My sassy girl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | My sassy girl |
| Original title | 엽기적인 그녀 Yeopgijeogin geunyeo |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 123 (137 Director's Cut) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kwak Jae-yong |
| script | Kim Ho-sik, Kwak Jae-yong |
| production | Shin Chul |
| music | Kim Hyeong-seok |
| camera | Kim Sung-bok |
| cut | Kim Sang-beom |
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My Sassy Girl ( Kor. 엽기적인 그녀 , Hanja 獵奇 的 인 그 女 ; Yeopgijeogin geunyeo ; literally: "the bizarre girl" ) is a South Korean romantic comedy from 2001. The film is based in part on true events written by Kim Ho- sik have been published on the Internet. The film is directed by Kwak Jae-yong .
The film is one of the most successful South Korean films and is also very well known outside of Asia.
An American remake called My Sassy Girl was filmed in 2008 with Jesse Bradford and Elisha Cuthbert . In addition, the follow-up My New Sassy Girl came to the cinemas in 2016 , in which Cha Tae-hyun returns, but the main female role is played by Victoria Song .
action
Through an asynchronous narrative style, one is confronted with two scenes that the viewer cannot place at first: in the first, the protagonist, Gyeon-woo, is standing by a tree on a mountain and waiting for a girl with whom he has made an appointment two years earlier and buried a time capsule ; but it does not appear. The second scene, which is also out of context, shows Gyeon-woo being disturbed by his cell phone during a photo shoot; his aunt called and he tells her that he is on his way to see her. During the course of the film, the viewer learns that the content of the two scenes occurs towards the end of the film.
The film itself is split up like a soccer game, which is made clear by the appropriate overlays.
First halftime
The plot tells the story of the lazy student Gyeon-woo and the girl, whose name is never mentioned in the film. Gyeon-woo is single and his mother urges him to visit his aunt, who wants to introduce him to a wife. However, since he cannot stand the tenderness that his aunt always gives him when he visits, he postpones this visit more and more. After a cheerful night with his friends, Gyeon-woo sees the girl in the subway station for the first time, who is drunk and waiting dangerously close to the edge of the platform for the train. When she doesn't shrink from the approaching train, he saves her at the last moment.
Both go home on the same train. The girl may be Gyeon-woo's type, but he is disgusted with her drunkenness. Suddenly she vomits on an old man and shortly afterwards calls Gyeon-woo "darling", whereupon she faints. Now the other passengers think he is their friend and blame him for taking better care of his girlfriend. At the next station, Gyeon-woo leaves the train with the unconscious girl and carries her on her back to the next motel. While he is showering there, the girl's cell phone rings; He picks up naked, informs the caller of his whereabouts and a short time later is overwhelmed by police officers storming in. After a brief argument, he ends up in prison.
After he is released from prison, the girl asks him over the phone to meet her at the café to explain the previous night in detail. For the first time, the dominant way she treats Gyeon-woo over large parts of the film becomes apparent. But you can be convinced by his descriptions. Together they go to a bar, where she gets drunk again and has to be carried back to the motel by him. Despite this strange meeting, they become a couple.
In the following, the film tells individual, entertaining episodes from their coexistence that are only loosely related. The girl treats him quite unfairly, she often hits him and demands unusual things from him. However, she also shows a happy, lovable side. So the girl wants to become a screenwriter. Gyeon-woo reads her works for her sake, although he doesn't actually like them. All works have in common that they are completely exaggerated and the heroine comes from the future. Another episode tells of Gyeon-woo drinking with his friends. He noticed a woman walking in front of the bar. He runs after her and tries to speak to her. However, when she finally turns around, it turns out that he tried to turn the girl on. But he manages to escape, whereupon he gets very drunk and finally falls asleep in the subway "out of revenge" so that she has to carry him. He is stolen on the way and only wakes up at the terminus. With the last of the money he calls her and demands that she pick him up. She ignores this, however, and instead he wakes up in prison the next morning.
An email alerts him to the girl's birthday, which is two days from now. He decides to take her to the amusement park at night after it has closed; to do this, he bribes his friends who work there. But when they try to enter the park over a wall, they are surprised by a deserted soldier who takes them inside the park. Parts of his division surrounded the building in which the three are sitting. During the conversation one learns that the soldier was betrayed by his girlfriend. Gyeon-woo moves the fugitive to let the girl go. An escape through the back exit fails and both are surrounded by the army. When the soldier threatens to shoot himself and Gyeon-woo, the girl changes her mind. The first part of the film ends with the promised fireworks for the girl. One also learns that the deserter's birthday is on the same day.
Second halftime
It seems some time has passed in which the two protagonists got to know each other better. They meet in a cafe. There she hands him a hair-raising script about a samurai film, which he again reluctantly reads. She asks him to give the script to Shin Cine, a film producer, so that it can be made into a film. However, he rejects the work. The girl also takes him to squash and fencing, and he loses every time.
The girl waits for him after school, after which they both walk through a park. Sitting on a park bench, she tells him that her feet hurt from the pumps and that they should exchange shoes. At first he refuses, but when she threatens to leave without him, he finally agrees. She forces him to chase her in women's shoes, making him a common mockery. In the evening he brings her home and gets to know her parents. However, they consider him a good-for-nothing and clearly disapprove of the friendship between the two. Gyeon-woo doesn't hear from her for a long time.
He won't hear from her again until her 100-day anniversary. She asks him to put on his old school uniform and to give her a rose in one of her lectures in front of all fellow students. To make matters worse , she is studying at Ewha Womans University , an all-women university. He wants in return Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel , she also plays him in the lecture on the piano. They then go to a bar in their old school uniforms, where they revive their school days. Then they visit a disco, where the decision is made to hold a school uniform party every month because of the apparently convincing performance of the two. But since she got drunk again, he has to take her home. The parents question him about his relationship with their daughter, but he looks extremely bad. You then forbid him to contact her.
Afterwards they don't see each other again for a long time. In the middle of a date with Gyeon-woo and, as it turns out, a transvestite, the girl orders him to go on her blind date via cell phone. Gyeon-woo still loves the girl, but wishes her all the best for the new relationship and gives both her and her blind date separate tips, as he now seems to know the girl and her quirks well.
She realizes how much she likes him and returns to him after a long search. She asks him to put his feelings in a letter, which she also does. Then they meet at the tree from the opening scene and bury the letters in a time capsule next to the tree. Two years later, they decide, they want to meet again there and dig up the time capsule, but in the meantime they don't want to meet.
renewal
In the meantime, Gyeon-woo has practiced squash, fencing and swimming to improve his skills over time and pass the time. He also presented his stories for “My Sassy Girl” to Shin Cine, who immediately agreed to film them.
After two years the intro sequence is shown again in which Gyeon-woo stands alone in front of the tree, but the girl does not appear. Some time later he digs up the capsule and learns from her letter the root of her behavior: a year before she met Gyeon-woo, the girl had a boyfriend with whom she was deeply in love, but who has passed away. But she never got over his death. This explains her dominant behavior as she saw her deceased boyfriend in Gyeon-woo and forced him to do things that her former boyfriend did for her. The mother of the deceased friend had suggested introducing the girl to a nice young man, but the girl refused because she was not ready. Gyeon-woo made the girl feel better because she liked him, and at the same time it made her lovesickness worse because he reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. So she decided to end the relationship with Gyeon-woo and believes that if they are really made for each other, chance will bring them back together.
A year after Gyeon-woo visited the tree, so does the girl. An old man sits under the tree who has read the letters and seems to know the girl's story. He asks her why she is a year late and tells that the tree was struck by lightning, but a young man had planted a new tree. The man thought it was particularly important that he looked like the old man so that a certain girl would not be sad. One possible interpretation is that the old man is Gyeon-woo from the future. The girl had previously dreamed and talked about similar visions.
A short scene shows how she is standing in an approaching train and Gyeon-woo chasing after the train.
He has finally agreed to visit his aunt and to be paired up with a girl. It turns out that the late friend's mother is Gyeon-woo's aunt. She has been trying to bring the two together for several years. The film ends when the lovers in school uniform are on their way to a party.
Trivia
There are a variety of Easter Eggs in the film :
- The first time the protagonist visits the motel , an article with quintuplets is shown on the motel wall. Without knowing it, Gyeon-woo meets every quintuplet over the course of the film: two as motel employees, one as gangster boss in prison, one as security guard at the girl's college (not shown), and one as security guard on the subway Control room.
- In the scene where the girl is talking to the old man under the tree, a UFO appears in the sky. The old man also meets the two protagonists on the train, so they meet for the first time. Time travel is an important part of both the girl's scripts and the conversations between the main characters.
- Gyeon-Woo wore pink when she first met the girl, just like the passer-by on the train whom the girl "scared away" and told him not to wear pink. In the park, Gyeon-Woo was wearing green when the girl told a passerby not to wear green.
- In the scene where Gyeon-Woo reads the girl's letter under the tree, the girl and her ex-boyfriend are shown holding hands and the ex-boyfriend has a coke in front of him. In the film, on the other hand, a cola or something similar is corrected as an order from the girl for coffee.
- The transvestite girl who meets Gyeon-Woo also appears earlier in the film, sitting next to the girl, in the scene in which the girl brings the lost package to her grandma.
- In the second part of the film, the girl asks Gyeon-Woo to read her script. In the story, the enemy is called Gyeon-Woo. After the fight, the narrator says that the heroine becomes "King Jung-jo". It could be that the protagonist's name is Jung-jo.
reception
My Sassy Girl had the second highest number of admissions in 2001 (4,852,845) in South Korea (after Friend ).
Koreanfilm.org praised Jeon Ji-hyun's performance and the film would not have been as successful without her.
Awards
| Event | price |
|---|---|
| 2003 Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Asian film |
| 2003 Hochi Film Awards | Best Foreign Language Film |
| 2002 Grand Bell Awards | Best Actress - Jeon Ji-hyun Best Adapted Screenplay - Kwak Jae-yong |
| 2003 Fant-Asia Film Festival | Most Popular Film |
| 2001 Blue Dragon Awards | Best New Actor - Cha Tae-hyun |
Web links
- My Sassy Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My Sassy Girl in the online movie database
- My Sassy Girl in Korean Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cuts from the theatrical version to the Director's Cut from My Sassy Girl at Schnittberichte.com