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紅鞋咒
RED SHOES
23-09-2005

安徒生童話─紅鞋子
很久以前，有一個可愛的小女孩，佢生活貧窮，父母死去，幸得老太太教她讀書識字；一天，她看到一對漂亮的紅鞋子，高興不已，於是她把它擁有下來，而且何時何地，她從不理會他人勸告，都穿上紅鞋子，可是怪事亦接連發生…身邊疼惜她的老太太又病死，她的一雙腳不停的舞吧舞吧，為了要停下來，最後 …唯有切斷雙腳 !

這個故事教訓我們不要學習小女孩那種貪婪又傲慢任性的個性。可是故事並?有停下來，周而復此，紅鞋子出現在地鐵月台 ….

故事大綱

申宰在地鐵拾獲一對紅鞋子，每當她穿上這雙耀眼奪目的紅鞋子，她就像中咒般顯得更加有女人韻味，愛人對她更迷戀，令她更沉溺地穿上紅鞋子；而紅鞋的魅力沒法擋，申宰身邊人如女兒泰秀和朋友金美喜都對紅鞋子覬覦。而她女兒穿上後舞姿變得優雅精湛，美喜更偷去紅鞋，可是最後死於非命，怪事接二連三的發生．．． 令申宰展開追查真相之旅。

故事內容
30出頭的眼科醫生申宰，與任職律師的丈夫韓誠俊和六歲女兒泰秀一起生活，表面上看來生活無憂，但申宰的內心裡感到無限寂寞，與丈夫的關係只是有名無份。一次發現丈夫有外遇，對方更穿著自己的藍色皮鞋，怒不可遏的申宰，索性帶同女兒離家出走，從此過著新生活。

一直渴望被愛的申宰這時遇上了室內設計師曹寅哲，二人愛念萌生之際，一天申宰在地鐵拾到一對異有魅力的紅鞋子，帶回家後除了悉心保管之餘，更不被女兒捉摸。喜歡跳芭蕾舞的泰秀因技不如人，常被同學們取笑，一次她穿了那雙紅鞋子後，舞藝突飛猛進，但行為態度亦同時變得古怪，自始兩母女因為這對鞋，關係亦每況愈下，最後由申宰的朋友金美喜偷去紅鞋子，卻死於非命。

泰秀重拾這對紅鞋，亦遇上意外。此時申宰開始擔心自己和女兒安危，更懷疑是這對紅鞋子，令怪事連纏身，因而展開追查真相之旅。

新法拍攝
一般恐怖片，多是會採用機械式攝影機拍攝後，再加入電腦特技，令畫面更具恐怖感。而今次片中大部分鏡頭，均是由人手操控攝影機拍攝，原因是除了令人物角式的動作與情感更盡情活現於銀幕，更可令觀眾感受到前所未有的真實感，令觀眾更加投入電影情節，引人入勝。而電影採取1:２．３５比例的闊銀幕制式，令畫面上的陰沉空間增加，使人不自覺產生更強烈的可怖感覺，與一般只用正常比例１．８５：１制式的恐怖電影，感覺截然不同。

黑白藍設計
《紅鞋咒》的場景設計是以藍色為主，加上黑與白的襯托，營造可怖的詭異氣氛；而場景中的每件擺設，則以鮮色為主，藉以突出鮮明效果。另一方面，鮮紅的紅鞋子及鮮血，與深沉的場景產生莫大對比，藉此可表現出寂寞、悲傷、恐怖、慾望和誘惑等情感。
而今次為了提供紅鞋給不同演員穿著，電影公司特別製造了40對一模一樣的紅鞋子作拍攝之用，由於紅鞋經常被血跡弄污，為了開源節流，工作人員用心將污積抹掉，令鞋子可以循環再用。

異曲同功
曾為電影《姊魅情深》和《我的美麗女孩，瑪莉》配樂的著名作曲家李秉宇先生，今次為《紅鞋咒》炮製了一連串富有詭異，悽怨動人兼令人不寒而慄的音樂，與視覺效果互相呼應，其中在恐怖場面中加入有人和唱的音樂，除是恐怖片配樂的新嘗試外，更將電影中的恐怖氣氛營造推至高峰！

值回票價
片中有五分鐘的芭蕾舞場面，是由韓國首席編舞家洪成邑親自設計，為了將《紅鞋咒》的故事及恐怖氣氛融會於這場舞蹈中，精心將自己之前作品《馬目之血》，再加插一些獨特舞步而編成，很多韓國影評人更直言，單看這五分鐘的舞蹈表演，就已值回票價！

拍攝《紅鞋咒》的因由
今次拍攝《紅鞋咒》的因由，是一次申昌吉監製在街上看見一條色彩奪目的絲帶，正想把它拾起據為己有之際，突然想起安徒生童話故事《紅鞋子》，記起故事中女孩因其他人貪婪之念，最後要切斷腳為代價，靈機一觸，想藉著這個家喻戶曉的西方童話故事，注入韓國恐怖元素，拍出一套以顯露人性貪婪，常被慾望誘惑為主旨的電影。

尤物轉型
韓國首席性感女神的金慧秀，她的魅力至今仍遠勝大部分新人，除了演技了得，其豐滿的身段常成為焦點所在。16歲便出道拍電影的她，曾參與過無數電影及電視劇演出，其中更於93年及95年，憑著電影《初戀》及《落難午後》榮獲青龍電影節最佳女演員獎。她近年參與演出的作品，最令人印象深刻的包括：04年的《沒有面孔的美女》；以及於02年《YMCA棒球隊》和《三更之回憶》。

今次金慧秀獨擔大旗主演《紅鞋咒》，收起性感，全力發揮精湛演技。此外，她更因應劇情，一刀剪短長長秀髮，專業精神可嘉。

型男金成洙
今年30歲的金成洙，曾拍過三部電視劇及兩部電影的他，是一位後起之秀，因為他與韓國人氣天王Rain合作演出劇集「浪漫滿屋」，而聲名大噪，亦因此被台灣有關方面邀請，當花生騷模特兒• 今次有幸夥拍首度性感女神金慧秀演出《紅鞋咒》，是其全力進軍大銀幕的踏腳石。

自編自導
今次執導《紅鞋咒》的金勇鈞導演，於０１年首次執導由金喜善和崔強熙主演電影《韻儀與俊河》，每次他都會為自己執導作品親自撰寫劇本。 他於91年至99年間，拍過五部短片，其中包括：《媽，我是你的孩子！》、《祖父》、《離開》、《去做吧！》及《謊言》。

The Red Shoes

(Original Title: Bun Hong Shin)

A Generation Blue Films production
In association with Cineclick Asia & CINEWISE FILM
Presented by SOVIK VENTURE CAPITAL & DCG PLUS
Starring KIM Hye-soo, PARK Yeon-ah, KIM Sung-su
Executive producer PARK Hyun-tae, Peter KIM
Screenplay MA Sang-yeal, KIM Yong-gyun
Director of photography KIM Tae-kyung
Lighting PARK Kun-woo
Production designer LIM Hyung-tae, JANG Pak-haMusic director Byeongwoo LEE
Sound manager LEE Sung-jin
Editing SHIN Min-kyung
Producer SHIN Chang-gil, Creta D. KIM
Director KIM Yong-gyun
? 2005 DCG PLUC & GENERATION BLUE FILMS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Synopsis

Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbour's…

Falling for the lost shoes…

Sun-jae is an eye-doctor in her early 30's. She lives with her lawyer husband and 6-year-old daughter, Tae-soo. Apparently, she looks like an ordinary housewife in a happy family, but she feels lonely because her husband treats her only as the mother of his daughter. On top of that, Tae-soo loves her father more. So she infatuates in buying shoes, instead.

Tae-soo is a mature girl for her age and loves ballet very much. Yet, she is laughed at by the other girls in her ballet class because she lacks talent.

One day, Sun-jae witnesses her husband's affair. His lover is wearing Sun-jae's favorite blue shoes. A few days later, she takes Tae-soo and leaves her husband. They move to an old run-down apartment in another city where a weird hunchbacked old woman wanders around. Though Tae-soo doesn't like her new home, Sun-jae can't afford a better place since she spent a lot on opening her own clinic.

Meanwhile, Sun-jae meets an interior designer named In-chul, whom she finds uncomfortable to be around. On the way back home, she finds a pair of red shoes in the subway that doesn't seem to belong to anyone. When she brings them home, Tae-soo becomes very interested in them, but Sun-jae pushes her away from her red shoes.

That night, Sun-jae finds Tae-soo standing at her rooftop. Tae-soo cries her eyes out and jumps. Sun-jae grabs her by the ankle but Tae-soo slips out of her hands. All she is holding are sliced ankles of her daughter. Sun-jae screams and opens her eyes. It was a bad dream.

When Sun-jae meets In-chul again, she finds him rather charming with his frank ways. She learns that he's divorced and feels sympathy for him, so she invites him over for dinner. When he sees the shoes Sun-jae has collected, he can't take his eyes off the red shoes. He tells her he wants to see her wearing them.

Obsession over the lost shoes…

Next morning, when Sun-jae wears the red shoes, Tae-soo suddenly takes them away and says she needs to wear them. Sun-jae realizes Tae-soo has been acting strange lately after her ballet has gotten much better all of a sudden. Though she feels uneasy about Tae-soo, Sun-jae goes for work neglecting Tae-soo's actions.

In-chul treats Sun-jae specially when she's wearing the red shoes and their relationship grows deeper. When she comes back home, Tae-soo tries to take the shoes from Sun-jae and claims they are hers. Sun-jae fights back. While the mood gets tense, Sun-jae's friend Mi-hee visits, and Mi-hee instantly falls for the shoes and take them away.

Mi-hee feels dazzled with the shoes on. But she begins to hear the sound of footsteps following her. Suddenly a hand comes out of nowhere and grabs panicked Mi-hee by her face. Then, the hand forks her eye-balls with its fingers and throws her to the window. A dangling piece of glass falls into her legs to cut off her ankles.

The shadow of death surrounds the red shoes…

Sun-jae has suffered from hallucinations ever since she picked up the shoes from the subway. In her hallucinations, she always sees a dancer, her lover, and another jealous girl around them.

When Sun-jae goes to the police station after confirming Mi-hee's corpse, the police told her that a high-school girl was also killed in the same way with Mi-hee. In-chul, accompanying her, also learns that Sun-jae is still married. He is shocked as she had told him of her divorce.

When she comes home, Sun-jae finds Tae-soo holding the red shoes. Scared, she takes them and goes out to throw them away when she runs into the hunchbacked old lady. The old lady freaks out seeing the red shoes. Sun-jae throws the shoes away, and comes back to her house only to find Tae-soo dancing in front of her father wearing the red shoes.

In a while, Tae-soo collapses bleeding hard, and Sun-jae, overwhelmed by the shock, also loses conscience.

The curse kept inside the red shoes

The shoes, Mi-hee's death, Tae-soo's accident, and the girl in Sun-jae's hallucinations. Sun-jae thinks all these are related to the red shoes. She begins her research to find out what's behind the red shoes with In-chul. She talks with the dead high school girl's friend, and finds out that whoever tries to take the red shoes from the original finder, they are brutally killed with their ankles sliced-off. Sun-jae starts to worry about Tae-soo's life.

In-chul tells Sun-jae that he has seen a girl in the red shoes in an advertisement shown all around the city. They learn that photo was taken in 1944, and the place is near Sun-jae's apartment.

At the ad agency, they find out that the girl's name is Oki. 50 years ago at a dance company, Oki dances elegantly in the red shoes. The company's head Ha-sub treats her dearly. And another ballerina Keiko sees the two lovers in a fiery jealousy. One day, following a noise, Oki discovers Keiko and Ha-sub make love. Too surprised to control her self, Oki tumbles down the stairs. When Ha-sub runs down to help Oki, jealous Keiko knocks him down with a candle stick. Then Keiko pierces Oki over and over again. In that rainy night, Ha-sub and Keiko dig up a hole in the forest to bury Oki. When Keiko can't take off the red shoes from Oki's feet, she starts to chop the ankles with an axe.

On the opening night after the successful show, Ha-sub and Keiko hold a wedding ceremony on stage. Oki's red shoes seem distinguished on Keiko's feet, compared to her white wedding gown. Looking down proudly at her feet, Keiko sees blood smear on the red shoes. Suddenly Keiko starts to dance as the red shoes drag her body against her will, and Ha-sub tries to help and hold Keiko to stop the dance. At that moment, a thick rope on the ground crawls up to wrap their bodies and whisks them up in the air. Blood drips from their strangled necks, and the red shoes fall to the ground covered with white petals of cherry blossom.

The curse reveals itself..

Back at the present, Sun-jae and Tae-soo cremate Oki's bones to console her soul. Sun-jae hopes that Oki's grudge would be resolved and Tae-soo will not be harmed.

On the opening day of her clinic, Sun-jae finds another woman goes out of In-chul's house. In-chul says he cheated on her because he is angry with her dishonesty. And he hands her over a blue shoe her husband's lover was wearing during the affair. In-chul told her Tae-soo gave it to him, and Sun-jae heads home to ask Tae-soo about the shoe. Alarmed by her mother's fierce questions, Tae-soo runs away into a subway station. Chasing Tae-soo to the dark corridor, Sun-jae finally meets the substance of the horror carried through the red shoes. The curse behind the red shoes springs to life.

Story Background

Picking up something trivial by coincidence...

A trifling act produces a terrifying outcome!

There once was a pretty red ribbon. On it was the suggestive writing, "You will come upon an unexpected opportunity that will make all things possible." But the talisman-like piece suddenly changes into an object of fear. That's because it's hard to tell what actually lies behind this unclaimed ribbon. Maybe to fulfill any of our wishes it would mean selling our soul to the devil or paying something huge in return.

The movie, "The Red Shoes," starts off on this very point. The film's producer one day picked up a ribbon with this writing off the street. Although he was excited about picking up the ribbon, most of his acquaintances who heard the story were rather frightened. Some think that picking up something strange that was thrown away by someone is a sort of taboo. But despite being scared, he thought of the desire that made him pick up the ribbon, and Hans Christian Andersen's sad yet terrifying fairy tale, "The Red Shoes," popped up in his head. The tale is about a girl who gets her ankles chopped off because of her unstoppable desire to wear the red shoes. In a chilling story hidden in a beautiful fairy tale, horror was discovered.

This is how the brutal fairy tale, "The Red Shoes," was born.

About The Movie

Brutal fairy tale, "The Red Shoes"

Andersen's fairy tale comes back to life in a Korean horror flick

Andersen's fairy tale, "The Red Shoes," is reborn in the most frightening and terrifying horror movie of 2005. Andersen's fairy tale, a story about a girl who has her feet cut off, is reinterpreted in the film "The Red Shoes" by combining Andersen's tale with a ghost story.

A girl died because everything was taken away from her by others' greed, and her soul is carried in a pair of red shoes. Anyone who desires these shoes will face a curse and their ankles will be sliced off. A grudge-filled ghost, shoes possessed by it, and a curse that infects all through these shoes transform a sad yet beautiful Western fairy tale into a ghastly and grueling Eastern horror.

What causes the girl in Andersen's tale to have her feet cut off is the greed for the red shoes. And like the fairy tale, in "The Red Shoes," the red shoes stimulate the greed that lies hidden in people's minds and normally unrevealing. Anyone who sees the red shoes uses whatever means to bring them into their possession. And through these shoes, their repressed greed comes out in the open. The red shoes of course stimulates the greed of the main character, Sun-jae, who wants to be acknowledged as a woman, and even stimulates the greed of her 6-year old daughter, Tae-soo, to become a good dancer. However, these desires condemn them through the curse of the vengeful ghost.

Production Note

Cinematography of "The Red Shoes"

The emotions that are captured through handheld camera work are brought on to screen with a 2.35:1 ratio...

"The Red Shoes" was shot by handheld camera work which hasn't been often used in horror flicks and was then brought to a wide screen ratio of 2.35:1. The reason handhelds were used frequently as the camera work is clear - to freshly deliver the characters' explosive emotions stemming from their desires and the fear of the unknown. This is different from how most horror films commonly deliver fright through the effects of editing. Thus the explosive emotions and tension in this movie are so much more powerful. To further enhance this effect, the film was processed through a digital color correction technique and a 'bridge by-pass' film developing process which holds much of the silver particles on film to produce rough images and a low color tone.

What's more, by applying a 2.35:1 screen ratio in "The Red Shoes," which is rare for a horror film, it enabled an effect where the characters' fears were maximized by using the dark spaces on the screen. Before this technique was tried out, there were many worries over it being too risky, but since a realistic fright is captured well through the dark spaces on screen, it was impossible to produce this effect on a normal screen ratio of 1.85:1. So "The Red Shoes," a novel horror movie shown on a wide screen, is made with a visual quality that's surely different compared to conventional horror movies.

Production Design of "The Red Shoes"

Feel the horror that's made from the aesthetics of disharmony!

Greed and sadness, beauty and fear co-exist...

To describe the production design in "The Red Shoes" in a few words, it would be "The extreme aesthetics of disharmony." This principle is applied as the basis to the movie's color and space. First, like it appears in the title, red is the symbolic color of the movie but what actually dominates the movie is a blue tone and a strong black and white contrast. The color red, which symbolizes temptation and desire, is projected as being beautiful in this story but it is also appears as a dangerous color when thick gushing blood suddenly overpowers the screen. Although a blue color takes over most of the screen and it is a dreary color that includes a mixture of tension, sadness, and repression, it contrasts the suddenly erupting feelings of desire.

The concept of the collision and harmony of these different colors is repeated once more in the space. As the main stage of this story takes place in Sun-jae's old and dark studio, when you come across her spectacular shoe display rack which doesn't seem to suit the place, the space cannot be described by just one adjective like beautiful or horrifying but instead embodies the aesthetics of discord. When you see the beautiful mural on the wall of In-chul's cold and dreary studio, or the red shoes waiting in the bluely lit empty passenger cart of the underground subway, feelings like these repeat constantly in the movie. The aesthetics of discord where horror and beauty co-exist is one good reason to expect an absolutely new kind of horror movie, "The Red Shoes."

Music of "The Red Shoes"

Fear seen first through the ears! The eeriness of a beautiful scene, the lyricism of a terrifying scene are all embodied.

The most important element that comes with the scary visuals of a horror movie is the music. During the production of "The Red Shoes," famous composer, LEE Byung-woo was scouted out to add to the horror effect. He is a profound music composer of all genres in the Korean movie scenes and also famous for being a guitarist who freely plays electric, acoustic and classic guitars. His music for movies is indeed extraordinary. He makes us feel the lyrical and beautiful sensibility that overrides in "My Beautiful Girl, Mari" and the sad and beautiful horror encompassed in "A Tale of Two Sisters." He brings the best out in any genre and raises the merits of each film. This gives another sure reason to expect a great deal from "The Red Shoes." As the eerie music plays even in tranquil scenes and lyrical music plays in the frightening ones to intensify the scare, it will be a brand-new auditory experience for any horror fan.

Dance of "The Red Shoes"

A beautiful and sad dance will uncover the ghost of the red shoes! The attractiveness of the red shoes and the ghost's story shown at one glance...

In "The Red Shoes," there's a flashback where the real story behind the red shoes comes to life. Even though these scenes only take five minutes out of the movie, it required the utmost attention since it must signify the red shoes' fatal attraction and the ghost's story. The filmmakers found a solution to this by expressing it through dance. And Korea's most prolific dance choreographer HONG Sung-yop, who could compete on the world stage, was chosen to design the movements. He put all his energy into presenting the film's story in the most effective and appealing manner together with his dance troupe, "Dance Theatre ON." Like the passionate group dance in the end which was incorporated from his work, "Blood in Horses' Eyes," or the solo dance of the girl who will turn into a ghost and even the eerie dance by another envious girl who steals the red shoes, anyone who sees HONG Sung-yop's dance choreography will be swept off their feet. Just with the praise for HONG Sung-yop's direction of unique movements, backed up by an elegant and unconventional sensibility, is plenty to feel more than your money's worth when you watch the "The Red Shoes."

Movie Trivia

Are the red shoes in "The Red Shoes" disposables?

Red shoes, which were specifically created for the movie "The Red Shoes," should not be too classic or too modern because they contain an age-long grudge. The shoes also should stir up the desire to possess them in the minds of anyone who sees them, so the shoes are as an important character as real actors of the movie. The red shoes seem the same all throughout the movie, but the shoes must fit all of the female characters, and the crew also considered making spare pairs as some of them got dirty by blood stains during the shooting. So there were total 40 pairs of red shoes. That was the number of the pairs the crew achieved in bringing down - by rubbing or washing the shoes all the time.

Character

Sun-jae/ KIM Hye-soo

"Did she die with her ankles cut off?

Sun-jae is an eye doctor in her 30's who has an infatuation with collecting shoes. She lives with her only daughter, Tae-soo after her divorce. After she finds a pair of red shoes in the subway, her friend is killed with her ankles cut off, and horrifying things keep occurring to her.

Selected Filmography

2004 Hypnotized
2002 YMCA Baseball Team
2002 Three: Memories
2001 Kick the moon.

Tae-soo/PARK Yeon-ah

"I have to wear them! I can't dance without them!"

Modest and timid 6-year old girl, Tae-soo sometimes puts her mother Sun-Jae on the spot when her words or behavior aren't childlike. Ever since her ballet had gotten better after wearing the red shoes, she takes them away from Sun-jae and hides them under her bed. While being obsessed with the red shoes she suddenly loses consciousness without any reason.

Director

KIM Yong-gyun

"Talking about people's desires using the extreme mechanics of a horror film"

The movie, "The Red Shoes," talks about people's desires. People consider desire to be the driving force of human life, but they don't recognize it well enough because it lies hidden in the unconsciousness. Like when the human substance comes out in the open in extreme situations, "The Red Shoes" will reveal the hidden desire that lies deep inside the unconscious by using the extreme mechanics of a horror film. Especially through the red shoes which symbolize the completion of femininity, I would like to paint in detail how desire takes people to the extremes, as far as risking their own lives.

- From the Director's Comments

Filmography

1991 "Mother, I'm Your Son" (on 16 mm) Script writer, Director
1994 "Grand. Fa. Ther" (on 16 mm) Script writer, Director
1996 "On Leave" (on 16 mm) Script writer, Director
1996 "Just Do It" (on 16 mm) Script writer, Director
1999 "Lies" Second photographer (digital 6mm)
2001 "Wanee & Junah" Feature debut, Director / Screenplay

Crew List

Director KIM YONG-GYUN
Executive Producers PARK HYUN-TAE and PETER KIM
Writer MA SANG-YEAL and KIM YONG-GYUN
Director of photography KIM TAE-KYUNG
Lighting PARK KUN-WOO
Production Designers LIM HYUNG-TAE and JANG PAK-HA
Music Director BYEONGWOO LEE
Sound Manager LEE SUNG-JIN
Editor SHIN MIN-KYUNG
Producer SHIN CHANG-GIL and CRETA D. KIM
Production GENERATION BLUE FILMS
Co-production CINECLICK AISA & CINEWISE FILM

Technical Specification

Screen Ratio: 2.35:1
Color: Color
Sound: Dolby SRD
Running Time: 103 min.
No. of Reels: 6 reels
Length of Film: 9,835 feet
Production Year: 2005
Budget: US$ 3.0 million

Company Profile

Generation Blue Films: Production Company

Generation Blue Films intends to produce high quality movies with strong individuality. Its members are mainly from 'Independent Films Chung-Nyun', and they seek to make feature films together.

Filmography

"Happy End" (1999) : co-production
"Wanee & Junah" (2001)
"Jealousy Is My Middle Name" (2003)

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