Portrayal of police in Korean cinema
Why is the police shown as bunch of jokers in the Korean cinema? In almost all Korean movies which I have seen, the cops are portrayed as stupid fools, apart from the protagonist in cases where he is a cop? Has anyone else felt the same about this?
Best Answer
Well, this may date back to the era of The Keystone Cops. As I recall from a Film class I took in college, one of the tenants of early comedic cinema was "to mock authority". Putting an authority figure (policeman) in a situation where he appears to be a bumbling idiot was a great way to elicit laughs in the early days. While the technique is still widely used, it rarely gets a good laugh from today's moviegoers.
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