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Life Is Cool
Theatrical poster
Directed byChoi Equan
Choe Seung-won
Written byChoi Equan
Produced byLee Tae-hun
StarringKim Su-ro
Kang Sung-jin
Kim Jin-soo
Park Ye-jin
CinematographySin Gyeong-won
Jeong Yeong-sam
Choe Byeong-hun
Edited byWang Sang-ik
Music byJang Min-seung
Jeong Jae-il
Distributed byCJ Entertainment

Release date

  • 12 June 2008 (2008-06-12)

Running time

98 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$28,100[1]

Life Is Cool (Korean: 그녀는 예뻤다; rr: Geunyeoneun Yeppeotda; lit. "She Was Beautiful") is a 2008 South Korean romance animated film, and is the first rotoscoped film from that country.[2] This film's visual style was influenced from Richard Linklater's two films, Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Plot[edit]

Three tricenarian best friends — a heart-broken Romeo, a hopeless romantic, and a goofy playboy — meet for the first time in ten years. However, things get complicated when they all fall for the same woman.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Life Is Cool was one of four films produced by CJ Entertainment to receive investment from Keyeast, a media contents company co-established by actor Bae Yong-joon.[3] Although actual shooting only lasted for one month, it then took almost two years and 140 artists to complete the rotoscoping, a technique in which animators traced over live action footage frame by frame. Visual effects were created by local production company DNA, who had previously worked on The Animatrix.[2]

Director Choi Equan has said that he was inspired by the Richard Linklater's film Waking Life, and that the film's plot was based on a real-life story of one of his friends.[2]

Release[edit]

Life Is Cool was released in South Korea on 12 June 2008. The film accumulated a total of 3,951 admissions at the domestic box office, and grossed US$28,100.[1]

References[edit]

  • ^ a b c Lee Hyo-won. "Rotoscoped Film Shows Life in '4D'". The Korea Times, 5 June 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
  • ^ "Top star invests in domestic films". Hancinema, 25 May 2006 (originally published by The Korea Herald). Retrieved 29 June 2008.
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