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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| No, what's funny about Halyu is that the few Korean movies that do get international recognition (and these are pretty good ones too) hardly get noticed in Korea. Just look at what they picked to submit to the Oscars this year. |
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1877594,00.html
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South Korea has picked a low-budget, gay-themed film to be its official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar at the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The King and the Clown, Lee Jun-Ik's film about an effeminate male clown caught between the affections of a 16th-century tyrannical king and the love of a fellow performer, became the unexpected all-time highest-grossing film in the republic early this year - it was reported that one in four South Koreans saw it in cinemas. The film only lost that position this month to The Host, a thriller about a family's fight against a mutant monster. |
왕의 남자 hardly got noticed in Korea? |
A low budget movie by foreign standards, Wang-ui Namja was a rather large production for a Korean movie. I don't buy the 'unexpected success' story, either. Countless TV shows and webpages (internet marketing?) hyped the movie to the point that even my mother-in-law (a conservative church-going little old lady) went to see it...and she didn't even see the Passion of Christ (she hated Wang-ui Namja, by the way). They chose the most popular movie, not the best one (that and they think that the homosexual undertones of the movie might give it a chance at an award). Oh, and don't kid yourself. Most people went to see that movie because they were fascinated by the androgenous good looks of one of the main actors (don't forget that it came out just as the term 'metrosexual' became the new buzz-word in Korea). |
That's all fin and dandy, but I bliv your original claim was that thir Oscar nomination "hardly [got] noticed in Korea". |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: yes |
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| How about 'Starbutts' in Itaewon? |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:47 am Post subject: |
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There is a Starbucks bar in Cheonho. I am fairly certain they didn't get permission.  |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| No, what's funny about Halyu is that the few Korean movies that do get international recognition (and these are pretty good ones too) hardly get noticed in Korea. Just look at what they picked to submit to the Oscars this year. |
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1877594,00.html
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South Korea has picked a low-budget, gay-themed film to be its official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar at the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The King and the Clown, Lee Jun-Ik's film about an effeminate male clown caught between the affections of a 16th-century tyrannical king and the love of a fellow performer, became the unexpected all-time highest-grossing film in the republic early this year - it was reported that one in four South Koreans saw it in cinemas. The film only lost that position this month to The Host, a thriller about a family's fight against a mutant monster. |
왕의 남자 hardly got noticed in Korea? |
A low budget movie by foreign standards, Wang-ui Namja was a rather large production for a Korean movie. I don't buy the 'unexpected success' story, either. Countless TV shows and webpages (internet marketing?) hyped the movie to the point that even my mother-in-law (a conservative church-going little old lady) went to see it...and she didn't even see the Passion of Christ (she hated Wang-ui Namja, by the way). They chose the most popular movie, not the best one (that and they think that the homosexual undertones of the movie might give it a chance at an award). Oh, and don't kid yourself. Most people went to see that movie because they were fascinated by the androgenous good looks of one of the main actors (don't forget that it came out just as the term 'metrosexual' became the new buzz-word in Korea). |
That's all fin and dandy, but I bliv your original claim was that thir Oscar nomination "hardly [got] noticed in Korea". |
No, it was that the better (more artistic) Korean movies, generally those that win awards at international film festivals, hardly every get noticed in Korea. The Wang-ui Namja, by the way, has not been nominated for an Oscar; however, it will be submitted by Korea as it's sole entry into the International category of the Oscars. The nominations will come later. We'll have to see if the movie gets one. |
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