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- Match between Novel and Film
- by HWANG Hee-yun / Oct 18, 2017
- From Memoir of a Murderer to Golden Slumber
It is common to make best-selling novels into films. It is obvious that film industry with the lack of new stories cinematizes best-selling novels. However, novel-based movies can’t avoid some kind of evaluation. Because novel-based film’s release must lead to arguments that the movie is better or worse than the original story.Recently, popular novels are made into movies: KIM Young-ha’s A Murderer’s Guide to Memorization and KIM Hoon’s Namhan Sanseong. The film versions focused more on reproducing the original stories rather than just borrowing motives. These efforts are assumed to achieve the good results. Crime thriller MEMOIR OF A MURDERER attracted 2.6 million moviegoers thanks to SUL Kyung-gu’s performance while historical drama The Fortress which was released during the Chuseok holiday is recording 3.6 million moviegoers.The films’ releases have raised people’s interest in the original novels. A Murderer’s Guide to Memorization was printed additional 145,000 copies and Namhan Sanseong has been sold 264% more from a month ago. Interest in the original story is skyrocketing as there were 130,000 copies of A Murderer’s Guide to Memorization by May, 2017 since it was published in July 2013.Novel-based films are likely to continue to be shown although they are not decided to be release.The most appealing movies among them are Night of 7 Years based on the novel by JUNG Yoo-jung and Golden Slumber, the Korean adaptation of the Japanese novel by ISAKA Kotaro. Will these two write their own history over the original novels? Interesting matches are expected.
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