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Post by ginnycat5 on Aug 14, 2005 11:32:45 GMT -5
Most of those girls appear to be 15 to18 years old. They are younger sisters. I haven't seen them act, but they don't appear mature enough to carry dramas about grownups (adult drama sounds ....tasteless). I guess tastes have changed here, too. There's an enjoyable/great film from 1938 called Holiday with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Grant's fiancee has such a mature-looking face that it took me a while, the whole film actually, to get used to her as his future mate. Hmm. So does this mean that you would prefer younger actresses to play more mature roles? Or no? No, they are not believable to me, and the older actresses have much to offer and don't deserve to be overlooked. (I'm thinking ,"jailbait" and other snarky comments, perhaps because I'm no spring chicken anymore? Still, objectively, Romeo and Juliet were both kids. There shouldn't be too much difference in age of the partners, so we don't have to suspend our disbelief when we look at them, save that for elements of plot.) I wonder if the male actors have any say in the casting of their romantic partners. |
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Post by Guest on Aug 14, 2005 20:47:14 GMT -5
Well, women have only themselves to blame. A case in example; How many Japanese showed up at the airport during the "Sad Sonata" promotion visit. Kwon Sang Woo(male lead) : 3,500 Kim Hee Sun(female lead) : 200 Clearly women don't care about the female lead in the show at all, be it some 17-year old playing a docter or a 30-year old overweight actress, they only care about the male lead.. Do you mean that studios are trying to please the male audience since the females don't care about female casting choices? I saw a Korean news clip of Yon-sama's visit to Japan- the audience was largely women, and a fair percentage of older women at that. Tho Lee Young-ae had lots of women at her appearance. Could be it depends on the time of day and the venue? Who has the time to show up? Uh, hey, ginnycat5.  I am hoping that you have completely misunderstood Trespasser's point and are not suggesting that the 3500 fans who greeted Kwon Sang Woo were mostly men . . . because that would be too weird. ;D What Trespasser is saying is that Asian male audiences do not affect casting of these money-making shows at all; whereas female fans have considerable influence because they are the target audience of these shows. And what female fans demand is that the male leads be very good-looking. What female fans don't care as much about is how good the female looks--all they want is that she be several years younger than the character she plays. Men, it seems, don't really care who the actress is. So of those 3500 fans who showed up to greet Kwon Sang Woo, you should assume that most if not nearly all were female fans.  Now the thing that makes Japan's target audience unique is that the age group is in their 30s and beyond. It is an old age bracket compared to the target audiences of other Asian nations. This is perhaps due in part to the fact that Japan is a nation whose population is rapidly aging. |
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Post by BungalowDweller on Aug 14, 2005 20:59:06 GMT -5
Now the thing that makes Japan's target audience unique is that the age group is in their 30s and beyond. It is an old age bracket compared to the target audiences of other Asian nations. This is perhaps due in part to the fact that Japan is a nation whose population is rapidly aging. :oWow!! Who'd a thunk!! I always thought of Japan as a young nation! |
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Post by Guest on Aug 14, 2005 21:39:55 GMT -5
:oWow!! Who'd a thunk!! I always thought of Japan as a young nation! Haha. No, it's not. ;D This is not a recent development. Japan is going through something very similar to what America and western Europe are experiencing; Japan experienced a post WWII baby boom and then a profound decrease in birth rates as the nation modernized. The reason that the lowering of American birth rate post baby boom is not that noticed is because the youth population is replenished via immigration and the steady rise of the American Latino population. There are towns in Japan where children are almost non-existent. Some unusual research Japan has begun to provide better quality of life for the aging population: 1) they are trying to figure out how to kill old-people smell--they believe that there will be big business in this soon; 2) they are trying to develop robots to patrol the streets because there is a fear that there won't be enough young cops to handle patrol duties across the nation ;D. |
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Post by BungalowDweller on Aug 15, 2005 9:18:18 GMT -5
The reason that the lowering of American birth rate post baby boom is not that noticed is because the youth population is replenished via immigration and the steady rise of the American Latino population. 1) they are trying to figure out how to kill old-people smell--they believe that there will be big business in this soon; 2) they are trying to develop robots to patrol the streets because there is a fear that there won't be enough young cops to handle patrol duties across the nation ;D. Concerning the Latino population--just days ago the Chicago Tribune had such reportage on the front page, in fact it was the main headline!. "Old people smell"? I thought that the smell was one caused because of old flesh--how can THAT be gotten rid of? Robot patrols? Aw, come on!  Why don't they just open their borders? What about the South Korean population? What is known about their population growth? |
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Post by Guest on Aug 15, 2005 16:42:07 GMT -5
"Old people smell"? I thought that the smell was one caused because of old flesh--how can THAT be gotten rid of? Robot patrols? Aw, come on! Why don't they just open their borders? What about the South Korean population? What is known about their population growth? Re old-people smell: well they are hoping to stop it somehow--that's what research is for. ;D Re robot patrols: haha, these robots are not going to chase down purse snatchers, they'll most likely be used as emergency phones, local maps, and simple things like that. Re Korean population: I don't know much about what the Korean census has to say. You probably could find this out on the net somewhere. ;D |
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Post by chigirl68 on Aug 15, 2005 16:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by Tresspasser on Aug 15, 2005 17:47:27 GMT -5
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Post by BungalowDweller on Aug 16, 2005 14:59:41 GMT -5
Thanks, chigirl. . .I really didn't mean to get off topic here |
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I am hoping that you have completely misunderstood Trespasser's point and are not suggesting that the 3500 fans who greeted Kwon Sang Woo were mostly men . . . because that would be too weird. ;D
Why don't they just open their borders?
