Movie Where a Girl Got a Make Over and Took Lessons to Go to an Art Show to Meet Guys
| My Sassy Girl | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical poster | |
| Hangul | 엽기적인 그녀 |
| Hanja | 獵奇的인 그女 |
| Revised Romanization | Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yǒpkijǒgin Kǔnyǒ |
| Directed by | Kwak Jae-yong |
| Written past | Kim Ho-sik Kwak Jae-yong |
| Produced by | Shin Chul |
| Starring | Jun Ji-hyun Cha Tae-hyun |
| Cinematography | Kim Sung-bok |
| Edited past | Kim Sang-bum |
| Music by | Hyeong-seok Kim |
| Production | ShinCine Communications |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 123 minutes (theatrical cut), 137 minutes (director's cut) |
| Country | S Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | $32.iii million |
My Sassy Girl (Korean: 엽기적인 그녀, romanized: Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo , lit.'That Bizarre Girl') is a 2001 South Korean romantic comedy motion picture directed by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Jun Ji-hyun and Cha Tae-hyun. The picture show is based on a true story told in a series of blog posts written by Kim Ho-sik, who after adapted them into a fictional novel.
The motion picture was very successful in South korea, where information technology was the highest-grossing comedy of all time,[ane] and one of the top 5 highest-grossing films ever at the time. When My Sassy Girl was released across East Asia, information technology became a blockbuster in the region, condign a hit in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The film's success in Asia drew comparisons to Titanic. Its DVD release also drew a big international cult post-obit, particularly in Mainland china, Southeast Asia, and parts of South Asia. My Sassy Daughter sparked an international breakthrough for Korean cinema, and it played a cardinal role in the spread of the Korean Wave.[2] [3]
The motion picture has spawned an international media franchise, consisting of film remakes and tv adaptations in different countries as well as a sequel. An American remake, starring Jesse Bradford and Elisha Cuthbert, and directed by Yann Samuell, was released in 2008.[four] A Japanese drama adaptation with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and actress Rena Tanaka every bit the leads started broadcasting in Apr 2008.[5] A sequel, My New Sassy Girl, a collaborative work betwixt Korea and Communist china, was released in 2016.[6] [7] My Sassy Girl has received numerous remakes and adaptations, including Japanese and Korean television adaptations every bit well every bit a number of remakes from other countries (American, Indian, Chinese, Nepali, Lithuanian and Philippine versions).
Plot [edit]
Part 1 [edit]
The film tells the love story of a male engineering college pupil, Gyeon-woo, and "the Daughter" (whose name is never mentioned in the movie). Gyeon-woo but cannot seem to catch a romantic break. Their personalities stand opposite to the "characteristics traditionally associated with masculinity and femininity...in Asian societies in general".[8]
One day, at dinner and drinks with his college friends, Gyeon-woo is interrupted by a call from his mother, telling him to visit his aunt and meet a potential date. At the train station on his style to his aunt's, he observes a drunk girl, standing precariously shut to the border of the train platform every bit the train approaches; he pulls her to safe simply in time. Inside the railroad train, Gyeon-woo cannot help just stare at the daughter who is his "blazon" just repulsed by her drunkenness. Finally, she throws up on a passenger and faints only not before she calls Gyeon-woo "love". The passenger aggressively chides Gyeon-woo and tells him to accept care of his "girlfriend". Gyeon-woo, completely flustered, leaves her on a subway platform bench, but his censor compels him to take her to the nearest hotel for safety. While the girl is passed out on the bed, her phone rings and Gyeon-woo picks up. He gives vague answers in regards to the girl's whereabouts and possibly through GPS tracking, police raid the room and Gyeon-woo gets maced and sent to jail. He is sent home from jail the next morning, and to his surprise he gets a telephone-call from the girl, who demands they see by the train station and then she can figure out what happened the nighttime earlier. Over soju the Girl cries, admits to breaking up with her boyfriend the 24-hour interval earlier and gets thoroughly drunk, resulting in a 2d trip to the same hotel. Thus begins his comically ill-blighted relationship with the Girl.
After this second overnight stay at the hotel, she begins to go a more active office of his life. She visits Gyeon-woo in higher and pulls him out of class, telling the teacher that Gyeon-woo is the father of her soon-to-be-aborted babe. The Daughter's mood swings wildly from joyful to downright violent, merely Gyeon-woo puts upwardly with it and lets her abuse him for her amusement.
She is an aspiring scriptwriter and throughout the movie gives Gyeon-woo three different screenplays from different genres. The first is an action flick—The Demolition Terminator—which switches gender roles, symbolically having the Girl salvage her helpless lover (Gyeon-woo). The second is a wild perversion of a Korean short story—Sonagi—in which the Girl, having died, asks that her lover be buried along with her—even though he'due south still alive. The concluding is a wuxia/samurai movie spoof full of genre clichés and anachronisms. All three feature the aforementioned common thread: the Girl is from the futurity.
Despite all the horrible things Gyeon-woo endures, he is adamant to help cure the daughter'southward pain. He decides to surprise her on her altogether and takes her on a nighttime trip to an amusement park which ends upwards quite differently from how he planned: the pair encounter an AWOL soldier who holds them hostage and rants about his misery after being jilted. Gyeon-woo convinces him to release her, and she in turn convinces the soldier to free Gyeon-woo and go on with his life and pursue another love.
Role two [edit]
The Daughter and Gyeon-woo's relationship takes a turn for the ameliorate; her cruel treatment of Gyeon-woo is her way of showing affection and the two abound closer. After a day of hanging out, he walks her habitation in the pouring rain and she demands he meet her father, who is a habitual drinker. Her parents practice not accept to Gyeon-woo and on leaving, he overhears an impassioned argument betwixt the daughter and her female parent over her human relationship with him. He does non hear from her for quite some time and his life without her begins.
One day all the same, the Girl calls him and tells him to bring her a rose during class (the Daughter attends an all-girls college) to commemorate their 100th-day ceremony. He does this, leading to a touching and romantic scene where he arrives in disguise every bit a food delivery person into a packed auditorium and watches her play the melody of George Winston'due south variations on Pachelbel's Canon in D on a pianoforte onstage. He presents her the rose and the ii hug while the classmates applaud in approval at his romantic gesture. Equally office of their celebration, they hit the bars and clubs together dressed in high-school uniforms; she gets drunk and every bit Gyeon-woo carries her on his dorsum, a stranger slips him a condom. Gyeon-woo drops her off inside and is confronted at her house by her parents over again; the father interrogates him and forces him to empty his pockets, where he embarrassingly presents the safe. Her begetter demands that the 2 pause upwardly.
The Daughter does non contact him once again and Gyeon-woo naturally thinks they have broken up, until one day seemingly out of the blue, she calls Gyeon-woo to encounter her for dinner as she is on a blind appointment. The Girl introduces Gyeon-woo to the appointment, who thinks Gyeon-woo is a cracking friend of hers based on how highly she speaks of him. She is unusually soft and gentle as in that location is clear awkwardness between the two. She excuses herself to the washroom and appears to not be handling the suspension-up so well. The Girl returns to the table to see Gyeon-woo gone; he left while she was in the bath, but not before offering the bullheaded engagement ten rules to follow to ensure her happiness:
- At a café, instead of coke or juice lodge a coffee
- Prevent her from over-drinking
- Give in to her at every circumstance
- When she hits you pretend it hurts when it doesn't and vice versa
- Surprise her with a rose on the 100th day anniversary
- Make sure you acquire Kendo and Squash, and more than.
While the blind date recites these rules to her, she realizes how well Gyeon-woo understands her and realizes her love for him. She abruptly leaves her date and searches for Gyeon-woo at the subway station.
They cross paths several times, only never see each other, so she goes into the subway security office to see the security monitors. She sees him standing close to the edge of the platform (merely like she was in the beginning). While an employee makes an announcement in the microphone, she yells his name; he hears and they re-unite at the function.
Once reunited the ii realize they are at a turning signal in their relationship, but, for some unknown reason, the Girl decides it is time for them to function. Equally a gesture to their happy times, the two write letters to each other and bury them in a "time capsule" under a particular tree on a mount in the countryside. They agree to meet once again at the tree after two years to read the messages together. After burying the "time capsule" they go their separate ways for skilful.
Overtime [edit]
During the two-year bridge, Gyeon-woo works difficult to improve himself; he practices kendo and squash and learns to swim. To pass the fourth dimension, he as well began writing nigh his dating experiences with the Girl on the internet equally a means to cope. His stories proceeds then much notoriety that he is approached by pic producers to plow his messages into a movie; he is ecstatic because the Girl'southward life-long dream was to have one of her screenplays made into a film. He and so desperately wants to share this news with her, just chooses to wait until they hold to run across.
2 years have passed and on the agreed date, he travels to the tree on the mount-top, but the Daughter does not show up. He comes day after day without opening the fourth dimension-capsule in hopes that she would appear, only she never does. Eventually, he opens the time sheathing and reads her alphabetic character and learns the root of her angst and beliefs: Gyeon-woo reminds her of her previous boyfriend who, rather than breaking up with her, really died before she met Gyeon-woo. On the solar day they met on the train platform, she was supposed to go on a bullheaded appointment set upwards past the mother of her deceased beau, with whom she kept a shut bond. Considering of her chance meeting with Gyeon-woo, part of her feels that it was her ex that brought the two of them together and she develops guilt for falling in beloved with him. She needs time apart to heal and move on from her ex alone.
A year after Gyeon-woo visits the tree, the Girl finally arrives. Sitting under the tree is an old human being. She reveals that she was supposed to meet someone at the tree a yr ago, but that her courage failed her. She believed that if she was truly meant to be with him, destiny would bring them together. During their chat the old man reveals the secret of the tree, that it is not the same tree; the original tree had been struck and killed past lightning a year before and a like tree had been planted by a young human being so that his special someone would not exist deplorable. The tree was dead and carve up into two. After the daughter reads his letter, she tries repeatedly to call Gyeon-woo, just is unable to reach him.
Some time later, the Girl is on a railroad train and the door closes right before a man tries to lath. She has her dorsum turned to him, so she doesn't realize it is Gyeon-woo, who realizes it is her and chases the train down the platform, to no avail. They fail to cantankerous paths once again.
Equally information technology turns out, the Girl is on her way to lunch with her deceased boyfriend's mother, who has planned to introduce the Girl to her nephew for a bullheaded engagement. The nephew arrives and information technology turns out to be Gyeon-woo; as it turns out, Gyeon-woo is the boy that she had been trying to introduce to the Daughter for years. The mother offers reasons every bit to why they'd be a bang-up match for ane another, but Gyeon-woo and the Girl are too busy gazing into each other'south optics. The mother asks "Do you ii know each other?"; the photographic camera pans out and they are holding hands under the table.
Cast [edit]
- Jun Ji-hyun as The Girl
- Cha Tae-hyun equally Gyeon-woo
- Kim In-moon as Gyeon-woo's father
- Song Ok-sook as Gyeon-woo'southward mother
- Han Jin-hee as The Daughter's father
- Im Ho equally the Bullheaded Engagement Guy
- Yang Geum-seok as Gyeon-woo'due south aunt
Commercial reception [edit]
Box function [edit]
My Sassy Girl was the 2d highest-selling Korean film in 2001 (behind the flick Friend), and at the time, it was the highest-grossing Korean comedy picture show of all time.[1] 4,852,845 tickets were sold nationwide and 1,765,100 in Seoul over its 10 weeks in the cinemas.[i] It grossed $26 meg in the country, making it one of the top five highest-grossing films ever in Republic of korea, at the time.[9] In Hong Kong, it topped the box office for two weeks and earned more than US$one.7 million. It Japan, it grossed $iv.3 million from a express release in 2003.[three] The film as well grossed $310,415 in Taiwan.[ten] In total, the picture grossed $32,310,415 in Eastern asia.
Domicile media [edit]
The film's DVD release was an international success, drawing a large cult following in Asia and across. In Nippon, for example, it was the best-selling Korean DVD in 2006. There were also a big number of pirated copies in circulation, specially in Asia.[3] The Blu-Ray release was in 2019.[11]
Critical reception [edit]
The moving-picture show was acclaimed by critics.[12] Koreanfilm.org praised Jun Ji-hyun's portrayal of the character, calling her the "undisputed star" and stating "it could non accept succeeded anywhere near equally well without her".[1]
Awards and nominations [edit]
| Result | Award |
|---|---|
| 2001 Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best New Actor – Cha Tae-hyun Nomination for All-time Actress – Jun Ji-hyun |
| 2002 Baeksang Arts Awards | Nomination for Best New Role player – Cha Tae-hyun |
| 2002 Grand Bell Awards[13] | Best Actress – Jun Ji-hyun All-time Adapted Screenplay – Kwak Jae-yong Popularity Honour – Jun Ji-hyun, Cha Tae-hyun Nomination for Best Actor – Cha Tae-hyun |
| 2002 Gilt Cinematography Awards | Best New Actor – Cha Tae-hyun |
| 2003 Hong Kong Movie Awards | Best Asian Motion-picture show |
| 2003 Hochi Film Awards | Best Foreign Language Film |
| 2003 Fant-Asia Film Festival | Most Popular Picture show |
| 2004 Awards of the Japanese Academy | Nomination for Best Strange Film |
Soundtrack [edit]
The soundtrack anthology for My Sassy Girl features a variation on Pachelbel'south Canon in D) and a soundtrack of twenty-one pieces. The Korean vocal entitled "I Believe" by Shin Seung Hun (신승훈) is the theme song of this film. The vocal has been translated to different Asian languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Filipino.
| My Sassy Girl Original Soundtrack | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album | |
| Released | August 1, 2001 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Label | LS Media |
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Intro" | 0:27 | |
| two. | "I Believe" | Shin Seung Hun | 4:41 |
| 3. | "Dearest & Longing" | 3:00 | |
| 4. | "Episode 1" | 2:02 | |
| 5. | "비내리는 밤 (Rainy Night)" | 4:04 | |
| half-dozen. | "Easily Of Time" | Ueda Masaki | iii:56 |
| 7. | "Episode 2 (Bip Bop)" | one:32 | |
| 8. | "이별준비 (A Stars Preparation)" | Kim Jo Han | 4:14 |
| 9. | "Large Coin" | 엑스틴, 빅 머니 | 4:14 |
| x. | "겨울 나그네 (Winter Traveller)" | 2:36 | |
| 11. | "Episode 3 (그녀의 생일 Her Birthday)" | 0:54 | |
| 12. | "자장가 (Lullaby)" | three:13 | |
| 13. | "사랑느낌 (Love Impression)" | Cho Kyu Chan | iii:47 |
| 14. | "Another Life (Intro)" | 0:47 | |
| 15. | "Another Life" | Deen | 4:02 |
| 16. | "Behind Of You (Instrumental)" | 4:53 | |
| 17. | "Episode 4 (Reg Time)" | 0:56 | |
| xviii. | "Lost Memory" | 2:37 | |
| xix. | "같은 맘으로 (It's the Same)" | four:nineteen | |
| 20. | "I Believe (With Piano)" | 4:45 | |
| 21. | "캐논변주곡 – 영화 속 전지현 연주곡 (Korean: Catechism Variations – Performance in the motion picture by Jun Ji-hyun)" | Jun Ji-hyun | 4:27 |
Alternate versions [edit]
There are two scenes inside the movie that have different soundtracks from each varying version, notably the EDKO and Starmax distributions.
- During the scene where Gyeon-woo (as villain) fights the heroine in the Girl's second motion-picture show script, the soundtrack to Ashes of Time past Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai tin exist heard, whereas in the Hong Kong-EDKO release the score has been replaced with a Korean track.
- During the scene where Gyeon-woo exchanges shoes with the Girl, the song "My Girl" by The Temptations tin be heard, whereas in the EDKO release the scene has been rescored with a Korean pop-track.
Remakes and adaptations [edit]
Television dramas [edit]
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and actress Rena Tanaka are the lead characters in the Japanese drama of the aforementioned name which started broadcasting in Apr 2008.[5]
A South Korean historical time period drama remake titled My Sassy Daughter, starring Joo Won and Oh Yeon-seo, airing this 2017 on SBS.
In Thailand, it was remake as a Thai Television receiver series titled My Sassy Daughter started airing on October 11, 2021, on True Asian More than starred by Jarinya Sirimongkolsakul and Nutthasit Kotimanuswanich.[fourteen]
American film [edit]
This American remake of the film is prepare in New York City's Key Park and Upper East Side. Managing director Yann Samuell states "Information technology's a fable near destiny, in the cease." whilst Jesse Bradford who plays the pb protagonist summarized the movie as "a romantic comedy about how they pull each other to a more than good for you place by virtue of their relationship."[four]
Indian films [edit]
An uncredited Bollywood version chosen Ugly Aur Pagli starring Ranvir Shorey and Mallika Sherawat was released on August 1, 2008. The motion-picture show is directed by Sachin Khot.
A Telugu remake of the motion picture was made starring Bharat and Videesha. It was titled Maa Iddhari Madhya.[15]
A Malayalam remake titled White was also fabricated starring Mammootty and Huma Qureshi (in double role) with some changes. While another Malayalam moving-picture show Vinodayathra was reported to have scenes inspired from this movie.[sixteen]
Chinese moving picture [edit]
A Chinese version named My Sassy Daughter 2 (我的野蠻女友2) directed by Joe Ma stars Lynn Hung and Leon Jay Williams was released in 2010.
Nepali film [edit]
A Nepali version titled Sano Sansar was released on 12 September 2008 and became very popular among teenagers in the country.
Lithuanian moving-picture show [edit]
A Lithuanian version titled Moterys meluoja geriau: Robertėlis was released on 3 August 2018. It was based on the characters grade a pop local TV drama.
Philippine film [edit]
A Philippine version was announced to be released this 2021 in the commemoration of original motion picture's 20th anniversary starred past Toni Gonzaga.[17]
Indonesian film [edit]
In Indonesia, was released on 23 June 2022.[18] It starred Jefri Nichol and Tiara Andini.[xix]
Sequel and references [edit]
Cha Tae-hyun starred in the direct sequel, My New Sassy Daughter, which was released in China on April 22, 2016, and South korea on May 5 equally a S Korean-Chinese co-production.[seven] [xx] The flick was not also-received equally its original.
Cha Tae-hyun has made cameo appearances in Jun Ji-hyun's film Windstruck (whose ending scene at the train station is very similar to that of My Sassy Girl)[8] and TV series The Fable of the Bluish Sea (Episode iv, where he makes reference to Jun'southward character'due south history as "sassy").[21] A poster of My Sassy Girl appears in My Love from the Star (Episode v) as one of the previous hitting films by Jun's character.
Meet also [edit]
- Train Human
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External links [edit]
- My Sassy Girl at IMDb
- My Sassy Daughter at the Korean Moving-picture show Database
- The original net serial from which the motion picture was based, by Kim Ho-sik (in Korean)
- Review at koreanfilm.org
- My Sassy Girl at AllMovie
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sassy_Girl