Jeon Woochi

The film, ‘Jeon Woochi: the Taoist wizard’ was filmed by Choi Donghoon in 2009. The genre of the film was the fantasy, the ancient Taoist wizards trying to find and get the flute of the prophecy. “Hollywood has successfully specialized and congealed the fantasies of its mass audiences by visualizing innumerable iconographies that range from remote Western landscapes, small provincial towns in horror films, glossy war scenes of rural Vietnam, and decayed urban skyscrapers that are repetitively destroyed in many disaster and superhero films” (pg. 201, Kim KyungHyun). If I just look at the storylines of the film (without taking any notes), I would say this film mostly target elementary students. However, even though the story line of the film is kind of child-ish, some parts include the satires the political issues. For example, when Chorangyi found the bag with the moneys, there was a picture of the politicians. There are many hidden moneys in politician-world that citizens never know. The bags with the money and the picture of the politicians together refer that someone threat with the pictures to receive money.

In this film, audience can see that there are many 3-D technology and computer graphic technologies were used. “Modern films in Korea largely depend on glossy images generated by 3-D technology, computer graphics that place human characters somewhere between live-action and animation, and visuals and narratives reminiscent of video games” (Pg. 202, Kim KyungHyun). Jeon woochi just walk in to the pictures or wall to move back to the past or present. Also, when Jeon Woochi face with Hwadam, audience could see that there are many of Jeon Woochi-s at one place, which was used by computer graphic. The fires on the fan that Hwadam holds also filmed by the computer graphics. However, sometimes the computer graphics confuse the audience… Whenever Jeon Woochi moves back to the 500 years ago (Joseon) and come back to the present (2009) confused me the most during the movie.