My GY Movie and TV Reviews

back to GY.. what’s new? you have to wait for my next GY blog coz i got some saucy updates hehe  

for this entry, i just want to recommend to all GY converts to watch all his movies and TV dramas.  if you can, please buy original copies to fully support him! 

GY Movies  

 

i have seen 4 out of his 6 movies but in all these movies he didn’t have a role where he’s the solo lead.  

in She’s On Duty he was 2nd in lead of Kim Seon-Ah (from My Name is Kim Sam Soon), you’ll see GY in action and KSA took care of most of the funny acts.  [She's on Duty (Jambok-geunmu) is a 2005 South Korean film about a police detective who goes undercover in a high school to befriend the daughter of an elusive gangster. ]  

She’s On Duty is GY’s 2nd movie with Kim Seon-Ah, the first was S Diary in 2004.  i think GY’s exposure in S Diary is only about 20%.  this movie is a little liberated and quite bold, so just prepare yourself and don’t be surprised when you see GY make his moves…  

 

in another 2004 movie Spy Girl, GY fell in love with a girl who turned out to be a spy… his character is a little clumsy and goofy but naïve at the same time…  

 

in My Tutor Friend, GY has a hilarious supporting performance – definitely not in lead role, but who would have known that he will eventually be a star?  if GY’s exposure in S Diary was only 20%, in this movie it’s a little less than that.  even so, it’s still an entertaining movie which was a top-grosser back in 2003.  

his other 2 movies that i haven’t seen yet are Superstar Mr Gam (about a Korean baseball legend), i think this is where GY learned to hit a baseball like he did in Coffee Prince.  then the Japanese film Like a Dragon, i haven’t seen much write up about this one though, but I think it is because of this movie that Japs fell for him.  

GY tv Series  

 

now the tv series, aside from Coffee Prince, there are a couple more that i highly recommend that you must see.  One Fine Day (2006) and Hello My Teacher (2005) [a.k.a Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy]  

 

One Fine Day is about 2 siblings (Sung Yu Ri and GY) who were re-united after 15 years.  there are a lot of twists and secrets to be revealed in the story and as you watch it you’d silently hope that the 2 main characters will end up together… sounds taboo? well you have to watch it to know how it turned out in the end.  the early part of this series was shot in Australia, you’ll hear GY speak English, i think he knows the language very well and this isn’t the first time, he also had English lines in Hello My Teacher.  okay i know it was scripted but i just know, it’s obvious, through the accent.   there are a lot of dramas in here and only a few laughs so it’s not GY’s usual funny and carefree character.  

 

Hello My Teacher is about a 25 year old woman (Gong Hyo Jin) who desperately wants to be a teacher at a high school she was kicked out of. she works on becoming a teacher at her old high school to work with her high school love interest, the art teacher (Kim Da Hyun).  however, the only thing that enables her to get the coveted job is by signing a contract to essentially babysit Park Tae In (GY), a troublemaker who attends the same high school.  a lot of comedic act especially from GY, of course the drama is there, you saw him cried hard in Coffee Prince? well there’s one scene in here where he cried harder.  i wonder what is GY’s technique in crying??  there’s also a love triangle, and you have to see it to know who ended up with who… J  

GY’s other TV series that i haven’t seen yet are 20 Years (2003) and School 4 (2001 – his tv debut). 

in almost all his movies and his early tv dramas, his role was mostly as a high school student (and even though he was already at the age of 26 in Hello My Teacher), they said that the reason behind this was that he looked younger than his age.  

i hope when he gets out of the military he’ll do 2nd Shop of Coffee Prince and his own lead role movie. J  it’s still a long wait though but I’m already looking forward to it.  for me, comedy romance with a little drama totally suits him fine than action films.

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