Writer Jeong Seo-kyung, who co-authored , poses before an interview with the Kyunghyang Shinmun at a cafe in Samcheong-dong on the 14th. By Park Min-gyu, senior staff reporter”/>
The film that won the Best Director award at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival to director Park Chan-wook. Among these fans, ‘watching the N car’ is creating a craze. script book was listed on the bestseller list in major online bookstores in Korea within a day of pre-order. The dialogue and screenplay are loved as much as the directing.
Director Park co-wrote most of his recent works with writer Jeong Seo-kyung. following On the 14th, I met writer Jung, who made it with director Park, at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul. I heard stories regarding the meaning of the setting in the movie, the process of making it, and breathing with director Park. The following is a Q&A with the author Jung.
Sushi, ‘finally’… settings in the movie
-Why do Seo-rae (Tang Wei) and Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) eat sushi?
“I eat sushi every week. The spirit of sushi seems to flow between the director and me. I just wrote it and it was connected (with the work). Suwan (Go Kyung-pyo)’s question, ‘Why did you buy her sushi?’ is the decisive line. The sushi reveals Hae-jun’s heart. Hae-jun is the one who tells his wife Jeong-an (Lee Jung-hyun), ‘I don’t want to eat any sushi’, and Jeong-an eats any sushi. Hae-jun wants to eat ‘good sushi’ while reading Seorae for the first time. That’s how it flows. Those settings are made by chance.”
– How much sushi did Hae-jun buy Seo-rae for?
“A quarter of a thousand dollars. 50,000 won seems too expensive for a detective to pay. I’ve heard of 80,000 won somewhere in the past, but I don’t think they paid up to 80,000 won each. Because it’s Busan, not Gangnam, Seoul.”
– How did you come up with the characters who use the correct way of speaking?
“It doesn’t seem like it was done on purpose. The sign that Hae-jun enters Seo-rae’s world is ‘finally’. At first, Seo-rae said that he mightn’t speak Korean well, but when he suddenly said ‘finally’, Hae-jun’s expression completely changed. At this time, Soo-wan doesn’t accept Seo-rae’s words, but Hae-jun learns them one by one and uses them once more. Two people make a language. Seorae says she can’t speak Korean, but a new country has been created between the two of them, and it feels like they have a mother tongue that no one else understands. I always think that something like that can be made between the audience and the people who make the film. As was the case with other times, by repeating the language several times, the meaning changes when you use it for the first time, the second time, and the third time you use it. When the audience, who notices that, speaks regarding their feelings, the meaning of the word changes once more. fun.”
-Popular drama just before It must have been a pity that ‘Chuang’ was written like that.
“The director must have been a little shaky when he saw that.”
I wanted to tell the story of ‘complete safety of nuclear power plants’
– What kind of character is Jung-an? How did Haejun’s gag of “complete safety of nuclear power plants” come regarding?
“I just wanted to express Jung An as a person with ‘Korean stability’. Jeong-an is the manager of the nuclear power plant. A person who has the belief that there may be a great risk, but if you manage it according to the manual, it will be safe until the end. They quantitatively classify people as ‘what percentage and what percentage’, and respond very broadly to even the trivial danger of smoking, saying, ‘If you have a bellflower, you can quit smoking’. I thought that the Koreans seen by foreigners would be like this. Jeong-an lives by managing minor risks, but the real danger is not in cigarettes or nuclear power plants, but in her husband’s heart. That seemed like fun. After the movie was over, I was surprised that there were many people who felt unfavorable to Jung-an. I think I am the closest to Jung-an among the people in the movie. (Director Park Chan-wook) My wife and I like Jeong-an so much. Is it because it’s a married woman’s club? When I said that Jung-an was very good, Lee Jung-hyun seemed to be surprised as well.”
-Is Jung-hyun Lee also acting with Jeong-an as an unfavorable person?
“I think it was because it was a role that somehow prevented the main character’s love, rather than a feeling of dislike. We see Hae-jun and Jeong-an for a moment when they appear. So, although he may feel unfavorable, it seems that Jeong-an also has his own world and story. I hoped Jung-an would talk to me at least once. I wanted to write a scene in Jeong-an’s life where Hae-jun was “out” when he found out that Hae-jun was having an affair, the first and last scene where he talked regarding his heart. But the director said it was too scary, so it was changed to a scene where he and Lee Joo-im (Yoo Tae-oh) left. I tried to argue once more, but it was so funny that I left with this chief. Funny things are bound to lose (to the director), so I thought.”
– It seems that the audience was immediately persuaded when they saw Tae-oh Yoo’s face. yes i have to leave
“That’s it. the director sometimes He told me to do part 2. With Jung-an and Hae-jun as the main characters, the story follows Seo-rae’s departure. I thought I had something to say. Haejun kept wandering in the waves, and I mightn’t understand where and what part 2 he was filming. However, my wife gave me the opinion that ‘a couple can overcome such things’. Don’t you think it won’t?”
– I don’t think so. Everyone said that Seorae was beyond the typical femme fatale, but I felt like the perfect femme fatale. It seems like it will ruin Haeun forever.
“Yes. In the end, he is the one who kills Hae-jun.”
Dignified Hae-jun and Park Chan-wook
-When describing Haejun, the word ‘dignity’ appears a lot. In an interview a few years ago, I once said, “‘Human dignity’ penetrates director Park Chan-wook’s films.”
“So I really didn’t want to write those words. Isn’t that a bit shameless? I said that the director seems to be looking for a dignified work, but when Hae-jun appeared in the movie, he said that he had dignity, that he was clean… But the director didn’t care too much. You and Hae-jun seem to think that they are completely separate people.”
– Hae-jun is a detective, but he avoids violence. It is not a portrayal you are accustomed to seeing in the media.
“I met a lot of detectives because I did a lot of crime movies. I was so amazed every time. People are considerate. I think it is because we have to know the minds of criminals and talk to them. reliable I also received a lot of thought that those people were protecting good citizens. I wanted to reflect that feeling.”
– That aspect is also highlighted in the scene where Hae-jun is talking with San-oh (Park Jung-min) on the rooftop. Convince the other person by mixing a little lie.
“right. There is no one who needs to know the mind of a criminal like a detective. There are many movies that portray detectives and criminals as being both violent and of the same kind. I have a different mind. Shouldn’t a hunter know the heart of his prey? If the prey runs away, he must know where he will go, what he will like, and why he will act like that. I thought the relationship between the detective and the criminal would be like that. If you look at the detectives in reality, they were very human when interrogating criminals. Even if the culprit doesn’t want to disappoint this guy in the end, I’ll answer that, he thought.”
-When foreigners speak Korean, funny or cute codes are repeated a lot in popular culture. It is neither funny nor cute for Seorae to speak Korean.
“It’s the same when we go abroad. I’m a normal person in Korea, but when I speak English, I feel embarrassed and my voice is a little bit younger. People see me as a child. People who have not gone on a trip, but have become a part of their daily lives, have to spend a lot of energy to make people understand me. The director must have had such an experience abroad. My maturity is the same as everyone else, but because of my lack of language, I feel like a child and feel inadequate. So, I wanted to make something that had moments where foreigners surpassed Koreans. There are a lot of moments when Hae-jun says ‘Ah-ah-ah’. Like ‘caregivers use a lot of waterproofing equipment’ or ‘you can’t stop a dead husband from caring for the elderly’. I wanted to create moments where foreigners feel that the human spirit is the same even if they do not speak Korean well.”
-The writer also suggested the casting of Tang Wei. What resolution did you have?
“I am not a person who makes decisions. I went to London to meet the director, but he seemed very difficult. It felt like family, ‘that person is in crisis’, so I had to do something. The director, a word I hate, says like a habit that writing a screenplay is the easiest and most fun. I brought a draft because I thought the director would come to life if I wrote the screenplay. In fact, the bishop came to life as if he watered the plants. At that time, the director was thinking of a melodrama, so I mightn’t write a real melodrama, but I said I would do it if it was Tang Wei.”
-Did Director Park go to Tang Wei when suggesting a role?
“The director usually met actors, but this time we went together. He called me in the morning and said that it would be better for me to explain. An interpreter came along, but I didn’t want to talk through an interpreter because I didn’t know when I would meet with actor Tang Wei. Suddenly I spoke in English. It’s not like Seorae can speak Korean, but I worked really hard. So you were cast?”
5th film with director Park Chan-wook
– I once said that the sensibility of melodrama with director Park did not match.
“From the first time we met, I thought that the director and I had something in common, that we dislike romance.”
-Director Chan-wook Park claims that his filmography is a ‘romantic comedy’.
“I have to correct that I hate romantic things. There are no romantic moments. I was always frustrated with Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) when I was writing. Tae-joo (Kim Ok-bin) must have been really upset. Tae-joo doesn’t choose to die together because Sang-hyeon is right, but rather, ‘I don’t know because I love you, I will die’. Sang-hyun wants to die because he is right. Tae-joo is love, but can Sang-hyeon be called love? I always felt sorry for that. But I always lose (to Director Park) that way. No matter what I said, something was missing at the end. So I was like, ‘No, I wrote something like that (melo) and then once more (Don’t be like)’ I thought so, but this time it worked out.”
-Is the meaning correct?
“It didn’t make sense. This time for the same reason. Sanghyeon and Haejun are similar people. Just as Sang-hyeon has a sense of guilt, Hae-jun has a heavy sense of ethics that he carries in his heart. Seo-rae lays down his life for love, but Hae-joon throws away pride, dignity, and things like that. Can’t a person live without pride? A woman is going to die, but this is a bit unfair. I think Seorae loves her a little more. I thought so. Haejun says ‘I’m broken’ and then tells him to throw away his cell phone, but following watching the movie, you’ll understand. For some people, losing dignity or self-esteem may be more difficult than dying. There might be such a person who would give up his life to protect his pride. Hae-jun says he’s collapsed even though he’s such a person and then tells him to throw away his cell phone. There was such a big valley in between, and I got over it, I didn’t understand that when I was writing the screenplay, I thought. So now I understand and I am satisfied.”
– The audience laughed a lot while watching the movie. If there was one line that I was sure the audience would laugh at.
“sushi! From the time I wrote the first draft, the response was the best. It looks like it was written by Director Park, but I wrote it.”
-Director Park often mentions the idea of the writer while explaining the idea, but the writer tends to attribute gags to director Park. mentioned.)
“It can’t be helped. Director Park and I share 70% of the time. They said, ‘How regarding doing this?’ When the director writes, I respond back without knowing it, and I write in the process. So it’s hard to say who wrote what and who didn’t. However, I don’t like the ‘complete safety of nuclear power plants’, but I don’t touch it. It’s an area like ‘this can’t be helped’ as if you don’t touch your privacy. So that’s what we talked regarding. It makes me sad when other people think I wrote it. I’m just saying it because it’s something I really want to point out, and I wrote most of the rest together.”
-Is there any part you want to know that the author wrote it?
“It is a story of a woman who is in a mountain and then goes to the sea to die, so the structure goes down. The story that goes down like this was difficult for the audience to follow, so I added a part to the mountain at the end to make another bud. By the way, my father was scammed regarding 30 years ago and bought the mountain. I was also scammed, so I bought the mountain. I’ve never been, but for reasons I don’t know, it was good. I don’t even have an apartment. The mountain seems to sleep at night and wake up in the morning. When I said ‘There are four mountains in Korea’, I felt that Seorae had a good reason to come. I believe that animals’ lives are ultimately meant to return home. Sending her mother to the mountains is the reason Seorae came to Korea. And Seorae is a person who will go to the sea. When the director saw the draft, he said, ‘Everything is good, but why does the story go to the mountains?’ said The story had to end, but he was worried because the main characters went back to the mountain. But when I monitored it, everyone liked Mt. Homisan. So I just left it.”
-Is the writer (unlike Haejun and Seorae) someone who likes mountains more?
“Yes. But don’t go to the mountains. nice to see I don’t know why. My husband also likes the sea, but he doesn’t go to the sea. I watch fishing TV in my spare time They say they live by fishing when they get older, but they don’t go. I also read mountaineering literature and my computer desktop is a mountain. I want to go on vacation to the mountains. Where did that come from? I think I came from DNA tens of thousands of years ago. I am descended from something that lived in the mountains, and my husband seems to have fished from the sea. I think everything must have come from DNA, if possible. Still, there must be a reason the two met in the middle? It was always fun to imagine that. Why do I meet a man from the sea and not a man from the mountains?”
– I didn’t know if Seorae and Haeun were of the same race, meaning they were a biological race.
“It seemed like fun. There is a scene where Haejun asks, ‘What era did Seorae come from?’ I wanted Seorae to look like someone who didn’t just come from somewhere at the same time as us, but lived deep in the strata, with strange DNA, and fell into this age, like a person who had to live in the sea but lived in the wrong mountain. So he wrote that line. Director Park. ‘What, suddenly Tang?’ wanted All such ‘romantic’ lines were written by Director Park. ‘Why do you like me?’ such things. Suddenly, he wrote, ‘I’ll try it’ and didn’t touch it. It’s not something I can write regarding.”
-You said that you wanted to write a comedy before, but gave up.
“The abandonment continues. I talk as if I’m different from the director, but my mental state is 70% similar. I didn’t know that at first, so I thought everyone was like this. When you meet with the director, the story goes on and on. But I feel it when I work with another director. suddenly have to explain. Why did you think of this?”
-You worked on the fifth project together, but is your breathing getting better?
“I do not know. The director is not very stressed. There are likes and dislikes, but I only listen to and remember people who say they like it. ‘People it’s so good It’s the best out of all my works’. I hear and remember more of the bad guys. So was it at times. Even then, it was so funny that we were together, and I thought, ‘Is it okay to be this funny?’, but people didn’t understand. The bishop is still in a world of peace and satisfaction. So he thinks, ‘If I don’t come to my senses, we’ll both perish’. My brain is not enough, but I ‘mark’ it with the mindset that there shouldn’t be two Park Chan-wook. Isn’t the director from ‘Moho Film’ (a film production company headed by Park Chan-wook)? It is the director’s responsibility to be ambiguous. In this movie, the director said that he was inspired by the song ‘Mist’, but I’ve never heard of it. Everything that is so ambiguous belongs to the director. I’m in charge of being clear. It’s not regarding being visually clear or anything like that, but whether or not the meaning can be explained in the work from beginning to end is important to me. I’m from ‘Clear Film’.”
– The next one.
“Soon, a drama starring Kim Go-eun, Nam Ji-hyun, and Park Ji-hoo It will be aired on this tvN.”
