I already knew I had kdrama addiction, but I realised recently that my illness had mutated into scene addiction too! If viki had a replay count for this scene, I’d have broken some kind of a record by now. @mindy already put up a post sharing this video, and I commented on it too, detailing what I thought were the various emotions KHH, the actress playing Hwi, guided us through (see here: http://www.dramabeans.com/members/mindy/activity/1023786/).
After multiple rewatches, and killing the arrow keys on my board, I realised that the performance was so nuanced, I had missed out on several smaller, finer subtleties in my original list, and this deserved better documentation.
The youtube extract doesn’t capture the whole scene I’m referring to, which starts roughly at 47.00 and runs till 50.30 (roughly 210 seconds). If my description of the scene is accurate, Hwi roughly switched emotions every 10 seconds. That is one helluva range.
Here is what I thought this scene was about:
1. Walking back home on her bike, Hwi is sad when she thinks that ES will not return this time.
2. Hwi sees ES outside their home, and expresses relief through a veil of annoyance by throwing the bike down and punching ES, before storming off.
3. Hwi sneaks back to peek at ES, curious to see what he’s doing.
4. Hwi remarks gloomily that he’s going to leave anyway, and sarcastically tells him to go away.
5. Hwi switches to irritation when she realises he’s still fiddling with her bike, even when she knows he’s planning to go away.
6. She yells at him angrily to leave anyway, dramatically imagining him sailing on a boat in the Pacific.
7. She sighs cathartically after her mini-yelling session.
8. In response to ES’s question of when she ever loved him, she answers indignantly, :from when she was born”, exasperated that he can’t seem to understand it.
9. After ES asks “why” (and that’s his best line in this scene!), she is barely able to hold back tears of sadness+anger+confusion+love while having to break it down for him, “because you are my brother, because you were always my brother, from the time I was born”.
10. Hwi is frustrated – doesn’t ES get it? She can’t do anything about him being her brother, and her loving him for that.
11. And then she swings to a sobbing declaration of hate-love – she hates ES because even as he knows all of this, he ought to know all of this, he’s still going to get on that boat and go away.
12. Then Hwi is just confused by his continued presence – “I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m going to tell Mom and Dad.” – and stomps off in search of their parents.
13. She has just reached the door when she hears ES tell her the saddle was expensive. Like a child being told she’s being given a present, she turns around, her tears stop momentarily, and her face contorts into an expression of curiosity, her eyes rounded.
14. Hwi is secretly surprised and happy that she’s got an expensive gift, stops sniffing and clarifies that’s the case from ES.
15. Hwi then cracks a joke, about ES not having expressed himself to her using material means (even in her emotional breakdown, she is able to see the light side of things!)
16. Hwi is overjoyed at the saddle – it’s the same one she saw in the shop, which she wanted.
17. Hwi berates herself for having mistook the cost of the saddle.
18. Hwi is sarcastic again, telling ES he has a lot of money, and that he should have given her cash instead.
19. Even though she is cracking jokes through dialogue, Hwi’s actions are a stark contrast – she can’t stop staring at the saddle, realising perhaps that this is ES’s way of showing her he loves her too, just as much as she does.
20. Hwi gets angry again, when ES, true to character, tries to lighten the tension by laughing at her crying (just as he did when HW got angry with him for not calling her from Seoul, or inviting her to the book launch) – why is he laughing when she’s crying.
21. After she shoves him out of the way, and gets on the bike, she’s happy the saddle is comfortable.
22. She’s not just happy, she’s delighted! She loves it! She’s forgotten about all the angst she was going through moments before. Her tears have dried up. She has a big smile plastered on her face. ES is happy to see his sister happy. She rides off down the hill, back to her old self, yelling, “Out of my way!”
I’ve not paid much attention to what was said or done by ES/SKJ here, because I think he’s just a prop or an accessory in the entire scene, much like the bicycle or the saddle. I can’t stop fangirling over Kim Hwan Hee – she is just 17! So much more lies ahead for her!
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pickleddragon
April 6, 2020 at 12:11 AM
Kim Hwan Hee’s Playbook of Emotions
I already knew I had kdrama addiction, but I realised recently that my illness had mutated into scene addiction too! If viki had a replay count for this scene, I’d have broken some kind of a record by now. @mindy already put up a post sharing this video, and I commented on it too, detailing what I thought were the various emotions KHH, the actress playing Hwi, guided us through (see here: http://www.dramabeans.com/members/mindy/activity/1023786/).
After multiple rewatches, and killing the arrow keys on my board, I realised that the performance was so nuanced, I had missed out on several smaller, finer subtleties in my original list, and this deserved better documentation.
The youtube extract doesn’t capture the whole scene I’m referring to, which starts roughly at 47.00 and runs till 50.30 (roughly 210 seconds). If my description of the scene is accurate, Hwi roughly switched emotions every 10 seconds. That is one helluva range.
Here is what I thought this scene was about:
1. Walking back home on her bike, Hwi is sad when she thinks that ES will not return this time.
2. Hwi sees ES outside their home, and expresses relief through a veil of annoyance by throwing the bike down and punching ES, before storming off.
3. Hwi sneaks back to peek at ES, curious to see what he’s doing.
4. Hwi remarks gloomily that he’s going to leave anyway, and sarcastically tells him to go away.
5. Hwi switches to irritation when she realises he’s still fiddling with her bike, even when she knows he’s planning to go away.
6. She yells at him angrily to leave anyway, dramatically imagining him sailing on a boat in the Pacific.
7. She sighs cathartically after her mini-yelling session.
8. In response to ES’s question of when she ever loved him, she answers indignantly, :from when she was born”, exasperated that he can’t seem to understand it.
9. After ES asks “why” (and that’s his best line in this scene!), she is barely able to hold back tears of sadness+anger+confusion+love while having to break it down for him, “because you are my brother, because you were always my brother, from the time I was born”.
10. Hwi is frustrated – doesn’t ES get it? She can’t do anything about him being her brother, and her loving him for that.
11. And then she swings to a sobbing declaration of hate-love – she hates ES because even as he knows all of this, he ought to know all of this, he’s still going to get on that boat and go away.
12. Then Hwi is just confused by his continued presence – “I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m going to tell Mom and Dad.” – and stomps off in search of their parents.
13. She has just reached the door when she hears ES tell her the saddle was expensive. Like a child being told she’s being given a present, she turns around, her tears stop momentarily, and her face contorts into an expression of curiosity, her eyes rounded.
14. Hwi is secretly surprised and happy that she’s got an expensive gift, stops sniffing and clarifies that’s the case from ES.
15. Hwi then cracks a joke, about ES not having expressed himself to her using material means (even in her emotional breakdown, she is able to see the light side of things!)
16. Hwi is overjoyed at the saddle – it’s the same one she saw in the shop, which she wanted.
17. Hwi berates herself for having mistook the cost of the saddle.
18. Hwi is sarcastic again, telling ES he has a lot of money, and that he should have given her cash instead.
19. Even though she is cracking jokes through dialogue, Hwi’s actions are a stark contrast – she can’t stop staring at the saddle, realising perhaps that this is ES’s way of showing her he loves her too, just as much as she does.
20. Hwi gets angry again, when ES, true to character, tries to lighten the tension by laughing at her crying (just as he did when HW got angry with him for not calling her from Seoul, or inviting her to the book launch) – why is he laughing when she’s crying.
21. After she shoves him out of the way, and gets on the bike, she’s happy the saddle is comfortable.
22. She’s not just happy, she’s delighted! She loves it! She’s forgotten about all the angst she was going through moments before. Her tears have dried up. She has a big smile plastered on her face. ES is happy to see his sister happy. She rides off down the hill, back to her old self, yelling, “Out of my way!”
I’ve not paid much attention to what was said or done by ES/SKJ here, because I think he’s just a prop or an accessory in the entire scene, much like the bicycle or the saddle. I can’t stop fangirling over Kim Hwan Hee – she is just 17! So much more lies ahead for her!