MISA: crazy fashion, crazier people
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dangermousieI am in love with the first ep of Hong Gil Dong like nobody's business. This is likely to end up THE winter drama for me. Oh, and we are through ep 11 of Capital Scandal with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
filmi_girl and I love it as much as ever.
But the post is not about that.
I have decided to start watching MISA (Sorry I Love You), one of the most famous kdramas out there.
MISA is a very quintessential kdrama: everyone cries and dies, but does it incredibly beautifully. Our hero, a small-time gangster, has bullets lodged in his brain, which mean certain oncoming death. He wants to avenge self on his mother, who abandoned him as a baby, but gets derailed by his love for this pure, winsome girl who is Our Heroine.
I have more fully summarized it elsewhere, but kitsune714's description probably suits it best (to paraphrase): it's all these horrible things happening at once to this one very good-looking woobie.
One ep in, I am most pleased as Our Hero has, in less than half an hour of screen time, proceeded to rob a hapless cute Japanese tourist girl. He then met the down-and-out heroine, who is adorable and looks 12, I swear. She was also robbed (not by him) and out of it. He proceeded to get her drunk in a sleazy strip-joint, and then 'sell' her to a skeezy guy in the bar. Walking away with no remorse whatsoever. Somehow, I do not feel too bad for his upcoming angst and demise. His gf might have ditched him because he is broke, but I would have ditched him because he is a blight on society.
Not to mention that the drama makers did their best to obscure the incredibly gorgeous' So Ji Sub's exquisite bone structure with stubble and a hairdo out of a nightmare. I guess he will get hotter when he will get sicker and nicer.
He has also massacred the English language quite horribly. Oh, and his smokes. Clearly the bullets are some sort of divine smiting.
Still, the cinematography is breath-taking, So Ji Sub is to die for even with the haircut of doom, I like the fact that the hero genuinely needs redemption and is not a nice person, and I like that the heroine is sweet and so tiny she doesn't even reach his shoulder.
ETA: And he came back and rescued her. YES. When he grabs her hand and they are running, it's GORGEOUS. (And famous. That is the scene Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang parodied so brilliantly).
And she made fun of his haircut. And the characters are dirt-broke, which is really unsual for a kdrama.
And he held her at night. And gave her his coat. When they slept in the dumpster. And she woke up to find he got her suitcase back for her.
And as I said, the cinematography is arguably the most beautiful in a drama I have ever seen. And the soundtrack is to die for.
The fun has begun!
Five years prior to our story, Our Hero is interviewed by a Korean TV station, with his skanky girlfriend:
Samples of the prettiness of the colors:
Our first 'present' glimpse of our hero is not inspiring. Poor people can shave, So Ji Sub, honest!
Being smarmy to lost Japanese tourist girl. Why she gets into a beat-up car of a disreputable stranger who looks like he lost his razor three cars back, is a mystery for the ages:
In Singapore, that is probably a caning offense:
This is here because it's pretty:
Korea. Where men are manly enough to take bubble baths. Secondary male:
Our Heroine:
Cuteness!
Our Hero's scanky gf ditches him to marry rich old dude:
Poor Heroine, wandering the street for complicated plot reasons I am too sleepy to relate. Do you really care, anyway? You just want to see the hero angst at her, I am sure.
I am in love with her sweater. Even if she stole it from an especially big sumo wrestler.
Our Hero sees her and wants to bond over hideous taste in sweaters. Or sell her to a strip club. Your pick.
Can you say 'no' to that face?
I think I sort of died here:
Discovery of mutual Koreanness:
'I too think Bae Yong Joon is the hottest!'
'Are you crazy? I prefer this dude called So Ji Sub. have you seen his stuff?'
'So Ji Sub? You gotta be kidding. Bali made me want to slit my wrists!'
'White slavery for you it is, then.'
Our Heroine gets drunk in seedy strip joint, oddly unconcerned with gyrating fat ladies around her.
'Yes, tonight I eat off dollar menu and not the garbage bag! Score!'
'I am so depraved I smoke'
'And sell teeny drunk Korean girls to stripclub owners'
'But I color-coordinate like nobody's business'
We never see him light it, hmmm.
Poor Heroine, some other scummy people have her suitcase:
Sexy woobie with bad haircut to the rescue!
I love this scene like our hero loves his emo:
After rescuing her, he struts off again, like a hobo fashion model. But poor lost puppy has nowhere to go, so she just tags after him. AWWW. Why yes, I ship them already.
She goes after him all the way to his fancy pad.
And finally decides to give up:
But where is she going to go in the middle of the night? So she crouches by him.
Shock! He is paying attention. He tries to hug her and she is yelling at him she has AIDS (so presumably there should be no raping). You go, girl!
To which he is all 'STFU, go to sleep' because it's totally cold and he is going to hold her all night, because he is a kdrama hero and we have to love him, don't we? YES. Mission accomplished. Now shave.
She finds strength in photo of secondary male. Who is, meanwhile, drunk with some other lady.
This is so pretty.
She wakes up to discover he covered her with his coat! And got her suitcase back. YES!
I fully approve of his kindness to strangers. Let's hope he donates all of his wardrobe that way, bit by bit.
He is seriously, too gorgeous.
Yes, SHAVE! Next step, haircut!
Happier past. Notice the manly ponytail.
Oh BABY, I approve.
he is emoing while shirtless. Does he ever stop? Seriously, snap out of it. You are not even in the middle of kdrama yet and you think you got it bad now!
This is here for the pretty:
And this:
Running off with the Bride:
Though why he likes a girl with such hideous taste in dresses is a matter for conjecture:
It didn't work so he undertakes the 'at least the food is good' approach to the whole thing:
LOL:
Bride and Groom about to be shot by rival mob and our hero, partially out of lurve, but IMO because he's got death wish the size of Kansas, jumps in-between:
We know they are OTP because she can sense the shots. heh.
What to give the bride who has everything:
Where islesbiassparrow when you need her? This promises screaming manpain by the gallon. And loving it and mocking it in equal measure.
Oh, So Ji Sub, you emoting woobie! I can't wait until your Cain and Abel, where you play a mob assassin in love with the same girl your separated-at-birth brother, who is a cop, is. I would, however, pay good money to see you in a comedy. Please.
Also, Australia is clearly a scary country where you are totally threatened, mugged, robbed, almost raped, and etc. Somehow I managed to avoid it while there, but clearly, it's a scary scary place.
filmi_girl and I love it as much as ever.But the post is not about that.
I have decided to start watching MISA (Sorry I Love You), one of the most famous kdramas out there.
MISA is a very quintessential kdrama: everyone cries and dies, but does it incredibly beautifully. Our hero, a small-time gangster, has bullets lodged in his brain, which mean certain oncoming death. He wants to avenge self on his mother, who abandoned him as a baby, but gets derailed by his love for this pure, winsome girl who is Our Heroine.
I have more fully summarized it elsewhere, but kitsune714's description probably suits it best (to paraphrase): it's all these horrible things happening at once to this one very good-looking woobie.
One ep in, I am most pleased as Our Hero has, in less than half an hour of screen time, proceeded to rob a hapless cute Japanese tourist girl. He then met the down-and-out heroine, who is adorable and looks 12, I swear. She was also robbed (not by him) and out of it. He proceeded to get her drunk in a sleazy strip-joint, and then 'sell' her to a skeezy guy in the bar. Walking away with no remorse whatsoever. Somehow, I do not feel too bad for his upcoming angst and demise. His gf might have ditched him because he is broke, but I would have ditched him because he is a blight on society.
Not to mention that the drama makers did their best to obscure the incredibly gorgeous' So Ji Sub's exquisite bone structure with stubble and a hairdo out of a nightmare. I guess he will get hotter when he will get sicker and nicer.
He has also massacred the English language quite horribly. Oh, and his smokes. Clearly the bullets are some sort of divine smiting.
Still, the cinematography is breath-taking, So Ji Sub is to die for even with the haircut of doom, I like the fact that the hero genuinely needs redemption and is not a nice person, and I like that the heroine is sweet and so tiny she doesn't even reach his shoulder.
ETA: And he came back and rescued her. YES. When he grabs her hand and they are running, it's GORGEOUS. (And famous. That is the scene Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang parodied so brilliantly).
And she made fun of his haircut. And the characters are dirt-broke, which is really unsual for a kdrama.
And he held her at night. And gave her his coat. When they slept in the dumpster. And she woke up to find he got her suitcase back for her.
And as I said, the cinematography is arguably the most beautiful in a drama I have ever seen. And the soundtrack is to die for.
The fun has begun!
Five years prior to our story, Our Hero is interviewed by a Korean TV station, with his skanky girlfriend:
Samples of the prettiness of the colors:
Our first 'present' glimpse of our hero is not inspiring. Poor people can shave, So Ji Sub, honest!
Being smarmy to lost Japanese tourist girl. Why she gets into a beat-up car of a disreputable stranger who looks like he lost his razor three cars back, is a mystery for the ages:
In Singapore, that is probably a caning offense:
This is here because it's pretty:
Korea. Where men are manly enough to take bubble baths. Secondary male:
Our Heroine:
Cuteness!
Our Hero's scanky gf ditches him to marry rich old dude:
Poor Heroine, wandering the street for complicated plot reasons I am too sleepy to relate. Do you really care, anyway? You just want to see the hero angst at her, I am sure.
I am in love with her sweater. Even if she stole it from an especially big sumo wrestler.
Our Hero sees her and wants to bond over hideous taste in sweaters. Or sell her to a strip club. Your pick.
Can you say 'no' to that face?
I think I sort of died here:
Discovery of mutual Koreanness:
'I too think Bae Yong Joon is the hottest!'
'Are you crazy? I prefer this dude called So Ji Sub. have you seen his stuff?'
'So Ji Sub? You gotta be kidding. Bali made me want to slit my wrists!'
'White slavery for you it is, then.'
Our Heroine gets drunk in seedy strip joint, oddly unconcerned with gyrating fat ladies around her.
'Yes, tonight I eat off dollar menu and not the garbage bag! Score!'
'I am so depraved I smoke'
'And sell teeny drunk Korean girls to stripclub owners'
'But I color-coordinate like nobody's business'
We never see him light it, hmmm.
Poor Heroine, some other scummy people have her suitcase:
Sexy woobie with bad haircut to the rescue!
I love this scene like our hero loves his emo:
After rescuing her, he struts off again, like a hobo fashion model. But poor lost puppy has nowhere to go, so she just tags after him. AWWW. Why yes, I ship them already.
She goes after him all the way to his fancy pad.
And finally decides to give up:
But where is she going to go in the middle of the night? So she crouches by him.
Shock! He is paying attention. He tries to hug her and she is yelling at him she has AIDS (so presumably there should be no raping). You go, girl!
To which he is all 'STFU, go to sleep' because it's totally cold and he is going to hold her all night, because he is a kdrama hero and we have to love him, don't we? YES. Mission accomplished. Now shave.
She finds strength in photo of secondary male. Who is, meanwhile, drunk with some other lady.
This is so pretty.
She wakes up to discover he covered her with his coat! And got her suitcase back. YES!
I fully approve of his kindness to strangers. Let's hope he donates all of his wardrobe that way, bit by bit.
He is seriously, too gorgeous.
Yes, SHAVE! Next step, haircut!
Happier past. Notice the manly ponytail.
Oh BABY, I approve.
he is emoing while shirtless. Does he ever stop? Seriously, snap out of it. You are not even in the middle of kdrama yet and you think you got it bad now!
This is here for the pretty:
And this:
Running off with the Bride:
Though why he likes a girl with such hideous taste in dresses is a matter for conjecture:
It didn't work so he undertakes the 'at least the food is good' approach to the whole thing:
LOL:
Bride and Groom about to be shot by rival mob and our hero, partially out of lurve, but IMO because he's got death wish the size of Kansas, jumps in-between:
We know they are OTP because she can sense the shots. heh.
What to give the bride who has everything:
Where is
lesbiassparrow when you need her? This promises screaming manpain by the gallon. And loving it and mocking it in equal measure.Oh, So Ji Sub, you emoting woobie! I can't wait until your Cain and Abel, where you play a mob assassin in love with the same girl your separated-at-birth brother, who is a cop, is. I would, however, pay good money to see you in a comedy. Please.
Also, Australia is clearly a scary country where you are totally threatened, mugged, robbed, almost raped, and etc. Somehow I managed to avoid it while there, but clearly, it's a scary scary place.
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Date: 2008-01-07 05:58 am (UTC)That is one amazingly scruffy and grungy hero.
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:00 am (UTC)He is scruffy, grungy, he drinks and (presumably) smokes, and sells teeny heroines to strip clubs only to repent of it at the last moment. I am in love. Which says troubling things about me.
He would have made a great Gundam pilot as he attempted suicide twice in the first ep alone (first by car off cliff with Bride, then by saving people from bullets).
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:07 am (UTC)The last 10 or so episodes of GW have enormously raised my insanity expectations. Be impressed if I have a brain left when I finish.
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:08 am (UTC)And yeah, I remember lesbiassparrow mentioning some awful drama about angsty Koreans in Ireland :)
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:14 am (UTC)GW is too much crack for Korea to have anything to do with it. (Korea does comedy well, but it rarely seems to do crack)
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-07 06:07 am (UTC)*braces self*
Seriously, how much bad stuff can happen to one guy? Just remember, every time you think it can't get worse...well, it's Korea. And it can.
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:10 am (UTC)By that I mean it's pretty, and angsty, and So Ji Sub makes me all hormonal, but it is so kdramaish, I can't really take it too seriously, which is even better.
every time you think it can't get worse...well, it's Korea. And it can
LOL. Well, nothing can be worse than bullets in brain, right? I mean, the other stuff is just the cherry on top of emoness sundae :)
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-07 06:26 am (UTC)Moral of the story: Stay in Korea! Marry ugly fat person! Never leave the house!
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Date: 2008-01-07 06:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-07 06:16 am (UTC)HGD is just so perfect. Even my husband liked it, and he never watches dramas.
And CS is my fave kdrama ever, so I am all for your checking it out.
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Date: 2008-01-07 09:18 pm (UTC)lol. But women have to make do with dunking their fully-clothed bods in opaque water. Talk about double standards in fanservice.
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Date: 2008-01-07 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-07 10:12 pm (UTC)So Ji Sub - LOVE HIM and I especially love him in MISA. When I had finished watching the show, I found out that he was in the service and had a year and a half left to fulfill his duties. Which made me even more depressed than I was at the end of the show. If that's even possible. heh. But he's back now, YAY. I can't wait for Cain & Abel!
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Date: 2008-01-07 10:33 pm (UTC)SJS is wonderful in this. I saw him before in Bali, but didn't pay much attention to him (though he did have an awesome six-pack) because I was all about Jo In-Sung's character, but here I am all hormonal and in love.
I do want to watch a drama some day where he ends up living happily at the end, please.
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Date: 2008-01-10 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 06:18 am (UTC)And yes, I didn't pay much attention to him in Bali but here it's as if he's swallowed a whole hotness-pill factory.
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Date: 2008-01-10 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-08 07:37 am (UTC)Ditto that. Seriously, I think he deserves to have fun.
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Date: 2008-01-08 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-08 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-08 09:33 pm (UTC)http://wiki.d-addicts.com/We_Are_Dating_Now
I might watch it for sheer novelty factor!
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Date: 2008-01-09 09:48 am (UTC)I'll see if I can find that.
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Date: 2008-01-09 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 06:17 am (UTC)