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o0glad2bbiba0o Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Total posts: 82 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject: Jo In Sung: THE SMILE and all that!! Post Rating: 0 |
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The Movie "the Classic" is the 2nd korean movie I have seen (of course, My Sassy Girl was the first) and I immediately fell inlove with this guy called "Sang-Min" in the movie. Later, I learned from my korean friend that he's called JO In Sung in real life. "The Classic" and MSG introduced me in Korean Films and TV Shows. And since then I have started to watch and watch out for Korean Movies and TV Series. And even though I have already had (and have) more crushes from the Korean Show Business, I would never forget that it all started from that bright smile of Jo In Sung. 
how emotional can we get?  oh anyway, I just love his smile, and hey! He's a great actor too right?!
Anyway, here's a brief profile and some of his pics. Hope you like it!
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SoKorean.com
name: jo in sung
date of birth: July 28 1981
height: 186 cm
weight: 72 kg
blood type: B
debut: December 1998 Georgio model
information: Likes watching movies, collecting hats, and playing Starcraft! Enjoys playing basketball and practises tae kwon do. His ideal partner would be someone who is kind, has sense and does her best in everything in she does.
(*taken from: http://www.sokorean.com/star/profile/categories.php?cat_id=10)
(from the classic)
pics gathered here and there. Thanks!
 
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bellezaJoined: 21 Jan 2007 Total posts: 617 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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Jo In Sung is arguably the most gifted actor of the current 20-something generation. From what I read, he and I think Lee Jung Ki now are now considered the two most certifiable 20-something leads in the industry.
Whenever I watch him, he seriously reminds me of a 70s Travolta (with a touch of 80s Tom Hanks.) Not the hammy Scientologist, but the wiry, edgy, flambouyant (and emotionally generous) presence. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and sometimes uncomfortable to watch.
Sometimes it's a bit much, a bit too preening, but a lot of what he does -- his ability to play buffroonery in both vicious and achingly vulnerable tones -- is real acting brilliance. He smears his rueful/sweet smile all over the script characterization, and he breaks through the sullen bravado (of which So Ji Sub is its wounded poet) that marks for respectability in Korean acting.
| Quote: | | but I'm not a Ha Ji Won fan, so her being the main female character turned me off a bit.. |
I thought her chemistry with JIS was only so-so. They both acted well, but they were also competing in their scenes together. Her scenes with SJS were better (and scarier too.)
Best chemistry was between SJS and JIS actually. It was perfect casting of fire and ice, and the way they were so in hatred with each other drove the story. JIS's character imposes his will, and SJS's character counterpunches.
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bellezaJoined: 21 Jan 2007 Total posts: 617 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:55 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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He's doing Frozen Flower with (manly, manly) Joo Jin Moo, a historical drama depicting a gay relationship. This movie, directed by Yoo Ha (who also did Dirty Carnival), is going to be a more frank than King and the Clown.
After this, JIS is going into the military. I'm sure the movie will endear him to his troop. ;)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| Quote: | | I think he's still very popular... |
Very much so. He kinda has Ryan Gosling cred among critics now. Still a popular model and an idol, but he's considered a major film actor now, one who's expected to do great and important film work. Some articles still view him as the only major film actor in his 20s, though Lee Jung Ki is on the cusp.
Netizens voted him as first choice for Doumyoji (opposite YEH as Makino) in the Korean Hana Yori Dango project. JIS is too old now to play even a college version of the part, and he's just in a much different place in his career, but he would have been perfect for the part. Matsumoto Jun's Doumyoji, this fragile boy-monster-thing, is within the same damaged species as In Sun's character in Bali.
| Quote: | | As for the drama Spring Day, I haven't seen it myself but from the reviews and comments that I have read, I would steer well clear of it |
Yeah, X kinda compares him to Kwon Sang Woo in the difference between their movie career (good) and TV choices (bad except for WHIB), as well as their pure acting potential. I thought it was an odd comparison except that KSW also can go into uncomfortable emotional spaces when he's actually asked to do such. Then again, X hates Autumn Tale so neener neener neener!!!
| Quote: | | heh...I don't really like HJW either and neither SJS, but JIS really dominated WHIB IMO. |
Yeah, WHIB, which apparently was called "A Toast to Youth" at one production point, could have easily been called What the Hell Happened to Jung Jae Min. That project was conceived as a JIS vehicle and originally he was to play the other guy. I think the ending would have been similar, just different players doing more or less the same things.
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maybe dear Jo In Sung isnt as famous as he was before. I wonder, does he have any new project yet? 
thanks for the info! id look forward to that movie! (though i havent seen the king and the clown yet! haha!)
