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http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php?t=9012 (was merging two threads hours ago and just woke up from a long nap)

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SOUTH KOREA; SOPYONJE

South Korea: Sopyonje
*The story of a family of pansori singers—a father and his son and daughter. Dong-ho, now in his 30s, recalls his past & begins searching for his sister while remembering their youth. Their father treated them cruelly, blinding his sister in order to make her suffer more (therefore, increasing her ability as a pansori singer). Eventually, Dong-ho runs away but his sister stays and years later he searches for her.

In terms of themes:

National Allegories—The girl symbolizes S. Korea, which must transcend a history of suffering to achieve greatness

Postmodernism and Postnationalism
• Destabilization of the “national” in the era of transnational corporatism is very relevant to Sopyonje because after Hollywood infiltrated the Korean film market in the late ‘80s, there was a strong possibility that Korean national cinema would be lost
• However, the industrialization of the Korean film industry kept it alive and allowed for it to become largely self-sufficient & allowed for the creation of new and better facilities (expanding the possibilities for filmmakers in the realms of sound, cinematography, special effects and mis-en-scene.
• Birth of self-confidence among members of the Korean film industry
• Genres also become important as a way to package films—initially important in pitching ideas to financers and then important in competing against Hollywood films

New Wave Cinemas in the Postwar International Film Culture/Art Cinemas
• As art cinema—film relays theme that art is real, suffering allows you to soar to greater heights in singing, you seek out suffering to excel in art and you sacrifice your life to be great at art
• Music very expressive of the pain of the singers
• Realist in terms of depicting individuals struggling through a hard life
• Distinguishes itself from Hollywood by choosing its own, slower pace which is representational of the slow paced lifestyles of the characters
• Depict the national kind of music—pansori—“sopyonje” is a type of pansori which was anti-government—a way to renew old culture destroyed by Japanese
• National cinema is responding to the struggle of its pansori singers and lower-class citizens

History of Authorship/The Auteur Theory
• Im Kwon-Taek has explored themes from Korea's past while also focusing on the Korean cultural identity in modern times
• Based off of Korean Cinema and Im Kwon-Taek- Kyung Hyun-Kim
o The only director of his generation to work consistently, and he was by far the most decorated Korean filmmaker on the international scene
o Helped in the protection of the national cinema against Hollywood (he focused on very Korean stories)
o B-grade hit filmmaker in the ‘60s, a “quality film” director in the ‘70s, and an international film festival director in the ‘80s, Im’s next move was to weld all three elements together—in the ‘90s he became a national hero
o Sopyonje produced one of the most powerful nationalist discourses in Korea
o Sopyonje dramatically emblematizes and grieves the dying national aesthetics, to a point where masculinist sacrifice of the female body is thematically legitimated
o The inconsistencies, the transformation, and the contradictions produced by four decades of work and over 100 feature films illustrate what it was and continues to be like working in a nation that historically features even more tumultuous contours than Im’s career
o He has exuded a spirit of endurance and tolerance—in his films the dilemmas and the history of Korean national cinema become pronounced
o His career mirrors the paradox of trying to locate one’s national identity in the face of challenges from both Western artistic expectations and domestic audiences’ desires
o When Korea needed to be reminded of the culture of humanity and humility lost during the long period of military violence, he was there to represent it

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That's a very tiny portion from a study guide of one of my upcoming finals. Best thread ever?

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(Some moron asked me what 'invincible' meant so I linked them that.)

Sex is Evil,
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