ORIENTALISM AS PORTRAYED IN THE GREAT WALL MOVIE

The researcher wants to examine the portrayal of Orientalism in a movie. In here, the researcher choose The Great Wall movie as the object. This movie has the representation of East and West. This movie made from West industry but take a setting in the East. It makes the movie as though East is superior but in a fact West has the domination in this movie. The domination of West is conduct the Orientalism issue. Orientalism is thought that the West has the authority to provide stereotypes and constructs the East. For the analyzing the data, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the kind of the research. The qualitative research has a meaning to explore and understand the meaning of individuals or groups ascribe to social or human problem. The descriptive qualitative research is used to explore the data of this research. Hence, the researcher could get the meaning and the interpretation as the research’s result. In this research, the researcher is also uses the library research because this research is using many sources materials in library and the researcher is not observing the participants in the laboratory or in the field. The purpose of this research is revealing the domination of the superiority of the West to the East. As the result, this research finds about the contrast between the portrayal of East and West