I wish him the best but I'm not setting my hopes high because:
Marvel has already used 2 Korean actors in a negligible role (Claudia Kim in Age of Ultron) and the smallest supporting role (Ma Dong Seok in Eternals) so chances that PSJ is another token casting are high.
The Marvels ( 3 female superheroes team up) is hardly a movie where male characters will matter save the villain and from what I gathered about announced casting, someone else plays the villain. But even so, Marvel villains suck. For every Loki and Thanos there's X number of bad or forgettable ones.
When Korean actors snag leading roles like Chinese actors (Simu Liu, Shang-Chi; Gemma Chan, Eternals) than we can talk. Though, technically, Awkwafina, who is Korean- Chinese mix, and has a big, love interest role in Shang-Chi, would count as Korean in an important role.
I'm very recent to dramas (October 2020) but I love big budget ones with epic scope. So my faves are Kingdom, Arthdal Chronicles, Sweet Home, CLOY, Vincenzo. My fave movies are all horror: Train to Busan, #Alive and The Host.
I also prefer actors to actresses because actors are less prone to overacting and when they go over the top they are usually endearing. FLs tend to be too stuck up and annoying don't know why but I dock many dramas points thanks to insufferable FL.
I also find romance to be pretty bad because it's so ridiculously chaste which is a stark contrast to absolutely gory and graphic violence. Like, if you can show heads blown off and body parts cut than you can show tasteful sex.
I for one don't want dramas to check diversity boxes and look like American dramas. The reason why I escape to…
deal! will watch Wandavision. I always liked her character and thought that they didn't tap into her potential in the movies despite super talented actress. Glad Wandavision rectifies that.
I for one don't want dramas to check diversity boxes and look like American dramas. The reason why I escape to…
all of this. Boiling the frog. They lure you with honest content and then start sneaking agenda into it. By the time you notice, too late. Same thing Marvel did. It's so pozzed now I'm not watching anymore. Endgame was a nice cap-off but now enough is enough.
I like this approach to diversity. It makes sense in the context of the drama, and even though I know there will…
I for one don't want dramas to check diversity boxes and look like American dramas. The reason why I escape to dramas is precisely that there's no box checking and identity politics.
"I also agree that the value of catharsis is often underrated. People often turn their nose up at romantic melodramas…
exactly. like the chaebol prince and cinderella. worked in, I dunno, Boys Over Flowers but doesn't in most knock-offs cause everyone can see it's a lesser knock off. it was fresh first time around but after that it's just lazy.
I think it might from two possible featured interviews, one on the reality show “ Twogether” ( alongside Korean…
this. also judging by Twogather, he can speak Korean well enough to answer questions. BTW, Twogather did him a bit dirty. It was still more focused on LSG despite the concept indicating they were equals and in the final moments of the last episode, he and his fans were barely on screen because LSG and his did all the talking. That was a big NO for me. He's very handsome and super adorable, screw that biased Korean producer.
I love romances and I've always been a defender of the trope-y rom com, yet lately I've actually found myself…
"I also agree that the value of catharsis is often underrated. People often turn their nose up at romantic melodramas for being unrealistic or overdramatic, but if they succeed in evoking the intended emotions, why should they be valued less than some mystery with an intricate plot that keeps people guessing? Just like the mystery's aim is to keep people on their toes, the melodrama's aim is to make people cry."
this. Tropes are necessary because they drive any story. You know that they are used well when they evoke the desired emotional resonse and you don't catch yourself thinking about them. But if you watch soemthing and go "oh no, not this trope aagin" that means that suspension of disbelief isn't there and that drama is doing something wrong (bad writing, bad chemistry, both, etc).
Well I am a guy and I enjoy romcoms a lot, not as much as thriller but more than enough to acknowledge it. Let…
awesome feedback! I'm glad that this editorial started a very interesting conversation that show different perspectives on what romance in dramas is right and what is underwhelming. let me tell you this, love triangles can **** off! I don't get the point of them at all because:
a) if one member of the triangle isn't worth it than why he or she is there since endgame is obivous in most dramas anyway?
b) if both are worthy than why drag a decent character into predictable outcome and annoy fans who were rooting for him/her? (example: True Beauty where more fans sided with Hwang Im Yeop's character than with Cha Eun Woo's)
In short, pointless and bad foundation for drama cause it isn't real drama (since we can guess the edngame).
Indeed. Romance gets a lot of bad rep mostly because of campy romcoms & corny melos, which is quite reductive,…
yes, genre isn't bad but most of content that it makes seems to be campy romcoms and corny melos (excellent phrases!). My guess is because they are cheap. You can't produce Titanic 10 times a year and movies that are essentially a romance but with other genre built around it (see other James Cameron movies such as Terminator, Abyss, Avatar) are considered that other genre despite romantic essence/central story.
Jesper is freakin adorable! I've just finished his and Lee Seung-gi's travelog Twogether and they are :heart: :heart: heart:
I think that romance is udnerrated for the following reasons:
Most critics are men and they view romance as genre for women so they review romance harsher either because they don't get it or because they don't want to appear soft. This is not to say that men don't like it (I never understood their fascination with 500 Days of Summer) but it isn't their favored genre
Like any other genre, there are movies and shows with bad romance which doesn't make the genre itself bad. yet for probably above mentioned reason, romance genre got a bad rep while other genres that also produce bad content (action, drama, comedy, horror, etc) didn't.
Finally, I think that women also rate bad romance harsher than lets say how men rate bad action. Since romance is about relationships, there's more emotional investment so if it's badly executed, writtern, acted, etc than response is going to be stronger than about something that doesn't impacts us emotionally.
Marvel has already used 2 Korean actors in a negligible role (Claudia Kim in Age of Ultron) and the smallest supporting role (Ma Dong Seok in Eternals) so chances that PSJ is another token casting are high.
The Marvels ( 3 female superheroes team up) is hardly a movie where male characters will matter save the villain and from what I gathered about announced casting, someone else plays the villain. But even so, Marvel villains suck. For every Loki and Thanos there's X number of bad or forgettable ones.
When Korean actors snag leading roles like Chinese actors (Simu Liu, Shang-Chi; Gemma Chan, Eternals) than we can talk. Though, technically, Awkwafina, who is Korean- Chinese mix, and has a big, love interest role in Shang-Chi, would count as Korean in an important role.
I also prefer actors to actresses because actors are less prone to overacting and when they go over the top they are usually endearing. FLs tend to be too stuck up and annoying don't know why but I dock many dramas points thanks to insufferable FL.
I also find romance to be pretty bad because it's so ridiculously chaste which is a stark contrast to absolutely gory and graphic violence. Like, if you can show heads blown off and body parts cut than you can show tasteful sex.
this. Tropes are necessary because they drive any story. You know that they are used well when they evoke the desired emotional resonse and you don't catch yourself thinking about them. But if you watch soemthing and go "oh no, not this trope aagin" that means that suspension of disbelief isn't there and that drama is doing something wrong (bad writing, bad chemistry, both, etc).
a) if one member of the triangle isn't worth it than why he or she is there since endgame is obivous in most dramas anyway?
b) if both are worthy than why drag a decent character into predictable outcome and annoy fans who were rooting for him/her? (example: True Beauty where more fans sided with Hwang Im Yeop's character than with Cha Eun Woo's)
In short, pointless and bad foundation for drama cause it isn't real drama (since we can guess the edngame).
I think that romance is udnerrated for the following reasons:
Most critics are men and they view romance as genre for women so they review romance harsher either because they don't get it or because they don't want to appear soft. This is not to say that men don't like it (I never understood their fascination with 500 Days of Summer) but it isn't their favored genre
Like any other genre, there are movies and shows with bad romance which doesn't make the genre itself bad. yet for probably above mentioned reason, romance genre got a bad rep while other genres that also produce bad content (action, drama, comedy, horror, etc) didn't.
Finally, I think that women also rate bad romance harsher than lets say how men rate bad action. Since romance is about relationships, there's more emotional investment so if it's badly executed, writtern, acted, etc than response is going to be stronger than about something that doesn't impacts us emotionally.