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Director Bong Calls Black-And-White “Parasite” A More Intimate Film

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Watching a black-and-white re-release of his multi-Oscar-winning film “Parasite” will give viewers a “different” and “strange” experience. Director Bong Joon-ho said this on Wednesday, 19th February 2020, ahead of the new version opening next week.

 

The director has always had a fondness for monochrome films. He says they give viewers a more intimate visual experience.

 

“When the colours are gone, you can focus more on the actors’ facial expressions and their eyes” and nuanced details. Bong spoke on this to reporters in Seoul after his triumphant return from the United States.

 

The film’s historic Best Picture Oscar made it the first-ever for a non-English-language film. In addition, its three other statuettes, Best Director, Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay, have created huge excitement in his home country, whose cultural output has gained popularity around the world.

 

 

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But Bong said he hoped “Parasite” would be remembered for its content as much as its accolades, saying: “I understand that the film will be remembered as a historic affair inevitably, but I hope the film can be remembered as a film itself.”

 

The film is a dark satire tale about the widening gap between rich and poor. It follows a poor family infiltrating a wealthy household.

 

All unemployed at the start of the story, the poor family members live in a dingy, roach-infested basement flat whose damp odour clings to them beyond its confines.

 

‘More real’

The black-and-white version, which Bong created along with cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, will release in South Korean theatres next week. This will then become the director’s second film to render into monochrome after his 2009 thriller “Mother”.

 

It showed at an international film festival in January, when Bong said a viewer told him: “The black-and-white version makes the odour in the film feel more real.”

 

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He said:

“I’ve always admired classical [films] — there used to be a time period where all films were made in black-and-white. I’ve been curious about what the [film] would have looked like if I were living in the 1930s.”

 

Distributors mounted an intense promotional campaign ahead of the Academy Awards, Bong said. It involved at least 600 media interviews and 100 question-and-answer sessions. At one point, this even gave actor Song Kang-ho nosebleeds from exhaustion.

 

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