[선넘는 콘텐츠] 〈15〉 Comparison of the original webtoon of the drama ‘Jeongnyeon’
Omitting scenes alluding to homosexuality in the webtoon… Instead of emphasizing gold spoon colleagues and rivals
I’m so excited for the performance scenes that the original couldn’t express… Singer “Kim Tae-ri, who studied for 3 years, was born with it”
Mom Moon So-ri’s secret is set to be revealed too late.
“Don’t cry. “Did I call you because I hate your pretty face?”
A street in Seoul in the 1950s. Yoon Jeong-nyeon, a girl with short hair like a boy, comforts Kwon Buyong, a girl of her age with a slender appearance, like this. Jeongnyeon, who saw Buyong being harassed by bullies on the street, intervened and fought for him and saved him. Jeongnyeon, who even provides a handkerchief to comfort Buyong, is actually a woman, but she looks like a ‘fashionable gentleman’ protecting the lady.
Afterwards, Buyong falls in love with Jeongnyeon, the singer who saved him. After the Gukgeuk performance, Buyong visits Jeongnyeon and gives her a lily (referring to female homosexuality), saying, “I will support you forever from now on.” Even after Jeongnyeon was kicked out of the Gukgeuk Company and went to work at a television station, he helps Jeongnyeon both materially and spiritually so that he can grow into a great actor. “Hurry, quickly show me (the performance). In light of Buyong’s line, “When I was still a schoolgirl, it wouldn’t be strange for me to sincerely congratulate you,” it wouldn’t be strange to see their story as a love story. As can be seen in Buyong’s self-talk such as “I like women,” the webtoon ‘Jeongnyeon’, which was serialized on Naver Webtoon from 2019 to 2022, has a strong homosexual code.
However, the drama of the same name, which aired on tvN from the 12th and is recording the highest viewer rating of 12.7%, does not have a character named Buyong at all. This is a different choice from the National Changgeuk Company’s performance of the same name in Changgeuk last March, which featured Buyong and explicitly revealed the homosexual relationship between Jeongnyeon and Buyong through the line “my love.” This is why some say that changes were made to the cast of characters in consideration of the situation in the drama market, where anyone can watch a drama while switching channels, unlike the webtoon platform, which is relatively open to homosexuality as it allows you to select only the works you want.
Instead, the drama highlighted the structure of Jeong-nyeon (Kim Tae-ri) competing with her rival Heo Young-seo (Shin Ye-eun) to succeed. If the webtoon has a three-person structure of Jeongnyeon, Youngseo, and Buyong, the drama is a condensed version of the two-person structure of Jeongnyeon and Youngseo. Producer Jeong Ji-in, who directed the drama, said in a media interview in August this year, “Buyong disappeared during the adaptation process, but we tried to preserve his emotions as much as possible by incorporating them into other characters.” He added, “Janggeum from the drama ‘Daejanggeum’ (2003) “Like (Lee Young-ae) and Geum-yeong (Hong Rina), we decided that the drama ‘Jung-nyeon’ needed to focus on the relationship between Jeong-nyeon and Yeong-seo.”
The webtoon attracted attention in that it was based on Yeoseong Gukgeuk, in which all roles were played by female actors, but it had limitations in expressing the performance scenes only with speech bubbles without sound. In contrast, in dramas, the pansori sung by the actors themselves attracts the attention of viewers. For example, in ‘The Tale of Chunhyang’, Jeongnyeon properly plays the role of a brat and joker with lines such as, “After listening to Bangja’s orders, I’m going across to call Chunhyang.” Tae-ri Kim is said to have learned pansori for three years to postpone retirement. Kwon Song-hee, a singer who taught Kim Tae-ri, said in an interview with the production team, “Kim Tae-ri’s voice is soft but powerful, so she has great potential as a singer.”
Another feature of the adaptation is that the role of Moon Ok-kyung (Jeong Eun-chae), a popular Gukgeuk actor, was expanded and expanded into a priest narrative. For example, in the webtoon, Jeongnyeon meets Ok-gyeong after moving from Mokpo, Jeollanam-do to Seoul, but in the drama, Ok-gyeong accidentally discovers the talented Jeongnyeon at a market in Mokpo and makes her practice gukgeuk. Also, in the webtoon, Jeongnyeon knows from the beginning that her mother Chae Gong-seon (Moon So-ri) was a famous singer in the past, but in the drama, she learns Gong-seon’s secret later, increasing the dramatic tension of the mother-daughter conflict.
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