[Korean] He Was Cool

Title: He Was Cool
Genre: Teen, Romance, Comedy
Writer: Gwiyeoni (Novel), Kim Young suk, Lee Hwan Kyung
Director: Lee Hwan Kyung
Producer: Yoo Byoung Suk
Cinematographer: Lee Kang Min, Park Seung Bae
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Runtime: 113 min
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Cast:
Song Seung Heon - Ji Eun Sung
Jung Da Bin - Han Ye Won
Lee Ki Woo - Kim Han Sung
Kim Ji Hye - Kim Hyo Bin
Lee Min Hyuk - Kim Seung Pyo
Ahn Hae Soo - Lee Kyoung Won

Plot:
Han Ye Won (Jung Da Bin), a cheerful, clumsy and sweet high school girl starts getting threatening calls from a Ji Eun Sung (Song Seung Heon), after she replies rudely to Eun Sung's impolite message on the school website. And as Eun Sung keeps trying to confront her about it, she runs away. On one such occasion when Ye Won tries to jump over her school wall to avoid meeting Eun Sung, she falls on him, who is standing on the other side of the wall, and their lips meet. Eun Sung asks her to take responsibility for what she did. Though Ye Won didn't like Eun Sung in the beginning, she starts falling for him after getting to know him better.

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My Prattle:
This was my first Korean movie, and so it is perfect for my second post. Even after all these years it still remains one of my favorites.  

Song Seung Heon was really cool in this movie, true to the movie's name. Jung Da Bin was hilarious in the movie. I didn't like her when i first saw the movie, but watching this again yesterday, made me think that her character was supposed to be like that, and Da Bin did a perfect job at it. The rest of the cast doesn't really have a strong presence in the movie. The story completely revolves around the two main characters, and the rest of the roles complete the story. 

And as for the story line, it is the love story of a sweet, clumsy and warm Han Ye Won and rude, hot tempered Ji Eun Sung who doesn't know how to express his feelings. The completely opposite personalities create a very funny and cute love story. There are hardly any lines of love in the entire movie, but we can still feel the love between them. The cast did a great job in expressing all this.

The ending could have been better, something was definitely off about it, and there are some other aspects of the movie which are crucial to the story but only revealed at the end.Yes this kind of screen play definitely created a nice twist feel. But since it was only a 2hr movie and they had to cover all the reasons for Eun Sung's scars and the story between the main roles, the love Kim Han Sung felt for Ye Won wasn't clear enough until the end when he talks about it. I think it could have created better feel if it was revealed earlier.

It's a must watch for all Korean entertainment industry fans, as it has something of everything Korean and gives a perfect whiff of Korean entertainment to those who are not already acquainted with it.  

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