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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Goo Hye Sun for Ceci Magazine


English Translation from susamerica@soompi.com:

Star Catalogue:
Stars that you have been wondering about...CeCi brings their stories to you.

Things I wanted to ask actress GHS:

GHS is planning to crank up her full length film in November and it is a story of a cellist and music. When did she start writing her script? Did she complete the casting process? Nobody knows. Not too long ago when she published her novel, exhibited her art work and came out with her music CD--nobody knew much about it either. Her working process has always been very quiet. That is why, to most people, GHS is not an easily understandable text.

(There are writings on this article usually next to GHS pictures that advertises CeCe clothes and how much they cost. I am not translating that. But I will translate some of the excerpts next to her pictures that are related to GHS.)

Only few years ago, the one qualifier word, Ulzzang explained everything about GHS the actress. Her face is full of mischiefs and curiosity behind those huge blinking eyes. But she gives me a correction:

I used to say that I can do anything: from the NN5's energetic and 'uh ri bah ri'=goofy? screenwriter, to untainted Yanbin female of the Pure Heart of 19, to Queen Yune who aroused 'gah chae' in King and I. Yes, I tried my hardest, but I also have lonely memories of not having things work out the way I wanted. In the beginning, I thought that things worked out well for me because I have all the luck and because I am special. I did not realized just how many people worked so hard to help me.Especially through KIng and I, my self-conceit and pride broke off. Because I made a debut at young age, I may have matured faster.

In 2009, GHS again solidified her place as an actress by playing Geum Jandi who, having gone through the torture of being abused and bullied end up being loved by the F4. While her popularity soared among the mass, her TV appearance time gradually decreased. Most celebrities' pattern is to be mindful of how their audience is feeling about them and to adjust themselves to maintain their status. Same pattern does not apply to GHS. In the middle of such heated popularity, GHS walks out showing one at a time new and different sides to her. After the big hit of BOF, she could have easily just enjoyed the unending adulation.

However, she quickly gargled the taste of popularity out of her and published her first novel, TANGO. Then she opened her own private exhibition of her illustrations and art work. Then she produced her New Age musical CD. And, in November, she is to hold the megaphone as a director. (We know that this article was written before the her movie was postponed.) Now, nobody can really predict her future. She may be able to think about what she has to do tomorrow, but she cannot make a guaratee or positive assertion about her future. She is curious herself what would be her future. Only thing that she feels sure is that the process will be mighty interesting. (She is still positive, GREAT!)

I always work with a smile on my face. I feel more the benefit from working really hard. On the one hand, living so intensely may seem empty, but I feel so alive. Making movie is about constantly being face to face with other people around you all the time--to communicate, to fight, to have conferences---I really enjoy that process.

Carefully, the reporter asked GHS about her new movie. Firstly, it is a mystery. The story deals with the endless desires of artistic people. They want to fulfill their intense desires yet the desire is endlesss and meaningless conflicts arise. People die. Towards the end, even after the death of a lover, the lead actor's frame of mind to still need to play the cello is revealed. It may not be your typical Korean movie that one is used to--it is slightly manic. (smiles)

After BOF, people are again acknowledging her as the actress. So, WHY does she have to choose a difficult road of being a director? As I became more and more famous as an actress, whether consciously or subconciously, my routine has turned into hiding myself from the public. The more I talked, sometimes the more it worked aginst me. If I play a bright and energetic character, I had to stay in that character no matter where I am. If I play a sad character, I could not easily laugh anywhere either. The character that I play is not the real and entire me. If I show the public many other aspects of me, would they be more confused? I want to be more free with myself and the public. How long do I have live my life by restraining and abstaining from being myself? The more and more I thought about it, the lonelier I became.

To comfort my loneliness, I scribbled, painted and composed. However, those are jobs for only one person to do. I wanted to meet people more. So, I went out. I took my work with me. Actually, even before I became an actress, I wrote, painted and composed. Those senior actors who have worked me have seen my work and have encouraged me to not just keep it as a hobby but to consider writing books and to do art exhibitions. Under such positive encouragement, she worked hard giving up sleep. That is how she came out with her work to the public.

I know that I lacked tremendously, but I maintained the cocky attitude that I wanted to do what I wanted to do no matter what. Luckily, many people helped me. Some friends worried for me. They cautioned me to first do more acting, really sharpen the acting skills, to try for movie roles. Then, slowly with more experience, try other challenges. I thought about it. However, when would there be the right time for me to know that I am ready to challenge myself new. What if such readiness never come my entire life and I die? By nature, we human beings are not even perfect to start with!

(No time like the present when one has the strong desires. US Nike should have capitalized on GHS's attitude about life: Life is just too short. This is it. No time for rehearsals. Just Do It! And leave the results to the wind! Love and enjoy the process of making your life so very rich and full! I just love her!)

I decided to give myself some room. I told myself that I am doing it because I want to do it, not because I am so good at it. A person who already lives her life so intensely may bring out even more authentic colors of her being by adding a flavor of something new. To make one scene, I fight fiercely with the staff. We may even fight more than 12 times a day.

Then I would say, (We all know what happens to those sand castles when the tide comes in. Right? GHS seems to saying that she felt stifled as an actress but more free and less lonley as a director. She broke FREE. I hope that even if she continues an an actress, she will take roles that make her feel more free and limitless so that we will still see her on screen, not only behind the screen. What a human being!)

Now, this is the start for me. I already hung out all my work out there for the public. I am sure that while filming, from time to time, I will look at some of the results and say to myself, I am going crazy...What am I to do now! But, you know what, I know positively for sure that it will be nothing but very interesting!

(Some character GHS is!)

credits: susamerica/natali/minjee@soompi.com + as labeled

Goo Hye Sun Soo Pretty in Red


credits:koohyesunwebs.com + as labeled

Goo Hye Sun with her fans @ I'm a Good Downloader Event


This male fan can resist the chance to hug GHS
after a friendly hand shake.

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GHS's old photo with fans
(hmm seems like there are more male fans than females)
credits:minjee/sunkyunnie@soompi.com, nate, gongjunim

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Goo Hye Sun @ I'm a Good Downloader Event (11/10/09)






Summary by susamerica@soompi.com:
Goo Hye Sun' Cheerful Caretaker and Jang Jin's Good Morning Mr. President were screened. Jang Jin was saying that, for his next film maybe in December, he may want to do Goo Hye Sun-style movie where he would be more free and adventurous, like carry a camera around with few good people. He really wants to make a film that would make him feel like he really loves making films.

(His statement reminds me of what Yoo Ji Tae said in AISFF. He makes short films because he is not necessarily thinking about commercial profit but because it gives him his self-respect and pride as an artist. Goo Hye Sun also mentioned about her attraction to making short films--she can be outrageously imaginative without consideration to too many rules and conventions.)


Director Jang Jin also said that he had been talking a lot with Goo Hye Sun while waiting and he learned that she is getting busy to make a full-length film. People clapped her for it. She said that she had been talking with Director Jang to ask for his help. She is planning a musical mystery and she will work hard at it now. She said that the hardest thing about her short film is that, even though she did not intend for her movie to be about religion, she was getting some heat from the religious groups.



credits: susamerica/natali/phanlinh_111/liediemkieu/mintcar@soompi.com + as labeled, nataL2Tle@youtube.com

Friday, November 6, 2009

Goo Hye Sun @ SOUP FS Event (11/06/09)








English Translation from susamerica@soompi.com:

Few interesting fan accounts for the Nov. 6, 2009 Soup Fan signing event at the Lotte Dept Store in Young Deung Po, Seoul at 2PM but started at 2:15 or 2:20 PM.

All credit to DCinside.

FA1:
She saw how pretty she is yet so thin--face is so small and her legs are like bird legs.
She put it in a letter wishing her to keep healthy as she crank into her movie.
She says GHS was smiling from beginning to end and very polite.
She wanted to say and talk so much with GHS and as soon as she stood in front of her her head just became too hazy.

FA2:
This fan points out an interesting event at the signing.
There were many students at the mall, especially male students.
They gathered together and shouted to GHS:

GHS laughed and so did the staff and all the fans.
Thanks kids!
(That is what the BOF staff yelled at GHS when she and LMH were so stressed out from the kissing scene at the ski lodge scene.)

FA3:
Her eyes are so clear
When I look into them, I feel like I could fall into them.
But I still managed to make proper eye contact,
but no matter how many time I have seen them, I cannot remember...

FA4:
This fan did ask when she is tarting the movie, GHS tolf her that it is delayed and will start in early December. Fan feels bad for GHS who will be working in the cold.

FA5:
He is a college student with flexible schedule so he went to the event an hour early touring the Soup store which is for women. But he just looked at the catalogue with pictures of HS and waited. It was a weekday so not too many people. Few people waited with presents. The male student first in the line was a first grader in Junior HS. He was talking alot with the employees and fans saying how he plans to marry GHS noona and he will direct the signing affair. This fan thought him just too cute and too 4-D.

Due to some type of accident on the road, the sign event started 20 min.late. When the students started to use bad words, the older aunti fans scolded them. But nobody remembered being angry for the late start when they saw GHS coming down from the third floor escalator. He felt like he was witnessing an angel descending from heaven.

People were packed in that small space. Male students were telling her how pretty she is and some were calling her Geum Jandi. He and other male fans were captivated by her rustling skirt. When he came to his senses, it was time for him to get her signature. He told her that he did not make it in to her Birthday Party and wished her all the best. She said Thank You. Every time he has seen GHS, he always wonders if he is really looking at the real GHS or a doll of exact replica. That day he felt that her eyes were just so clear and deep like a lake that he sort of lost his balance.He said nothing happened.

Right after getting the signature, he got into a good corner to take her pictures. Taking pictures of entertainers were banned because of the fear that the pix may be used for illegal business purposes. But because she is so nice, she did not stop people from taking pix of her. He just took D-cal pix which would not qualify for using pix for bad purpose.

He also talked about these 10 male high school students who shouted .
Seeing GHS's happy, laughing face made him extremely happy to the point of having goose bumps. She lastly took pix with the staff of Soup and left. The male high school students followed GHS til the end. GHS was on her way to the evening part (Cinema Talk) of the AISFF.

GHS must have worn her short skirt suit without the scarf at the SOUP singing event.

credits: natali/susamerica/minjee@soompi.com + as labeled, DC Inside, nataL2Tle@youtube.com

Goo Hye Sun @ Cine Talk (11/06/09)







credits: susamerica@soompi.com + as labeled, nataL2Tle@youtube.com

Thursday, November 5, 2009