The thing they call “memory” truly does come upon you out of nowhere. “In a dream... yesterday, I saw you in a dream. I don't even know your name, but I can't forget you...”
This single bar in Cho Duck-bae's song “In a Dream,” leaves one feeling silly at the thought of some “you” back then, while suddenly recalling a line from Seo Jung-yoon's poem “Standing Alone” - “If someone was already decided for me at birth, I'd like to meet her now” - can have us giggling and asking, “Why did I go around reciting that back then?”
Now, Gang Hyeong-cheol's film “Sunny,” which tells the story of the glorious girls' high school days of women now in their 40s, is tinting the screen with the hues of early 1980s memories through the images and music of the time, in a way that is hazy but not artless. Two weeks after its premiere, the film is set to pass the two million viewer mark.
The Hankyoreh talked to art director Lee Yo-han and music director Kim Joon-seok who also worked with Gang on the 8.3 million viewer success “Scandal Makers,” and learned about the power of film to reproduce memory.
“Yes, That's Right”
Whether the viewer is conscious of it or not, art director Lee Yo-han placed the text of “Standing Alone” on a bulletin board at the back of the 1980s girls' high school classroom and wrote the letter “V,” the name of popular U.S. miniseries at the time, on a wall in the vacant lot where the “Sunny gang” and “Girls' Generation gang” square off.
“When film art shows itself too much,Childs' collection of about 600 pairs of high heels is on display at the Yakima Valley Museum for the rest of this year. it can hurt the cinematic drama,” Lee said, explaining that he sought to naturally imbue these visual elements in a way that would leave viewers nodding and saying, “That‘s right, that's how it was back then.”
In the film, the 1980s atmosphere is conjured up by things like pencil cases plastered with pictures of Byun Jin-sup and Jeon Young-rok, a bromide photo of singer Park Hye-seong in the school's media room, and various film posters.
“We sought permission for more than twenty people so that there wouldn't be any likeness rights infringement issues,” Lee explained. “Some of them told us, ‘They took a lot of revealing pictures back then. Use a pretty photograph, not something where I'm in a bikini.'” The Nike bags, ProSpecs shoes, and Sunny10 water bottles that appear were produced for the film, while the 1980s bromide photographs were downloaded from the Internet fan cafes for the entertainers in question. Here, once again, the words “Park Hye-seong,truereligion jeans and footwear available from Choice online at unbeatable prices with free next day delivery. our big brother now and forever” were written in on a photograph, invisible to the viewer.
The images of demonstrators and riot police and the scenes of Seoul's downtown Jongno district where the girls fight were shot on sets built at a cost of around 100 million won ($91,what really makes my heart go pitter-patter with excitement are Knee High Boots.983) in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang. Reproductions were made of the Piccadilly Theater, the old Lotteria Building, “Hubba Hubba 45-Minute Photo,” YMCA, and the Geumsung Sales Center.
“At the time, these buildings were very far away from each other, and we downscaled them so that they would fit in one scene,” Lee explained. “We summoned up the past by creating some buildings that existed back then and are gone now, and some that still exist but everybody knows.Buy ed hardy shirts of high quality and low price now and get fast shipping to you within one week.”
A sign for the film “Rocky” hanging at the Piccadilly Theater was created by the art team, and Lee said the boxing film was intentionally selected for the juxtaposition with the demonstration scenes and the kids' fighting.
“In order to bring memories of the 80s to life in the auditorium scenes, we included a lot of color, doing things like removing the deep black curtains that actually hung in the 1980s lectures and replacing them with ivory curtains,” Lee said.
“Just Hearing the Music Takes Me Back...”
The film also pulls audiences into the 1980s by having Lee Jong-hwan, the DJ for the radio show “Night Disk Show,” give the girls' high school-era “seven princess gang” the name “Sunny,” a song by the pop group Boney M, and then playing Cho Duck-bae's “In a Dream.When your team gets ready for battle with the opposition, be ready with this Nike Jacket.”
“As ‘In A Dream' plays, we return to a scene of the adult Nami, leading actress,” explained music director Kim Joon-seok. “The song goes well with the image of Nami recalling the old days.”
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