Persona Jordan Belfort: Leonardo DiCaprio dalam Film The Wolf of Wall Street

Abstract

Representation is redepicting something, but the same meaning is not repeated in the articulated text. Psychoanalysis can be used to observe film text. The archetype of persona, as a critical concept in psychoanalysis, can build good impression or bad impression, depending on the social construct represented in the film text. Moreover, it can help individuals to perceive other individuals using signs and codes. The meanings behind these codes and signs can be deconstructed intertextually, so that it reveals more than one conditions that produce meanings in a concrete way with critical and theoretical framework. Through the observation on a character’s persona that is personified by an actor, new meanings can be produced by filling or replacing the meanings that are originally contained in the character.