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I wanted to see the first episode of My Princess, but the subbing team had the "STOP!" avatar up, which means they're mid-process on the next episode.
So I went to one I'd bookmarked in earlier browsing that had looked fun: 18 vs. 29
Premise:
On her way to bitterly file divorce papers from her high-profile actor husband, Hae-Chan gets in a wreck and loses her memory, back to the day when she hit her head as a high school senior. She wakes up married to the classmate she hates, a housewife taking care of a show-biz figure rather than in show-biz herself, and an ancient 29 years old.
I was feeling a bit in the mood for a rewatch of Couple or Trouble, the Overboard! remake, so this slotted in perfectly. Not sure what's up with the amnesia trend lately--I know it's cliche and unrealistic, but the dynamic of people being thrown together is so much fun...
Anyway, I'm several episodes in, and enjoying the way they bring up something during the episode, where the husband is trying to explain how things develop, and she's not buying it--and they have the actual event shown at the end of the episode, so you're getting some of the evolution of how things came about. It would probably drive me crazy to be stuck with her questioning all the time without that.
The actress is adorable, and manages so well to look like someone child-like. Her way of crying really looks like a child melting down--and the scripting is so her crying is always justified. She just is completely overwhelmed at points, and the very basic detail of holding her hand palm out over her face as she cries makes her so sympathetic. It's the way a toddler cries, actually--and some of the details of her seeming childlike are a bit less like a high-school senior than a younger child, but only as reminders of how at sea she is.
This theme of child-like acting brings us to Prince Turned Frog
This is Dang-Ou.
This is Jun-Hao.
The amazing thing is watching this actor at the cusp between, when he may or may not be remembering a bit about his experiences as the more uncomplicated Dang-Ou (who was never simple, just less entangled) but definitely is coming to feel the same things, under the same influence, if more unwillingly.
The Jun-Hao who is assuming, and consumed with his company and his own image, is starting to melt, and his expressions open up the way he looked as Dang-Ou. It's adorable, and also heart-breaking, in the context.
I completely forgive this guy his stiff and nasal voice. CHOPS. He has them.
He has this trick, as Junhao, of fiddling with his cuffs--except, he's just touching them, not allowing for any restless movement that would show weakness. More a habit of adjusting the lay of them (they're cufflinked, a detail that is quite apt) and yet, when he draws himself up, one hand on that cuff, you know it's him. That's he's probably under attack in some way, but he's acting bored enough to be adjusting his suit.
So I went to one I'd bookmarked in earlier browsing that had looked fun: 18 vs. 29
Premise:
On her way to bitterly file divorce papers from her high-profile actor husband, Hae-Chan gets in a wreck and loses her memory, back to the day when she hit her head as a high school senior. She wakes up married to the classmate she hates, a housewife taking care of a show-biz figure rather than in show-biz herself, and an ancient 29 years old.
I was feeling a bit in the mood for a rewatch of Couple or Trouble, the Overboard! remake, so this slotted in perfectly. Not sure what's up with the amnesia trend lately--I know it's cliche and unrealistic, but the dynamic of people being thrown together is so much fun...
Anyway, I'm several episodes in, and enjoying the way they bring up something during the episode, where the husband is trying to explain how things develop, and she's not buying it--and they have the actual event shown at the end of the episode, so you're getting some of the evolution of how things came about. It would probably drive me crazy to be stuck with her questioning all the time without that.
The actress is adorable, and manages so well to look like someone child-like. Her way of crying really looks like a child melting down--and the scripting is so her crying is always justified. She just is completely overwhelmed at points, and the very basic detail of holding her hand palm out over her face as she cries makes her so sympathetic. It's the way a toddler cries, actually--and some of the details of her seeming childlike are a bit less like a high-school senior than a younger child, but only as reminders of how at sea she is.
This theme of child-like acting brings us to Prince Turned Frog
This is Dang-Ou.
This is Jun-Hao.
The amazing thing is watching this actor at the cusp between, when he may or may not be remembering a bit about his experiences as the more uncomplicated Dang-Ou (who was never simple, just less entangled) but definitely is coming to feel the same things, under the same influence, if more unwillingly.
The Jun-Hao who is assuming, and consumed with his company and his own image, is starting to melt, and his expressions open up the way he looked as Dang-Ou. It's adorable, and also heart-breaking, in the context.
I completely forgive this guy his stiff and nasal voice. CHOPS. He has them.
He has this trick, as Junhao, of fiddling with his cuffs--except, he's just touching them, not allowing for any restless movement that would show weakness. More a habit of adjusting the lay of them (they're cufflinked, a detail that is quite apt) and yet, when he draws himself up, one hand on that cuff, you know it's him. That's he's probably under attack in some way, but he's acting bored enough to be adjusting his suit.
