Post by HumbleStudent on Oct 19, 2003 11:35:31 GMT -5
Today I printed off the episode 6 Bodyguard screenplay from the KBS site to answer a question for myself (which was, "What - is Sin-Ae/Sung-Su's father, whom we first meet at the breakfast table, really the same person as the Assemblyman's bald criminal accomplice from episode 5, or am I confusing two people?" (He is.)). Then I checked the video on the KBS site.
It doesn't look like we have a missing-scene problem; the product we are getting from LA is the same thing that's on the KBS site. But the weird thing is that about a third of the screenplay was missing! The Episode 6 screenplay has 71 scenes! This is probably enough writing for 80 minutes of broadcast. But the broadcast is only 50 minutes... The broadcast follows the screenplay "more or less" through scene 40, which is the scene in the taxi where Sin-ae gives Kyong-t'ak her schedule for the day. Then we skip a bunch of stuff and go to scene 48, which is where the Assemblyman is on TV, being guarded by the KBB team includin Yu-Jin, and Kyong-t'ak's parents are watching it. Then scene 49 is the scene where Sin-ae is signing autographs, and that's the end of the show! Scenes 50-71... well, maybe we'll see some of them tomorrow!
Somehow there seems to be some kind of disconnect between the writing and the shooting, which may be reflected in some of the choppy development. For example, I know I'm not the only one who was confused by this business of Man-Bok "taking a bribe". First you see the henchman giving an envelope to some woman in a restaurant (who is that??), then, in the next scene, apparently the same morning, somehow this has already become publicly known and they are discussing whether Man-Bok should resign! Well, actually the restaurant scene isn't in the episode 6 screenplay, or at least not at that point ... I bet if I look, I'll find that it really was intended to be aired with episode 5, maybe along with some other phantom scenes showing more about how he was set up.
It doesn't look like we have a missing-scene problem; the product we are getting from LA is the same thing that's on the KBS site. But the weird thing is that about a third of the screenplay was missing! The Episode 6 screenplay has 71 scenes! This is probably enough writing for 80 minutes of broadcast. But the broadcast is only 50 minutes... The broadcast follows the screenplay "more or less" through scene 40, which is the scene in the taxi where Sin-ae gives Kyong-t'ak her schedule for the day. Then we skip a bunch of stuff and go to scene 48, which is where the Assemblyman is on TV, being guarded by the KBB team includin Yu-Jin, and Kyong-t'ak's parents are watching it. Then scene 49 is the scene where Sin-ae is signing autographs, and that's the end of the show! Scenes 50-71... well, maybe we'll see some of them tomorrow!
Somehow there seems to be some kind of disconnect between the writing and the shooting, which may be reflected in some of the choppy development. For example, I know I'm not the only one who was confused by this business of Man-Bok "taking a bribe". First you see the henchman giving an envelope to some woman in a restaurant (who is that??), then, in the next scene, apparently the same morning, somehow this has already become publicly known and they are discussing whether Man-Bok should resign! Well, actually the restaurant scene isn't in the episode 6 screenplay, or at least not at that point ... I bet if I look, I'll find that it really was intended to be aired with episode 5, maybe along with some other phantom scenes showing more about how he was set up.
