In this thesis, direction parts expressing melodramatic internal rhythm and oriental image to audiences in movies are described with ‘Love Letter’ of lwai shunji and ‘One Fine Spring Day’ of Heo Jinho as center. As the number of study over imaging technique for social role involved in movie is growing, messages that movies are trying to send to audiences are well delivered. Despite it’s been long time since the two movies, ‘Love Letter’ is chosen as the representative movie recalling soft memory of first love, and ‘One Fine Spring Day’ gets as one of the representative Korean movies. The two movies not only give simple joy to audiences, but also deliver deep and symbolic meanings with entire cultural mood, lead roles’ lines, actions, backgrounds, and props. With this, expression for emotion of lead roles, mood of movie, and image is efficiently delivered. The character of movie is that it gives integrated visual and acoustic part with image. With this, movie well delivers messages and images thorough cameras. Now, I want to introduce a study over melodramatic internal rhythm and oriental image in movie by classifying movie elements including visual element, acoustic parts like actors’ language, bgm, and narrativity and prop of story for story progress.
Movies is a new world creating events, times, and space in visual ways under director’s intention. In movie, characters and spaces are created, and intentioned events are directed. Director studies directions how to express to audience, and produces movie to well deliver message. So, director clearly shows that movie has messages and symbolic meaning in movie is an intentioned direction, not simple expression. And this thesis is for studying meaning of symbolic image and internal rhythm.
This thesis has focus on ‘Love Letter’ of lwai shunji, released in 1995 and ‘One Fine Spring Day’ of Heo Jinho, introduced in 2001, and it is for closely examining the rhythm and image by understanding the internal meanings. ‘Love Letter’ is a Japanese movie, and lwai shunji’s second work. It is about a heartbreaking first love story produced with daily subjects like memory and love, presenting soft and lonely emotion of first love to audiences. It is a movie beloved by many Korean audiences as it is decided to release again in 2013 since it was released in 1999. ‘One Fine Spring Day’ of Heo Jinho delivers delicate emotional expression to audiences with beautiful visual aesthetics and proper bgm. With images and sounds captured nature beauty, the movie gives both utter emotions and psychological description of love. It has become one of the representative Korean melodramatic movies. With the two movies, I want to examine the contents of internal rhythm and oriental image of melodramatic movies.