by javabeans | November 1, 2014 | 175 Comments
javabeans: Let’s be shallow today, because I want to talk about hot men and I don’t know how to be meaningful about that.
girlfriday: Perhaps the meaning isn’t the point! Haven’t you heard that life’s all about the journey? I can’t think of a better reason than that. It’s like they said in Cantabile Tomorrow — it’s about enjoying the thing you’re doing as you do it. It teaches us important things about life and stuff!
javabeans: And also that Joo-won is really pretty.
girlfriday: OMG SO PRETTY.
javabeans: It’s Richard Simmons distracting. Here I am, trying to recap, and suddenly I have 100 screenshots of Joo-won’s face because I can’t refrain from the impulse to screen-captureevery single frame. This one’s a tiny bit different! He moved a little!
girlfriday: Yes! I have giant folders filled with endless screencaps of his face. Have you noticed how he changes his expression with the slightest shift in his eyes or the corners of his mouth?
javabeans: It’s true. It’s a small change, but the mood can feel completely different. It must be because he has a particularly expressive face. He can do a lot with it.
girlfriday: It’s really not a show that would normally require this many screencaps —Gaksital, maybe, because of all the action — but in Cantabile there’s no real reason, excuse, what have you.
javabeans: Uh, the reason is Joo-won. I thought we established this. Fine, so maybe in some angles he sometimes looks like an alien.
girlfriday: The world’s prettiest alien, you mean.
javabeans: I can actually see why people might say he’s not their idea of good-looking, until they see him in action. He acts with an intensity that sucks me in, and isn’t trying to look pretty.
girlfriday: My favorite thing about him is that no matter how pretty he is, he isn’t vain in his acting.
javabeans: It’s full absorption into the world. You can often see that other actors are constantly aware — where the light is, where their mark is, where to face — and that’s not always bad, because it’s good to have technical skills. But Joo-won doesn’t care what he looks like as long as his emotions are coming through.
girlfriday: Yes, he’ll cry snot tears. We’ve seen it.
javabeans: And the funny thing is, not trying to look good makes him look better.
girlfriday: It’s the cool paradox — trying to be cool fundamentally makes you uncool.
javabeans: It’s weird to remember thinking he was odd-looking at first, like in his Baker King days, but now I honestly can’t remember how it felt to think that.
girlfriday: I just don’t even understand, because Kang Dong-won is so pretty to me, and Joo-won looks just like him.
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