영화 [고령화 가족]의 각색 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the adaption process of Chun Myeong-gwan’s novel and Song Hae-sung’s film [Boomerang Family]. The subject of adaption is a dualist performing a creative work through interpretations. The process of interpreting the original text involves 'under read' and 'overread'. Thus, the adaption accepts the meanings of the original text, but it is an act of appropriating the meanings of the text. In the process of adaptation of [Boomerang Family], meaning is created through 'omission' by 'under read', 'addition' added by 'overread', 'transformation' which distorts the meaning of original text, and a combination of them. The original text of the [Boomerang Family] is a novel, 『Golyeonghwa Gajog(an aging family)』, in the form of a first person narrative. The two texts commonly have a superficial narrative structure called <Gathering - Discovering the Meaning of the Family – Dispersion>. In the case of 『Goryeonghwa Gajog(an aging family)』, however, identification of ideological existence and unreliable narrative are used as a narrative strategy. This narrative strategy combines with the narrative structure of the surface layer to present a unique meanings. [Boomerang Family] also appropriates the meaning of the original text through its own narrative strategy. Identification and unreliable narrative are building an independent narrative combining 'omission', 'transformation' and 'addition'. The result of the interpretation centered on 'omission' leads the flow of narrative in a direction different from the original text through the change of the plot. The ways centered on 'transformation' cause movement of focus and build personalities of characters different from first person narrative and extend the relationship of characters. The 'addition' of a new event also contributes to the variation of the subject consciousness of the original text. But the issues of the thematic consciousness presented by the adapted text obviously require another 'dialogue'. Nevertheless, this way of adaptation can be meaningful in that it demonstrates that fidelity to the original text is no longer a virtue.