소설과 영화의 플롯 짜기 양상 고찰: 「영자의 전성시대」와 그 영화화를 중심으로

Abstract

This study focused on novels and movies, both of which have a literary trait, being based on literary imagination, and a narrative trait, both being composed of a series of events. This study aimed to examine the aspects of plotting in accordance with the narrator and the audience by focusing on Sun-jak Cho’s Yeongjaui jeonseongsidae, first published in the literary magazine Saedae in 1973, and the eponymous movie, directed by Ho-sun Kim and released in 1975. The novel Yeongjaui jeonseongsidae, which is portrayed through the protagonist’s point of view and the movie Yeongjaui jeonseongsidae, which follows the camera’s sight, display characters in different situations depending on the narrator. People are the main agents in the novel, which develops through the protagonist’s point of view and expresses the characters’ emotion and thoughts. In the movie, on the other hand, the narrative is centered on the visualization of external situations through action, which is captured through a machine, the camera. As such, the same scenes are displayed through two different narratives in the novel and movie, Yeongjaui jeonseongsidae, depending on the narrative point of view and the plotting. Each of the novel and movie Yeongjaui jeonseongsidae, shows distinctive narrative strategies in accordance with the role of the audience. In the case of the novel, a narrative strategy of providing points for interpretation enabled the audience to decipher the meanings themselves. This becomes possible through the strategic plotting of Changsu and Yeongja’s narrative and the placing of points for signification. The movie presents a tragic love story and appeals to the audience’s sympathy while delivering a sketch of the occupations of the era. Such narrative strategies of the novel and movie lead to the plotting of two respective and different endings of the two narratives.