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dangermousieHad a day from hell yesterday. Don't even get me started. Anyway.
While there are a number of summer kdramas I am looking forward to (Discovery of Love, Goodbye Miss Ripley, What's Up - though who knows when that one will air, Festival, Maids), none of them start any time soon. But there is one kdrama I anticipate which starts next week - Sat/Sun Can You Hear My Heart, starring Kim Jae Won and Hwang Jung Eum as a young man who hides his deafness and a young woman who hides her smarts, respectively. I adore both leads and they both have a similar sunny, warm, loveable vibe. I just want to give them hugs and sunshine is spontaneously created when they smile. So I am very excited. Plus, the trailer is adorable:
Jus look at the candy colors. Oh, and for those of us who were Giant afficionados, Daddy Satan, who spent a lot of his Giant time trying to wreck Hwang Jung Eum's life, is playing her loving, if simple-minded, father in this. Heh. Delicious.
On, and since we are talking about upcoming kdramas - I continue to be puzzled by City Hunter. Usually, if you buy rights to adapt a manga, you do so. It can be a faithful adaptation (like a lot of twdrama manga adaptations) or it can be a loose one (Kingdom of the Winds, Sapuri), but there is no doubt one can easily recognize the connection between source material and the drama. I mean, that is the whole point of buying the rights - so you wouldn't be hit with a copyright infringement suit. BUT. Whoever is making City Hunter bought the rights to the manga and then proceeded to adapt it so it has literally not a single resemblance, however minor, to the original! In fact, if not for the title, which the makers could easily change as it now has no relevance to the themes of the story, there is zero connection between the two. Forget winning a copyright infringement suit, it wouldn't even occur to rights holders to file one in the first place because there is nothing in common between the two. Why on earth did they buy the rights only to completely not use anything from the manga? Bizarre. This one is definitely not on my 'to watch' list, not because I am a manga purist (never read this particular title) but because the modified story sounds so dull - sort of like Powerful Opponents only, sorry, Lee Min Ho, you are not Lee Jong Hyuk.
While there are a number of summer kdramas I am looking forward to (Discovery of Love, Goodbye Miss Ripley, What's Up - though who knows when that one will air, Festival, Maids), none of them start any time soon. But there is one kdrama I anticipate which starts next week - Sat/Sun Can You Hear My Heart, starring Kim Jae Won and Hwang Jung Eum as a young man who hides his deafness and a young woman who hides her smarts, respectively. I adore both leads and they both have a similar sunny, warm, loveable vibe. I just want to give them hugs and sunshine is spontaneously created when they smile. So I am very excited. Plus, the trailer is adorable:
Jus look at the candy colors. Oh, and for those of us who were Giant afficionados, Daddy Satan, who spent a lot of his Giant time trying to wreck Hwang Jung Eum's life, is playing her loving, if simple-minded, father in this. Heh. Delicious.
On, and since we are talking about upcoming kdramas - I continue to be puzzled by City Hunter. Usually, if you buy rights to adapt a manga, you do so. It can be a faithful adaptation (like a lot of twdrama manga adaptations) or it can be a loose one (Kingdom of the Winds, Sapuri), but there is no doubt one can easily recognize the connection between source material and the drama. I mean, that is the whole point of buying the rights - so you wouldn't be hit with a copyright infringement suit. BUT. Whoever is making City Hunter bought the rights to the manga and then proceeded to adapt it so it has literally not a single resemblance, however minor, to the original! In fact, if not for the title, which the makers could easily change as it now has no relevance to the themes of the story, there is zero connection between the two. Forget winning a copyright infringement suit, it wouldn't even occur to rights holders to file one in the first place because there is nothing in common between the two. Why on earth did they buy the rights only to completely not use anything from the manga? Bizarre. This one is definitely not on my 'to watch' list, not because I am a manga purist (never read this particular title) but because the modified story sounds so dull - sort of like Powerful Opponents only, sorry, Lee Min Ho, you are not Lee Jong Hyuk.
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Date: 2011-03-25 01:04 pm (UTC)As for City Hunter, I've never paid much attention to it (I think the plot didn't draw my interest)...
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Date: 2011-03-25 05:17 pm (UTC)The narrative has a LOT of potential. If the story is handled right, it could be a really great character-driven drama.
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Date: 2011-03-25 05:46 pm (UTC)I could accept LMH as Ryo even if he was to young and buff enough(Ryo is 30+),but the story as it is know is nothing like the manga so am not watching it.
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Date: 2011-03-25 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 03:56 am (UTC)CYHMH sounds good but yes, who knows. I like to be optimistic though.
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Date: 2011-03-26 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
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