REPRESENTASI NILAI PERJUANGAN DALAM MERAIH CITA-CITA PADA FILM GRAN TURISMO

Abstrak

Gran Turismo is a movie about Jann Mardenborough, an online gamer who always spends his days playing online car racing video games. He chose playing video games than study. As a gamer, he has also an ambition to become a professional racing driver athlete. To gain his ambition, Jann has to overcome lots of issues from his family, particularly his father. His father wants him to get a university degree, but Jann insists to become a professional racing athlete. Besides that, Jann also has to face various problems during his training days at the Gran Turismo Academy (GT Academy) camp. After battling lots of odds, he finally gets contract from Nissan. In the end, he can obtain licence from Federation Internationale de I’Automobile (FIA) and become car racing champion. The aim of this research is to interpret nilai perjuangan (fighting values) by Joyomartono (1990) contained in the Gran Turismo movie based on Roland Barthes theory. Nilai perjuangan (fighting values) consited of nilai pantang menyerah (never give up value), nilai bekerja sama (collaboration value), nilai sabar (patient value), nilai rela berkorban (sacrifice value), nilai hargai dan menghargai (appreciate and respect value), dan nilai persatuan (unity value). This is a qualitative method where we analyse denotative, connotative and myth semiotic signs by using visual and verbal on the movie. Data sources are from the scenes. We focused and captured 23 scenes based on nilai perjuangan (fighting values). Those scenes were analyze by using descriptive qualitative technique. This research found that Jann character meet the six fighting values (nilai perjuangan) by Joyomartono (1990). Moreover, negative effect of online games is only a myth. Jann can achieve his dream even he was only an online gamer. During the car racing championship, Jann apply the same strategy when he is playing the online racing games and the strategy works. Jann won, he become a car racing champion.