EKRANISASI UNSUR NARATIF DALAM FILM LIFE OF PI

Abstract

Every year, films adapted from novels have developed significantly. However,
there are many differences from their novels when the films screened, such as the
reduction and addition of the storyline and characters, and also some variations.The
creativity of the films toward their novels is because of the audio-visual medium,while
novel caused by linguistic medium.Thus,there are certain plots that can be raised well in
the novel, but cannot appear in the film, or vice versa. This research examines the
element of narrative changes that covers the story, plot, characters, and
characterizations in the movie entitled Life of Pi using ecranisation approach.Ecranisation
theory is an adapting novel to film that causes three changes; shrinking, adding, and
varied changes. This research adopts qualitative research method. The data was
collected by observation and literature study.The results showed that there were a lot
of changes in this film include shrinking, that is the reduction and elimination of some
plots,as well as the removal of the several characters.Also,there were some additions
and some changes.The function of the varied changes in this film is to create the process
of causality consistently and also as a teaser.
Keywords : Novel,film,ecranisation,and Life of Pi