Beautiful Days rewatch
Dec. 21st, 2009 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieTo satisfy the black hole left by the end of IRIS and also because of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ambergold's posts, I've embarked on my rewatch of Beautiful Days, otherwise known as "Lee Byung Hun makes Dangermousie hyperventilate yet again."
Guuuuh, BD is such a quintessential perfect melodrama. I love.
This time around, I am even more kindly disposed towards Ugly Brother. After all the man can't help being a fat hideous twerp with the personality of a toad. Nor can he help his unfortunate clothes and whiny voice. He nontheless performs a valuable function - by allowing me to ff through all his scenes, he allows me to save a lot of time - time I can then spend blissfully contemplating Lee Byung Hun be all awesome as the hero. His character is so competent and brusque and kind and grown-up. With trust issues a mile wide. LOVE.
Side note - I am going to LOL forever at the fact that LBH's awesomeness trumps even childhood love - Ugly Brother is the Heroine's childhood love and her inspiration - she's dreamt of meeting him again and, in fact, initially mistakes LBH for him (talk about trading up). When she eventually finds out her mistake she - carries on with LBH basically treating Ugly Brother as a sweet, dim type of primate. Good for her. Whatever else may be going on, it's nice to know she is not blind or mentally damaged.
How come I have no LBH icons? Gimme!
ambergold's posts, I've embarked on my rewatch of Beautiful Days, otherwise known as "Lee Byung Hun makes Dangermousie hyperventilate yet again."Guuuuh, BD is such a quintessential perfect melodrama. I love.
This time around, I am even more kindly disposed towards Ugly Brother. After all the man can't help being a fat hideous twerp with the personality of a toad. Nor can he help his unfortunate clothes and whiny voice. He nontheless performs a valuable function - by allowing me to ff through all his scenes, he allows me to save a lot of time - time I can then spend blissfully contemplating Lee Byung Hun be all awesome as the hero. His character is so competent and brusque and kind and grown-up. With trust issues a mile wide. LOVE.
Side note - I am going to LOL forever at the fact that LBH's awesomeness trumps even childhood love - Ugly Brother is the Heroine's childhood love and her inspiration - she's dreamt of meeting him again and, in fact, initially mistakes LBH for him (talk about trading up). When she eventually finds out her mistake she - carries on with LBH basically treating Ugly Brother as a sweet, dim type of primate. Good for her. Whatever else may be going on, it's nice to know she is not blind or mentally damaged.
How come I have no LBH icons? Gimme!
