With less than three weeks away from the premiere of City Hunter on SBS, right on schedule, the first teaser trailer has dropped. Y’all know I read City Hunter the manga, and I’ve been internally reconciling all the changes to the original story concept to this K-drama adaptation, so I figure I’m ready for anything CH wants to throw at me. After watching this teaser, I am simply speechless.
Really, I have nothing to say, because I am so freaking confused as to what I just watched. This is my face ———-> O_O Is CH a noirish thriller? Is CH an action rom-com? I have no clue. As for the aesthetics – Lee Min Ho is broody and hot, Park Min Young is cheerful and dewy, and the drama has Bad Guy-esque pretty visuals splashed all over it.
First City Hunter teaser trailer:
The Youtube video below has no audio, because this trailer uses a very famous American song, likely without proper authorization, so YT has muted it. For the trailer with the audio, cick here for the Youku link. Personally, I like the trailer better without the audio, which is so out of place that it increases the WTF factor for me.
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I understood nothing...damn it Lee Min Ho i'm actually going to watch this because of you XD
Okay, so it's not just me, right?
I was worried I may have had a lobotomy from yesterday to today.
did that for PT....never again!!!!!
especially not when there's a shitoad of other stuff to watch in May
Shelve it for later. :)
Although that last "smolderingly smoldering" look from LMH might convince me otherwise.
???? lol
maybe music and words might make this trailer more understandable?? let's hope so!!
Actually, not really. I think the music choice -- Louis Armstrong's version of "I'll see you in my dreams" -- is meant to be, like, ironic. And stuff. Slow and just a half-beat off the on-screen action, which is much more rapid.
Or maybe it's meant as a homage to the scene in Good Morning Vietnam (and then used in way too many other war movies, including Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, I believe) where the visuals are of the fall of Saigon but the music is some dreamy, low-key, American blues -- frequently semi-happy blues, at that, like "It's a Wonderful World". Y'know, irony! And stuff.
Still, as to what the show itself is about? I got nothin'.
Actually...no. It made no sense either way. I'm....well, dumbfounded is about all I can go with.
Maybe it's supposed to be Artistic.
*snerk*
I have no words.... are we supposed to be psyched up for this drama? Cause I am just verrry confused. It's like there are two writers who aren't communicating with each other. Oh well...Lee Min Ho, I'm watching just for you.
OMG! Worst trailer ever! What the heck was that about?! I want to give this drama a chance but I'm almost afraid to...
Okay, that trailer looked like three different films spliced together into one with know rhyme or reason. Then I watched it with the audio... WTF?!?! That was... just wrong! All I can think is that the promo monkey had seen an American and/or British trailer that had used a happy song with something violent (like "Wonderful World" set to a gun battle) and tried to do the same thing.
Too bad. I like Lee Min-ho and Park Min Young and was hoping the drama would be good, in spite of everything. It may have strayed far from its source, but it could have been like how the Tom Cruise movies have very little to do with the original Mission: Impossible television.
the promo monkey had seen an American and/or British trailer that had used a happy song with something violent (like “Wonderful World” set to a gun battle)
Ahahaha, clearly GMTA is still a rule of the intarweebs. 'Good Morning Vietnam' has a LOT to answer for.
Hey, if your going to steal the idea (and I'm not saying that anyone should!), at least do it right! Most if your deliberately going for the emotional dissonance, then you better make sure the timing of the song and your clips sink up!!
But honestly the trailer stunk without the soundtrack, so it's not like there was anything to work with!
You guys are funny. Thank you. Ms. Koala I could be wrong but I got that it's flashbacks of his life and then present time.
I don't understand about Good Morning Vietnam cause it was a comedy. Broody is so boring, I hope they get him to smile more.
The only reason I'm tempted to check out the drama is because of LMH, otherwise, I'd be concentrating on other dramas this month such as Best Love and Lie to Me :D
BRB LOLing forever. Or crying forever. I haven't decided what's the proper response to this trailer yet. WTF pretty much sums it all up, though.
Btw, one of my maaaany reactions was, why the hell is Uncle Jun in a pool? And why is he wearing a uniform?
And omg the ost! o_o Okay, yes, LOL it is then.
OMFG!....uncle Jun was exactly what I thought too!!!....hot Uncle Jun!!!....what is he doing here??
Huh.
Looks like a police action drama to me a la Lethal Weapon 1 - w/o the comedy, but with the angsty, do-good, bends-the-law-to-achieve-justice, haunted-by-his-past, playboyish protagonist.
Or, I'm giving it too much credit? . . .