Political Human Movie 'Land of Happiness' (directed by Choo Chang-min, produced by Papas Film and Oscar 10 Studio) revealed the hidden details of the movie.
The more you know 'land of happiness', which continues to be a long-term box office hit with a steady stream of audiences since its debut, the more interesting details are revealed in the movie.
Jeong In-hoo (Cho Jung-seok), who first argued only the case of money, struggles to save Park Tae-joo (Lee Sun-kyun) against unfair trials after the 10.26 incident. And soon after, my father dies in vain. After that, Park Tae-joo's wife Ok Jung-ae (Gang Mal-geum) and two daughters visit the funeral hall, and the second daughter hands a tangerine to Jeong In-hoo. Through the tangerine, Jeong In-hoo understands Park Tae-joo, who has the same texture as his father, goes beyond trial, confronts the times, and continues his argument with all his heart. Park Tae-joo will also gradually reveal her inner feelings to the lawyer Jeong In-hoo, who is struggling for her through the tangerines handed over by Jeong In-hoo, and she will also feel a change of heart.
In the play, Cho Soon-jung (Jin Ki-joo), Jeong In-hoo's girlfriend, reads a Japanese newspaper. This is the Yomiuri Shimbun. Cho Soon-jung delivers to Jeong In-hoo the prediction that Jeon Sang-du (Yoo Jae-myung), the chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will take power through fluent Japanese skills, making him ponderous. The Yomiuri Shimbun is famous for predicting who will actually take power in the Republic of Korea. In the movie, it is used as a subject to give information on Jeon Sang-du, and at the same time, it is a scene that makes use of the details that Jeong In-hu is reading a Japanese newspaper because of the partiality of the domestic media at the time.
In order to lead the trial in favor, Jeon Sang-doo constantly calls on Army Chief of Staff Jeong Jin-hoo (Lee Won-jong) to proceed with the trial of the assassination of the president on October 26 behind closed doors. However, when the request was not accepted, he wore a headset in a closed room and eavesdropped on the trial and secretly delivered a note to the court. The headset that appears at this time is a prop that intuitively shows the power of Jeon Sang-du. In particular, after the court's final sentence against Park Tae-joo, Jeon Sang-du takes off his headset and leaves the closed room, which does not sound like anything. This is a scene containing the intention of director Choo Chang-min, who wanted the audience to interpret how Jeon Sang-du felt.
Jeong In-hoo struggles in many ways to save Park Tae-joo. Among them, the biggest mission is to appoint Jeong Jin-hoo, the army chief of staff, as a witness to the presiding judge, who traveled with Park Tae-joo in a vehicle immediately after the Oct. 26 incident. Jeong Jin-hoo turns down Jeong In-hoo's constant request for witness attendance as outrageous make a certain determination. Finally, just before meeting Jeong In-hoo and delivering his opinion, he is using a four-character idiom in his office, which is '破邪顯 Hyeon-jeong'. 'Pasa Hyeonjeong' has the meaning of breaking the wrong thing, eliminating it, and revealing the right thing, so it acts as an element to add fun to the play to the audience who found it.
'Land of Happiness' is a story of a secretary accompanying the intelligence chief who was involved in the assassination of the president by orders of his superiors and a lawyer who entered Korea's worst political trial by defending him. This film depicts the true story of Army Colonel Park Heung-joo, who was involved in the murder of former President Park Chung-hee on Oct. 26, 1979, and lawyer Tae Yoon-ki, who defended him. Cho Jung-seok, the late Lee Sun-kyun, and Yoo Jae-myung appeared, and director Choo Chang-min of 'Gwanghae, The Man Who Became King'7 Years' Night' took the megaphone.
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