Abstract

Considering differences between the literature and the film, a literary text which focused on human inner state is the most tricky one when translating it into a film. That kind of literary work does not deal with actual events which have time, place and act so it lacks 'expressivité' which is main tool for most films. Son Sohee's short story The Sunshine on That Day has lots of confession - diaries and letters - which describes a female main character of the story which Jung Jinwoo's Gunsmoke (Choyeon) is based on. There are lots of structural differences between them some are caused by difference of media and some are intentionally created by the director of the film. Most event described in confession changed into scenes with actual actions. These changes are due to the intrinsic difference of media. The short story written mainly inoder of free association of the narrator who are confined in a psychiatric hospital because of mental destruction. The film choose arrange all the events in oder of time so that most audiences can easily understand the whole story. Considering 1960's media circumstance, it was nearly impossible for anyone to watch films freely and repeatedly in order to apprehend excessively complicated story. The changes in structures of each text are closely associated with receptive capacity of each medium. The changes in substance occured on the psychological state of the female main character. The narrator in the fiction who willingly surrenders her desire to the Other is described as a hysterical subject. However, the female main character in the film is more open to her own desire and persue her ideal -ego through the love affairs with male characters. She is somewhat sexually iconized on the screen but in the end she survived while the narrator of the fiction confine and narratively punished for sexual freedom. The active role of main character in the film dragged more attention of the public (which the success of the film score demonstrates). She also was the problematic character who made the society think over what the meaning of "prostitute" and the desire of women.