%A NIM. 12150021 NUR FAUZIAH HASIBUAN
%O UlyatiRetno Sari M. Hum.
%T PORTRAYAL OF EAST AND WEST AS SEEN IN THE WARRIOR’S WAY
MOVIE: A POST-COLONIAL STUDY
%X Western study about East has been developing since Napoleon expansion
to Egypt in the eighteen century. The study about East, such as its cultures,
customs, languages, and religions, is popular among Western. East becomes an
interesting object for Western study because it is special, exotic, and different . In
this case, The Warrior’s Way movie presents both of East and West. East is
represented by the group of ninjas named Sad Flute and West is represented by
the inhabitants of Lode Paris of West. In this movie, ninjas play a role as assassins
whose duty is to kill the enemy to reach the ambition to be the strongest clan. One
day, one of Sad Flute ninjas named Yang did a great mistake by saving the son of
the enemy. Yang escaped to a Western city Lode Paris of West. In this foreign
place Yang was treated well by Western. There differences between Yang’s
original land and the city where he escaped were seen. This distinction establishes
an issue of Orientalism about how The Warrior’s Way movie portrays East and
West through characters and settings. The research analyzes this phenomena by
applying post-colonial theoretical lens. Meanwhile, Orientalism approach is used
to explainn how East and West are portrayed in the movie. The method of this
research is descriptive qualitative by conducting library research. As a result, this
research finds that the distinction between the portrayal of East and West in this
movie emphasizes primitiveness, and despotism of East besides the democratic of
West. In addition the research also finds East-West binary opposition to
emphasize the distinction between them.
%K East, West, Postcolonial, Orientalism
%D 2016
%I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA
%L digilib20055