Analysis on James Bond’s Love and Its Effect on His Attitude Toward His Career in Casino Royale Film

ABSTRACT

Every human being has loves in his lives. Love to their parents, friends, animals, and the opposite sex or romance love. They have their own ways to appreciate their love. Sometimes love gives something useful for us but sometimes it causes the bad effect for us. It depends on how we behave to the object of love itself.

Analyzing on James Bond’s love and its effect on his attitude toward his career in Casino Royale film is expected to be able to reveal how James Bond appreciate his love, followed its effect either positive or negative. Analysis film’s script is similar when we are analyzing drama play text because script is considered as a text.

There are two ways in analyzing literary work, contents and its literary aspects. It is a content analysis; therefore, there are three aspects that will be analyzed, they are subject matter, theme, and the message to reveal the content of the story focused on the research problem how does James Bond’s love to Vesper Lynd affects his attitude toward his career in Casino Royale film?

This study is a literary criticism, because in this study the researcher conducts discussion of literature, including description, analysis, and interpretation of literary work.

It uses an objective approach, because in this study the analysis is focused on studying the content of the story, that is, film’s script by Aristotele concept as wholeness, unity, complexity, and coherence. Therefore, the researcher is the most appropriate instrument used in this research to obtain and interpret the data.

After analyzing the data, the researcher finds out some findings from subject matter, theme and the message of the story. The subject matter is revealed to show what the work refers to. The subject matter of the story is appearing love in a secret agent’s live. The theme is revealed to know what the meaning of the story. The theme shows that love and belongingness needs are important thing in human life besides the career. The message of the story is revealed to know what a moral lesson that can be taken. The message of the story that is we shouldn’t trust anyone. Finally, those aspects are able to answer the research problem, that is James Bond’s love to Vesper Lynd actually affect his attitude toward his career for many years—he wants to quit from his career as the secret agent ‘007’.

The conclusion of this study, as a human being, it is normal that Bond wants to get his love and safety needs to fulfill the human basic needs. He wants to manifest his love without any pressures from anyone. Moreover this study can lead the next researcher to conduct research on literature, especially the content analysis.