드라마가 소설을 읽는 하나의 방식 — 《風起隴西》를 중심으로

Abstract

The research target of this study is 《The Wind Blows From Longxi》a drama based on《The Wind Blows From Longxi》, and researches how the drama reads the novel and creates a difference and what the difference is to tell. To this end, it focuses on the characteristics of figure in the novel and the drama and the differences between behaviors. The drama shows 2 features through re-processing and creation of figures. This strengthens the characteristics of original novel as intelligent drama and adds the melodramatic colors. In particular, the melodramatic colors are unique characteristics of 《The Wind Blows From Longxi》the drama different from the novel. The drama forms the private relation through re-processing and creation of figures, and the private relation newly formed in the drama is a space that practices the melodramatic imagination. The tears of figures in the privar relation visualize the melodramtic characteristics as ‘an art producing the emotional state’. It is noticeable that ‘tears’ of figures occur in the situation of choice among the conflicts between individual value and group value. At this time, ‘tears of figures symbolize a skeptical view of the identification of individual and collective values. That is, the drama 《The Wind Blows From Longxi》discloses the individual desire for power disguised with the group value called ‘DaYi(大義)’ while questioning the superiority of collective values that conceal ‘individuals’. At the same time, it summons QingYi(情義) as an individual value. If the purpose of melodrama is to reveal the moral occult, the moral occult that 《The Wind Blows From Longxi》reveals in the area of reality is QingYi(情義). Like this, this dram can be said to be in the category of Political melodrama unique to China in that it considers ‘moral’ that the human being should keep in the integration or division of individual moral and political moral. That is, the drama 《The Wind Blows From Longxi》is like embodying the heaviness of the traditional drama on top of the novelty and fun of the original genre by reading the original work by utilizing the melodramatic imagination.