There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
Interpretation
Korean films reflect the intense emotions and societal extremes present in Korean culture.
Bong Joon-Ho suggests that the emotional depth found in Korean cinema is a direct result of the cultural and social extremes experienced within Korean society. This intertwining of art and life illustrates how filmmakers draw inspiration from their surroundings, allowing audiences to connect with the raw human experiences portrayed on screen.
In practice
In a film studies class while discussing the impact of culture on cinema.
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereβs no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.
When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.
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