• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.296-310
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• 2017

The present study analyzed the factors affecting the box office performance of movies in the Chinese market in 2010~2014. A total of 499 movies were selected for the final analyses. Based on the previous studies, genre, actor/actress power, director power, sequel, remake, release period, award, online evaluation, distributor power, and production area were chosen as independent variables. Regression analyses showed that most of the independent variables except for distributor power were found to affect box office performance of the movies.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.523-532
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• 2024

This study explores the factors contributing to the commercial success of remade films across countries by analyzing the original Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and its remakes in the United States (The Departed), South Korea (New World), and Japan (Double Face). This paper analyzes the factors of success and failure based on Konstantin Verevis's remake film theory, focusing on aspects such as the selection of film texts, visual language, narrative structure, and cultural intertextuality. The analysis reveals that successful remade films enhance their visual appeal and strengthen emotional connections with audiences through structural completeness of the original text, creative narrative reconstruction, and differentiated cinematography. Conversely, the failure of some remakes is attributed to excessive replication of the original or the lack of consideration for cultural intertextuality, failing to resonate with audiences. This study emphasizes the need for an approach that maintains the identity of the original while incorporating new cultural sensibilities to achieve success in remakes. It aims to provide practical guidance that promotes multicultural exchange and cooperation in the global film market. The importance of strategic considerations in remaking films that reflect various cultural contexts is highlighted.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.57 no.7
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• pp.122-136
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• 2007

All costumes used for dramatic effect delivers the character's individual data such as sex, age, social position, job, personality, and sense of values in the scene and leads the progress of drama as a media that describes psychological condition and image of the drama etc. symbolically. Therefore, it has a meaning of finding out the importance of film costume, recognizing the traditional culture through the expression and creativity limited to the age in expression, finding out the unique Korean beauty and succeeding it to the future generation. The film is the first costume drama in Korea, which is remake work of Lt;Les Liasions dangereuses, 1782> in the age of the King Jeongjo in Joseon Dynasty. And is comic costume drama that the story goes as a man of the noblest birth debuts as a filthy novel writer. Both films have remarkable grace, elegance and magnificence as having Joseon Dynasty on the background, and treats irregularities and dissipation hidden in the noble society that looks elegance on the surface. There are three aesthetic symbolism in films, naturalism neat beauty, traditionality expressed.

• Global Cultural Contents
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• no.38
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• pp.1-25
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• 2019

In this research, the different scenes of each film, the Korean film <The man from nowhere> and the Indian film <Rocky Handsome> are analyzed. Based on the analysis, with the cultural dimension theory of Geert Hofstede, the cultural differences of Korea and India are found. 4 cultural dimensions are applied for the analysis, 'Individualism-Collectivism', 'Masculinity- Femininity', 'Power of Distance', 'Indulgence-Restraint'. In conclusion, the characteristics of Korean society can be defined as 'Collectivism', 'Masculinity', 'Narrow power of distance', 'Restraint', while the characteristics of Indian society can be defined as 'Individualism', 'Femininity', 'Wide power of distance', 'Indulgence'. Additionally, it was confirmed that 'Action' and 'Love' can be identified as the most important cultural characteristics that can gain sympathy in both India and Korea. Of course, there is a limitation to generalize the whole society only through the analysis of two films. However, this study can be meaningful in understanding the culture of Korea and India with relativistic perspectives based on the analysis of two films which have similar narrative structures and main characters.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.49
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• pp.143-167
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics that appear when actual comedy movie is made into animation, from the singularities which arise from producing remake of existing media contents into animation. Animation and slapstick comedy movies possess a similarity in that they both evoke laughter from the viewer via exaggerated motion, expression and action. In the case of live action film, people must carry out the acting and there exists spatial limitations, whereas animation does not have such limits, which allows the comic animation to materialize spatial scene directing and acting which are different from that of live action comic films, despite the fact that they share elements of the same genre. Accordingly, this study performs comparative analysis of and which is based on the contents of the same event, from the English comedy TV program and the , the TV animation which is a remake animated version of the original series, to conduct comparative analysis the character acting and the scene directing in accordance with the live action movie and animation. The result of studying the point that makes it easy to create comic genre into animation and the advantages possessed by the media of animation, through analyzing two works that deal with the same character and the same event, were as follows. It was proven through the analysis that comedic directing with doubled composure and amusement is possible through the anticipation of exaggerated directing in the acting through expression and action, and diversity of the episodes with added imagination in the story, as well as the estrangement effect of the slapstick expression and etc.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.58-63
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• 2020

In literature it is not only the meaning of words which matters, but also their texture matters i.e. their rhythm, colour and style are relevant and none of these natures can be reduced to an item of information. The texture is also important in film languages, especially the rhythm. In order to make the storytelling rhythm visible, a new concept of 'the Rhythm Chart Analysis Method (RCAM)' has been devised in this research and used for analysis. By analyzing original films and remakes in Korean and Chinese, one can find out that different countries have different storytelling rhythms i.e. the same story can be told in different rhythms. The central idea in Korean films is portrayed at the end, which is a typical characteristic of Korean films. And as the defining moment does not occur suddenly the audience can naturally get immersed into the story. But Chinese films communicate with the audience in a more direct way. It directly mentions characteristics of each actor in such a way that it is telling rather than showing. The information of the movie is given to the audience in the initial stages of the movie. Rhythm is as important as story and information. And through this we can find out the cultural differences from the different storytelling rhythms.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.148-158
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• 2009

Recently, media contents are moving frequently between different media. TV, film, musical or animation, adapt killer story to each other. This tends to develop the new possibility of distribution of media contents. This study will analyse the trend of content industry. Particularly, we will focus on TV dramas, films and musicals : 61 samples have been extracted by Naver website. As a result, remakes have been increased since 2006. TV dramas and films have been used the most for source genres. Particularly, the story of films have been transferred for almost every genres including musicals.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.16
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• pp.21-32
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• 2009

This study provides an empirical analysis of box office performance for animation movies released in Korea between 2003 and 2008. Two dependent variables are both the number of audiences in the whole country and the number of audiences in Seoul. Such independent variables are employed : power of distributors, the number of screens, release time, sequel/remake, awards, film ratings, nationality, online reviews, and critics' reviews. For the total number of audiences in the whole country, significant variables are the number of screens, the power of USA distributors, Summer release, and online reviews. Since there is no analysis for box office performance for animation movies released in Korean theaters, this study will be considered to be meaningful.