The box office champion in Korea that year, I thought it was an ordinary play when I first watched it. Except for Lee Jun Ki's narrow eyes and white teeth, I didn't feel how strong this play was.
I watched it again after so many years, but the screenwriter is very steady, and there are no wasted plots and scenes.
King Yanshan is also a familiar figure to Korean audiences, emphasizing his true spiritual extremes towards maternal love, which was transferred to Kong Ji, the king and actor with gay themes, which was probably a breakthrough in Korea at that time.
The screenwriter said that his only regret is to delete the explicit plots of Wang and Kong Ji, but he prefers Kong Ji, and the director prefers Changsheng, which also makes the scenes of the two finally balanced. The three protagonists - the king and the two actors, have no personality changes from beginning to end, just waiting for unknown rewards and punishments in fate. The boldness of laughter, scolding and play, and the provocative lines are not stingy. The characteristics of Korean people's love of crying and laughing works are fully exposed.
The costumes and scenes are beautiful, no wonder so many people fall in love with Lee Jun Ki.
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