Rebirth of the Director in Korea

“The King and The Clown” is on fire. As for how far you live? Go into the cinema and take a look.

“The King and The Clown” set a record on the day of its premiere. According to the survey of the audience’s perception, the film created a high score of 9.23. This is higher than the 9.21 rating of the film “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War” that had the largest number of breakthrough audiences in South Korea’s history.

As of January 1, 2006, “The King and The Clown” has had 1.12 million breakthrough viewers across the country. Due to its unbearable popularity, many theaters have begun to add more theaters. .

“Bring me two movie tickets for the most recent show “The King and The Clown”!”

In a movie theater in Jiangbei District, Seoul, a man waved the banknote in his hand at Said the conductor.

“Not good means, there is only one ticket left for the most recent movie “The King and The Clown”, do you think you need it?” The conductor inquired about the ticket system of the theater, It shows that the seats in the theater with a hundred people have almost all turned red, leaving only a solitary position on the very edge of the front row, which is not the most suitable position for watching movies.

“Then, forget it!” The man turned his head and waited for his girlfriend to reject the proposal not far behind him, and then asked: “So when is the next game?”

“The next one is half an hour later, at 19:30.” The conductor inquired about the theater system and said.

“Well, book me for this show, two seats in a row!”

The man handed over the money, and the conductor stretched out his hands to take the money and call it out I bought two tickets, “Sir, your tickets!”

“Okay, thank you!”

Although I only bought tickets for the next movie, I can already buy It’s not bad. He had heard about it before he came to the cinema to watch the movie. It was said that the movie is currently showing in the theater, and the ticket for “The King and The Clown” is in short supply. Everyone is looking for the movie promotion. In general, the publicity of CJ Entertainment and Lotte Entertainment was adequate. A few days after the premiere ceremony, the audience’s word of mouth attracted many new audiences.

This theater in Jiangbei District is not small, and there are normally a lot of visitors. However, on the first day of the new year, there are so many people who come here to watch movies. There are men, women and children, everyone. Unanimously choose to come to the cinema to relax on this day, and take the wife and child to watch a movie feast that belongs to the family. Isn’t this a very warm thing?

“Mother, look at “Ice Age 2: Melt”, let’s go watch this!” The little girl jumped to her parents’ side, and pointed to the three-dimensional 3D poster standing aside and said, “That Little Squirrel is so cute!”

The gentle woman smiled and touched her daughter’s head, and then said: “Do you like this Little Squirrel?”

I heard mother The little girl was nodded desperately, and the clear and cute childish voice definitely said: “I like it, Little Squirrel in the movie is too cute, always working hard for its pine cones!”

” This is what you thought of yourself?” She really didn’t think that her daughter could think so deeply. Let’s not say whether her Teacher taught her the word’work hard’. It’s just that she can think of it from the movie. It’s very good.

While speaking, she squatted down and looked at her daughter, with a spoiled and happy smile on her face, “Our family’s Eun Xing grew up and is a big girl. !” As he said, he stretched out his fingers and lightly nodded the tip of his daughter’s nose, with a face of dozing.

“Mother, can we raise a Little Squirrel?” The little girl raised her head and looked at her expectantly.

“Well, you are going to ask about your father!”

When my mother said that, the little girl turned her coquettish gaze to the tall father who had a tall figure on the side. The little hand tightly pulled the corner of his clothes and pleaded: “Father, can I raise a Little Squirrel in our house?”

“Enxing, this is not good!” The man heard his daughter’s words. There was a trace of heartbeat in my heart, but I still shook the head firmly. The small animal like squirrel was still too insecure. What if I accidentally caught my daughter and scratched it? Although normally he is a careless man, he always thinks about long-term things as long as things are about his daughter.

“Why?” The little girl cried her face, pursed her lips, and was about to cry. It looked like, “I will teach it, not let it urinate anywhere!”

When they heard the innocent words of their daughter, the parents laughed happily.

“The audience of the movie “Ice Age 2: Melting” that leaves at 19:10 can check in!”

The broadcast has begun to broadcast the check information in a loop, this one The three heard the broadcast. The man took his daughter in one hand and his wife in the other. The family came to the ticket gate with a smile and prepared to enter the venue.

“Hey, look at her husband!” Suddenly the woman grabbed her husband’s hand and cry out in surprise.

“What?”

“Hurry up and watch this movie. A colleague in our company mentioned this movie “The King and The Clown” during a chat. They They all say that this movie is pretty good!” The woman explained to herself openly.

“Really? Then let’s watch this one after a while?” the man suggested.

“But it says that you can watch it over the age of fifteen.” The woman shook the head with some regret.

“Well, then we can only see when we have time!” Then, the man touched his daughter’s head and whispered, “Eunsing, you should be healthy in the future. Grow up happily!”

“Husband, let’s go in, the movie is about to begin.”

Time has entered the 21st century, and everyone likes to use data to speak. The same is true in film circles.

“The King and The Clown” is very popular. It not only maxed out the Internet, forums and websites, but also aroused a heated discussion about “Beautiful Boys” and “Same-Sex Love”. Online is hot, and offline audiences have crowded movie theaters across the country.

As of January 1, “The King and The Clown” had a breakthrough of 1.12 million viewers nationwide. The theaters began to increase the number of screenings, but they still couldn’t resist the enthusiasm of the audience. The original drama “Er” resumed its performance on the 1st because of the film’s expert spirit, and pre-sale tickets for the drama, musical and dance department, Ranked 1st.

Because of the hot screening of “The King and The Clown,” drama collections containing the original play “Er” are also selling well in bookstores. In the early 2003 edition, a revised version of the series has been released for 3 weeks. It was out of stock due to expert anger. Many people rushed into the bookstore not only to read books, but also to grab books. “The King” has just arrived. “and The Clown” drama set was out of stock again within half an hour.

On January 6, the movie “The King and The Clown” was released after nine days, the number of viewers reached the national breakthrough audience of 2 million, and the pre-sale tickets ranked first on the movie pre-sale list. , Monopolizes nearly 50% of the share.

This time JHJFilm, CJ Entertainment, Lotte Film and Television are all laughing, this result can only be summarized in two words, awesome!

“Director Lee Joon-ik, thank you this time!”

Chief-In-Charge Kang Sung-sin of Lotte Films and Television took up the wine glass on the table. Said.

“Where, where, the performance of the movie can be so good now, and it is also inseparable from the vigorous promotion of CJ Entertainment and Lotte Film and Television!” Lee Joon-ik also smiled and picked up the wine glass on the table. After drinking, “Let’s eat, eat! Talk while eating, talk while eating!”

“Haha, good, eat and talk!” Chief-In- from CJ Entertainment Charge Lee Sung-in picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the dish. The laughter seemed very refreshing.

On the 8th night, the chief-in-charge producers and distributors behind the scenes of “The King and The Clown” all gathered together, one for the week after the movie “The King and The Clown” was released. Secondly, this is also a celebration banquet. The movie has been released for a week, and the score has already been watched with 3 million. It seems that this momentum is better than last year’s “Welcome to Dongmakgol” Be fierce; three is also to start preparing for “The King and The Clown” to prepare for overseas film festivals. After all, the film scores are so good, I always feel a bit of a loss if I don’t take a walk, after all, in Lee Joon- ik seems that the literary and artistic nature of the film is still there.

On the table, Jung Hyuk-jae sits beside Lee Joon-ik. While eating vegetables, he chats with the big guys around him from time to time. Regarding the three The question is, the first two are still very reliable. After such a good result, the follow-up publicity will definitely not fall, and the cost of publicity has to be added a little more; in addition, with such a good result, a celebration banquet is also appropriate. After all, everyone has worked hard. It’s been so long, so I should treat myself. As for the third one, preparing for overseas film festivals, Jung Hyuk-jae is so confident about this.

“The King and The Clown” is a good movie. It takes the emotional entanglement of three men as its theme. It is also considered an innovation in South Korea movies. However, if it explores the issue of homosexuality, From a point of view, this movie does not seem to have much new ideas. It is still very different from the neighboring country “Farewell My Concubine”. At least in terms of artistry, it is not as profound as Lee Joon-ik thought. The movie describes it. There are so many twists and turns, and the storytelling rhythm of the whole film is obviously slow. If you want to participate in overseas film festivals, these shortcomings alone are enough to be shot. If you run domestic Baeksang, Blue Dragon, Grand Bell, etc., the probability of winning is the greatest. of.

But to speak of which, Jung Hyuk-jae really doesn’t really care about these awards. After all, “The King and The Clown” is still a commercial film adapted from a stage play. Perhaps this commercial film has added some elements of literary and artistic films, adding a love scene between the three men, but it is still a commercial film. What is the most important thing about the commercial film? Of course it is at the box office! As long as the box office of “The King and The Clown” is high enough, it is enough in Jung Hyuk-jae’s heart.

But if you want to give it a try, maybe this World has changed because of your arrival in the world line? “The King and The Clown” won an award overseas, and naturally it can stimulate the domestic box office even more.

……. .

In a movie theater near Cheongdam-dong, a group of three or four young girls came out of the movie theater. Two of them still had tears on their faces. They were obviously moved by watching the movie. Although these girls are not too old, they are all kind of beautiful women. When they grow up a little longer and walk on the street, they must be the most attractive beauties.

“-eonni, won’t you be moved after watching the movie?” Im Yoon-a has red eyes, just like Brat, although he doesn’t particularly understand the kind of man shown in the movie. However, the lines and soundtrack of the movie still touched her. It was clearly a tragedy, and people just wanted to cry.

Im Yoon-a shouted “-eonni” and said it was Kim Tae-yeon on the side. He was only one year older than her. According to the South Korea algorithm, he was two years old. But Kim Tae-yeon’s performance was too calm. After watching the movie, he looked like a okay person, which made Im Yoon-a a little bit unbearable.

“Moved, I am so moved after watching it!” Kim Tae-yeon said nodded as he spoke, obviously a little perfunctory, just now he yawned while talking and came out of the cinema, cold wind After blowing, she was a little more sober.

Speaking, Jung Min-joo walking aside suddenly laughed, pointed at Kim Tae-yeon and said, “I saw it when I was in the cinema just now, Tae-yeon was lying on the seat I fell asleep!”

“No way, -eonni!” Im Yoon-a only felt incredible for a while. In her opinion, the movie “The King and The Clown” is not of that kind. It’s especially good-looking, it’s fascinating at first sight, but at least Im Yoon-a can see it too. Didn’t expect Kim Tae-yeon, the oldest in her entire group, to fall asleep while watching the movie.

“Although this movie was not directed by Hyuk-jae Oppa, but the name of Oppa was also seen at first in the movie. Even our movie tickets were given to us by Hyuk-jae Oppa. Sister Min-joo went back and said to Oppa, -eonni, you fell asleep while watching a movie, what would Hyuk-jae Oppa think?” Im Yoon-a of black-belly sneered while hehe in his heart, and threatened his mouth. Dao, tease-eonni or something, this feeling is really great, and Im Yoon-a, who is a little trembling in his heart, thinks so.

“I didn’t fall asleep, but I was a little tired from training recently, so I accidentally took a nap near the end of the movie!” Hearing Im Yoon-a’s false accusation against himself, Kim Tae-yeon was a little anxious, a pink face turned red because of the anxiety, and he hurried to explain.

Because the recent training is a bit too tiring, Kim Tae-yeon will fall asleep in the cinema halfway through the movie, and she doesn’t even say anything in the second half. I don’t know, after more than two hours and nearly three hours, the length of the movie is a bit too long, so she couldn’t help but fall asleep.

“Sister Min-joo, don’t you think?” Im Yoon-a handed Jung Min-joo aside, winking at her as he spoke.

“Yes!” As an accomplice Jung Min-joo nodded with a smile.

There is only Kim Tae-yeon with a flushed face on the side. No explanation is possible. Im Yoon-a and Jung Min-joo look at each other and smile, Haha, finally cheated She is!

Seeing this, Kim Tae-yeon realized this, his face turned red because of anger, “Yah!! Im Yoon-a, don’t run!”