다매체 시대의 문학비평 : 원작소설과 각색영화의 주제해석에 관하여(2) — 오정희「저녁의 게임」, 최위안「저녁의 게임」을 중심으로

Abstract

This study set out to investigate what kind of changes would happenwhen the form uniqueness of Oh Jeong-hee’s novels was transferred to avideo medium and what was their interpretative implication. Many critics have paid attention to the combinations of intense imagesin her novels. The image sequence has been a consistent element of herexpressive characteristics in her works since her early novels. The densityof images and the resulting autonomy from narrative make her novelsdifficult and, at the same time, distinguish them from others. One of the noteworthy characteristics revealed in the process of herunique imagery being moved onto the film of Director Choi Wee-an isthat the image sequence is replaced by a series of events and visualrepresentations to mediate them. The imagery of her novel is visualizedwith specific objects in the movie, based on which many differentrepresentations are coming in all because of the medium characteristics of movie. Video language that emphasizes visual experiences demandsconcrete and physical media based on the material images of objects. Game of evening builds a narrative based on the unique mediumcharacteristics of movie and through the reinterpretation process by thedirector. While the original novel presents the daughter’s narrative witha focus on the internal psychology of the main character in the stream ofconsciousness, the movie focuses on the portrait of the head of the familywho loses his family and then drives them toward ruin. Another part where the director’s unique interpretative perspective isobserved is the father’s desire to objectify his daughter. The excessivesexual metaphors and their events in the movie are closely related to thedesire hidden in the images of the original novel and disclose what wasomitted or hidden in the novel. The movie Game of evening reads the intention and theme of theoriginal novel in depth and captures the unique characteristics andsymbolic systems of Oh’s novels, thus shedding new light onto theoriginal novel. At the same time, it shows very unique criticalinterpretations and creative transformations in the way the events arepresented and the theme is delivered through the way.