Dachimawa Lee

Dachimawa Lee is set on a mission to find the golden buddha statue, where he eventually finds out that it was all a trick that the inside people had set.  Ryu Seng Wan, the director of this movie, also the brother of the actress Ryu Seng Bum, directed many famous and box office hit movies including Berlin and Sympathy for Lady Vengenace(The kind Ms. Geumja). This film, which includes the comic genre, martial arts genre as well as action genre, seemed to have quite a different approach in filmic techniques than other movies that Ryu has directed. In many of the scenes, Ryu uses all sorts of filmic techniques including long shot, closeup, revolving movement of the camera and computer graphics(ex.where Marie gets her hair caught up in the fan), where none of the scenes actually look realistic. The post-production recording supported the comic genre since the voices were exaggerating, and sometimes intentionally idiotic.

The diagetic as well as nondiagetic music used in the film was also interesting and anachronistic. Some songs even appeared several times, and the volume seemed to be raised up and down for various scenes. In one of the scenes, while the movie is set in the 1940s, and one of its genre is a comic genre, the music that was played was a contemporary ballad. The purpose of the film seemed to be not only for commercialization and entertainment for the audience, but also to mark the comical contemporary interpretation of one of the aspects/events of the Japanese colonial period. Although the movie was extremely interesting and hilarious, there are many areas in the movie that I would like to question. Although both Marie and Yeon-ja both portrayed stereotypical “feminine” behaviors, the appearance of the weird girl was quite confusing to me. What was the purpose of her appearance? Her voice changes completely at the end(boyish voice to high pitched voice) what does that signify?