Life Is Cool (film)

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Life Is Cool

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Theatrical poster
Directed by Choi Equan
Choe Seung-won
Produced by Lee Tae-hun
Written by Choi Equan
Starring Kim Su-ro
Kang Sung-jin
Kim Jin-soo
Park Ye-jin
Music by Jang Min-seung
Jeong Jae-il
Cinematography Sin Gyeong-won
Jeong Yeong-sam
Choe Byeong-hun
Edited by Wang Sang-ik
Distributed by CJ Entertainment
Release date
  • 12 June 2008 (2008-06-12)
Running time
 98 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Box office US$28,100 [1]

Life Is Cool (Korean : 그녀는 예뻤다; rr: Geunyeoneun Yeppeotda; lit. "She Was Beautiful") is a 2008 South Korean romance animated film, and is the first rotoscoped film from that country. [2] This film's visual style was influenced from Richard Linklater's two films, Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Korean language Language spoken in Korea

The Korean language is an East Asian language spoken by about 77 million people. It is a member of the Koreanic language family and is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each country. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin province, China. It is also spoken in parts of Sakhalin, Ukraine and Central Asia.

Romance film film genre

Romance films or romance movies are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on TV that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them through dating, courtship or marriage. Romance films make the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love and romance the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family that threaten to break their union of love. As in all quite strong, deep, and close romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations, and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films.

Korean animation, or aeni, has become an industry that produces characters for other countries' companies, exports its creations globally and generates billions of dollars in profits.

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Plot

Three thirtysomething best friends—a heartbroken Romeo, a hopeless romantic, and a goofy playboy—meet up for the first time in ten years. However, things get complicated when they all fall for the same woman.

Cast

Kim Su-ro South Korean actor

Kim Soo-ro is a South Korean actor.

Kang Sung-jin South Korean actor

Kang Sung-jin is a South Korean actor. Kang acted in the lead role in The Humanist (2001), APT (2006), Mission Possible: Kidnapping Granny K (2007) and Life Is Cool (2008).

Park Ye-jin Korean actress

Park Ye-jin is a South Korean actress.

Production

Life Is Cool was one of four films produced by CJ Entertainment to receive investment from Keyeast, a media contents company co-established by actor Bae Yong-joon. [3] Although actual shooting only lasted for one month, it then took almost two years and 140 artists to complete the rotoscoping, a technique in which animators traced over live action footage frame by frame. Visual effects were created by local production company DNA, who had previously worked on The Animatrix . [2]

Bae Yong-joon South Korean actor and businessman

Bae Yong-joon is a South Korean actor and businessman. He has starred in numerous television dramas, including, notably, Winter Sonata which became a major part of the Korean Wave. Bae retired from acting after 2007, but remains active as the chairman of management agency KeyEast.

Rotoscoping animation technique

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, animators projected photographed live-action movie images onto a glass panel and traced over the image. This projection equipment is referred to as a rotoscope, developed by Polish-American animator Max Fleischer. This device was eventually replaced by computers, but the process is still called rotoscoping.

<i>The Animatrix</i> 2003 American-Japanese anthology anime film

The Animatrix is a 2003 American–Japanese animated science fiction anthology film produced by the Wachowskis. It is a compilation of nine animated short films based on The Matrix trilogy, which was written and directed by the Wachowskis. Four of the shorts were also written by the Wachowskis. The film details the backstory of the Matrix universe, including the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the titular Matrix.

Director Choi Equan has said that he was inspired by the Richard Linklater's film Waking Life , and that the film's plot was based on a real-life story of one of his friends. [2]

Richard Linklater American director and screenwriter

Richard Stuart Linklater is an American filmmaker. Linklater is known for his realistic and natural humanist films, which revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His films include the observational comedy film Slacker (1990); the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993); the romantic drama film trilogy Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003); Boyhood (2014); and the rotoscope animated films Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

<i>Waking Life</i> 2001 American animated drama film directed by Richard Linklater

Waking Life is a 2001 American philosophical adult animated docufiction film directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism. It is centered on a young man who wanders through a succession of dream-like realities wherein he encounters a series of individuals who engage in insightful philosophical discussions.

Release

Life Is Cool was released in South Korea on 12 June 2008. The film accumulated a total of 3,951 admissions at the domestic box office, and grossed US$28,100. [1]

United States dollar Currency of the United States of America

The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its territories per the United States Constitution since 1792. In practice, the dollar is divided into 100 smaller cent (¢) units, but is occasionally divided into 1000 mills (₥) for accounting. The circulating paper money consists of Federal Reserve Notes that are denominated in United States dollars.

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References

  1. 1 2 "South Korea Yearly Box Office 2008, #201–300". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  2. 1 2 3 Lee Hyo-won. "Rotoscoped Film Shows Life in '4D'". The Korea Times , 5 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
  3. ↑ "Top star invests in domestic films". Hancinema , 25 May 2006 (originally published by The Korea Herald ). Retrieved 2008-06-29.

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