My Sassy Girl(2001)

Director: Jae-young Kwak

In the Individual part I will talk about the iconography in romantic movie

My Sassy Girl and how the love relationship start between main actor and actress, also why the vindicate scene is important.  

The most Iconography scenes in this movie which is the main actor has been require to sending flower to the main actress class. In the one hundred day that they meet. Before this scene the love relationship between the ‘she’ and main actor is more like a unidirectional love that the main actor show the love and caring to the actress. However the main actor do not getting respond. Just right before the vindicate scene the main actress called the main actor and ask him which is the most beautiful moment of a girl, Gyeon-woo give the answer to her. Audience will expect something happen next. After the phone call we can see that the main actor go to the classroom of the main actress and the main actress is performing in a hall with piano and the main actor favorite song is “Cannon in D”. Form this scene audience can understand the love relationship change to a two way love relationship and the love of the actor to actress finally getting reposed. The actor give the flower to the “she” is the iconography and the vindicate trope of romantic movie. The main actor make the main actress become the forces in the entire vindicate scenes. In this scene there are no convention between the main actor and actress audience can still feel that the main actor and the “She” is in love with each other.

I think that romance story between main actor and actress haven start yet before the vindicate scene because there is another lover inside main actress heart.   

Audience finally feel that the love of the main actor finally being accepted by the main actress, because the main actress is fulfil the expectation of the main actor by performing his favorite song Cannon in D with piano. This scene show that the painful memories of the actress about her former boyfriend have been forgetting because of the thing that the actor do for the actress. I think the vindicate scene is the starting point in the love relation between the main actor and actress because before at the vindicate scene, audience cannot feel that main actress is ready for a new love relationship.