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i caught up on my sleep, paused all my pending kdramas while i& #39;m waiting for ep 4 subs to drop... i rewatched them already so... bear with me... im gonna talk about it... long thread and spoilers ahead... sorry!!!
5 things made fall in love with this drama... the usual stuff... the mood/aesthetics, the writing, the lead actor, the directing/storytelling...
and the editing/ost, both, make reason #5... cuz it made this drama feel like an excursion, at least to me...
i just finished... and i have thoughts...
just me thinking about the 2020 webtoon adaptations i& #39;ve watched so far and how they are not able to compete not even by a narrow margin vs. 4 eps of #HowToBuyAFriend
#HowToBuyAFriend is in a different ballpark imo. it& #39;s compact, by kdrama standards, but it& #39;s also an exercise on precision. i& #39;m naming names: ic, the memorist... hi!!! its absurd and amazing what they were able to pull off and how well they did... they actually did more with less
that is a fact: writing, acting, directing and editing.
and now back to my obviously biased opinion... and the reason i dont recommend sh*t to ppl. again, everything is a personal journey to me, a drama, an album, a movie, a painting, a trip, etc. meaning, i go thru a range of emotions that is hard to explain without sounding craaaazy
as far as i& #39;m concerned, the OST grabbed me way before the drama started... with this trailer. and the rest kinda made sense... it& #39;s daring, fresh, international, nostalgic... it& #39;s like, i wanna be friends with the person that produced it... for real @ me https://youtu.be/zMCxIK4Mx4I ">https://youtu.be/zMCxIK4Mx...
5 min into the 2nd that& #39;s when it start to really notice how they played with it... ost/editing... i was like a double feature... compliment and complemented each other...
the tune played in this scene and the one that follows, the & #39;mind your step/is it safe for crossing& #39; scene, it looked and sounded cartoonish in the best way possible... it had major pink panther vibes... it was also used when park chan hong& #39;s brain cells were manifesting/working.
more on things i liked: mood/aesthetics ~ exhibit a)
~ exhibit b)
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i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues" title="this is literally me as an amateur photographer... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues">
i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues" title="this is literally me as an amateur photographer... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues">
i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues" title="this is literally me as an amateur photographer... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues">
i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues" title="this is literally me as an amateur photographer... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> i was like, that& #39;s how my camera roll looks like when i& #39;m on vacation... it& #39;s the eifell tower/paris effect... u kinda end up with 100+ photos because it looks great and different when seen from a different angle or banlieues">
other thing i liked: the 180 angle character shots
i love this scene...
i mean... i think this falls under directing territory... so s/o to director-nim
i mean...
yep. i& #39;m rewatching it now... yep. "chile, it& #39;s not that deep", i thought to myself a while back. weeeeell, maybe. but for me, it still holds. and def it& #39;s my fave webtoon adaptation, thus far.
the camera work was great, but...
so was the editing and as you know i got soft spot good writing and storytelling... and that did it for me. there were sequences and transitions shots to scenes that i liked.
they could easily take out this scene, put it where it belongs and made it linear, the story...
like, here...
and end it here...
but that was only a story within a story... a backstory.
with endings that weren& #39;t real endings!!! lol
the real story, in my eye... lol
there was great directing. of course. and it shows. the end result wouldn& #39;t be the same without it. BUT, the acting and the casting brought it there. imo
kim in kwon was hilarious in every scene he was in... but lee shin young is also one to watch in future roles.
this scene was hilarious...
he goes from concerned, to clueless, to mature, to loverboy, to big baby energy in one scene...
growth... (character-wise)
