Kim Ki-Taek's Character and Mise-en-Scene in the Film 'Parasite' Directed by Bong Joon-Ho
SHORT PAPER #3: Must be on one of the Foreign Language Films Listed Below:DUE: by email before midnight Tuesday,
What character did YOU most identify with in the Foreign Language Film you watched and what did the filmmakers do to make you identify the character?
• Use specific examples to explain why YOU identified with the character when they were introduced at the start of the film; then how you identified with the way they changed during the conflict of Act II; how you identified with them during the climax of the film and how you identified with them at the end of the film. Be sure to write your examples clearly, so that a reader who had not seen the film would clearly understand your description.
• Use specific examples to explain how the film artists used “Mise en Scene” to help you identify with the character: Costumes (clothes, hair, makeup), Props; Settings; Cinematography (camera and lighting).
• Be very careful not to accidently plagiarize by including any print or video or taped audio or YouTube reviews, evaluations, or discussions. Be sure that you do not incorporate another student’s choices or descriptions.
• This is YOUR personal experience of identifying with the character.
A. Select one of the approved Oscars Foreign Language Films listed below. B. You may not use the same film you covered in Short Paper #1 or #2.
LIST OF FILMS APPROVED FOR SHORT PAPER #3:The Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards for “Best Foreign Picture”:• CORPUS CHRISTI – Polish• HONEYLAND Macedonian documentary film. • PAIN AND GLORY – Spanish – Pedro Almodóvar with Best Actor Nominee Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz • PARASITE – South Korea won Oscar for BEST FILM and Best Foreign Film • I LOST MY BODY – French Nominated for “Best Animation”
The Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards for “Best Foreign Picture”:• ANOTHER ROUND or DRUK – Danish WON Oscar for BEST FOREIGN FILM • QUO VADIS, AIDA” - Bosnian, Dutch, English, Serbian Nominated• BETTER DAYS, Mandarin Nominated• COLLECTIVE – Romanian Nominated • THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN – Arabic, English, French
The winner Best Foreign Language Picture 2018 • Roma – Mexico – won Best Foreign Film 2018
Or you may use one of the Asian films discussed in class:• RAN – Japan – Akira Kurosawa Best Director 1986 • HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS China - Zhang Ymou • CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER China - Zhang Ymou• CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON China – Ang Lee “Best Foreign Film 2001
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Film Appreciation
Parasite won the Best Film and Best Foreign Film in the 92nd Academy Awards. The film, another spectacular release by Bong Joon-Ho, follows the lives of two families that become intertwined for days. The film follows the most prevailing theme in Bong's works, class structures. In this paper, the author analyzes Kim Ki-Taek's character and Mise en Scene in the picture.
Kim is the patriarch in his family. He is unemployed but resilient and hardworking. This can be seen in the scene where he folds pizza boxes undeterred by the choking smell of insecticide fumigation smoke (Joon-ho, 2019). Due to the poor state in which the Kims live, they are willing to exploit anyone to get ahead. Therefore, once they realize that the Parks are gullible and easy-going, they jump at the opportunity. Kim is more than willing to participate in the plan that his son has formulated to exploit the Park family.
In the middle of the film, the Kims decide to indulge themselves in everything the Park home offers. For instance, Ki-Jung appears to naturally fit with the Park's lifestyle as she soaks in one of their bathtubs (Joon-ho, 2019). Even Ki-woo comments on this later in the night when they are drunk and exchanging banter. However, their merry-making is cut short when Moon-gwang, the former housekeeper, arrives (Joon-ho, 2019). She has been hiding her husband in the basement of the Parks' ...