Dachimawa Lee

In the film Dachimawa Lee, Dachimawa received a mission to find the golden Buddah statue. The director of Dachimawa Lee is Ryu Seung Wan is brother of Ryu Seung Beom, who acted as Washington in the film. Since the genre of the film is comedy, there are many scenes that brings laugh to the audience in this film.

As mentioned in the reading, “the zany thus has a stressed-out, even desperate quality that immediately sets it apart from its more lighthearted comedic cousins, the goofy or silly. Although zaniness is playful in all its manifestations across genres, media, and cultural strata, it is an aesthetic of action pushed to strenuous and even precarious extremes” (Nagai, 185). The zany humours can be easily found in the film. For example, on Dachimawa’s way to Shanghai, he had to fight with men in order to prevent the girl he met on the train. However, the scene when he did Taek-kyun instead of physical fights with the enemy. 
The sounds effects in the film also bring comedy to the viewers. For example, the scene when Dachimawa and the people at the lab sang Korean national anthem creates the comedy; because they used the rhythm of the song ‘sukbyuleui Jeong (heartbreaking sentiment at parting)’ with the lyrics of Korean national anthem. This song usually sang at the graduation in Korea when the students are immersed in the emotions. Also, the scene when characters at the lab danced while they singing the Korean national anthem was ironic but funny. No one in the world would dance while they are singing their national anthem. Moreover, the scene when Dachimawa had to be part with Marie reminded me of the music video since the background effect contains the romance-mood. Not only the background music but also the characters’ speech led this film more comedic. The Chinese and the Japanese spoke by the characters were not actual sentence nor make sense. Those sentences relived the humours in the film. When you listen to those sentences without focusing, you would hear those sentences as Chinese or Japanese. By not using the actual translated speech by the director, it allows the audiences to watch the film without any other concerns.