Comments on: Drama prospect on the horizon for Jeon Ji-hyun

By: mzpakipot

mzpakipot — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:38:22 +0000

re: Blood
i really thought that JJH did her part acting-wise, even her english and japanese were good. I totally agree, the script was disastrous! The only good scenes for me were between Saya and the old man. The CGIs weren’t done right, and it looked so obviously fake!

Any news yet? I hope she already pick her next drama or project.

By: Toya

Toya — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:00:56 +0000

You know why Blood did poorly? Because they strayed away from the original storyline too far. They added some useless girl in the dynamic, changed David’s name to Micheal and killed him early (why his name matters I’ll add a tidbit later), made the agency Saya worked for into the enemy and had some gay ass excuse that the big boss at the end was Saya’s mother which went down like Darth Vader-Luke death match gone sour. Oh and the fact that whoever wrote the script dumbed down Saya so she could have a human partner in the annoying girl that was always with her.

She did a good job, she looked the part, it’s the directors, producers, and script writer that messed up.

As for the David thing. Well, Blood and Blood+ kept it consistent. In Blood+ There was a David and David the Second (the son of the original David if I remember correctly). Three things that pissed me off about this as a fan of both the original anime movie and the TV series:

1) David in the movie was like her handler. He got her weapons when she needed it, helped her with covers, and when she needed someone to help kill shit he was there.

2) There was no real reason to change his name to Micheal. Why was it changed? No clue. True it makes no difference if he was David, Micheal or Goliath, but then again the question pops up, then why change the name to begin with?

3) They killed off the one guy that didn’t die in the original to further a plot line that made no damn sense, and went nowhere because the bastard that kills David/Micheal gets killed at the army base and doesn’t help to further the plot whatsoever. Maybe they were going for the “human beings can be monsters too” approach, but then this is a vampire killing vampire flick, did we really need to care about the human relation aspect of the film? Isn’t that why we had to put up with the stupid girl who was no help to anyone running around screaming? Kinda reminds me of the first Hellboy movie with the guy the “father” assigns to him. There was no point to his existence, so what happened to him? The second movie they wrote him out.

Yeah… Anyhoo (after going on a crazy rant of why they ruined her HW debut movie) I am glad she is going to be in something else because I liked her acting to begin with and Blood really was just another American blunder in trying to show an Anime as Live-Action (reference to another one they blundered but luckily it never made it to air: look on youtube for the Sailor Moon American Pilot **gag**).

By: belleza

belleza — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:26:21 +0000

“Lee Byung Hun or Song Hye Kyo would be back doing TV”

Speaking of, I can’t wait for the next LBH/SHK drama, “When Hell Freezes Over.” (But, hey, at least SHK and LBH can now publicly sit in the same theater. Even though erm it still feels really awkward ) Never thought LBH would come back to TV — that guy really paid his TV drama dues.

Much like Kim Tae Hee, I think JJH would be much further along as an actress had she gone the conventional route and pursued TV as well as movies. I’m glad SHK is back, but for whatever reason, she feels like an ajumma to me now.

By: Kobe

Kobe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:52:52 +0000

Well…a lot of people didn’t think Lee Byung Hun or Song Hye Kyo would be back doing TV, but they did! That’s the thing I love about k-dramas, you actually get A-list actors doing TV, unlike in America where you only get actors who never really made it in the movie industry.

By: belleza

belleza — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:54:02 +0000

@janderdella,

“hmm.. how about jun ji hyun being partnered by rain?? ”

I strongly believe that neither JJH nor Rain would do another TV project unless there’s major attached wattage. The sexual chemistry between the two would be scary good.

I mean, really, if the Four Seasons ever happened, China would never be the same lol.

By: janerdelle

janerdelle — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:38:02 +0000

hmm.. how about jun ji hyun being partnered by rain?? there have been talks about ji hyun/rain tv project but it was posponed or shelved indifenitely..:)

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:40:09 +0000

I would be very interested in seeing her in a drama. I really liked her spunky and quirky character in My Sassy Girl, she knows how to do slapstick, that’s for sure!

By: Shay

Shay — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:26:20 +0000

Considering her status in the Korean entertainment industry, it’s quite surprising that she`s rarely seen in dramas.
She`s my idol, so I can`t wait for a drama starring her

By: peanut butter

peanut butter — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:43:20 +0000

haha, my sassy girl. that was one of my favorite movies just because it didnt portrary an annoying, dependent girl. i actually didnt watch il mare but will see if she does anything in the future.

By: mzpakipot

mzpakipot — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:28:16 +0000

That’s good news! She’s one of my top Five K-actresses before Im So-jung. I maybe bias about her acting, because I thought she did an awesome job with My Sassy Girl and iL Mare. And her performances in those two films made me one of her biggest fan. I too, hope that the project (or any project) with Rain will be a go.