陳凱歌 영화 <妖猫傳>의 盛唐文化 재현에 대한 일고찰 ― 盛唐 아니마의 표상인 楊貴妃와 페르소나 사이의 관계를 중심으로

Abstract

The movie “Legend of Demon Cat(妖猫傳)” is a work by Chen Kaige(陳 凱歌), the fifth-generation Chinese director. This film is an adaptation of a Japanese novel based on the historical events of Tang dynasty(唐朝), depicting Tang’s culture from its peak to decline as a fantasy embodied by spectacular spectacles. In this article, the director’s cinematic reproduction reflects his complex about his ideal cultural prototype, and attempted to detox from Jung’s analytic psychological perspective. In other words, Yang guifei(楊貴妃), the symbolic Anima of ShengTang(盛 唐, the Great Tang Period), and the male characters surrounding her can be analyzed as a multifaceted personas attempting to project an anima. The rationality of this analysis is related to the aesthetic pursuit of cultural anima, which the director has consistently emphasized. Thus, this archetype analysis can be decoded as the director’s own spiritual projection of Chinese culture and its cultural ideals. Through the analytical psychological approach to the characters in the film and the deciphering of the animatic projection, the director critically depicts cultural oppression by the dominant power, and at the same time has an ambivalent orientation that longs for the brilliant exhibition of culture. In addition, it was found that he repeatedly resisted in the process of pursuing an ideal culture that respects heterogeneous things and allows free communication and fusion, and that the frustration of that resistance is converging into personal transcendence and return to daydream and fantasy.