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EDUCATIONAL VALUE DEVIATION IN THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF MALIN KUNDANG LEGEND

2022; Science Press; Volume: 57; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.35741/issn.0258-2724.57.3.5

0258-2724

Sumiyadi Sumiyadi, Tedi Permadi, Yulianeta Yulianeta, Een Nurhasanah,

Linguistics and Language Analysis

In different folktale-transformation films, there is an energizing marvel from the Legend of Malin Kundang of the Minangkabau area, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The legend advises a child who is sentenced to stone by his mom. This study describes the deviation of educational values in the Malin Kundang legend movie adaptations. This comparison refers to educational value deviation from text to a movie leading to the spread of the deviations in society. This study used a descriptive comparative analysis with a semiotic narrative analysis model from Greimas. The results showed that all three movies had similar action schemes to the legend, indicating their faithfulness to the legend's plot. This study concluded that the deviation increased the decadence of educational values in the film. Malin Kundang's character did the educational decadence in the legend. However, the Film Television (FTV) and animation added the decadence of Malin Kundang's wife's character, who lost her empathy for the poor. Strengthening the decadence in the movie also proved that movies, as popular culture products, were different from legends that are part of didactic literature. The novelty of this study is related to efforts to contribute to the skills of the 21st century, namely expanding verbal and nonverbal literacy or multimodality. So, this article examines not only legends as verbal texts but also legends that have been transformed into multimodality texts, that is, films with various variations.