This is also one of my major complaints about the male lead's character. His so-called character development throughout…
This isn't some anime adaptation where the characters are going to have a total 180 degree makeover🙄. He was a gambling addict, a man who was introduced as someone who did not have will power and allowed his vices to control his life. Being a good person does not squarely correspond to competency. There are many competent and disciplined people who are also selfish and uncaring. Competent and disciplined people, although have a higher likelihood of success, will not always win in life. Sometimes they fail and sometimes the flawed underdogs win out of sheer luck. I can't relate to neither you nor OP's problems. You people speak as if you have never had any real life experiences outside of school. Or maybe it's the rom-com K-drama effect, where only perfect people can be likeable and winners? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
saw an article of koreans comparing a scene from as the gods will to the very first game of this one and went…
I mean if I made a film with lots of subtleties and precise attention to details and you compared my film to Sesame Street, I would be pretty offended too 😂😂
Thats because a lot of international viewers don't have much exposure to Asian dramas to tell where this one sits…
I love how she said it with such confidence too 😂. It reminds me of a time when my Indian friend said how she liked Rocky Handsome over the original, the Man from Nowhere. I was like are you f#@king insane!? I love my friend to death, but her movie taste is so bad.
As the gods will is awful, that movie is like a 2/10
How did he "plagiarise" ATGW?????? There is literally only 1 death game concept that resembles each other, which was Red Light, Green Light, a popular children's game THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Additionally, Squid Game didn't get its notoriety due the death games as all you dull people don't seem to realize. It got its notoriety because it used imperfect, realistic humans confounded to this nightmarish situation in a convincing manner; The show also delves into the inner psyches of human behavior and greed, while presenting the many social commentaries and criticisms as it did. ATGW had none of that whatsoever. Take that as a cue to leave with your baseless claims.
This isn't true.The platform - is social critique on economic systems and searching for more fair way distribution…
I would say Squid Game also has critiques on capitalism too, but I agree with you that they are widely different. I seriously do not understand why people keep lumping this drama to Alice in Borderland and As the Gods Will except that they all fall under the same category of Death games. This drama definitely has more subtext and layers of commentary than the other two. It is as if people compared Parasite to a random thriller that involved maids just because their genres aligned...
Do you mean the sugar cookie game when you refer to it as the honeycomb game?If so, I think it is much harder…
No, yeah, I agree with you there. I felt a lot of the creativity was in the dialogue, character building, and the subtext (kind of like Parasite), which is atypical for this genre. I did feel like many of the games were not that creative and I was hoping to see a death game that also incorporated the Korean traditional game, Yut. Hopefully, with the worldwide fame the series has received, the director will set out to do even more creative and thrilling games in season 2.
honestly the marble and honeycomb games were boring as fck, everyone were just sitting doing mundane thing, not…
Do you mean the sugar cookie game when you refer to it as the honeycomb game? If so, I think it is much harder to relate to if you have never tried it. In Korea, there are street vendors who usually sell those cookies with the challenge. If you can create the shape, you get another cookie for free as a reward. However, even the tiniest excess pressure can create cracks on the cookie because it is very fragile. Although it is usually for children, I have tried it when I visited Korea. In case you were wondering, I failed the challenge miserably. It is much harder than it looks.
Yes, I believe you're correct about CLOY being at least partly live shot. IIRC they pre-filmed some episodes,…
Jesus Christ, even after I made my post requesting you to do more research, instead of doing the research, you want to double down on your ignorance. First of all, live shooting puts the crew in the same predicament as in pre-production. The difference between the two situations is if the show is halted, it will be halted with an announcement because they are filming the drama live... Secondly, overworking is an East Asian cultural problem not only exclusive to Korea that the Japanese even have a term for it, "karoshi." Whether the crew are overworked or not has nothing to do whether a drama is live shot or pre-produced. 2 employees while shooting Kingdom, a pre-produced show, PASSED AWAY DUE TO OVERWORK. Finally, Son Ye Jin had a hospital visitation for exhaustion, but she was cleared and started work THE DAY after. Tabloid journalists dramatised the incident to sell more papers, but she and her agency dismissed the rumors. Please, I'm begging you... if you plan to write about facts on a site filled with people who acquire information through 3rd party sources, do a better job of doing THOROUGH research so that you don't spread misinformation.
Live shooting is pretty much advil described it. It was not uncommon for actors to receive scripts minutes before…
Your grotesque descriptions only detail the worst live shooting incidents, which were more common but still uncommon a decade or two ago. Live shooting nowadays are more lax, and many K-dramas continue to use this system due to the pros and cons laid out by advil. Please stop creating these fear mongering posts where uninformed viewers will simply associate live shooting as a negative... If you're going to write about factual details, please at least research and update your facts.
I disagree that Usagi was a badass character. She was as useful as a rat to get into hard to reach places. The only useful female characters were the transgender girl and the scientist girl, but they both had like 30 minutes of screen time. And what are the implications if the only female character who can go physically against a male character is trans...
I can't relate to neither you nor OP's problems. You people speak as if you have never had any real life experiences outside of school. Or maybe it's the rom-com K-drama effect, where only perfect people can be likeable and winners? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Additionally, Squid Game didn't get its notoriety due the death games as all you dull people don't seem to realize. It got its notoriety because it used imperfect, realistic humans confounded to this nightmarish situation in a convincing manner; The show also delves into the inner psyches of human behavior and greed, while presenting the many social commentaries and criticisms as it did. ATGW had none of that whatsoever. Take that as a cue to leave with your baseless claims.
I seriously do not understand why people keep lumping this drama to Alice in Borderland and As the Gods Will except that they all fall under the same category of Death games. This drama definitely has more subtext and layers of commentary than the other two. It is as if people compared Parasite to a random thriller that involved maids just because their genres aligned...
If so, I think it is much harder to relate to if you have never tried it. In Korea, there are street vendors who usually sell those cookies with the challenge. If you can create the shape, you get another cookie for free as a reward. However, even the tiniest excess pressure can create cracks on the cookie because it is very fragile. Although it is usually for children, I have tried it when I visited Korea.
In case you were wondering, I failed the challenge miserably. It is much harder than it looks.