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A Study on the Variation of Heroic Narrative Structure of the Film "Asura : The City of Madness" : With Reference to Christopher Vogler's "The Hero's Journey"

영화 <아수라>의 영웅 서사 변주 연구 : 크리스토퍼 보글러의 '영웅의 여행' 기준으로

  • Oh, Eun-Young (Department of Film and Digital Media at Seokyeong University)
  • 오은영 (서경대학교 영화영상학과)
  • Received : 2019.11.19
  • Accepted : 2020.04.27
  • Published : 2020.04.30

Abstract

Asura: The City of Madness, which was released in 2017, attracted great attention even prior to its release with the combination of Director Kim Sung-su, and actors, Jung Woo-sung, Hwang Jung-min, Ju Ji-hoon and Kwak Do-won. Faithful to its genre as a crime film of film noir, Asura: The City of Madness created multi-layered issues by the overthrow of the archetypal hero character and variation of the heroic narrative structure drew diverse interpretations among both critics and viewers alike. This study aims at analyzing the heroic narrative structure of Asura: The City of Madness based on Christopher Vogler's "The Hero's Journey" and examining how the universality and typicality of narrative structures as mentioned by Vogler are applied to this film. Although the universal and typical characteristics of all narrative structures cannot be analyzed through Christopher Vogler's The Hero's Journey, five atypical characteristics could be derived from this film that deviate from the universality mentioned by Christopher Vogler by looking at the characteristics of the heroic narrative structure implemented as Han Do-kyung, the leading character and a "hero," proceeds through the 12 stages. This study examines which variations such atypical characteristics brought to the heroic narrative structures in crime films what has changed in audiences' expectations, and how it could work as an alternate narrative.

2017년에 개봉한 영화 <아수라>는 김성수 감독과 정우성, 황정민, 주지훈, 곽도원, 정만식 배우의 조합만으로도 개봉 전부터 큰 관심을 이끌어냈던 영화이다. 범죄영화 혹은 느와르영화로서의 장르성에 충실했지만 영웅 원형의 캐릭터적 전복성과 영웅 서사 구조의 변주로 인해 평단과 관객의 다양한 해석을 이끌어내며 다층적 이슈를 만들어낸 영화이기도하다. 본 논문은 크리스토퍼 보글러의 '영웅의 여행'에 입각하여 영화 <아수라>의 영웅 서사 구조를 분석하고, 보글러가 말하는 서사 구조의 보편성과 전형성이 본 영화에 어떻게 적용되는지 살펴보고자한다. 이를 통해 영화 <아수라>의 서사구조가 지닌 비전형적 특징을 도출한 후 이러한 변주가 영웅의 서사구조를 어떻게 새롭게 변화시켰는지 그리고 관객의 기대일치는 어떻게 변주되었는지를 살펴보고, 새로운 서사적 대안으로서 어떠한 가능성으로 활용될 수 있는지에 대해 고찰해 보고자 한다.

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