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Enjoy the rewatch!
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Yes, well, … we crazy people did say that we’d do a full rewatch, so we’re sticking to it. In any case, it’s like something is missing if we have a week go by without one of our parties!!! 🥳 🤩 🥰 😱 😰 🤬 🤔 😬 😆 LOL.
The show, of course, has to be a good, compelling, maybe intricate Show, or we would have dropped out. 🤪
In this episode…
*** The faceless Killer steals Sung-Moo’s face. ***
The scene explains the situation with great dialogue and visuals. Especially the materialization of the face on the tablet. This scene has many differences with the screenplay.
The CGI of the killer coming out of the tablet must have been difficult to do because it feels shaky. Concerning the “mini-portal” principle, it’s blurry. The killer comes out halfway, could he come out completely? (however at this stage of the story, he doesn’t want to leave W). We never see what the killer is looking at in W. The passage is probably located at the mirror in the bathroom. When the killer looks up the other times, there is nothing, he just knows that his words will be heard or read by the author (it’s like the shot on Kang Chul at episode 2 ending). The tablet serves as a channel between the two Sung-Moo.
*** Yeon-Joo and Kang Chul drink on the roof. ***
Everything is done in the episode so that the two characters keep meeting each other “by chance”. But the scriptwriter has a meta pretext… is it intended by the story of the drama, or the story of the manhwa?
*** Yeon-Joo is an extra. ***
She sneaks around, tells a lot of lies, steals without shame or almost (a bit about the money in the drama, but not in the script, lol). This situation will be picked up in Extraordinary You. W tackles the subject quickly, the time it serves in the plot. But EY has time to develop this unique concept further.
*** Yeon-Joo monologue. ***
She is hungry and overwrought. She spills her marital life to Kang Chul who does not understand anything. A kind of one-way marital dispute. Tragi-comic.
Like the other episodes, a new dramatic situation is introduced.
Giving then a very good voice-over meta from Yeon-Joo:
“Only then did I understand all these strange things.
Dad and Kang Chul’s plan to destroy the real culprit has failed.
So, this is the world that is moved by the will of the real criminal.
A world ruled by villains.”
And a good conclusion. Not a suspenseful cliffhanger, but a highlight.
Hi @WE
Bonjour! Vous vous levez tôt et laissez déjà un commentaire ici.
Good morning! You are up early and already leaving a comment here.
It is timely because I just did a rewatch as well and was trying to think…
– what was it that pulled YJ into ‘W’ this time??
*SPOILERS*
*SPOILERS*
– the Killer… how did he know all that he did. Did he, when he shared the soul of SM, also share his mind and know all the plans to get him killed? How did he realise that, he was able to invoke a portal at will and go wherever he chose to (in the ‘W’ world)?
What is it about the ‘W’ world that gives its main characters agency that surpasses that of the real world? It seems they simply decide that they want to live and so they avoid dying, no matter how the real world SM tries to kill them.
Is it merely by virtue of the manhwa rules that the main character can take control and thus, control even the real world characters?
Ironically, the real world characters who drew the manhwa characters are the ones with little agency in ‘W’. Poor YJ was like a destitute non-person there this time.
– Why did the kiss end the episode and return her to the real world?
More later…
@GB, you are on fire!!! ahaha.
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I’m having trouble answering because I don’t know at what point in the story you place your questions.
At the end of the drama, Oh Sung-Moo gets the memories of the killer. So it’s logical that when the killer gets Oh Sung-Moo’s face, he also gets his memories. This explains why he contacts Han Chul Ho and wants to ally with him, saying that Kang Chul was planning to make them fight each other. It’s also why he say to Sung-Moo “you plan to bettray me”. All this happens in episode 10!
However, once Sung-Moo is faceless, I’m not sure what happens. Can he see what Sung-Moo is drawing on the tablet for example? Can he see where he is? I don’t think so because when the killer comes to the real world later, he doesn’t know where Sung-Moo is (he is locked in a room).
The mini-portal used by the killer is equivalent to the one used by Kang Chul. It is impossible to go through it completely. This portal is probably in the mirror. We see it a little in the drama, but it’s clearer in the script. See the script of the previous episode in the airplane bathroom. And here the mirror of the bathroom. The use of a mirror as a passage is logical, since it reflects the face. The Killer’s on one side, Sung-Moo’s on the other.
I think the Killer summoned Oh Yeon-Joo, as he has more dominance over Kang Chul (who was “reset”). I don’t know if he did it on purpose or not. Anyway, later (episode 11), the conversation he has with Yeon-Joo confirms that he knows she was summoned in W, as he is surprised that she is in the real world. I don’t know how he know that, because the chapter have not ended. We have to be attentive. It can be because it was a summoning on purpose? Another reason? Or if not, it’s a plot-hole. (at this point, I don’t see how such a crazy story couldn’t have some plot-hole). Summoning on purpose is a possibility, in episode 6, Sung-Moo speak with Yeon-Joo, so he know how the summoning work. If the Killer has Sung-Moo memories, he know too.
The summonings are always a bit blurry, it’s like they don’t work everytime they want. Until Kang Chul gets the full mastery of this. Episode 12, he start to do this. But more episode 13 (he changes worlds quickly on the road), then full mastery in episode 14, once he knows he can also summon manhwa characters in real world.
The characters in W do not outshine the real world per se. Rather, it is the paranormal phenomenon in general that can subvert the laws of W and the real world. Kang Chul resists the author’s intended death when he becomes self-aware. His free will allows him to avoid the traps set by a deterministic scenario. This translates into strangeness, the way the paranormal phenomenon transcribes this into the logic of a manhwa or a story. The mini-portal, or time stop (which is actually a plot change).
Why and how the Killer steals Oh Sung-Moo’s face and can control him? Part of this mystery is unanswered, at least not physically or mathematically. As usual with the W concept, an answer based on manhwa and storytelling. It fits perfectly with the logic of the situation. The closest character to the real author is the killer. While Kang Chul is a version of the author’s desires (of what he is not). And giving him the face of Oh Sung-Moo triggers this new special phenomenon. The general paranormal concept translates this in its own way: the exchange of who is faceless and who is not. The two are one. It is said in this episode. “I am you, and you are me. We share the same soul.” The kind of deep thing on the existential level. Sung-Moo with a face was controlling the faceless killer. And so the killer with a face controls the faceless Sung-Moo. This wouldn’t have happened if Sung-Moo had given the killer a stranger’s face (or Soo-Bong’s face, just kidding). It also means that the killer’s will has become stronger than Sung-Moo’s.
The kiss sets off the cliffhanger, as usual. Although Kang Chul has just been a fallen hero, he is still the protagonist and can trigger the end of the chapter. Later, when Yeon-Joo dies, there is also a chapter ending. I don’t know who triggers it. Yeon-Joo, Kang Chul worried, even the killer, or just the manhwa because it’s a good cliffhanger. In general, it seems that it’s ultimately the manhwa that triggers the events rather than the characters directly. But the manhwa always does it according to the logic of a story, according to the goals of the characters and their importance. As it rely on storytelling, it’s not precise rules as it would be in a time travel story, or an high-concept like Inception one (but anyway, there are always place for distorsion, even in these kind of stories).
My dear @WE,
The point in the story I place my questions is precisely here in Ep 10. I watched it today and paused to ruminate several times. And the questions came up. In any case I’ve rewatched a couple of weeks ago until the end, therefore there are no spoilers where I’m concerned. I put out the spoiler notice for other readers who may wish to be forewarned.
*SPOILER*
*SPOILER*
This is interesting. He gets memories and some knowledge but he cannot tell where SM is because SM has no face and no eyes? Then because they are supposed to be the same, sharing a soul, SM also bears all the guilt of the Killer.
Have we ever been shown if before Kang Chul’s rooftop stabbing, Sung Moo had visited ‘W’ before? The first instance of the portal that we get is when KC was bleeding on the roof and reached through a small portal. We never are sure why it appeared next to him, or if that was the same portal that SM traveled through.
First small portal: my own guess was that YJ happened to be at SM’s desk, thinking of the manhwa Kang Chul, who was at that point desperate for help. Because she was the true creator of KC and thinking about him, the portal opened between them.
Yes, I feel you are right about the small portal being the bathroom mirror.
What I find amazing is that although Killer used to have so many questions, the moment he got his face, he seemed to know how to manipulate the logic of ‘W’ to suit himself. Are we to surmise that SM also knew the logic? Somehow, KC didn’t know it instinctively.
Yes this part is a bit grey. For some reason he wanted her to be in ‘W’, but he didn’t bother about her. Bringing her into ‘W’ opened up the way for her to help KC when KC ended up as a wounded fugitive.
I have to go back to that father-daughter conversation to check.
Interesting about what you refer to as ‘paranormal phenomena’. Yes when translated for a manhwa, they result in a plot change or twist.
As for the “time-stop”… it happened when KC refused to allow himself to be killed by the Truck of Doom. His will superceded that of the artist. The other time-stop was when realisation really sank in that he was only a creation of an artist in a fabricated world. Did we see any other time-stops?
This part actually did not bother me so much, because somewhere in a previous thread we were saying that Killer was the epitome of the unsavoury part of SM. The negative traits that SM did not portray openly, were manifested in the Killer and even strengthened or extended by the Killer because SM gave him the directive to kill without any restraints.
Your explanation of the existential exchange makes sense. If Killer had been given a proper context before being allowed to go on a killing spree, there would have been more controls to restrain him. But because SM had created an out-of-context character and made him a main character as well, Killer’s powers seem to be OTT.
What a good joke if Killer had Soo Bong’s face!!! That would be a great sidestory-fan-fic LOL.
Yes, it seems that the rules for episode endings are determined not by the protagonists per se but by some other manhwa logic. As if no matter what, the manhwa is to be published, therefore there must be a logical episode end before the chryon appears.
One conclusion that was stated by KC (in a later episode) and seems to be right is that the world of ‘W’ and the real world exist concurrently, and the manhwa part that is published is the only part SM controls (or tries to). The rest of the ‘W’ world continues regardless of SM and the real world. Based on this, it becomes possible to accept that the ‘W’ world has it’s own strong overriding logical rules that the manhwa will enforce from time to time. I’d just like to know under what circumstances the rules will be applied.
Kalispera Friends,
I won’t be with you today. Something cane up…!
Enjoy the episode!
Thanks for letting us know @Cleo! Take care and I hope we can party next week. 🥳 😋 ☺️
I will be on. More coffee first.
Hi @salteddust! See you in 5 minutes!
Hi salteddust, GB.
Good to see you @WE!
@GB,
Most likely.. ❤️
Have fun everyone!
I’m here. Being that I go slowly, I imagine I’ll have to leave before I finish my comments on this rewatch. I’ve got a meeting to attend later this morning.
Hi @Welmaris, we’ll read you anyway, whatever you manage to post!
We begin right now!!!
Goosebump piano music at the end of the resume. 🙂
If we ascribe to the idea that no detail is unimportant in this drama, I wonder what it means that the opening review of this episode is narrated by Soo Bong. Is it because the viewers are being set up for Soo Bong’s big shock?
Oh Sung-moo so concentrated on his drawing he didnt really heard Soo-bong and his “pig feet”.
@WE in the prologue, an unmentioned premise is that both Killer and KC have powerful will and self-determination. If they do not fulfill their purpose in ‘W’, the manhwa cannot end.
Once again we see Saturn Devouring His Son, and immediately the one who will devour SM comes online through the mirror. What an irony that SM feared KC as the devourer but created the real devourer who’d take his face and soul.
Yes, the mirror portal appears here and the time that Yeon Joo was in the bathroom and ended in the Han River. It’s a repeated motif.
The directing of the scene when the killer face appear the first time is blood frezzing. Face in the center of the screen, then others fast shot. The actor is good.
Dear Friends, I am still behind the watch schedule. That said how are you? 😀
Really fine acting by Kim Eui-Sung. Even without the subtitles or the voice you would know exactly who was speaking (no-face or OSM) just by looking at the actor. Interesting that it is tearing up the Goya postcard that immediately precedes No face speaking through the tablet.
Oh is it SOo Bong who was narrating? I was wondering.
@WE there’s the rule of balance in ‘W’ ie Killer says he obeyed SM before so now SM has to obey him.
Poor SB has to go hysterical and scream til he passes out, LOL. Killer enjoys that and ordering SM around.
Behind the spatial door, the drawing of the killer appartement. 😉
Hi there @FGB!! We’re fine! How are you? Can you join us today?
Is it a plot hole that while Real Culprit is attacking Writer Oh through the computer screen, both are able to speak normally? Is it because in W world Real Culprit does have the face Writer Oh drew for him, so has a mouth? I suppose when Writer Oh has his face removed in real world, he can only speak through chyrons. And I just answered my question, I suppose.
Killer is so elated to be famous and on every TV screen when just a few hours earlier, he had had no face, was unknown and could not be found.
We don’t speak often about thematics of W, but they are so many about storytellers. Like the fact than the story or characters of a story make decisions instead of the author. What is really true!! SJJ speak about that in a interview. The whole drama is an extraction of her mind and characters too. Both as an emanation of her deep psychism than something more, outside our reality.
I keep wondering how OSM can draw without eyes.
@Welmaris, yes you answered your question. If there’s a face, the character speaks normally.
@salteddust Exactly! How can SM see to draw?
So it’s like how Killer was able to walk around and kill people when he had no face… the rules of ‘W’ are applied in the real world because SM is half a manhwa character.
I’m being nit-picky here, but if faceless Writer Oh has to walk waving his arms in front of him, the assumption is he can’t see. But he’s able to draw. I know he’s under the control of Real Culprit, but how much of Writer Oh’s physical abilities now require Real Culprit’s direct involvement?
I can already guess that Real Culprit is able to walk through dimension portals in W because he has Writer Oh draw them for him.
Yes OSM don’t need eyes to see, or noze to breath. It’s paranormal. It’s just he is now in the “undefinded character” appareance in the first page of the manhwa.
KCH go to see OYJ on the roof, to make a moral lesson about drinking doctors, lol!
@WE, that’s what makes this Show so super-meta. The drawings take charge and control. They show us what horrors bad writing creates.
Ah the soju on the roof scene. Of course it had to be KC who comes up to the rooftop too.
LOL KC’s smile when she takes another packet of soju from her pocket. She looks like an alcoholic… hiding away to drink.
I like that YJ manages to tell KC the truth in answer to his questions, whenever she can.
KCH at the hospital restaurant too, looool!
Poor YJ is stuck in ‘W’ without a home, money or friends.
The layout of the hospital is fortunately exactly like her real world hospital, so she can find stuff and know where to go.
@WE regarding the ability of the characters to change the story. I have been thinking all week about what other created characters in fiction have this ability within the story to change the story, to have a will of their own: Pinocchio wanting to be a real boy), Satan in Paradise Lost by rebelling against the creator (Milton) or, in particular, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein’s monster. Especially the latter. What a surprise Dr. Frankenstein would have had to have his monster not only come alive but have a will of his own, to want to have a normal life.
@WE, If YJ hadn’t wanted to not cross paths with KC, she could probably have gotten a proper meal through him / out of him. Poor girl has to keep running away.
KC is slow to react during the broadcast studio massacre. As an Olympic shooter, with all his training, he would’ve recognized the sound of the pistol right away. Why did he wait until so many people were already shot before he directed backup be called? Why weren’t the studio lights immediately turned off? [Yeah, I know, because us viewers would no longer be able to see, but neither would the shooter.] A normal person would be suffering disbelief and shock, but he’s not a normal person: he was created as a genius crime-fighting action hero.
Later, during the press conference in the hospital lobby, he’s able to think quickly to appropriately answer the reporters’ questions about the relation to this crime with the murder of KC’s family 10 years prior.
I don’t know what are these kind of “nuts” (with squirel on the cover), but So-Hee has at least 10 bags of it (in the fridge or in the other furniture.)
Ha ha, the usefulness of all that boxed soju to break down barriers!
No matter the evidence that surfaces, Assemblyman Han will never change his stance regarding KC because he was created as a one-dimensional secondary antagonist. Logic does not sway him from his appointed path.
Always poor YJ has to be caught in the most embarrassing of circumstances. KC had to come in when she was there stealing.
@Welmaris, yeah, it’s the way directing make feel it. But they are not in the studio. Only watching the screen. And they couldn’t see the red dot on the presenter head. So it’s very blurry for them. First it’s like the guy faint, and they don’t know why. Probably they didn’t get the sound in the studio too. (the mic capture presenter talk, not the gun).
“why do you follow me and are you kind? it makes me mad”. 🙂
It’s something we seldom think about… how a homeless person feels. In this case without money and when desperately hungry. Even prison is good because YJ can get fed.
Not bad that KC who is not the husband anymore still cooks for her, gets her kimchi and applies medicine on her cut lip. So more sweet things that he did for her altho not ‘married’ anymore.
Being part real world, part manhwa, and part creator of W world, YJ is able to comfort KC by patting his back by gesture only.
I loved all the things YJ said in complaint to KC which he totally does not understand. He finally feels dumb LOL.
For some reason KC changes his mind and does not send YJ off with the police. It’s a decision that saves him.
The timing is perfect. Mr Son wants to see KC just as Killer has fabricated evidence against KC for the 10 year old crime.
Han Cheon Ho is being abandoned and the Killer chooses the perfect time to call and offer him the alternative that would best suit his needs.
First: Killer ask for a strange dialogue we don’t fully understand.
Next scene: the full trap with the fake audio.
Killer has an unfair advantage since he knows all that SM knows or planned, he know all the characters well and how to manipulate them.
The fabricated one who has no context starts fabricating the past of KC to create context for causing Mr Son to doubt KC’s innocence. Love this meta.
The moment when the gun appear in his hand. WOOO!!
But he react fast, understand quick all is a trap and no one will believe. SO choose to treathen police and run away. Pure action hero reflex.
@WE… this is exactly what bad writers do or are forced to do to change the plot or add a twist. They re-write the past or make everything a dream LOL. SM and Killer being one and the same are bad writers and bad guys together.
The gunshot is so very manhwa… just a next picture with Mr Son shot dead… no sign of the killer. Again out of context.
Suddenly KC becomes a fugitive with a gun. He does not yet know that he’s a manhwa character, but he’s quick to change from being shocked at the gun materialising and taking advantage of having it to get away.
@GB, yeah, but the context will be in this world “kang chul shot the mentor with the gun”. 🙂
I like the scene on the road. OYJ say “I won’t leave you”. For KCH it’s like she say she’s a kind a unfailable allie.
@WE just commented on the same scene.
Now KC drives off. It’s strange that his car is not quickly found. At least Do Yoon has always believed him and continues to be his lifeline.
Fortunately YJ is KC and she has nowhere to go anyway except to help him and get home.
With the two worlds merging, characters switching from one to another and affecting the world they’re visiting, it doesn’t surprise me that YJ is pulled back into W during that world’s great time of need. Yet once there, without her previous connection to KC, the main character, she’s just an extra. If the same pattern as before holds true, the only way YJ can get out of W and back to her world is by causing a strong emotional reaction in KC. That’s tough to accomplish, because she doesn’t cross paths with him often (although for a mere extra, she encounters him a lot). When YJ and KC do meet, there’s an underlying emotional current that KC senses, but he doesn’t yet know what to make of it.
@WE we get YJ’s insight on the failure of the plan to get rid of the Killer.
We have the continued rise of the villains like HCH with the ‘W’ world run by Killer.
@GB, anyway, she would do anything for him. ^^
Fourth time she save his life. 🙂
I just picked up on this rewatch that NoFace is now also an alcoholic. It works both ways I guess to get all of OSM, all the memories and all the bad habits.
@Welmaris, sounds plausible as an explanation on why YJ gets dragged in this time.
@salteddust, yes, it’s indeed specified in the screenplay (I will publish this later).
As I rewatch it, the ending scene is quite intense.
In the lift, I like that KC is finally catching on that YJ seems to know him. He just accepts her strange behaviour. Her tears probably add more sincerity to her strange words. He keeps listening to her and trying to put 2-and-2 together.
Her one tear on his face made him believe her more, although he could not understand what she was saying.
@GB, what I find funny, it’s when Yeon Joo say that, she say that with a way to talk like it’s a story, with the word “vilains”.
@salteddust, yeah, I never thought of that part about being an alcoholic, but I expected Killer would take on all the bad traits of SM.
@WE, strange that KC does not see the chyron.
The ending makes me want to continue watching the next episode. LOL.
@GB, give me any random scene of W and I rewatch all after, lol!!
If you want something fresh, look at season 2. 😉
KCH can’t see the chyron because now, he don’t know he’s a manhwa character. Later, episode 12, he’s able to see them.
I agree @GB. After each of these episodes I really want to keep going, but especially this one! The cliff-hanger aspect of W is soo good!
Real Culprit likes to drink the same whiskey as Writer Oh. No surprise. They share the same soul and same face.
Real Culprit proposes to Assemblyman Han that they join forces to survive, taking down Kang Chul. Justice doesn’t matter to Han, only his rise to power. The two main forces of evil in W, the two antagonists, working together will be difficult to overcome. Real Culprit, having acquired Writer Oh’s comprehensive knowledge of W and Kang Chul, will be one step ahead of KC unless YJ, who also knows the whole story, aids KC.
So far in the story, it is unclear to me whether Real Culprit and Writer Oh are aware that YJ is in W. Unless self-created manhwa panels upload and are published in real world, they may not know about this storyline that differs from the one they’re creating.
Are the plot developments dictated by Real Culprit logical? Perhaps, but they’re also completely out of character for Kang Chul. If he becomes the murderer of his family and Director Son, he becomes an antihero and villain. That makes no sense in the world of W.
I haven’t watched ahead this round, and can’t remember from my first watch years ago, but I wonder if a dream-sequence reset can fix this storyline mess.
@Welmaris, there will be no dream reset again. 😉
The change in storyline and behavior of Kang Chul is so far off base that even secondary antagonist, Assemblyman Han, can’t figure out what is going on. Will bad writing make the world of W crumble? Is bad writing going to be Real Culprit’s vulnerability and lead to his downfall?
W has become a world ruled by antagonists. But it’s such a major shift in storyline that it may not be sustainable. To continue in this vein, all people in W, major and extra, will be thinking and behaving out of character.
It’s a good thing that YJ understands script development.
I’ve got to go for now. Catch you all later when I return from my meeting!
Taken from a first montage + absent events developed.
Here, the scriptwriter does not respect her own logic, since she gives chyrons to the killer’s words. But this kind of thing was reserved for faceless characters until now. Fortunately, the drama doesn’t use the idea, and instead makes the killer’s voice sound.
The shot of the killer’s image materializing was also added in the drama.
The mirror theme is used for the connection between the killer and Sung-Moo. So a way of passage between the mirror and the tablet.
Correlation: the kind of great idea that makes a connection with another element of the story. SJJ thinks of reusing the image of Goya. However the drama uses this even better than the script. Sung-Moo tears it up because he is no longer Kang Chul’s enemy and no longer fears him. The irony is that he tears off “I’d rather devour than be devoured”, and rather than devouring the killer, it is the killer who will devour him a few moments later.
In order to introduce the card, the scriptwriter has to find a pretext. Here, Sung-Moo needs a useful detail to draw, but Soo-Bong is already gone. You can see the realism given to the character in the way he is focused. If you practice drawing, or any activity requiring concentration, you know that you easily forget what is around, even when someone is talking to you.
The scene is also brilliantly conducted, not only in terms of fear, but also in terms of attitudes. The way the killer looks at his own face. Would he be disappointed to be an old man? On the contrary, he finds this face perfect! There is a metaphysical aspect to this scene.
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C#2. Sung Moo’s Living Room (Night)
Sung Moo, I’m looking for a file on the bookshelf.
I open the file and look for photos, but at this time, postcards fall.
(Episode 28 scenes, a postcard printed with Goya’s ‘Saturn eating his son’)
I see a sentence written by myself, “I’d rather eat it than get it eaten.”
Written when I was gripped by a maddening fear of Kang Chul. Frowning and trying to tear the postcard, a caption suddenly appears in the air.
{Now I have kept my promise.} Subtitles suddenly appear in front of my eyes.
Sung Moo, ….?!! Surprised, there is no one looking back.
C#3. Jinbeom’s apartment bathroom (day) + Sung Moo’s living room (night)
Connected in episode 10 52 scenes.
The image of Sung Moo looking into his face in the bathroom mirror and
Sung Moo, terrified and heading to the studio, crosses or splits.
Jinbeom’s self-talk appears as subtitles in front of Sung Moo’s eyes.
REAL CULPRIT – Was this my face..? (Touching his face as if curiously)
{Was this my face…?}
Sung Moo, …..!!
C#4. Jinbeom’s apartment bathroom (day) + Sung Moo’s studio (night)
Sung Moo, hurriedly heads to the studio.
A bright light is pouring out of the tablet on the desk.
Subtitles follow Sung Moo’s gaze.
REAL CULPRIT – That’s right. This was me.
{That’s right.. This was me} Sung Moo, expression.
REAL CULPRIT – I Was You
{I was you}
Sung Moo, ….!!!!
Subtitles appear with the voice of himself, Sung Moo.
(Not actually audible, but as an effect as an auditory hallucination)
{It’s the perfect face for me}
{You also wanted to kill Kang Chul. same as me
Sung Moo, ….!!!!
The use of the mirror to access the tablet is confirmed in the script.
Faceless Sung-Moo is described as was the faceless killer: black silhouette only.
The killer asks for a recent gun. But in the drama, he has rather an old gun, but very classy. A Luger Parabellum (apparently), known for its accuracy, the same one the faceless killer used.
Goya’s card: SJJ makes Sung-Moo drop the card, after being eaten! The meaning is rather that Sung-Moo failed not to be devoured. But I prefer the way the drama uses it, because there is also the meaning of making peace with Kang Chul. And tearing up the card is like a harbinger, almost a trigger.
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C#6. Jinbeom’s apartment bathroom (day) + Sung Moo’s studio (night)
REAL CULPRIT – (Looking in the mirror like a monologue) I recognized it then. that you and me are the same soul
{I found out then. You and I are the same soul
REAL CULPRIT – (touching the cheek) Is that so…? I think that’s right.
{Is that so? I think it’s perfect} Sung Moo, ….!!!
At this time, the light on the tablet disappears and turns off, and the subtitles disappear.
After a moment of silence… Sung Moo approaches the desk.
. Taking a deep breath, he looked at the turned-off tablet for a moment and then was about to unplug the power cord. Suddenly a hand popped out and grabbed Sung Moo by the neck. (Ep 6 21 scene C#3, similar to the situation where Kang Chul’s hand came out of the tablet and grabbed the collar)
Sung Moo, whoops!! I’m trying to step back with a sound, but I’m afraid..! It pops out of your face in an instant.
It was Sung Moo himself, who grabbed his neck and put his face to face.
Sung Moo, …!!!!! Sung Moo and Sung Moo who became the real culprit, seeing them face to face
SUNG MOO – (fear, scream) Let go of this…!! You made it.. you kept your promise..!
REAL CULPRIT – (looking at him) Yeah… I kept my promise. But you want to kill me?
SUNG MOO – (!!!)
REAL CULPRIT – Fuck with Kang Chul and kill me? That’s betrayal.
(Angry eyes) I’ve only followed your orders until now. Come on now.
SUNG MOO – (!!!)
REAL CULPRIT – You are me now I am you
SUNG MOO – (!!!)
REAL CULPRIT – From now on, you follow my orders. (He rushes to Sung Moo’s face)
Sung Moo, evil~!! Screaming and dropping a postcard in his hand, he framed it out.
A picture of a postcard that has fallen on the floor becomes a close-up.
Sung Moo’s painful scream ceases after a while.
When the camera illuminates the desk again, the tablet is off again.
Sung Moo is standing right in front of his desk.
C#7. Jinbeom’s apartment bathroom (daytime)
Sung Moo (Jin Beom) looks in the mirror again.
It feels like it’s only now complete.
SUNG MOO – (smiling and commanding) Take a seat.
C#8. Sung Moo’s studio (night).
Sung Moo, sits down slowly, as if ordered.
Sung Moo’s hands have already turned black and he has no face.
C#9. Jinbeom’s apartment living room (daytime)
Sung Moo changing clothes and wearing black gloves on his hands.
SUNG MOO – Draw a pistol. to the most up-to-date. (Ordering Sung Moo in the studio)
C#10. Sung Moo’s Studio (Night)
Sung Moo without a face. Lifting the pen without self-consciousness
C#11. Jinbeom’s apartment living room (daytime)
Sung Moo opens the chest of drawers.
A pistol suddenly appears in a drawer full of junk. (CG)
SUNG MOO – (picks up the pistol) Bullets too. The more the better.
Bullets appear right in the drawer.. (CG)
In the script, Yeon-Joo can’t even eat free raw food!!!
The scene is a little different, Kang Chul sees Yeon-Joo when he arrives in the drama.
This allows a better emphasis with the fact that he then forgets about her and goes to eat with Do-Yoon and Seo-Hee.
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#23. Hospital cafeteria (dinner)
Yeon Joo, who is getting dirty, is standing in front of the restaurant and watching people eating their meals, mesmerized. Kang Chul, Do Yoon, and Soo Hee are seen talking seriously while eating. All three of them eat dry food, and Kang Chul is looking at the data that Do Yoon gives.
YEON JOO – (E) The next day, I still couldn’t go home.
Yeon Joo, I’m hungry and my saliva goes down without me knowing
Kang Chul, who was drinking water, suddenly looked at Yeon Joo and their eyes met.
I recognize Kang Chul and Yeon Joo, but Yeon Joo, ….?! It quickly turns around and disappears.
Kang Chul, …..?
YEON JOO – (E) Even though I am meaningless to the main character now.
Even though I’m just an extra for this manga.
Yeon Joo, hiding out of sight, Soo Hee, saying something and crying again… I see Do Yoon comforting him and Kang Chul, pulling out a napkin and handing it over. Yeon Joo, sighing and leaving
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The screenplay serves as a specification for the production, which can almost blindly follow what is there without question. We see it here, even for a detail, when Yeon-Joo eats nuts. The refrigerator is almost empty. An important detail since it forces her to light a pot of water to cook ramen (which will betray her presence).
We can notice that in the script, Yeon-Joo is really happy to have found money. Unlike the drama, she doesn’t apologize and steals it with relief!
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#27. Soo Hee’s officetel (daytime)
A clean and well-organized officetel.
Yeon Joo enters the officetel she is already familiar with, checks that no one is there, and runs to the refrigerator. Soo Hee, who has hardly been home recently, has only side dishes and nuts left in the refrigerator. I quickly shake off the nuts and put whatever I have in my mouth, and if I look through the cupboard, I find some ramen. Yeon Joo, …!!!
Whispering nuts, he took out the pot, filled with water, and turned on the stove immediately.
Let’s eat something urgently.
At that moment, I sighed and looked around, looking through the dresser drawers and the bed drawers.
A few coins are visible among the various objects.
While carefully picking up coins, he finds a bank envelope.
When you open the envelope, you’ll find quite a bit of cash of 50,000 won drawn out.
Yeon Joo, ….!!! I feel like I have found a gold mine. When I put the envelope in my pocket, I feel relieved.
Open the closet and find clothes to change into. When he sees a new unopened box of underwear, he opens the package, when he hears a man’s voice from outside.
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Kang Chul exchanges some written messages by phone. As it is not convenient to read while watching the drama, this kind of thing is often increased by the voice of the character in voice-over. Here, the scriptwriter thinks to indicate that there is a voice-over.
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#30. Soo Hee’s officetel (daytime)
Bodyguard 1 is looking for Yeon Joo, holding Yeon Joo’s hands behind her back.
Yeon Joo, bowing her head in despair. Kang Chul looks at his phone.
With Soo Hee’s voice, {Who is this woman?}
With Kang Chul’s voice. {Are you a woman you don’t know?}
With Soo Hee’s voice. {Look first. who are you?}
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A mini-twist that does not last more than two scenes. The scriptwriter makes us believe that Yeon-Joo has been arrested by the police (intention indicated in the script). It’s a trap for the spectator, the next scene, she is in Kang Chul’s car.
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#31. In front of the officetel building (daytime)
A police car is standing behind it, and Kang Chul’s car is behind it.
Kang Chul greeting the police.
KANG CHUL – Good job.
POLICE1,2 – (salute and get into the car)
The police car that looks like Yeon Joo was on left…
Kang Chul rides in the backseat of his car.
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#32. In the company car (daytime)
When Kang Chul gets on, Yeon Joo is already sitting in the back seat.
Bodyguard 1 is in the driver’s seat.
The killer drinks whiskey. The screenwriter leaves a note for the production: to avoid confusing the killer who stole Oh Sung-Moo’s face, with the hypothetical killer seen in episode 9 (former sports colleague of Kang Chul’s father).
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#37. Jinbeom’s apartment living room + in Chul Ho’s car (daytime)
Sung Moo (Jin Beom) puts a glass of whiskey on the table and pours it over the phone.
The same movements as Sung Moo, the cold eyes are the same.
. (** This is not the alcoholic, psychopathic character (C#2 in Episode 57 57), which was originally intended to be hunger in the story, but took over the personality of Sung Moo.)
SUNG MOO – Do you know what you’ll do if I get caught?
I know. you will kill me
CHUL HO – (?!!)
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In the drama, Sung-Moo moves forward by moving his arms, as if he is blind.
This can lead to a misinterpretation that he does not see.
The script is better here, since there is no indication in this sense. Just that Sung-Moo moves like a zombie.
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#39. Sung Moo’s Studio (Night)
Continued from scene 73 in episode 10
Cut from a terrified close-up of Soo Bong, who fell to the floor after bouncing.
SOO BONG – (Screaming) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
There are subtitles floating in the air. {Soo Bong, what happened?} {My face is gone}
SOO BONG – Aaaaaah~~
Sung Moo, slowly approaching me like a zombie
{Soo Bong, save me} {He took my face}
SOO BONG – AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Do not come!! Do not come!!! (with a thump, eventually stretched out to the floor and passed out)
Sung Moo approaches the stunned Soo Bong, and the subtitles appear. {sit down}
Sung Moo, immediately turned around at those words
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Here it doesn’t make sense that the killer still speaks with the help of subtitles (chyrons).
Fortunately, the director did not film this logical error.
Instead, he showed the text that faceless Sung-Moo types.
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#40. Jinbeom’s apartment living room (daytime)
SUNG MOO – (Like talking to himself while drinking whiskey leisurely) From now on, I’m going to make a few lines. take it down First, Ambassador Kang Chul.
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#41. Sung Moo’s Studio (Night)
Soo Bong is stretched out, stunned.
The subtitles appear in front of Sung Moo, who sat down again without a soul.
{Kang Chul: Don’t care! What is your father?}
Sung Moo, hands on keyboard
{Kang Chul’s father: Where did this come in after drinking alcohol!}
Sung Moo, as he typed the lines in the subtitles as they were…
In this scene, SJJ makes it clear what Kang Chul is going through, when the gun appears in his hand.
Just in two lines.
“Kang Chul, thinking fast for those few seconds. This is manipulation..!
Unbelievable obvious manipulation…! A trap you can never get out of…!”
The kind of thing I almost never see in western screenplays (but maybe I haven’t read enough of them, because it’s hard for me to read them, as far as mastering the English language is concerned). In any case, many screenplay TIPS advise against doing this. So beware of TIPS or advice given here and there on this subject, and refuse them when a great screenwriter uses this regularly.
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#44. Inpatient room (late afternoon)
Kang Chul, with blood splattered on his face, opened his eyes and looked at the scene unfolding before his eyes.
Blood is gushing out of Hyun Suk’s heart, who had been looking at him until just before.
Kang Chul, ….?!!!!
Hyun Suk was shot in the heart on the spot and died instantly with his eyes open.
KANG CHUL – (Can’t believe what’s happened) Sir…?
Unbelievable that he was dead, but apparently dead.
KANG CHUL – Sir…! (reaching out to Hyun Suk)
At this time, something suddenly appeared in the outstretched right hand.
Kang Chul, ….!! A pistol suddenly appears in the right hand… (CG).
Kang Chul, looking down at the pistol in his hand…..??!!!
At this moment, the door slammed open and the police 3 and 4, a nurse, and Hyun Suk entered.
POLICE3 – What’s going on? (Do !!!!)
KANG CHUL – (Looking back)
With all eyes…
You can see the blood of Hyun Suk already bubbly.. Kang Chul is standing in front of him with a pistol.
HYUN SUK WIFE/NURSE – Honey!!! / (screaming)
Kang Chul, thinking fast for those few seconds. This is manipulation..!
Unbelievable obvious manipulation…! A trap you can never get out of..!
The moment he made his decision, Kang Chul turned around and pointed his pistol at everyone.
The cops approaching are startled and the women scream.
POLICE3 – President, why are you like this?
KANG CHUL – (He goes to the entrance, still holding the pistol) Get out of the way.
PEOPLE – (Surprised, everyone retreats to the door)
KANG CHUL – (Aim straight out)
POLICE4 – (In the meantime, let’s quickly grab the pistol)
KANG CHUL – (Bang right next door!! Threatening to shoot)
Police3 and 4 were startled by the gunshot, and the women fell down screaming.
Kang Chul, close the door and leave immediately.
The end of the episode.
The kiss is more simple in the script. In the drama, it was difficult to make the tear flow down the cheek of Kang Chul!
We can see that the final split-image (freeze frame) is well part of the script.
However, the recap of the previous episode was not in the script this time.
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#67. motel room (night)
Kang Chul, when he wakes up again to the roar of thunder, Yeon Joo is hurriedly stopping the bleeding and putting on bandages. Rely on the bed’s nightstand light.
It’s dark except around the bed.
KANG CHUL – (Be more mindful than before) Here… where?
YEON JOO – It’s a motel.. I came to a place that was as inconspicuous as possible.
KANG CHUL – …..
YEON JOO – Framed…? Unbelievably. So you ran away…?
KANG CHUL – (…!)
YEON JOO – Let’s find out what happened and how to fix it.
There seems to be a big problem, but I don’t know right now.
KANG CHUL – (expression)
YEON JOO – It’s dangerous to stay here… I need more medicine to treat it…
So I must get out of here. Can you survive on your own…?
KANG CHUL – Hey.. Oh Yeon Joo..
YEON JOO – Be patient and wait.
KANG CHUL – I can’t understand anything you say.. What are you talking about..?
how do you solve it..? Why are you helping me..?
YEON JOO – I’m a person who wants Kang Chul’s life to have a happy ending. (Same line as scene 4, 10)
KANG CHUL – (expression)
YEON JOO – So… it’s worth the breakup.
KANG CHUL – (Face) Oh Yeon Joo.
YEON JOO – ……
KANG CHUL – You… who are you…?
YEON JOO – (Turning around) I have to leave now.
So I hope this works again. Will it work again this time?
KANG CHUL – What..
YEON JOO – (suddenly bows her head and kisses Kang Chul)
KANG CHUL – (…!)
YEON JOO – (pulls lips after a while)
KANG CHUL – (Even in the midst of being sick and crazy) What are you doing now.. (Doing it)
At this time, the subtitle {Continue} comes to mind in the dark.
YEON JOO – (!! Get up right away, avoid Kang Chul’s view and go to the back of Kang Chul)
KANG CHUL – (…?)
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#68. Resident Sleeping Room (Night)
Yeon Joo, who has just returned, is standing next to the bed she was lying on just before she left. Yeon Joo, …!!
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#69. motel room (night)
Yeon Joo is nowhere to be seen and has no presence…
KANG CHUL – Hey.. (No answer) Oh Yeon Joo..?
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#70. Resident Sleeping Room + Motel Room (Night)
A sudden reunion and Kang Chul, who fell down bleeding again, a kiss that couldn’t be helped…
I tried to avoid it, but I was embarrassed by the same situation repeated like fate.
Yeon Joo, touching her lips…
Kang Chul, you press the button next to the bed to turn on the lights and look around, but Yeon Joo is already out of sight. Yeon Joo’s presence is strongly imprinted on Kang Chul even in the darkened consciousness.
The appearance of the two is divided into two.
End of the 11th.