I remember the first day I saw her. April 15. It was the day after I killed a man for the first time

[dangermousie]

Thank you so freaking much, Daisy.

Now I am sitting here bawling.



I have wanted to check out Daisy, a 2006 movie with Jeon Ji Hyun, Jung Woo Sung, and Lee Sung Jae, after I had found out that Jung Woo Sung has been cast in Athena.

Firstly, because people kept mentioning it all over the place, but secondly because I knew JWS played an assassin insanely devoted to his OTP in it and I wanted to see how he'd be like in an IRIS-type environment.



WELL.

WELL.

I thought I told you, TPTB, not to cast as a lead someone who can make me bawl as much Lee Byung Hun did. I thought we had a deal?



Not fair, I foresee bawling all over again if they go for IRIS-levels of angst with JWS in the lead.

Anyway, Daisy is made by the man who made Infernal Affairs so you can expect the same levels of cheeriness. The story centers around a sheltered painter who lives in Amsterdam (Jeon Ji Hyun). Every day at the same time she recieves a present of daisies from a secret admirer. Little does she know that the admirer is a mob hitman in hiding (Jung Woo Sung) who has fallen in love seeing her paint. Enter an Interpol agent (Lee Sung Jae) on the trail of the hitman, and whom the heroine mistakes for her admirer...



The movie is gorgeously shot, well-acted, super-romantic and made me freaking bawl my head off. I loved it to bits. I was also happy to see that JWS looks perfect angsting, with a gun, full of revenge, madly in love, or with the love of his life pointing a gun at him. He is going to do just fine :P































































Now I want to track down the longer Hong Kong cut (the one I had was the international one).

It was so good!

Is it unhealthy to be obsessed with a drama 10 months before it airs? If it is, I don't care at all.

ETA: Have a shippy IRIS mv. I think it's official - Hyun Joon and Seung Hee are my biggest ever drama OTP. I thought my obsession would them would cool but it's been over 2 months since the drama was over and nope - am still fixated.

Comments

[robotmatsuri.livejournal.com]

Looks gorgous! Another movie I need to add to my list!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It really was wonderful - so beatiful and romantic and violent and...guuuuuuuh.

I think to console myself for the fact that Athena won't air till November at the earliest, I am going through all of JWS and CSW's filmography :)

[ginger001]

Must check this out! Just yesterday I learned about this Michelle Yeoh movie with Jung Woo Sung where she plays an ex-assassin and he her postman husband who doesn't know a thing about her past... Sounds good to me.

Link: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/0911M.html#30A
and pics: http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2009-11-29/19152790538.shtml

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, this looks like it could be really great. SQUEE.

Also, are you watching Chuno?

[ginger001]

I have it but I'm waiting to have it all to start watching properly. I've seen a bit of the first episodes and reading your posts and alexandral's ;)

Jang Hyuk is really cute in the movie! Check it out if you can.

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

MUST SEE!!
And gosh I love the two actors they choose for Athena :o.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I do too. Athena is going to be so good with their cast. The movie is on jdramas.

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember the waterworks I had for this one. I initially picked Daisy for Lee Sung Jae and discovered Jung Woo Sung.

Koreans do have this knack of making beauty that hurts when it comes to films.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I completely didn't realize LSJ was in this until I saw the opening credits.

I loved this to bits. My favorite scene was when she ran looking for him (after she found his note) and was holding up her painting and yelling all these things - how she loves him and is sorry but we were seeing it from his POV, and as he was on the roof with a gun he couldn't hear her and neither could we. But he was reading her lips so all these things she was saying we were actually hearing in his voice. For some reason that really REALLY got me.

Now I need to find some movie where the guy doesn't die :)

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Now I need to find some movie where the guy doesn't die

Good luck! ;p He tends to do these angsty films where someone always seems to die. I can't recall how it was with The Restless... probably died as it's a fantasy historical, ha.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heh. I am now 3-for-3 in horrid angst meter, with AMtR. I plan to watch The Restless next and I don't think it will end any better :P

[blushingsigh.livejournal.com]

I have love for your Buffy/Angel icon. That is all. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

One of my earliest OTPs!

[mishane.livejournal.com]

EPISODE 2 OF IRIS WAS JUST AS AWESOME AS EPISODE 1!!!! AND we get some backstory?? AWESOME.

ANYWAYS, I've had this movie downloaded AGES ago but never watched it. It is now going on my WATCH ASAP list.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you are loving IRIS. And it gets even better, I promise!

SQUEE.

I am so unhealthily attached to that drama, it's insane.

[mishane.livejournal.com]

It's like all my preconceived notions are being dashed.

(1) KTH was going to be horrible and I'd hate her character. WRONG! She's kind of cool and awesome and yeah!
(2) Just about spies? Eh, can't be as awesome as people say. WRONG! Totally awesome and now I find out the LBH has SECRETS from his childhood that involve his parents AND OMG all these hints that he's gonna be a monster and WOW.

I kind of like it when I'm proven wrong.

I can't wait until KSY comes into the picture. I think that I simplified IRIS too much; like I thought it was just gonna be another spy/action drama but I forgot about all the other characters (like the guy from Neighbor! I didn't know he was in this!) and other stuff that's keeping me on my toes.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

1. I really really liked KTH in this one (she remains awesome until the end). I went in basically with no expectations one way or another about her character but ended up being a total fan. There is some spoilery stuff she does later which especially made me into a rabid fangirl for her character.

2. It has all sorts of fascinating background and conspiracy stuff.

KSY is beyond awesome btw. I never shipped her with LBH (except in some sort of an AU where KTH's character was dead when they met) but I adored her as a character and their interactions.

I also really really loved what they did with LBH and his descent - and how hard he was pushed into becoming a monster and whether he really became one or not.

Ep 3 is the one which had the scene too hot for Korean TV :P

[mishane.livejournal.com]

KSY is beyond awesome btw. I never shipped her with LBH

SEE I DON'T GET IT! I don't know how I'm not gonna ship them because everyone says she's so awesome and I usually ship the awesome people together. Especially if it goes down the way I think it goes down (doesn't he get betrayed by his agency and then he works together with KSY? WAIT, don't tell me!).

Ep 3 is the one which had the scene too hot for Korean TV :P

And DAMMIT I can't watch it until next week. :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

But KTH is awesome too. And LBH loves her and not KSY, so I find it easy. :)

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

This is probably one of the most watched dvd in our house. And it never fails to make my mother bawl.

Really. It's unhealthy.

That's how much my mother loves JWS!
<333

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I loved that movie. So good and so very angsty. Mmmm.