This study applied Intertextuality by Julia Kristeva to analyse the collected data and using descriptive qualitative research to analyse the collected data from dialogues, monologues, and narratives in the movie scripts. In data collecting, this study used several steps, for instance watching the movies, reading the movie scripts, identifying, classifying, and reducing the collected data from the movies.
The result of the study highlighted the types of intertextuality in the Cinderella (1950) and the Ever After (1998) movies namely obligatory intertextuality, optional intertextuality, and accidental intertextuality. Furthermore, the result of the study also found the functions of intertextuality, such as Intertextuality used to decorate, for clarifying and effectiveness, for expanding the meaning of the text, for assimilation, metaphor, contradiction, and satirical device, and used as a communicative device.
Keywords: intertextuality, types of intertextuality, functions of intertextuality, cinderella, ever after