Post by ajk on Apr 24, 2011 12:52:26 GMT -5
CaptainVideo
Wang
« Thread Started on Mar 25, 2007, 12:49pm »
So, I'm watching the repeat of "Crazy Love" this morning (3/25/07) and I began to realize some of the reasons I truly love Drama City. First of all, if you're a casual viewer, I regret that you will not be able to appreciate the subtleties which make this show so different from the other dramas.
I have been a bit bewildered by the cool response to this show by the board in general, but I know that some people are watching and some are curious enough to at least inquire. Well, as I watched this episode on Friday, I was thoroughly unimpressed and actually, a bit disappointed with the ending. However, the second viewing this morning revealed a very delicate and poignant story of a man wrestling with his feelings of having failed as a husband/father and how he chose to rectify the situation as best he could. He didn't ever achieve his goal, but he discovered a hidden facet about his relationship to his wife and had an emotional breakthrough concerning his son. At the same time, although the woman was about to divorce her husband, she never left him spiritually even after he disappeared.
I didn't pick up on many of the nuances of the facial expressions and other things until the second viewing, which is usually the case with the dramas, but this is a slightly different form because of the compact space in which the story is told. These are the things that reveal so much detail which is normally lost because I'm busy reading the subtitles. It was at this moment that I realized all of the hard work that goes into producing these video gems.
One of the reasons that the old jazz players and the pop tunesmiths (I don't include the singers because they didn't start writing their own songs until after Dylan and The Beatles) were so good at what they did was due to the limited amount of time available on a 78 or 45 rpm record. It was a very daunting task to create a piece of music that was both catchy and artistically valid as well as clocking in under 3min, 30sec. That means that you have to convey an entire story (lyrically and/or musically) and have room for an instrumental solo in a very short span of time. Admittedly, I grew up just on the tail end of all that, but The Monkees were supplied songs by some of the last great Brill Building artists (Carole King, Neil Diamond, Boyce & Hart; Burt Bacharach had an office there, but didn't supply The Monkees with tunes) and so I have a sense of what that ability to concisely convey an idea is; pity I can't translate that skill to these cranial leakages which I so carelessly spill all over this board
Anyway, I have heard that you can tell the difference between a TV actor and a film actor by the volume at which they deliver their lines: film actors whisper, TV actors usually have a live audience in the studio to whom they are playing and deliver their lines accordingly. This difference in decibels is also indicative of the intimacy of the acting. If you notice the acting style of the daily dramas tends to lean toward farce and melodramatic. The nighttime shows are a little better but look at the grandma in The Chill Sisters and you'll see what I mean. Another thing is the usual lack of camera angles and lower number of shots per scene (evidenced by much of the action focusing around the living room table with usually a long shot and a close up).
Now, I'm not a filmmaker, but I have learned a couple of things about how a scene will be shot several times in order to capture the action from various perspectives and angles. In the scene in the hospital at the end, she confesses to overtly trying to meet her future husband for quite some time unbeknownst to him. There were many cuts to different angles of the two characters, the shots slowed down, they cut to a flashback and all of this had great impact on the meaning of the dialogue.
All in all, there's a lot more going on than is perceived at first glance so if you have the patience and the time, try watching it twice and hopefully you'll begin to see the simple beauty of this weekly gift. If you happened to see the final episode of Hwang Jini, it's most like the dried chrysanthimum flower that opened up in the cold water; not the most exciting action, but if you have the time to sit and watch the simplicity of its beauty effortlessly unfold you'll understand immediately. ;D
By the way, if you only watched Friday night, this portion got cut short: the picture in the frame shown during the closing credits kept changing to reflect the changes in the family structure but at the very end, the father and the son rejoined the picture; I know, not part of the story, but a bit of a happy ending to offset the sorrow of a woman. Happy viewing!
« Last Edit: Mar 25, 2007, 12:51pm by CaptainVideo »
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HappyCamper
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« Reply #1 on Mar 26, 2007, 4:37pm »
I missed the episode of Drama City that you're talking about but I wanted to agree with you that the show is wonderful. To me it's like reading a short story; you're immediately sucked into the plot because there is a limited amount of time to tell the tale and every second counts. When I'm lucky enough to catch both the show itself and the rebroadcast, I always see things that I missed the second time around.
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gpaul
Addict Graduate
« Reply #2 on Mar 27, 2007, 7:38am »
Drama City is so good because in such a short time frame it delivers a story that is intriguing and usually full of surprises. "Crazy Love" delivered because in one hour you learned so much about this family, and about the real love they had for each other but because of hardships in life they weren't able to express that love. The father showed his love for his wife in the only way that he knew how, by leaving. I still have one of my favorites on tape, "Into the Fog" I think I will rewatch it this weekend.
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sony
New Addict
« Reply #3 on Apr 5, 2008, 1:59am »
i love her because it is such as our life the love and family and ina few wards i love it i wish
seen like it.
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Wang
« Thread Started on Mar 25, 2007, 12:49pm »
So, I'm watching the repeat of "Crazy Love" this morning (3/25/07) and I began to realize some of the reasons I truly love Drama City. First of all, if you're a casual viewer, I regret that you will not be able to appreciate the subtleties which make this show so different from the other dramas.
I have been a bit bewildered by the cool response to this show by the board in general, but I know that some people are watching and some are curious enough to at least inquire. Well, as I watched this episode on Friday, I was thoroughly unimpressed and actually, a bit disappointed with the ending. However, the second viewing this morning revealed a very delicate and poignant story of a man wrestling with his feelings of having failed as a husband/father and how he chose to rectify the situation as best he could. He didn't ever achieve his goal, but he discovered a hidden facet about his relationship to his wife and had an emotional breakthrough concerning his son. At the same time, although the woman was about to divorce her husband, she never left him spiritually even after he disappeared.
I didn't pick up on many of the nuances of the facial expressions and other things until the second viewing, which is usually the case with the dramas, but this is a slightly different form because of the compact space in which the story is told. These are the things that reveal so much detail which is normally lost because I'm busy reading the subtitles. It was at this moment that I realized all of the hard work that goes into producing these video gems.
One of the reasons that the old jazz players and the pop tunesmiths (I don't include the singers because they didn't start writing their own songs until after Dylan and The Beatles) were so good at what they did was due to the limited amount of time available on a 78 or 45 rpm record. It was a very daunting task to create a piece of music that was both catchy and artistically valid as well as clocking in under 3min, 30sec. That means that you have to convey an entire story (lyrically and/or musically) and have room for an instrumental solo in a very short span of time. Admittedly, I grew up just on the tail end of all that, but The Monkees were supplied songs by some of the last great Brill Building artists (Carole King, Neil Diamond, Boyce & Hart; Burt Bacharach had an office there, but didn't supply The Monkees with tunes) and so I have a sense of what that ability to concisely convey an idea is; pity I can't translate that skill to these cranial leakages which I so carelessly spill all over this board
Anyway, I have heard that you can tell the difference between a TV actor and a film actor by the volume at which they deliver their lines: film actors whisper, TV actors usually have a live audience in the studio to whom they are playing and deliver their lines accordingly. This difference in decibels is also indicative of the intimacy of the acting. If you notice the acting style of the daily dramas tends to lean toward farce and melodramatic. The nighttime shows are a little better but look at the grandma in The Chill Sisters and you'll see what I mean. Another thing is the usual lack of camera angles and lower number of shots per scene (evidenced by much of the action focusing around the living room table with usually a long shot and a close up).
Now, I'm not a filmmaker, but I have learned a couple of things about how a scene will be shot several times in order to capture the action from various perspectives and angles. In the scene in the hospital at the end, she confesses to overtly trying to meet her future husband for quite some time unbeknownst to him. There were many cuts to different angles of the two characters, the shots slowed down, they cut to a flashback and all of this had great impact on the meaning of the dialogue.
All in all, there's a lot more going on than is perceived at first glance so if you have the patience and the time, try watching it twice and hopefully you'll begin to see the simple beauty of this weekly gift. If you happened to see the final episode of Hwang Jini, it's most like the dried chrysanthimum flower that opened up in the cold water; not the most exciting action, but if you have the time to sit and watch the simplicity of its beauty effortlessly unfold you'll understand immediately. ;D
By the way, if you only watched Friday night, this portion got cut short: the picture in the frame shown during the closing credits kept changing to reflect the changes in the family structure but at the very end, the father and the son rejoined the picture; I know, not part of the story, but a bit of a happy ending to offset the sorrow of a woman. Happy viewing!
« Last Edit: Mar 25, 2007, 12:51pm by CaptainVideo »
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HappyCamper
Addict Graduate
« Reply #1 on Mar 26, 2007, 4:37pm »
I missed the episode of Drama City that you're talking about but I wanted to agree with you that the show is wonderful. To me it's like reading a short story; you're immediately sucked into the plot because there is a limited amount of time to tell the tale and every second counts. When I'm lucky enough to catch both the show itself and the rebroadcast, I always see things that I missed the second time around.
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gpaul
Addict Graduate
« Reply #2 on Mar 27, 2007, 7:38am »
Drama City is so good because in such a short time frame it delivers a story that is intriguing and usually full of surprises. "Crazy Love" delivered because in one hour you learned so much about this family, and about the real love they had for each other but because of hardships in life they weren't able to express that love. The father showed his love for his wife in the only way that he knew how, by leaving. I still have one of my favorites on tape, "Into the Fog" I think I will rewatch it this weekend.
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sony
New Addict
« Reply #3 on Apr 5, 2008, 1:59am »
i love her because it is such as our life the love and family and ina few wards i love it i wish
seen like it.
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Original views: 925
Archive date: March 2, 2011