공감의 시학, 웹툰과 영화의 장르 뛰어넘기 - 『그대를 사랑합니다』웹툰과 영화 비교

Abstract

This writing looked into the genre outcome realized by Kangpool's Webtoon <I love you> and a movie titled <I love you> and also took a look at the reason for the same works' gaining popularity beyond the genre of a cartoon and movie. The outcome Kangpool achieved in his cartoon is summarized as three points as below:First, Kangpool's pure love cartoon exuberantly conveys the sentiments of the characters in the cartoon through the appropriate use of 'panel' and 'interval' to his readers. Second, he expresses the characters' psychology and sentiments through the transformation of handwriting. In addition, he maximizes the visual effect in the process of sound literation. As a result, he was able to convey a story about an elderly person, which is apt to be heavy mistakenly, softly and comically. Third, Kangpool's pure love cartoon can be classified as a lyrical fiction in which a main character's lyrical experience is portrayed through the variety of objects of internal rapport. The author creates a character's personality and conducts an event by identifying a character with 'the object of internal rapport.' Further, the object of internal rapport is a medium linking a character to another character, and through the object each character shares love and affection. In the movie <I love you>, its director laid emphasis on two points as below:First, the movie put a focus on maximizing the love between the hero Kim, Manseok and Mrs. Song. Because of that, the movie is minimizing the information on the previous spouses of the hero Kim, Manseok and Mrs. Song. Second, the movie is maximizing the conjugal love through Janggunbong and his wife while highlighting the children's indifference and irresponsibility for elderly parents. Comparing to a cartoon, a movie doesn't give an interpretive experience to readers. With the addition of epic character to the already-made character of an actor, the main theme a director tried to deliver was clearly conveyed, but failed to show a minute transition of an event and characters' secret changes in sentiments. Despite the difference between a cartoon and movie, the work <I love you> was warmly received and got attention from the public beyond genre. That's because this story is maximizing compathy in a variety of forms. In short, it's because the compathy between characters internally within the work, and the compathy between the characters in the work and readers[viewers] externally outside the work, and the author's sentiments and reality of aging society from the social point of view are forming the compathy with each other. This work was created by considering aesthetic and ethical basis in its representation form and thematic awareness, so it was able to draw the compathy in diverse forms.