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meganbmooreI watched 2 Korean movies today, one period fantasy with surprisingly little wirefu, and one a romantic comedy.
The Legend of Evil Lake is set during the last years of Shilla(ancient Korea) where the empress, Chinsong, is still in love with her former lover, General Biharang, who has since fallen in love with a peasant, Jaunpie. Jaunpie's father was a rebel, and the queen's enemies take advantage of that and send men to kill her so that Biharang will blame and turn on Chinsong, giving them an opening. While fleeing her assassins, Jaunpie finds a sword in the forest that has sealed an evil spirit for a thousand years(don't question why no one in a thousand years has pulled the sword out of the ground, logic has no place in magical seals) and becomes possessed by the spirit, Auta, and only maintains a sense of self through her love of Biharang.
The rest of the movie focuses on Biharang trying to save Jaunpie, and Chinsong trying to simultaneously protect Biharang and, you know, stop Auta from killing everyone in Shilla(tribe was wiped out during unification...he's bitter) It's more like Bichunmoo (which I think I prefer it to)than to The Duelist or Shadowless Sword (which I prefer...I need to get more people to watch SS...) and is very much just right for various people on my flist(lots of angsty romance and love triangle and deep dramatic stares)
The other movie was 100 Days With Mr. Arrogant, a romantic comedy with Ha Jin Won(who has quickly become my favorite asian actress...I guess it's what happens when you star in my greatest dorama obsession) Actually, this is apparently her first role after Damo(deservedly) made her big, and Ha-Young is about as far from Chae-Ohk as you can get, so I guess she was trying to avoid typecasting(was rather odd to see her in a modern role for the first time) The best way to describe the movie would only make sense to dorama fans: It Started With A Kiss on crack, if Zhi Shu were narcissistic and machiavellian. For those who don't watch doramas, it's abouy Ha-Young, a rather dim but very energetic high school senior whose boyfriend just dumped her. In a funk, she kicks a can in the street, accidentally hitting a college guy, Hyung-Joon with it and making him swerve and scrape his bumper. Unfortunately, instead of hitting a nice, sane person who would tell her to be careful and to pay the $20 bucks to fix it, she hit an arrogant guy with a sadistic streak who's far too aware of his good looks and intelligence for his own good, who tells her it'll cost $300 to fix. Naturally, she doesn't have that kind of money, and he says she can work it off by being his slave for 100 days, at the rate of $30 a day. Of course, she eventually learns how much it really costs to get the car fixed, and deals with it appropriately. Which Hyung-Joon gets back at her for by becoming her tutor, and things progress from there. It was insanely fun(it should be watched just for "I Will Survive" in Korean) and I had to pause and rewind from laughter more than once. I fear for their children, though. And hey, Ha Ji Won actually got to kiss her OTP for once...a first among my viewing of her(and I don't mean just onscreen, either...) Hmm...looks like the guy in this is also one of the male leads in her Hwang Jin Yi series, which should be interesting, and which I shall be watching soon-ish(gotta finish Emperor of the Sea first.)
The Legend of Evil Lake is set during the last years of Shilla(ancient Korea) where the empress, Chinsong, is still in love with her former lover, General Biharang, who has since fallen in love with a peasant, Jaunpie. Jaunpie's father was a rebel, and the queen's enemies take advantage of that and send men to kill her so that Biharang will blame and turn on Chinsong, giving them an opening. While fleeing her assassins, Jaunpie finds a sword in the forest that has sealed an evil spirit for a thousand years(don't question why no one in a thousand years has pulled the sword out of the ground, logic has no place in magical seals) and becomes possessed by the spirit, Auta, and only maintains a sense of self through her love of Biharang.
The rest of the movie focuses on Biharang trying to save Jaunpie, and Chinsong trying to simultaneously protect Biharang and, you know, stop Auta from killing everyone in Shilla(tribe was wiped out during unification...he's bitter) It's more like Bichunmoo (which I think I prefer it to)than to The Duelist or Shadowless Sword (which I prefer...I need to get more people to watch SS...) and is very much just right for various people on my flist(lots of angsty romance and love triangle and deep dramatic stares)
The other movie was 100 Days With Mr. Arrogant, a romantic comedy with Ha Jin Won(who has quickly become my favorite asian actress...I guess it's what happens when you star in my greatest dorama obsession) Actually, this is apparently her first role after Damo(deservedly) made her big, and Ha-Young is about as far from Chae-Ohk as you can get, so I guess she was trying to avoid typecasting(was rather odd to see her in a modern role for the first time) The best way to describe the movie would only make sense to dorama fans: It Started With A Kiss on crack, if Zhi Shu were narcissistic and machiavellian. For those who don't watch doramas, it's abouy Ha-Young, a rather dim but very energetic high school senior whose boyfriend just dumped her. In a funk, she kicks a can in the street, accidentally hitting a college guy, Hyung-Joon with it and making him swerve and scrape his bumper. Unfortunately, instead of hitting a nice, sane person who would tell her to be careful and to pay the $20 bucks to fix it, she hit an arrogant guy with a sadistic streak who's far too aware of his good looks and intelligence for his own good, who tells her it'll cost $300 to fix. Naturally, she doesn't have that kind of money, and he says she can work it off by being his slave for 100 days, at the rate of $30 a day. Of course, she eventually learns how much it really costs to get the car fixed, and deals with it appropriately. Which Hyung-Joon gets back at her for by becoming her tutor, and things progress from there. It was insanely fun(it should be watched just for "I Will Survive" in Korean) and I had to pause and rewind from laughter more than once. I fear for their children, though. And hey, Ha Ji Won actually got to kiss her OTP for once...a first among my viewing of her(and I don't mean just onscreen, either...) Hmm...looks like the guy in this is also one of the male leads in her Hwang Jin Yi series, which should be interesting, and which I shall be watching soon-ish(gotta finish Emperor of the Sea first.)
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Date: 2007-01-15 06:32 pm (UTC)Were you the one I rec'd that too? My memory fails me. ^^
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Date: 2007-01-16 04:55 pm (UTC)Though I didn't realize that until later...he's completely different in both character and looks, and I was thinking there was something familiar about him while I was watching.
There should be a tag at my LJ, with lotsa picks.
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