The Comparison between Korean Oldboy and US Remake: Complex narrativity and character development
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For a long time, Hollywood has been interested in remaking films of different countries. On the level of transnational cinema, a remake can be considered as borrowing ideas, and adaptation of a work of one cultural background to another society and country in modern period of globalization. Hollywood tends to produce remakes of East Asian films in 21st century while it had done mostly of European films in the previous century. Among Hollywood remakes of East Asian films, the case of Oldboy is noticeable. Korean Oldboy and its US remake made by Spike Lee are two films which expressed the same feeling and pursue of revenge in the same circumstances, but at the same time two directors showed to spectators two different main heroes through different narration and heroes' different representation within the cinema. To discuss about two films, researchers of this article refer to concepts of puzzle film studies, which deal with complex non-linear narrative strategies in contemporary art films. This study examines and compares two films in terms of complex narrativity, evolution of main characters from an ordinary human to a monster, and the removal of monstrosity in the conclusion.
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For a long time, Hollywood has been interested in remaking films of different countries. On the level of transnational cinema, a remake can be considered as borrowing ideas, and adaptation of a work of one cultural background to another society and country in modern period of globalization. Hollywood tends to produce remakes of East Asian films in 21st century while it had done mostly of European films in the previous century. Among Hollywood remakes of East Asian films, the case of Oldboy is noticeable. Korean Oldboy and its US remake made by Spike Lee are two films which expressed the same feeling and pursue of revenge in the same circumstances, but at the same time two directors showed to spectators two different main heroes through different narration and heroes' different representation within the cinema. To discuss about two films, researchers of this article refer to concepts of puzzle film studies, which deal with complex non-linear narrative strategies in contemporary art films. This study examines and compares two films in terms of complex narrativity, evolution of main characters from an ordinary human to a monster, and the removal of monstrosity in the conclusion.
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