The Double is nominated for Best OTT Original at the 2024 Asia Contents Awards, congratulations!https://www.globalottawards.org/eng/addon/10000001/page.asp?page_num=6079
I think abay and bce are both S+ production as far as i know when the casts were announced.
I know, hence, I said location and German looking. I lived in Germany for a while and could tell it’s not real., just a set. But I was pointing it out because of all the German things on the set, so the product placements probably had a company connected with German travel
I'm liking it but why is the editing so stupid sometimes? Like they put so much effort into this beautiful cinematography…
The director's choice was to emulate a manhua and a play. If you look at the closeups like the frames in a manhua, you'll see the similarities of posing. The extreme closeups with the direct eye contact, breaking the fourth wall. The director also framed the drama like a play because of the characters talking of plays. Right from the beginning, Duke Su spoke of "watching a play." You can see this in the way the director framed shots as if the characters were in a play--the way the four sides are boxed in, curtains above, flowery decorations on each side, a banister. This is most obvious in the scenes with the Princess and SYR, where SYR was often center stage. He was often very deliberate in his movements, standing still until that pivotal scene in which he moved his arms and flapped his sleeves. This was a very Chinese-opera movement. The Chinese opera theme was also carried out in the orangey makeup around the eyes, which was done in a lighter version of the extreme fashion one sees in Chinese opera. Princess Wanning and the one Ji Brother's twirls were also very Chinese opera-like.
This particular director is very artsy. You might not like his style but what he was doing was certainly not BS or stupid editing.
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This particular director is very artsy. You might not like his style but what he was doing was certainly not BS or stupid editing.