

Ingrid (Gringrid)
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Socióloga. Sociología de la Salud - Salud Pública - Métodos de Investigación. 😷💉🌍🌡!



Happy Birthday Carlos Marx!




Bong Joon Ho took one year to write the screenplay for "Memories of Murder" (2003). He spent nearly spent 6 months on the research and didn't write a single line of script for the first 6 months. Once he decided to make the movie, he became so obsessed to find the real facts and started to research old newspaper reports, interview the detectives, journalists involved and the townspeople who had lived in the area during the murders. Here is Bong Joon Ho explaining how he researched for the movie: "It was the first real case of serial murder in Korea, and I remember it being a sensation at the time. There were ten murders in all, spread over a period of six years, in and around a country town not far from Seoul. There was no financial or revenge motive; these were clear-cut r@p€-murders of women. Once I decided to make the film I started to do a huge amount of research. I became obsessed with the facts of the case. I went through all the newspaper reports and then began making interviews with people who’d been involved: journalists, detectives, townspeople who had lived there at the time. The person who had the strongest influence on me was an ex-cop who’d worked on the case. He broke down in tears several times as we talked. This put me in a quandary – I’ve never liked cops, maybe because of my student experiences fighting them, but talking to this man made me rethink. What struck me most was the purity of his desire to catch the criminal. In writing the script I reduced the time-span to one or two years and reduced the number of victims. Most of the more gruesome details are taken directly from the official record. The murder of the schoolgirl, for instance, closely follows the most brutal of the real murders – but I added the detail of the Band-Aid. Actually, I filched it from Kubrick’s 'Lolita' (1962)." (Bong Joon Ho’s interview to Sight and Sound, 2014 & IMDb)
