A STUDY OF MENTALITY OF A SUCCESSFUL STUDENT IN MOVIE AKEELAH AND THE BEE BY DOUG ATCHISON AND IT’S IMPLICATION TO STUDENTS’ MENTALITY BUILDING

Abstract

Literary work is a creative, imaginative, and artistic activity. Literature is part of culture. When we study culture, we cannot see it as something static that never changes, but is a dynamic one that is always changing. One of the literary work is motion picture/movie. Every action and desire of an actor must have an acceptable reason. As in the film Akeelah and the Bee, all actors / characters or actors in this film always reflect a mentality value that is acceptable to the audience in general. So it is very good to do an analysis of the value of the mentality in it. This research aims to describe how the mentality of the successful students in the film Akeelah and the Bee by Doug Atchison. This research is Descriptive Qualitative Research. Sources of data in this study are the entire contents of the story in Doug Atchison’s Akeelah and the Bee which concerns the value of the mentality of successful students which is classified into three parts, namely psychologically, sociologically, and pedagogically. The primary data in this research is dialogue or utterances between characters in the form of words, and the secondary data is visual evidence (picture). The techniques used in data collection are the direct observation methods and the content analysis method and using Descriptive Qualitative as an analysis technique. The expected outcome of this research is that there is a clear description of how the mentality of successful students in the film Akeelah and the Bee by Doug Atchison can be implicated in building up the student / college students’ mentality.