Life Is Cool (Korean: 그녀는 예뻤다; rr: Geunyeoneun Yeppeotda; lit. "She Was Beautiful") is a 2008 South Korean romance animated film, and is the first rotoscoped film from that country.[2] This film's visual style was influenced from Richard Linklater's two films, Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).
| Life Is Cool | |
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| Directed by | Choi Equan Choe Seung-won |
| Written by | Choi Equan |
| Produced by | Lee Tae-hun |
| Starring | Kim Su-ro Kang Sung-jin Kim Jin-soo Park Ye-jin |
| Cinematography | Sin Gyeong-won Jeong Yeong-sam Choe Byeong-hun |
| Edited by | Wang Sang-ik |
| Music by | Jang Min-seung Jeong Jae-il |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$28,100[1] |
Plot
editThree tricenarian best friends — a heart-broken Romeo, a hopeless romantic, and a goofy playboy — meet for the first time in ten years. However, things get complicated when they all fall for the same woman.
Cast
edit- Kim Su-ro ... Baek Il-kwon
- Kang Sung-jin ... Kim Tae-yeong
- Kim Jin-soo ... Seong-hoon
- Park Ye-jin ... Kang Yeon-woo
- Kim Roi-ha ... Basketball manager
- Lee Won ... Samsung scouter
- David Joseph Anselmo ... Foreign professor
- Goo Bon-im ... Barbershop woman
- Kim Choon-gi ... University adulterer
- Kim Ju-hyeon ... High school girl
- Yoon Joo-hee ... Joo-hee
- Jo Young-gyu ... Policeman
- Park Jin-taek ... Naked man
- Park Yoo-mil ... Pregnant woman
- Lee Sang-hong ... Tango gangster
Production
editLife Is Cool was one of four films produced by CJ Entertainment to receive investment from Keyeast, a media contents company co-established by actor Bae Yong-joon.[3] Although actual shooting only lasted for one month, it then took almost two years and 140 artists to complete the rotoscoping, a technique in which animators traced over live action footage frame by frame. Visual effects were created by local production company DNA, who had previously worked on The Animatrix.[2]
Director Choi Equan has said that he was inspired by the Richard Linklater's film Waking Life, and that the film's plot was based on a real-life story of one of his friends.[2]
Release
editLife Is Cool was released in South Korea on 12 June 2008. The film accumulated a total of 3,951 admissions at the domestic box office, and grossed US$28,100.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "South Korea Yearly Box Office 2008, #201–300". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
- ^ a b c Lee Hyo-won. "Rotoscoped Film Shows Life in '4D'". The Korea Times, 5 June 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
- ^ "Top star invests in domestic films". Hancinema, 25 May 2006 (originally published by The Korea Herald). Retrieved 29 June 2008.
External links
edit- Life Is Cool at Naver
- Life Is Cool at HanCinema
- Life Is Cool at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
- Life Is Cool at AnimationInsider.net
- Life Is Cool at IMDb
