핀터적인 카메라의 눈: 『추적』의 각색과 상호매체성 (Pinteresque Camera-Eye: Adaptations of Sleuth and Intermediality)

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초록

This paper attempts to read the 2007 Sleuth as Harold Pinter’s last screen-play which provides both series of plays and screenplays with the ending where we can start a new play with Pinter again. The 2007 Sleuth by Pinter and Kenneth Branagh is a remake of the 1972 film by Joseph Mankiewicz that itself was based on the 1970 play by Anthony Shaffer. Arguing that Pinter purposedly plays his endgame not as a master playwright but as a hired screenplay writer, this paper examines his uses of intermediality which he can find with Pinteresque camera eye equipped through a series of his unfaithful adaptations. Shaffer’s Sleuth which dramatizes the detective world can be classified as a comedy of menace which subverts the paradigm of comedy of manners by violent games between the classes. Mankiewicz’s Sleuth (1972) which accentuates the class conflict between the two male protagonists can be regarded as a faithful adapatation of the original play. Mankiewicz wanted to use intermediality by opening and closing the film with theatrical settings of Andrew’s detective fiction, to treat his favorite theme of homosexuality, and to introduce the absent woman in the original with her visual references in his adaptation. But the 1972 Sleuth did not fully reflect Mankiewicz’s intentions. This paper argues that Pinter’s last screen-play can fulfill Mankiewicz’s missions in the 2007 Sleuth as a remake of the earlier film and a successful and unfaithful adaptation of Shaffer’s original play. That is, Pinter can emphasize intermediality by subverting his earlier comedy of menace into the comedy of bad manners, treat the theme of homosexuality, and especially make the return of the repressed possible with drastic change of the ending. Thus this paper concludes that Pinter played his endgame successfully in his adaptation as a hired screenplay writer, although other critics have regarded the 2007 Sleuth as a failed attempt to put Shaffer’s play on the screen and blamed Pinter for its failure.

영어초록

This paper attempts to read the 2007 Sleuth as Harold Pinter’s last screen-play which provides both series of plays and screenplays with the ending where we can start a new play with Pinter again. The 2007 Sleuth by Pinter and Kenneth Branagh is a remake of the 1972 film by Joseph Mankiewicz that itself was based on the 1970 play by Anthony Shaffer. Arguing that Pinter purposedly plays his endgame not as a master playwright but as a hired screenplay writer, this paper examines his uses of intermediality which he can find with Pinteresque camera eye equipped through a series of his unfaithful adaptations. Shaffer’s Sleuth which dramatizes the detective world can be classified as a comedy of menace which subverts the paradigm of comedy of manners by violent games between the classes. Mankiewicz’s Sleuth (1972) which accentuates the class conflict between the two male protagonists can be regarded as a faithful adapatation of the original play. Mankiewicz wanted to use intermediality by opening and closing the film with theatrical settings of Andrew’s detective fiction, to treat his favorite theme of homosexuality, and to introduce the absent woman in the original with her visual references in his adaptation. But the 1972 Sleuth did not fully reflect Mankiewicz’s intentions. This paper argues that Pinter’s last screen-play can fulfill Mankiewicz’s missions in the 2007 Sleuth as a remake of the earlier film and a successful and unfaithful adaptation of Shaffer’s original play. That is, Pinter can emphasize intermediality by subverting his earlier comedy of menace into the comedy of bad manners, treat the theme of homosexuality, and especially make the return of the repressed possible with drastic change of the ending. Thus this paper concludes that Pinter played his endgame successfully in his adaptation as a hired screenplay writer, although other critics have regarded the 2007 Sleuth as a failed attempt to put Shaffer’s play on the screen and blamed Pinter for its failure.

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