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Post by HappyFan on Apr 26, 2021 6:47:13 GMT
Well, that was an historically weird Oscars; it felt like they were sitting at a local dinner theater waiting for the performances between courses. I was debating if there were multiple 'rooms', because it seemed like each set of nominees had great tables, and the area just didn't seem that big. Anyways, all that matters: SHARON CHOI and BONG JOON HO! How epic was it that Bong spoke for like thirty seconds in Korean, no subtitles, and just when it was becoming surreal, out stepped Sharon from the darkness to translate? Bong Joon Ho and Sharon ChoiYOUN YUH JUNG and HAN YERI of Minari It's always cool seeing Koreans on the red carpet! ALAN KIM and producer CHRISTINA OH -- her outfit is a modified hanbok. STEVEN YUEN And Jung made history by becoming the first South Korean to win any acting Oscars! By the way, when she talks to Brad Pitt at the beginning, it's not because she's a fan (although she probably is), it's because Pitt was the executive producer of Minari, but she never actually met him until just then. That's why she asks him where he was when they were filming in Tulsa. One more great moment. Backstage she's asked how Brad Pitt smells. She replied, 'I didn't smell him, I'm not a dog.' LOL! |
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 26, 2021 7:26:23 GMT
I forgot the best part of Bong and Choi's presentation: it was directed just like a mini Bong movie. First there was the darkened room where Bong emerges; then the pan over to reveal Sharon there to translate (for about ten seconds I thought there was a glitch somewhere at ABC causing the subtitles not to appear). One guy online called the pan a 'classic movie star reveal shot'. Then at the end, when they presented, they switched roles, with Sharon speaking in Korean and Bong in English.
It was like seeing old friends from the long ago pre-pandemic days!
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Post by jumpcut on Apr 26, 2021 14:05:29 GMT
South Korea is going gaga over Yuh-Jung Youn's win. www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/world/asia/south-korea-oscar-minari.htmlLong Before Her ‘Minari’ Oscar, Yuh-Jung Youn Won South Korea’s Heart A TV screen showing the Oscars at Seoul Station in South Korea.Credit...Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesOn Monday morning, the South Korean media sent out news flashes when Ms. Youn won her Oscar. Cable channels announced plans to screen her previous films. Social media was abuzz with fans congratulating her.
“Her performance brilliantly helped us relive the memories of our own mothers and grandmothers,” President Moon Jae-in said in a statement, referring to Ms. Youn’s character in the film. |
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 26, 2021 16:43:16 GMT
South Korea is going gaga over Yuh-Jung Youn's win. www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/world/asia/south-korea-oscar-minari.htmlLong Before Her ‘Minari’ Oscar, Yuh-Jung Youn Won South Korea’s HeartA TV screen showing the Oscars at Seoul Station in South Korea.Credit...Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesOn Monday morning, the South Korean media sent out news flashes when Ms. Youn won her Oscar. Cable channels announced plans to screen her previous films. Social media was abuzz with fans congratulating her.
“Her performance brilliantly helped us relive the memories of our own mothers and grandmothers,” President Moon Jae-in said in a statement, referring to Ms. Youn’s character in the film.Great quote: |
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 26, 2021 16:54:29 GMT
Another thing that surprised me last night was when Kim Ki Duk appeared in the In Memoriam section. I had no idea he had died! Back when I started watching Korean films in 2003 or so, the two most famous Korean directors were Kim and Park Chan Wook. Park is most famous for the "Vengeance Trilogy" (which includes Old Boy, later remade by Spike Lee); and Joint Security Area, at one time the biggest hit in Korean history. Kim's most famous films include Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring; the Isle; and 3-iron (not a movie about golf, but yes, referring to the club!). Both directors' movies are pretty intense and hard to sit through; I don't know if I'll ever forgive Kim for the Isle. But Kim was nonetheless brilliant, and the films I mentioned (particularly Spring...) are among my favorite of all Korean films. Roger Ebert included Spring... in one of his books on Great Movies; it's a lot less violent/gory than many of his films if you want to try one of his movies but get queasy easily.  Below: The Isle (2000)   Apparently Kim ran into some serious trouble over the past seven years. He was accused by several anonymous actresses of sexual harassment including rape, and though he never was convicted of any crimes to my knowledge, he was basically driven from the industry. He died of Covid while visiting Latvia in December of last year, a few weeks shy of his 60th birthday. |
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 28, 2021 16:44:41 GMT
KB Must have spent a lot for this ad campaign for their KB Pay card. Literally each person in this ad is a big star. I recognized newly minted Oscar winner Yuh Jung Youn, but we also have figure skating legend Yuna Kim and my fave actress Moon So Ri in there as well. You guys might recognize some of the others! Hye Yoon Kim and Seung Gi Lee seem to get the most callouts in the comments, but I don't know them very well...
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Post by legitimategolf on Apr 29, 2021 15:59:51 GMT
I enjoyed Lee Seung Gi in a drama "Shining Inheritance" where he plays the spoiled whiny grandson of a wealthy food tycoon halmoni. One day she trips and falls in the street and is aided by a struggling, working class young lady, whom she decides to make an heir, to the chagrin of the grandson. To complicate matters, he finds himself attracted to this potential usurper.
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 29, 2021 17:10:29 GMT
I haven't seen too many K-dramas to be honest, because they are a pretty big investment of time and I really don't know which ones I might like. They do seem to have a lot of stories that focus on class differences like the one you mentioned.
One that my wife and I liked was Romance is a Bonus Book, which had a fairly ridiculous central story about an older woman (late thirties) with a kid falling for a rich dude who ran a publishing company (another class story!). The guy was impossibly dreamy, and she was plucky and basically perfect although no one seemed to realize it. But though that was a tad hard to believe, I really liked all the stuff at the publishing company; they managed to come up with a really great collection of characters working there and I'll admit I became invested in finding out what would happen to them all.
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