Abstract :
Movie is one of the media that can attract adults and children, some of them may contain flouting
maxim because the phenomenon happens around us, as misinterpretation between two or more
people because of implicit utterance or different culture, sometimes it makes misinterpretation
meaning. This term paper discusses about flouting of conversational maxim by main characters in
?Maleficent: Mistress of Evil? (2019) movie by Joachim Ronning. The research approach used
qualitative and content analysis for methods of research. The object of research is transcript
?Maleficent: Mistree of Evil? and the utterances of main characters are used as data. The results of
the study reveal that all types of maxim are contained in ?Maleficent: Mistress of Evil? movie. There
are 20 data classified as flouting maxim of relevance, 12 data classified as flouting maxim of manner,
8 data classified as flouting maxim of quality, and 4 data classified as flouting maxim of quantity.
The most frequent data of flouting maxim in this movie is flouting maxim of relevance and the less
appear data is flouting maxim of quantity. In this movie, flouting maxim of relevance happens
because the main characters changes the topic, flouting maxim of manner happens because the
ambiguities statement, flouting maxim of quality happens because some character lie, and flouting
maxim of quantity happens because the main characters give more or less information.