최금동 시나리오 연구

Abstract

This research is the third one as part of a series of researches on Korean scenario writers after Han Woon-sa amd Kim Ji-heon. Choi Geum-dong, who is the first Korean scenario writer, started his literary career with a movie novel in 1936 and left more than 100 works until the 1980s. In the world of his works, in which his favorite materials were historical events or actual great men and Buddhist materials, he left exemplary legacy in both aspects of consciousness and original writings with the charging spirit and thorough historical consciousness throughout his lifetime. There have been minimal researches on scenarios in our country and the approach to the summation of this scenario writer has not yet been made. It is because his works have been excluded from the category of genuine literature on the ground that they are popular and in movies, approaches to directors and actors have been the mainstream. Based on such a critical mind, this research plans to continue to study the writer basically in the historical aspect and to examine the characteristics encompassing the overall works of an individual writer from both aspects of themes (materials) and dramaturgy and to clarify the meanings from the viewpoint of history of scenarios. The materials of Choi Geum-dong’s scenarios can be categorized into historical events and great men highlighting national consciousness, society charging materials through actual persons, human success stories of problematic main characters, and they are, on the whole, characterized by masculine and fluent tones of lines and texts. As writing technique, the works were based on classical narrative methods, and character-oriented play writing methods were highlighted by the description of circumstances and the use of narration, and he frequently used the methods in which plot was formed by presenting actually existent main characters and assistants, and as the result of applying Greimas’ actant model, not only the composition of the desires of main characters and assistants but also the composition of senders and recipients were grasped as relatively clearly being contrasted. When the personality of main characters is more heroic, this makes clearer composition and it can be seen that the benefits of recipients flow into the impersonal category. As the result of this analysis, Choi Geum-dong’s scenarios form a main stream of historical works in the flow of Korean scenarios and are characterized by showing scenarios of masculine sentiments without flowing into melodramatic works or popular tastes in connection with unique material tastes of macroscopic discourse. Particularly in the 1950s-1960s when original works were shown most actively and when the dramas mainly featured literary works, literature adaptations, anti-Communist plays, domestic tragedies, he wrote original scenarios based on historical consciousness, and became the writer who were sufficiently recognized as the possessor of writer’s consciousness determining supply and demand of original writings autonomously.