Gun Crazy In Korea

[koganbot]

Reading Leonard Pierce on Gun Crazy, I recalled that, for reasons unknown, the video for Infinite's "Be Mine" includes inserts from that violent movie, as well as noir atmosphere that has little to do with the lyrics — Eng. Trans. gives us a song about a girl who's hurting and a narrator guy who promises to protect her, if she'll be his: "Be mine, I will love you/I will worry about you/I will take care of you until the end"; maybe the videomakers felt that songs and groups like this need a menacing and violent correlative to the teenage feelings that the lyrics barely express. Paraphrasing Leonard, to a song dripping with good intentions, the video adds blood.

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Leonard is posting about noir all month (on his Website and mirrored on his livejournal): noir novels, noir movies, noir nonfiction. I highly recommend it, not just the writeups but for what he's writing about. Noir was the garage rock of '40s and '50s Hollywood, but the product of workaday directors, writers, and cinematographers, practicing their trade on sidelots and low budgets, churning out disasters day by day in light and shadow, what an audience wanted.

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Guns in Russia, too

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SEREBRO - Gun (Official Video HD)

Low-tiered nocturnal creature watch

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

This is off-topic, but a subbing team called KMDSubs has started posting subtitled versions of videos about Crayon Pop, including the fly-on-the-wall/reality/variety Crayon Pop's Colorful Growth Diary.

Episode 1 is where they criticise their manager and he criticises them. In episode 2, Way and Soyeul get separated from the others after a concert at a mall and sneak off to eat churros at a snack stall, so the managers punish them by making all the members go home by bus. (The managers didn't know where Way and Soyeul were, even though there was a cameraman following them, so either it was staged or the television people thought it would be more interesting just to let the managers panic and see what would happen.)

Re: Low-tiered nocturnal creature watch

[koganbot]

Maybe it's like PBS's Nature documentaries where the camera crew are forbidden to disturb the wild, therefore are not allowed to intervene when the lions are attacking the hyenas.

(I'm not at a computer with good sound, so won't watch any episodes until I get back in several days.)

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[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

By the way, e.via digs Crayon Pop too.

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[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Crayon Pop are doing an online live event at 9pm Korean time tomorrow (December 1st), which you'll be able to watch if you're back home and can face getting up at 5am.

Have you seen any of the Dancing Queen street lives where they're carrying placards? There must be something to say about how they (or rather the company, perhaps) are co-opting the visual language of political protest to position themselves as underdogs fighting the dominant entertainment companies and television channels...

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, over at EatYourKimchi, they are asking Kpop fans to vote for their favorite gun usage in a 2012 MV: http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/award-category/best-gun-usage-2012/

[koganbot]

Here's one from a couple of years ago that's fairly gun-heavy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7AX870FJP0

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I like that!

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I can't decide whether I think she killed the man in the bowler hat because he assaulted her (a scene that replays in her head when she's in the bathroom stall, so that she takes on the role of her tormentor) or because he cheated on her with the woman in red. Maybe he did both: assaulted her and cheated on her, so that she couldn't even count on him to be faithful. Killing him avenges her honor but doesn't repair the damage, so then she kills herself, foreshadowed in a dance move.

[koganbot]

As reported over on the "Plastic Face" thread, Mat and I searched and discovered that the video for "Be Mine" was directed by Hwang Su-a (황수아; which also gets transliterated Hwang Soo Ah), who's done a lot of the videos for Brown Eyed Girls, including the great "Abracadabra" video and the even greater video for Ga-In's "Irreversible," and she's done the excellent "Before The Dawn" for Infinite and "The Grasshopper Song" for Sunny Hill — lots of vids for LOEN Entertainment and Nega Network, basically, including IU's "Good Day," "You And I," and "The Story Only I Didn't Know" (which I've seen credited to her together with Kim Eana, who Mat thinks probably helps develop or script a lot of the videos; Kim Eana writes songs for Brown Eyed Girls).