Abstract

The purpose of this study is to make it clear that the film version of Our Twisted Hero has politically interpreted the novel Our Twisted Hero, the original copy for the same titled film. There are several articles which have studied the relationship between the novel and the film, and they have failed to catch the meaning of political dimension that the film extracts from the novel. The novel portraits Um Sukdae, who maniplates the fifth grade classroom, as the our twisted hero and the hero for Han Bungtae. But the film puts Han Bungtae as the our twisted hero for BungPal who is missing in the orignal copy. Both the novel and film document how Han Bungtae stood against the power of Um Suktae and how Han Bungtae kneeled to Um Sukdae, as well as the collapse of the kingdom of Um Sukae. But both have different stories about Han Bungtae and the six grade teacher who collapsed the kingdom of Um Suktae’s fifth grade classroom. Novel simply depicts Han Bungtae as the fifth grade city boy who was transferred to country with a democratic society experience, but film depicts that the city school classmate gave him a mission to free the classroom. In addition, the novel depicts that the sixth grade teacher peacefully and democratically liberates the classroom from the hands of Um Suktae, but the film depicts that the sixth grade teacher liberating the classroom by the force, and his violence terrified the students and the whole classroom. So, the question is; why did the film change the main characters’ personalities? What caused the film come to term with the mission for liberating the classroom, if it needs to done by force? The film needed to include the following explanation in order to clear the ambiguity of the novel in terms of the hero. Han Bungtae had to be the hero to liberate classroom from Um Suktae. Han Bungtae should have liberated the classroom. But he could not. The film documents that Han Bungtae has failed in his mission and became a twisted hero. Several research have failed to notice that Han Bungtae was a twisted hero in the film. So, in this paper I delve into the film and show who the hero is and why he became a twist hero.