"Fly High" : promo post
Jul. 15th, 2009 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandralI have been meaning to post about "Fly High" and some other less known dramas for ages (Dear "Air City" and "War of Money" - I promise you! One day!).
"Fly High" is a 19-episode Korean drama of "plucky poor herouine meets icy-cold, full of parental issues hero" type that I watched three month ago. I liked it very much. It has become one of my "comfort on a rainy day" dramas - I like to re-watch the bits of it from time to time.
Plus points:
1. The male lead Kim Nam Jin (he plays James O'Neil), is gorgeous and the female lead, Wang Bit Na (she plays Lee Jin Hee), is adorable.
2. Together they make a strong, unwavering OTP. She is a mother of a cute little boy I am ready to adopt any day, he is a rich bachelor. Please see: this is the scene of their first meeting. Doesn't it spell OTP in big letters? Actually it is the scene of their second meeting, but their first meeting was even better : he falsely accused her of stealing wine from his supermarket".
She has been collecting flowers.
She sees him at her family's door (they are some kind of Korean aristocracy and live in one of picturesque old houses). She sees him and she trips, of course:
FLOWER SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!!
He catches her, only to get a slap on his face. (because they are OTP)
3. This drama does many of my favourite Korean drama stereotypes and it does them very well. Evil parents, good parents, single widowed mothers, pseudo-cousins, evil "other" girl of evilest kind, people in and out of coma, adorable little children, cancer, faithful and true "other guy" - it is all there, packed into the 19 episdes.
4. Kim Nam Jin angsts gorgeously. In one scene, he (driven by angst of falling in love with a woman he can't have) breaks a crystal glass in his hand. And then he goes outside to stand in the pouring rain and angsts some more, blood dripping from his hand. And he stretches his hand to wash the blood under the streams of rain. I don't have enough words to describe how good this scene is.
He tries to angst in peace, in a nice quiet bar, drinking out of a nice crystal glass
But the evil other girl won't stop nagging him, saying things like "Oh, you are like this because because of THAT woman!"
WOW! He brakes the glass in his long beautiful fingers:
He goes outside because he can't stand the nagging anymore. His poor bleeding heart deserves some peace!
Me? My heart is bleeding too. Lee Jin ends up treating his hand, of course
5. James' birth mother is one of the evilest dorama parents I have seen so far. Not only she leaves James as a baby to be adopted by RICH BENEVOLENT AMERICAN PEOPLE! When he finds her later on, she tells him that she dislikes him and that she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Ever. But at the same time she tries to control his life and tries to split him and his OTP. Oh, the craziest of women! Good job James is not an easy to control person!
6. Drama's settings, costumes and cinematography are gorgeous. Lee Jin Hee's family (by her marriage) are Korean aristocracy who live in one of most gorgeous old houses.
Minus points:
I must warn you that the subtitles of the copy I had were bad, quite difficult to understand sometimes. But I am still very thankful to subbers - this is one of my all-time favourites!
"Fly High" is a 19-episode Korean drama of "plucky poor herouine meets icy-cold, full of parental issues hero" type that I watched three month ago. I liked it very much. It has become one of my "comfort on a rainy day" dramas - I like to re-watch the bits of it from time to time.
Plus points:
1. The male lead Kim Nam Jin (he plays James O'Neil), is gorgeous and the female lead, Wang Bit Na (she plays Lee Jin Hee), is adorable.
2. Together they make a strong, unwavering OTP. She is a mother of a cute little boy I am ready to adopt any day, he is a rich bachelor. Please see: this is the scene of their first meeting. Doesn't it spell OTP in big letters? Actually it is the scene of their second meeting, but their first meeting was even better : he falsely accused her of stealing wine from his supermarket".
She has been collecting flowers.
She sees him at her family's door (they are some kind of Korean aristocracy and live in one of picturesque old houses). She sees him and she trips, of course:
FLOWER SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!!
He catches her, only to get a slap on his face. (because they are OTP)
3. This drama does many of my favourite Korean drama stereotypes and it does them very well. Evil parents, good parents, single widowed mothers, pseudo-cousins, evil "other" girl of evilest kind, people in and out of coma, adorable little children, cancer, faithful and true "other guy" - it is all there, packed into the 19 episdes.
4. Kim Nam Jin angsts gorgeously. In one scene, he (driven by angst of falling in love with a woman he can't have) breaks a crystal glass in his hand. And then he goes outside to stand in the pouring rain and angsts some more, blood dripping from his hand. And he stretches his hand to wash the blood under the streams of rain. I don't have enough words to describe how good this scene is.
He tries to angst in peace, in a nice quiet bar, drinking out of a nice crystal glass
But the evil other girl won't stop nagging him, saying things like "Oh, you are like this because because of THAT woman!"
WOW! He brakes the glass in his long beautiful fingers:
He goes outside because he can't stand the nagging anymore. His poor bleeding heart deserves some peace!
Me? My heart is bleeding too. Lee Jin ends up treating his hand, of course
5. James' birth mother is one of the evilest dorama parents I have seen so far. Not only she leaves James as a baby to be adopted by RICH BENEVOLENT AMERICAN PEOPLE! When he finds her later on, she tells him that she dislikes him and that she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Ever. But at the same time she tries to control his life and tries to split him and his OTP. Oh, the craziest of women! Good job James is not an easy to control person!
6. Drama's settings, costumes and cinematography are gorgeous. Lee Jin Hee's family (by her marriage) are Korean aristocracy who live in one of most gorgeous old houses.
Minus points:
I must warn you that the subtitles of the copy I had were bad, quite difficult to understand sometimes. But I am still very thankful to subbers - this is one of my all-time favourites!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-07-15 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-15 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-15 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-15 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-18 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-21 01:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-15 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-15 10:39 pm (UTC)I am trying to take my mind of Triple by posting about other dramas I likedno subject
Date: 2009-07-16 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 01:39 pm (UTC)I know what you mean! But becuase I tend to watch dramas in one singe go (I think you mentioned you like to do similar watching), often through the night, I found recently that I have watched quite few dramas already.
no subject
Date: 2009-07-17 02:06 pm (UTC)It looks interesting. I have to do Iljimae first though. :D
no subject
Date: 2009-07-17 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-19 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-21 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-21 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-16 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-18 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-21 01:02 pm (UTC)