Kim Jee-woon
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During my presentation I was talking about the Korean director Kim Jee-woon. For me the director is very interesting, because I was very surprised and also satisfied with every movie he made.
What I think is very special in Korean movies is "Revenge", because very very many movies contain that topic to create the main story. Kim Jee-Woon's two revenge movies "A Bittersweet Life" and "I Saw the Devil" are very serious and visually dark.
What I think is very special in Korean movies is "Revenge", because very very many movies contain that topic to create the main story. Kim Jee-Woon's two revenge movies "A Bittersweet Life" and "I Saw the Devil" are very serious and visually dark.
Kim never really directed the same genre twice: While making a movie he always wanted to escape from that what he was making, which led him to make a totally different movie right after it.
„My desire and
motivation to escape from contradiction, pain and despair is that I
make a totally different movie.“
The results are as followed:
The results are as followed:
„The Quiet Family“ = Too many characters
→ „The Foul King“ = Male main character
→ „A Tale of Two Sisters“ = Female character suffering emotional pain
→ A bittersweet life = Male character suffering emotional pain, but visualization is central
→ „The Good, The Bad, The Weird“ = spectacular visual scenes, but lacked in depth
→ „I Saw The Devil“ = deep dark story, not bright and cheerful
→ „The Last Stand“ = (latest movie)
Kim is the first Korean director that made it to Hollywood. That is very late, because it was in 2013.
He could experience some cultural differences in Hollywood:
Schwarzenegger actually said: „How do you bring somebody with so much talent to Hollywood and not have the Americans screw him up?“
→ „The Foul King“ = Male main character
→ „A Tale of Two Sisters“ = Female character suffering emotional pain
→ A bittersweet life = Male character suffering emotional pain, but visualization is central
→ „The Good, The Bad, The Weird“ = spectacular visual scenes, but lacked in depth
→ „I Saw The Devil“ = deep dark story, not bright and cheerful
→ „The Last Stand“ = (latest movie)
Kim is the first Korean director that made it to Hollywood. That is very late, because it was in 2013.
He could experience some cultural differences in Hollywood:
Schwarzenegger actually said: „How do you bring somebody with so much talent to Hollywood and not have the Americans screw him up?“
Hollywood hired Kim Jee-woon for the
way he completes his work, but they told him the directions of how
Hollywood does movies.
In „The Good, The Bad, The Weird“ he actually took a whole month break from shooting, just to think of what to do next. Hollywood asked him to speed things up, but Arnold Schwarzenegger defended him: „Kim Jee-woon is an
artist, so give him time to think“. Kim still was a collaborator, that's why he could make it so far.
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