Director’s preference. Also, Linghe isn’t a native Mandarin speaker so perhaps the Director specifically wants…
He is a native speaker but characters in cdrama speak together in a somewhat artificial version of mandarin with all regional accents ironed out and the clearest enunciation possible. Another dimension to the director's art in such an immense country, erasing regional differences. Choosing the actor's voices.... I mean to be a bit snarky here.
I just saw a review giving 1 star rating saying only reason they gave that rating is the actors , They claimed…
I find both of them doing a better job than the last time I saw them.
ZLH practically bare-faced of eye make-up, looking masculine and gaunt. Giving and holding the most vulnerable look and gaze. Really thrilling. And really different.
TXW amped up her sincerity to be more direct and relaxed at the same time. No more barf-city bubbly-girl . Fierce, funny, warm and affectionate. I really like her as a working woman.
So, both stretching themselves and doing it masterfully. Making it look easy this time around.
I am happily anticipating the reveal of Xie Zheng's real identity when she meets him in the war (probably sometime next week?). What will she say? I think she will scold him!
A wonderful show! I love Fan ChangYu and Xie Zheng, the Marquis of Wu'an, to bits. A really good heroic fantasy. As beautiful, fierce funny and sweet as the butcher's daughter herself.
The final kiss during the Lantern Festival felt real in a way that all the tense interactions previously didnt. Over 34 episodes Li PeiYi singlemindedly pursued bloody-minded revenge without caring who she hurt in the process. Only HuaiJin would have had the fortitude to suffer being deceived, insulted and used in return for being accepted as her partner for life. Talk about lying down with the knife blade. It takes all sorts. Watching them ride off into the green mountains in their red gowns, I wished them well in the Wild West of Ancient China.
Wow. That little hidden scene at the very end.....A set-up for a showdown--- in the Wild West of Ancient China. Please say yes. This series could actually carry forward because of the restraint it has held to for all these 34 eps. That wild horseback ride promises more passion but equally controlled?
To My Beloved Thief was a wonderful show, worth watching. Nam Ji Hyun was perfect. This article reminds me of the final absolutely stunning shot, set in the modern day where the characters reincarnate. They meet in a museum, in a gold and black setting -- Nam Ji Hyun's beauty takes your breath away. Moon Sang Min is gorgeous too but we already knew that.
It's a good and great drama. But it will be so so much better if they make Jaeyi & Haerim together as second…
I thought it was fresh to leave both of their lives open but very sharply individual and adorable (HaeRim) or real ML material (JaeYi). I am so looking forward to seeing both actors again, too!
In addition, HuaiJin has rejoined her for investigation with no reaction shots. Of her, of him? What is going on? It isnt an acting problem. If we have learned nothing from kdrama it is that technical means can compensate for weak actors in a thousand ways. And neither BaiLu nor WXY are poor actors. What is going on?
Ep31 I found the scene of Li PeiYi's revelations unconvincing. Maybe I am so used to kdrama, where the scenography would have been dramatic and emotional, whether sad or sweet, the music would have created an emotional arc to the scene as well as the framing.
Perhaps the intention was to create intimacy and comfort, as PeiYi intweracts with the traumatized child.
She apparently sees him attacking an unexplained straw man in the courtyard and sees herself in him. She realizes a thousand things in that instant, which she calmly, without guilt or sadness, explains to him. She realizes she had ruined her life? I didnt feel it at all.
With all the smart talented technicians at hand this was the best the director and his team could do?
Final thought. I like that this is very close to an independent movie. At least the vibe -- Kentucky hope, dance and music, snowstorms...
When I first started watching kdrama on netflix years ago they seemed to pick up on interesting shows from Korea. Not the blockbusters they have favored lately.
It would be good if they went back to that -- it is probably due to the committee/or person rec-ing shows. So thanks to them for this movie. It was cool. It made me think, smile and cry. I liked it a lot.
ep30. If this is a simple role reversal then PeiYi should rescue HuaiJin from his depression and tell him that she really does love him. But she does not because she seems not to understand how she hurt him where he is most vulnerable. "I ruined your revenge, you ruined my marriage" Her version most vicious of noble idiocy -- I cannot be with you because I am cursed to bring bad luck to those I love -- so let me really make you miserable just in case you might run into some bad luck worse than having your heart broken into little pieces. URGH.
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Another dimension to the director's art in such an immense country, erasing regional differences. Choosing the actor's voices....
I mean to be a bit snarky here.
ZLH practically bare-faced of eye make-up, looking masculine and gaunt. Giving and holding the most vulnerable look and gaze. Really thrilling. And really different.
TXW amped up her sincerity to be more direct and relaxed at the same time. No more barf-city bubbly-girl . Fierce, funny, warm and affectionate. I really like her as a working woman.
So, both stretching themselves and doing it masterfully. Making it look easy this time around.
As beautiful, fierce funny and sweet as the butcher's daughter herself.
Talk about lying down with the knife blade.
It takes all sorts.
Watching them ride off into the green mountains in their red gowns, I wished them well in the Wild West of Ancient China.
Please say yes.
This series could actually carry forward because of the restraint it has held to for all these 34 eps.
That wild horseback ride promises more passion but equally controlled?
I am so looking forward to seeing both actors again, too!
I found the scene of Li PeiYi's revelations unconvincing. Maybe I am so used to kdrama, where the scenography would have been dramatic and emotional, whether sad or sweet, the music would have created an emotional arc to the scene as well as the framing.
Perhaps the intention was to create intimacy and comfort, as PeiYi intweracts with the traumatized child.
She apparently sees him attacking an unexplained straw man in the courtyard and sees herself in him. She realizes a thousand things in that instant, which she calmly, without guilt or sadness, explains to him.
She realizes she had ruined her life? I didnt feel it at all.
With all the smart talented technicians at hand this was the best the director and his team could do?
When I first started watching kdrama on netflix years ago they seemed to pick up on interesting shows from Korea. Not the blockbusters they have favored lately.
It would be good if they went back to that -- it is probably due to the committee/or person rec-ing shows. So thanks to them for this movie. It was cool. It made me think, smile and cry. I liked it a lot.
If this is a simple role reversal then PeiYi should rescue HuaiJin from his depression and tell him that she really does love him.
But she does not because she seems not to understand how she hurt him where he is most vulnerable.
"I ruined your revenge, you ruined my marriage"
Her version most vicious of noble idiocy -- I cannot be with you because I am cursed to bring bad luck to those I love -- so let me really make you miserable just in case you might run into some bad luck worse than having your heart broken into little pieces.
URGH.
and we only get one episode of this a day.