts.
She rushed home only to find that Esther killed
John, and was try to killed their deaf daughter, Max.
In attempted to escape, kate takes Max outside,
where Esther follows and managed to chase Kate into
the ice of the pond in their backyard with the knife.
Max picks up the gun, her mother drops and esther
fall though. Katewas able to crawl out of the hole in
the ice. Esther hold the knife behind her back, ready
to stab Kate. Kate screams. “I’m not your f*cking
mommy” and kicked Esther in the head, broke her
neck and caused her to fall back into the water. Kate
and Max are found by the police soon after, and are
safe.
D. RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSIONS
Finding of Intrinsic Value in the movie entitled
Orphan
INTRINSIC
VALUE
Theme
Setting of place
Character and
characterization
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DESCRIPTION
Adoption an orphan.
Canada, in the cities of Burlington (at
the delivery room, at the doctor
Browning’s Office, at the Coleman
Residence, at the Kate and John’s
bedroom, at the Kate and John’s
home, at the Lawyer’s Office, at the
Home For Girls.
 Esther: The mysterious nine year
girl. As an antagonist.
 Daniel Coleman: Son of Kate
and John. Smart. As a
protagonist.
 Maxine Coleman: Younger sister
of Kate John. Smart. As a
protagonist.
Kate Coleman: The mother. She
is very beautiful, smart, strong
and kind. As a protagonist.
 John Coleman: The father. He is
smart, handsome, and kind. As a
protagonist.
 Suster Abigail: Kind. She is as a
protagonist.
 Exposition:
It means introduction of the main
characters. The writer began the story
by described the main characters, they
are Kate as a mother, she is very smart
and strong. John as a father and he is
kind and as a protagonist. Max is a
young daughter of Kate and John.
Daniel is a son of Kate and John and
as a protagonist. Max and Daniel
stayed with their parents. Esther as an
antagonist and she gets the illness of
mental disorder. Abigail as a
protagonist and she is very kind.
 Rising action:
It means the problem which is
encountered by the main characters.
Esther later was adopted by Kate and
John and they bring her to stay in
their homes. The arrival Esther at
home was not favored by Daniel and
Max because she had a bad bahavior.
And she was feel unappreciated. So
she wanted to kill everyone who does
not like her and she hate and jealous
with Kate.
 Climax:
It means the most difficult
problem in encountered by the main
characters. Esther began to kill one by
one from the family, because she
didn’t feel comfort and feel cared. She
killed Abigail, because she know who
real Esther and wanted to give
information to Kate and John. She
killed Daniel too, and she also killed
John because John rejected her love.
So that she was dissapointed and
angry with John.
 Falling action:
It means pre resolution. Kate
suspected Esther and she wanted to
find out who Esther in Orphan House.
And turns, Esther is a girl who has the
illness of mental disorder. And she
couldn’t grow up well, she looked like
a child even though 33 years old. She
is hard to controll and she is an
avenger and she likes to hurt herself.
 Resolution:
It means the end of the story. At
the end, Esther wanted to kill Max and

Plot
Synopsis
The point of view
Style
Kate, but Kate was able to crawl out
of the hole into the ice. Esther hold
the knife her back ready to stab Kate,
and then Kate kicked Esther in the
head. Kate and Max were safe and
found by the police soon after.
John and Kate adopted Esther
from an older orphan after their third
child was stillborn. She seemed
perfect at first, but she couldn’t grow
well, she looked like a child even
though 33 years old. Kate suspected
Esther and she wanted to find out who
real Esther in Orphan House. Esther
was kept in an Estonain mental
institute where she was the most
violent patient. She managed to
escape and pose as a child in order for
a family to adopted her and take her
to the U.S. Esther had killed a string
of families once the father of each
family rebuffs her seduction attempts.
She rushed home only to find that
Esther killed John, and was try to
killed their deaf daughter, Max. In
attempted to escape, kate takes Max
outside, where Esther follows and
managed to chase Kate into the ice of
the pond in their backyard with the
knife. Max picks up the gun, her
mother drops and esther fall though.
Katewas able to crawl out of the hole
in the ice. Esther hold the knife
behind her back, ready to stab Kate.
Kate screams. “I’m not your f*cking
mommy” and kicked Esther in the
head, broke her neck and caused her
to fall back into the water. Kate and
Max are found by the police soon
after, and are safe.
In Orphan the author used first person
of view because the author used “I”
and mentioned the name.
According to the writer after
analyzing, the stlye of this movie is
good. The story is very interesting,
because it can be used as a lesson,
that in deciding any case we must
consider the seedlings, ancestor, and
weight.
E. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
1. Conclusions
After analyzing the movie, the writer concluded
that the intrinsic value or the element of the movie
entitled “Orphan” were; the theme of the movie
was adoption an orphan. The main characters are
Esther, Kate, John, Daniel, Maxime, and Abigail.
The setting in this story was in Canada, in the
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their listening ability, improving their vocabulary,
they can have critical thingking, and they can have
positive character, and understanding the culture of
other nations.
cities of Burlington and the plot which was
forward, covering the exposition that described
the main characters, rising action described
adopting an orphan from orphanage, climax
described Esther began to kill one by one from
the John’s family, falling action described who
the real Esther, and the resolution described Kate
managed to destroy Esther and save Max. Point
of view in this movie, the writer used first person
of view because the writer used “I” and
mentioned the name. The beneficial inputs of
analyzing the intrinsic value of this movie were
it can be used as the instructional media to learn
English for future teachers, and we can get a lot
of information that can be transformed to our
students, and the advice that watching positive
English movie is very useful for learners.
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Baldick, Chris. (2001). The Concise Oxford
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Crowl, Thomas K. (1996). Fundamentals of
Educational Research. United State of
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The beneficial inputs of analyzing intrinsic values
of the movie entitled “Orphan” are:
a. The writer can have more understanding of the
movie which actually comes true literary work
(poetry, prose, and play or drama)
b. Can guide her students to understand the literary
work
c. For future teachers, by studying movie we can get
a lot of information that can be transformed to
our students, and the advice that watching
positive English movie is very useful for learners
d. We have yo be a positive character
Hornby, A.S. (2008). Oxford Learner’s Dictionary.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kimtafsirah, Hand out. (2011). Foundation of
Literature, Prose and Play. Unpublished: STKIP
Siliwangi Bandung.
Kindem, Gorham. (2000). The International Movie
Industry. United State of America: Southern
Illinois University Press.
McMillan, James H. (2001). Research in Education.
New York: Longman.
Peck, John. and Coyle, Martin. (1989). Literature
Terms and Criticism. Mcmillan Educational LTD.
Quinn, Edward. (2006). A Dictionary of Literary and
Thematic Term second edition. New York.
2. Suggestions
It can be suggested that watching movie is the
way for improving students’ knowledge, improving
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