A Study on the Film Music Analysis of Director Chan-wook Park's Revenge Movie Series

Abstract

This paper studies the interrelationship of film music with the movie elements on the film series Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old boy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. These films are produced by director Chan-wook Park. Using the different perspectives of the film and their music characteristics, the study performed movie image analysis, character analysis, and film music analysis The results of the analysis are as follows. In the film Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the diegetic music played an indirect dialogue and the genre of music conveyed messages, including realistic situations. In Old Boy, the characters and music are used as leitmotif to convey emotions that cannot be imagined through music. In Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, the Vivaldi music, which is Baroque, expressed revenge through instruments and beats. It can be concluded that the flow of Chan-wook Park's film narrative has a close correlation with the music theme.