Things Dangermousie wants to watch and things she doesn't

[dangermousie]

Koreans are remaking Byakuyakou with Go Soo as the male lead (as a movie)



EEE!

I loved the jdrama (though I still need to finish it) with its very bleak storyline of a boy and a girl who each commit murder and now must lead their lives separately as best they can until a statute of limitations expires. Their victims weren't anyone society would miss (he killed his father who was her child rapist, and she killed her mother who used to prostitute her. Not to mention they both were 10 or so), but in order to protect their secret they have to do more and more awful things.

It's a really really good drama and so the thought of a movie? Especially one starring Go Soo, one of my favorites and really good at playing someone on the edge (see Green Rose for proof) makes me very excited.

In news on the opposite side of the spectrum, they are making a period medical kdrama. This will be the first period kdrama I am not excited about since that eunuch one. No thank you. I think they should have just combined the two and made a drama about eunuch in futile love with a female doctor and spared me two wasted sageuks.

Comments

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Boo to medical drama, but tell me more about this Eunuch historical!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The eunich one: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/The_King_and_I

The bit I've heard about it makes me expect it to be quite good. Though, like Hwang Jin Yi (my ppprrrreeeecccciiiioooouuuuusssss) I suspect it's far from the usual kdrama fare.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in the eunich one because it's apparently about the events leading up to the beginning of Dae Jang Geum. Though I'm sure they'll have very different adaptations.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I don't know - I hear 'eunuch' and I automatically check out :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it would make much difference in a sageuk! They seem to be in love and pine for years without much or any sex anyway!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

While still miraculously creating children via a kiss :)

Re: eunuch. I dunno. I don't have to have male leads be uber-manly, but this is taking the feminization of men a bit too far for me :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm far from an expert, but isn't that largely determined by when they become an eunich? Like, it seems the younger you are when castrated, the more feminine (though I think it's more accurate to say less masculine) you end up, because having it before or during puberty changes hormones, whereas being castrated as a teenager or adult (as I think is the case of the main character here) results in fewer biological changes.

(Mind you, I don't particularly care myself, as I'm mostly interested in the history, but...)

[algelic.livejournal.com]

I NEED to see this movie! There's a 4 minute trailer on YouTube that just made me scream "WANT!" at the screen. XD

Even so, it's almost impossible that the kmovie can compare to the jdrama... I mean, Ayase Haruka + Yamada Takayuki = perfection.

PS: I looked at your "books" tag... and the titles made me cringe. You need some recommendations NOW! (I am more than willing to educate you on good romance novels :P)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL - I mainly read nonfiction (which I don't post much about as I discuss it with Mr Mousie so not an audience necessity :P), and when I read fiction I usually go for prior to 1900 stuff.

But when I do want something modern, I usually like brainless junk and thus the stupider the better :)