A Genius Director Who Dominates OTT Platforms - Chapter 46

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The Genius Director Who Dominates OTT

 

Episode 46

 

Action 6. Let’s Give It a Try

 

“Director, this really isn’t right, is it? Has Director Do gone crazy?”

 

“This is my first time experiencing déjà vu.”

 

“Excuse me?”

 

“I feel like I’ve heard the exact same words before.”

 

“This isn’t the time for jokes. You’ve seen the script, right?”

 

Director Han Seong-hun shrugged his shoulders and pointed to his desk.

 

There lay a pristine white 16-episode script that looked freshly bound.

 

“What did you think?”

 

“I think the Manager will have a similar reaction.”

 

“I was reading episode 1 and thought someone made a mistake, so I told them to reprint it. But it’s correct. That’s actually correct!”

 

“Calm down.”

 

“I think Director Do has gotten drunk on his first taste of success in society… Should I call him in for a talk?”

 

“What are you going to say?”

 

“…I have so much to say that I don’t know where to start. But that really isn’t acceptable.”

 

Manager Gong Seok-jun, who had been fuming for a while, sat down on the sofa.

 

“For now, I’ll postpone Director Do’s promotion and incentive execution.”

 

“Why would you do that?”

 

“We don’t have to cancel it, but we should postpone it. Rumors about his next work have already spread. The timing is bad.”

 

Director Han Seong-hun smiled slightly and said,

 

“It’s similar to the Accomplice situation.”

 

“Even if the situation is similar, the problem is completely different. You know that while boring things can be fixed, outdated things can’t be. Does SSK really need to touch something written by a variety show PD 15 years ago?”

 

To Gong Seok-jun, who was listing risks one after another, Han Seong-hun casually threw out,

 

“Did you see the ending?”

 

“What ending?”

 

“Accomplice.”

 

“Oh, I only saw the reactions. They were incredibly good, right? No, if Dohyeon-u can produce something like that, why on earth is he doing this?”

 

“It’s one of two things. Either he took a risky gamble because he wants to create something like Accomplice again, or he saw something we didn’t.”

 

Han Seong-hun looked at the script on his desk.

 

“If it were me, I wouldn’t have given it a second glance… What did Director Do see?”

 

* * *

 

As soon as I got to work, I played Accomplice episode 8.

 

I was supposed to watch it yesterday, but my head was completely filled with 【Caught at Fingertips】 all night.

 

As I was watching the opening of episode 8, I saw Ju Yeong-hun coming to work.

 

His eyes look quite fierce.

 

I hope Team 4 gets formed quickly.

 

Since we’re already at odds, let’s have a proper showdown.

 

I started watching the drama with complicated thoughts, but I was quickly absorbed.

 

As with episodes up to 7, episode 8 was particularly immersive.

 

As I was watching the drama, the long-awaited ending approached.

 

*

 

On screen, Su-cheol strangles Hyeon-tae’s neck.

 

When Hyeon-tae struggles desperately to break free while choking, the old leather watch on Su-cheol’s wrist is shown in close-up.

 

Viewers who watched up to this point probably thought Su-cheol was the culprit and it was a surprisingly simple ending.

 

But the moment Hyeon-tae shakes off Su-cheol’s hands,

 

Su-cheol grins and steps back.

 

-You killed them all.

 

Then he jumps off the cliff.

 

Hyeon-tae chases after him in panic, but can’t find anything…

 

The screen goes black.

 

When it brightens again, the screen slowly tilts up from a wrist wearing a leather watch, showing a middle-aged man in his 50s.

 

I could tell immediately.

 

It was Hyeon-tae, aged.

 

Then a man sitting across from Hyeon-tae spoke, showing only his back.

 

-So you’re saying Su-cheol died like that?

 

-I haven’t seen him since then. He must be dead.

 

-What about the time loop? Has it never activated again?

 

-Well. Everyone’s dead. If I die again, will I return to that moment?

 

The man showing only his back paused for a moment before speaking.

 

-Thank you for the story.

 

The man gathered his interview materials and bag and left the room.

 

As he exited the building, the view revealed it was a psychiatric hospital.

 

A junior colleague approached the man, who was only shown from the chin down.

 

-Senior, do you think this could make it to broadcast?

 

-I’ll need to organize the interview content. He’s a mental patient.

 

-Was what he said all jumbled up?

 

-No. It was logical. Though it was nothing but crazy talk.

 

As the man started walking away from the psychiatric hospital, his junior, also only visible from the chin down, approached.

 

-Let me carry that for you.

 

Then, the junior accidentally bumped the man’s bag.

 

Photos spilled out through the gap in the bag.

 

Crime scene photos taken by police.

 

Jeong-hun, Yeong-su, Tae-ho…

 

Photos of the corpses are shown in close-up in chronological order.

 

And finally,

 

Hyeon-tae covered in blood being carried away by the 119 Emergency Medical Service.

 

Su-cheol being arrested by police.

 

This was the ending of Accomplice.

 

*

 

I didn’t watch the drama, but I monitored the internet reactions.

 

At first, opinions were sharply divided.

 

Was Hyeon-tae really a time looper being treated as a mental patient?

 

Or was all of this the delusion of a mental patient?

 

If it was the latter, many people were bewildered, asking if it wasn’t just an “Oh, damn it was a dream” ending.

 

It was good material for those who didn’t look favorably upon Accomplice’s success to attack.

 

They got pretentious and abandoned their duty to provide an ending.

 

They just pretended there was something there, but nothing was actually resolved.

 

This is why rookie writers and independent film directors don’t work, and so on.

 

Many articles came out in a short time.

 

Even some critics joined the criticism parade.

 

They might have been asked by SBX.

 

The situation reversed with an interpretation that started in a drama enthusiast community.

 

[Who owns the leather watch? It’s 50-year-old Hyeon-tae hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital.

 

So all the moments where the leather watch appears are Hyeon-tae’s imagination.

 

The murder case actually happened, but the people who died by the hand wearing the leather watch died in Hyeon-tae’s imagination.

 

At the end, Su-cheol wearing the leather watch couldn’t kill Hyeon-tae, right?

 

This symbolizes that he couldn’t end his delusion.

 

It seems Hyeon-tae, who became the final survivor, couldn’t overcome his guilt, anger, and fear.

 

That’s how he constantly licked his wounds and fell into delusion.]

 

[Drama storyline reconstructed based on actual events.]

 

[Accomplice ending interpretation. This is insane ㄷㄷ]

 

This opinion became the official ending with explosive support from the fans.

 

From my perspective as the producer, that’s the correct answer.

 

Because that was the ending we had planned.

 

Nevertheless, there were still many netizens arguing back and forth, saying ‘the interpretation is better than the dream’…

 

Soon, a video was released on Tivic Korea’s YouTube channel.

 

【Accomplice, Third-Person Observer Perspective】

 

A 60-minute video released with a dry title that suited the drama.

 

A highlight that removed unnecessary emotional scenes from the 560-minute runtime, leaving only what actually happened.

 

And so the game ended.

 

The fact that Tivic had prepared the video in advance was a declaration that this was the official ending.

 

-Wow shit, so Jeong-hun just died right at the beginning.

 

-Hyeon-tae went crazy from endlessly recalling the past due to guilt and depression…

 

-Then unlike in the drama, Hyeon-tae never heard any of his friends’ deep inner thoughts?

 

-Yeah, so he created this delusion of a time loop and kept reinterpreting his friends’ actions in his own way.

 

-Ah! And that’s how he went crazy!

 

-Yes

 

-Wow this is insane; I never thought the leather watch foreshadowing would be resolved like this.

 

-But I understand Su-cheol’s position too. He probably wanted to kill them all.

 

-Wow guys, look at the mirror scene again. The flowing blood doesn’t touch just his wrist. Only the part where he wears the watch is clean.

 

-What?

 

-That’s also a delusion…??

 

Massive praise for the ending began pouring in.

 

-I kept not understanding why Hyeon-tae’s real expression while looking in the mirror was contempt and mockery?

 

Even trying various interpretations, something didn’t quite fit.

 

But after seeing the ending, I realized.

 

Hyeon-tae was despising and mocking himself as a mental patient.

 

He was despising and mocking himself for going crazy from licking his wounds over and over for decades.

 

So the face that Hyeon-tae in part 3 saw was the real Hyeon-tae in the psychiatric hospital imagining himself

 

-Wow crazy;;

 

-This is insane

 

-Aren’t the writers really fucking crazy?

 

-Huh? Were there people who didn’t know this?

 

-I’m going to celebrate a bit. Could you please fuck off?

 

Critics who had criticized Accomplice’s ending began hastily deleting their articles.

 

Critics usually don’t delete their reviews, but this time was an exception.

 

Wouldn’t this prove that their judgment was cheap?

 

-hahahaha did anyone see Shin Woo-cheol delete his post hahaha

 

-What’s the point of deleting and running when there are millions of screenshots.

 

-The level of these critics.

 

-List of people who deleted their reviews.JPG

 

-I’m never even going to glance at their reviews again lol

 

Thanks to that, I received calls from drunk Jeong Hee-su, Gil Sanghun, and Go Yeongtae from the morning.

 

They had been drinking and celebrating until morning.

 

At the end, they all talked about the ‘next project’.

 

-Let’s do the next project together too!

 

-Let’s do it! Say you’ll do it!

 

-I love you! Please do the next project!

 

Next project…

 

Thinking about the next project makes my head complicated, but I’m in a good mood too.

 

Because the ending of Accomplice was something I came up with.

 

“Then why did the loop ability appear?”

 

The Hyeon-tae I saw in the script possession only did time loops, but there was no reason why it manifested.

 

“…”

 

Watching the final episode of Accomplice made me realize that one project had truly ended.

 

It feels like everything from the moment Sung Tae-chang offered me a position at SSK until now is flashing by like a panorama.

 

Many things happened, but as a result, Accomplice became SSK’s representative work.

 

Originally it was touch and go, but thanks to Seo Jae-yeon’s explosive finale at the end.

 

Even ranking among all Tivic works, it seems to be in the top 5?

 

As I was lost in such sentiments, my phone buzzed.

 

It was an international call, so I hesitated whether to answer, but when I did, a serious-sounding voice came through the receiver.

 

-Is this Director Dohyeon-u’s contact number?

 

“That’s correct, but who is this?”

 

-I apologize for calling so suddenly. This is Cha Seong-u, General Director of Netflix Original Series.

 

Netflix Original General Director?

 

Why would such a high-ranking person?

 

-I shouldn’t normally contact you this way, but actor Choi Jae-hyeok said you prefer the direct approach.

 

“Jae-hyeok hyung?”

 

-I’m currently in England.

 

Ah, Jae-hyeok hyung was filming a Netflix series in England.

 

-Excuse me, but is it okay to talk now?

 

“Ah, yes. It’s fine. What’s this about?”

 

-Would you be interested in coming to Netflix?

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