A Bittersweet Life

 
March 30, 2005

2nd part of LBH’s diary
Gratitude to the original source blog.naver.com/dalcom2005.do
Chinese translation from lovelbh.com, English translation by WeiLin, captures from byunghunzzang.com



“SunWoo” (his character’s name) doesn’t smoke. Quite funny, right? With regards to having the perfect persona, a smile and cigarettes don’t quite go well together. But I love both cigarettes and smiling. When there was a break in the filming, I returned back to myself. From now on, I would like to try to begin SunWoo’s story.

2005/02/01

The movie ‘A Bittersweet Life’ is a production that demands a lot of one’s physique. Running and fighting and many action scenes. It requires non-stop concentration, even when not filming, my body is still very tensed up. The gun-wielding scenes are very memorable. Recalling the cruel scenes in the restaurant, I discovered that I can still smile, as if someone is trying to get me to smile…(Could have been a crew member dressed as a dancer and an old man at the same time…)

Having gone through all that, with bullets flying in all directions, no matter what, it did use up a lot of energy. It is also a memory that brings to mind a lot of hardship. 

2005/2/15

The director, through the camera lens, captured and analyzed me from the angle of the filming in detail; while I made use of this time to study the script. This makes one feel that this is how actors and directors work together. And this is the foundational feeling that one gets while during production. No matter how much time or how many words, it cannot beat a single gaze between 2 individuals, or an action or a frown. It is through body language that others can understand one another. This is the camaraderie that actors and directors share when working together. Those scenes from before that were hard to tolerate or those which were painful, now brings back memories. Because of this, it makes it impossible for me to walk away from these things called “movies”.


Replacement for (similar) capture from CINE21

In the early days of filming, together with the actor who acts as my superior, we got these photos from the photography department. After filming, we sat down to slowly choose some photos. Among the photos we saw one that had a head shaped like an egg, like the image of the French actor in the movies ‘Cassanova’ etc.) As I saw the director smiling while choosing and editing the photos; I chose this particular photo. I guess the director had the same feeling as I, we have immersed ourselves in this character’s (“SunWoo”) soul.