<판타스틱 미스터 폭스>에 나타난 서사 변형의 양상

Abstract

<Fantastic Mr. Fox>(dir. Wes Anderson, 2009), an animated feature film, is loosely based on Roald Dahl's novel, Fantastic Mr. Fox(1970).
 This study aims to analyze the aspects of adaptation from a novel to an animation film. We analyzed the aspects of reconstruction of drama arcs and its signification through the process of adaptation, and how to expand the context and to embody a subject in the film. To this end, we applied conventional theory of dramatics, methods of semiotic analysis and the achievements of the study of film narratology. Setting up Mr. Fox, a flat character in the novel, as a character with cogito, the film shows the constant skepticism and reflection of his raison d’être. The story unfolds on the basis of the same log line and the same plot of escape and pursuit as in the novel. But the character taking center stage of adaptation, the psychological development of protagonist composed the center of narrative and drama arc in the film. According to the analysis of the systematic structure of major binary ports, the contextual meanings and relations between humans and wild animals in the film is deceptive and gloomy. Because ‘the Promised Land’, the world reserved for wild animals - Boggis, Bunce and Bean International Supermarkets – Mr. Fox and his colleague win at last is an infertile space out of life. To sum up, making a caricature of the three greedy farmers who are still waiting for them to come out of the sewer world, <Fantastic Mr. Fox> claims paradoxically the necessity of the harmony and coexistence of nature and man.