THE INTERPRETATION OF “GOD” IN KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (2005): A READER RESPONSE ANALYSIS

The researcher has found out that Kingdom of Heaven gets a lot of attention because of its provocative dialogue between the characters. Therefore, it is important to know other people's perception. In the movie shown how the dialogue between characters such as disparaging God. Meanwhile, the characters themselves are told that they are fighting to defend God. This is very contradictory and the concept of God is really personal matter. Every person has a different personal experience of God and every audience can feel differently about how they feel or see God because each respondent surely has different thoughts, experiences, and environments that can influence the respondents and also to know how much influence that occurs from different educational background, especially between Islamic school and Public school, one of the benefits that it can be considered in the future for Muslim parent to choose school that has a basic of Islam. This research is intended to analyze the audiences’ opinions about Kingdom of heaven movie but more focuses on the audiences’ or respondents’ opinions about the interpretation of “God” that are shown in the movie. The researcher divides respondents into four categories depending on their previous education which is between Islamic school or Public school. In addition, this research also uses an interview in order to accentuate the analysis of the research. To collect data, the researcher uses a questionnaire to interview the respondents after the respondents watching Kingdom of Heaven