I Was Mistaken as a Monstrous Genius Actor - Chapter 336
I Was Mistaken as a Monstrous Genius Actor Chapter 336
The largest theater among large movie theaters in Tokyo. The ending credits were in full swing in the theater where hundreds of reporters and others sat in the audience. From the movie title to the actors who appeared in it. Hundreds of spectators are all watching letters printed in white on a large screen.
“……”
“……”
He had a lost face. The expression of being hit hard in the back of the head. I was full of embarrassment and absurdity. Although each person’s emotions were slightly different, what they had in common was that the movie they had just seen was an extreme culture shock.
The movie they watched was ‘The Strange Sacrifice of a Stranger.’
Of course, this is a preview, not an official screening.
‘Unfamiliar Gisaeng’ was holding its first press preview today. The press preview was held with hundreds of reporters as well as media personnel and film critics gathered here. There are many types of previews other than the general VIP blind, but the press preview was the most important.
Because it is directly related to public relations and marketing.
Of course, publishing articles right after the preview is prohibited, but when the timing is right, articles related to the movie pour in. Those articles are the information that the public can check through searches before the release of a movie.
In other words, it was safe to say that it determined the first image of the movie.
Spoilers other than the direct story or ending of the movie are prohibited in the article, but the reporter’s own feelings or brief descriptions of the content are permitted. At this point, film production companies hold the largest press preview and prepare for several episodes.
The same was true for the ‘Unfamiliar Gisaeng’ side.
However, the size of ‘Familiar Gisaeng’ was more than double the size of a normal preview. It was pre-determined by director Kyotaro and the film company, and as a result, a large number of people flocked to this large theater, far exceeding the number of people attending a normal screening. Several preview rounds were also increased several times.
Anyway, the gray-haired man sitting at the far right of the front row among the audience watching the ending credits on the screen.
“hmm.”
It was the master director Kyotaro, who directed ‘The Stranger.’ Of course, next to Director Kyotaro were five or six leading actors from ‘Familiar Parasite’, including top Japanese actor Mana Kosaku. They were in attendance for the stage greetings that took place after the first preview.
In fact, only director Kyotaro and the actors had calm faces.
Some of the actors seemed a bit flushed.
‘also! When I see it on the screen, the tension increases several times and it’s completely different from what I saw during the test!’
It was generally calm. It was natural because they had already tested the finished product.
On the other hand.
‘……Huh! What did I just see??
The host of the preview, who was sitting in the same row as director Kyotaro and the actors of ‘The Stranger,’ holding a hand microphone in one hand, could not take his eyes off the screen. I opened my mouth slightly. His face was full of shock, just like the hundreds of reporters behind him. As the host, he even read the original ‘Familiar Gisaeng’ book several times in the past.
That’s why it was even more difficult to accept the movie ‘Unfamiliar Parasite’ that I just watched.
‘I knew there would be some degree of adaptation or modification, but they put a knife to it like this? Even the ending! This is completely different from the original!!’
Because the ending of the original work and the movie were 180 degrees different.
‘The ending of this movie…is it really okay??! I think it will just flip over when opened???’
About halfway through the end credits of ‘Familiar Parasite’, the lights in the dark large theater came on. And then, instead of the ending credits, other letters began to appear on the screen. Of course Japanese.
-[The Stranger’s Bizarre Sacrifice/Stage Greetings]
The timing for Director Kyotaro and the Japanese actors who were waiting to move in front of the screen. Before that, a bewildered host stood in front of the screen.
“…Well then! “We will bring you the main characters of ‘Unfamiliar Gisaeng.’”
It started around this time.
“Hey, why does this movie end like this??”
The mutterings of hundreds of reporters and media representatives filling the audience suddenly began to increase the decibel level.
“Did it end like that?! Does it really end like that? With Kang Woo-jin’s face???”
“In that case, Kang Woo-jin is the mainstay… The ending is different from the original? “That too badly.”
“Director Kyotaro Tanoguchi is crazy. “If I release it like this, I don’t know what kind of criticism I’ll get from strong fans of the original work-”
Because the accident that had come to a halt due to shock gradually resolved.
“Are you saying that you deny causal retribution or that it has no meaning?? And I also changed the setting of the main character, Kiyoshi!”
“Did they change Kiyoshi’s settings because of the casting of Kang Woo-jin?”
“Did the original author, Akari, really approve this? That doesn’t make sense. “The ending is harsh.”
“This is tantamount to trampling on the unwritten rules of the current Japanese content market.”
“If the public sees this ‘unfamiliar parasite’… it will be an accident, and that will be a huge accident!”
Hundreds of reporters, every single one, expressed shock and horror. At the same time, I recalled the contents of ‘The Stranger’ that I had just seen. The other person is ‘Iyota Kiyoshi’. In other words, Kang Woo-jin’s meticulous murder plan, a story that reflects Japan’s reality so clearly, and a ridiculous ending that ends with a close-up of Woo-jin at the end.
Hundreds of reporters going from excitement to frenzy.
Meanwhile, Japanese actors, starting with director Kyotaro, stood in a straight line in front of the screen. All of the reporters who were buzzing excessively suddenly raised their cameras and took pictures of the main characters of ‘Unfamiliar Parasite’. A flash went off like lightning.
-Pababababak!
This was not a positive shutter sound. A major controversy will soon erupt and a backlash against the disaster will ensue. Whatever the expression, it was like gathering information in preparation for a war that would break out throughout Japan. Film critics, who had been quiet among the reporters, saw something different in ‘The Stranger.’
‘End result – Yes, I predicted that this kind of interpretation would appear in Japan someday. I didn’t know that director Kyotaro Tanoguchi would do that. It’s also a work by author Akari. By the way, Kang Woo-jin…what on earth is acting? It’s as if they took Kiyoshi and filmed it, right??’
It was Kang Woo-jin. To be exact, his acting.
‘Maybe it’s because he’s such a hot topic, but honestly, I can only see Kang Woo-jin in terms of acting.’
‘The final cut will probably cause great controversy in Japan. There are so many fans of ‘Unfamiliar Gisaeng’ that it will be absurd in their eyes. But in my eyes…I think it’s at least the best ending of the year. In particular, Kang Woo-jin’s eyes really gave me goosebumps.’
They were critics who reviewed almost all Japanese films. Unlike hundreds of reporters, their evaluation was not bad.
‘Direction, sound and acting. There was no shortage. No, it was full and overflowing. In particular, Kiyoshi’s piano scene and the scene where he appears to have multiple personalities left an impression.’
‘I think a great work was selected in another sense.’
Either way, the frenzied reporters fired their flashlights like crazy and bombarded Director Kyotaro and the actors with questions as if they couldn’t stand it anymore.
“#)(%*#()%*(!!!”
“%(%*)(#%*)(#%*!!!”
It’s hard to understand what’s being said because they are all mixed together. All of the hundreds of reporters Currently, I was thinking about the production presentation for ‘Familiar Gisaeng’. It was Kang Woo-jin’s line that set off a bomb there.
‘I think the number of viewers will be over 20 million.’
‘I think it is the first film that will have a big impact on the Japanese film industry. Many people Things are going to change.’
Soon, a question from a reporter barely reached the ears of Director Kyotaro, who was standing in front of the screen.
“Director!! Are you really going to release it like this??! Then a nuclear bomb-level controversy will explode!!?”
A hand was raised from the frozen host. Director Kyotaro, who was handed the microphone, smiled leisurely.
“It doesn’t matter. Reporters, please write articles with as much emotion as possible in the future.”
This situation was the same at another press preview held two hours later.
Hundreds
of people here . Because reporters also fell into the Great Depression.
Meanwhile, in France.
It was the morning of the 29th here. However, Nice Airport, which is close to Cannes, was crowded from early morning. The airport lobby was so crowded that there was no space to walk. It was crowded with people from all over the world.
The reason was simple.
It was because of the ‘Cannes Film Festival’, a world-class film festival scheduled to open tomorrow, where many global stars arrived long ago. There were over 4,000 invited reporters and tens of thousands of official invitees. But that was a big deal. Tourists from all over the world came to see the Cannes Film Festival. The number was approaching hundreds of thousands. Although they already started arriving last week, Nice Airport is still exploding with tourists. Their
destination, of course, was Cannes, France.
It was about an hour away from Nice, and it was a day before a huge film festival. Cannes literally had an overwhelming festival feel. All of the 5-star hotels and small lodgings in Cannes were already fully booked. Although it was a small city, there were crowds of people on the sidewalks. Huge billboards for the Cannes Film Festival hung all over the city. Promotional flags hung on every street lamp and here and there on the roads. Pamphlets being distributed, etc.
At this point, among the crowd of people of all races, Koreans were easily visible.
“Here, here! Take a picture of me here!”
“Oh, but there are so many people.”
“Quickly, take a picture!” “There are many places to go.”
As it was the day before the Cannes Film Festival, there was a lot to see. Just looking at people will make the day disappear like a crab’s eye. Among the many attractions, what particularly stood out were the movie posters distributed throughout the city. These were 20 movie posters that were invited to the main ‘competition section’ of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
It was printed out on a monitor, posted on the wall of a building, made into a pamphlet, or even seen on the side of a bus.
There were a lot of cameras around the posters.
Reporters and broadcasting stations teams from around the world are taking posters. There is nothing better than the invited works that can capture the local situation at the Cannes Film Festival. Since all of the main awards, including the Cannes Film Festival’s highest award, the Palme d’Or, as well as the Best Director Award and Best Actor Award, come from the ‘competitive section’, attention is bound to be focused.
Therefore, poster promotion is essential.
It was quite an interesting sight to see foreign broadcasting teams gathering around the ‘Competition Category’ posters, and of course, among the broadcasting teams from various countries, there was also a Korean one.
Even now, a team was filming in the empty space.
“here? “Can I stand here?”
“Good – just right!”
“I’ll start with rehearsal.”
“okay!”
A female reporter holding a hand microphone and a large camera filming it. A few team members around. Next to the camera, there is a label for Korean public broadcaster MBS. From anyone’s perspective, it was MBS’s news team. They sat down in front of a large poster hung in the form of a large banner on a building.
Soon, a female reporter stood in front of the camera so that the large poster behind her could be seen clearly.
“I’m in Cannes, France. There’s a huge crowd here for the ‘Cannes Film Festival’ that’s opening tomorrow afternoon. Can you see the big poster behind me? This is the poster for director Anga Bok’s ‘Leech’.”
The full body of ‘Park Ha-seong’ is half-occupied in a dark background. He was looking at a family photo, and the frame included members of the chaebol family, including Chairman Yoon Jeong-bae. ‘Park Ha-seong’, reflected in the glass of the picture frame, was smiling, but he had a creepy expression on his face. The poster itself depicts Ripley Syndrome, but you won’t know until you see the movie.
One thing is clear here.
“The poster with a large drawing of Kang Woo-jin is impressive.”
Kang Woo-jin’s face was displayed on a large screen in Cannes, France, where hundreds of thousands of international stars and tourists flocked.
“’Leech’ is the only Korean film to enter the ‘competition section’ of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and is drawing great expectations. Even now, foreign reporters and teams from overseas broadcasting stations are filming ‘leech’ posters…” This
meant that the war had already begun.
Late morning on the 30th.
A rope fence was erected in front of the arrival hall door of a large airport, and a crowd of at least 300 people was crowded on both sides of it. What’s unusual is that they are all of different races. It seemed as if people from many countries were mixed together.
That was true.
More than 300 people were reporters dispatched from various countries. Meanwhile, dozens of Korean reporters were also seen. All the reporters sitting or climbing on small ladders were holding cannon-like cameras.
It was definitely worth it.
International stars have been appearing at the arrival hall of this airport for a few days now. There were numerous celebrities, actors, sports stars, etc.
At this time.
-Smurf.
The arrival hall door opened. At the same time, reporters of hundreds of races began frantically pressing their shutters.
-Babababababaak!
Soon, a black-haired Korean actor appeared in front of reporters. His outfit was natural with a zip-up hood, but his expression was extremely tough. There was no sign of surprise upon seeing hundreds of reporters.
“……”
He just raised his hand indifferently.
-Bababababababak!
A barrage of flashes pouring down on him.
A few tens of minutes later, articles with the same content began to flood in Korea. All of the articles had a photo of an actor plastered across the front page.
『[Cannes Film Festival+] Calm-faced ‘Kang Woo-jin’ arrives at Nice Airport late in the morning/ Photo』
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