NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 252

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Episode 252. Movie “Moon” Release

Today, the movie “Moon” is being released.

 

A Pictures’ Executive Director Tak Jeong-ah came to work at dawn on the release day to check the advance booking rates.

 

“Starting with COEX, which is showing the first nationwide screening…”

 

When she checked the booking status, it was quite a smooth start.

Excluding the hero-centered Hollywood series movies that are currently sweeping the film industry both domestically and internationally, it had quite good advance booking rates among the rest.

 

“Good… As long as we get off to a good start.”

 

Even while working in movie distribution, Tak Jeong-ah rarely watched the works her company handled in advance.

 

This was the same even for movies she was personally in charge of.

It was nothing more or less than work assignments where she would finish one project and move on to the next.

 

However, after completing the journey from “White Blood” to “Sketch” recently, she couldn’t avoid watching the movie “Moon”.

 

After watching the screening version in advance, the first thought that came to Tak Jeong-ah’s mind was one thing.

 

‘This will work.’

 

As long as it got off to a good start, it would definitely be a hit through word of mouth.

 

She had also heard that the actors had perfectly digested their roles, finishing much faster than the originally expected filming schedule.

 

Thanks to this, they were able to adjust the release timing to fall, which was perfect good news for a romance movie.

 

While the romance genre certainly has many hardcore fans, considering all ages and gender ratios, it’s a genre that tends to divide opinions.

 

“It’s rare for young men to go see romance movies together as friends.”

 

The main target of this movie was naturally couples or those just starting to fall in love.

And fall, when one’s sides ache with loneliness for no reason, is the perfect time for romance movies to be released.

 

“Moreover, with this quality…”

 

Tak Jeong-ah recalled a column that was posted on the Internet after the preview screening ended.

 

– Simply having the romance genre alone is insufficient to contain this entire narrative.

– The preview didn’t really serve as much of a preview.

 

Having watched the movie, she completely agreed with this assessment.

 

“The title is also Moon. To the moon. Let’s go to the moon.”

 

***

 

A middle-aged gentleman, stylishly dressed with neatly slicked-back pomade hair and a deep charcoal-colored suit, entered the theater.

 

CEO Kim Ju-seong presented his mobile ticket without any popcorn or cola and quietly entered the movie theater.

 

Once again, he declined the VIP preview and mixed in with other audience members to watch the movie purely as an individual.

 

The movie that ended with the reunion of two people had the ending credits rolling before he knew it, and Kim Ju-seong stood up from his seat while savoring the lingering emotions.

 

“Hmm, his acting ability is becoming more and more refined.”

 

He was an actor who had attracted attention for his appearance since debuting at high school age.

 

Honestly, when CEO Kim Ju-seong first offered a contract, providing maximum convenience while contracting under good conditions for the actor, that appearance played a part.

 

In this industry, appearance isn’t just a plus alpha element but the most powerful weapon.

 

‘But now when the public evaluates Ryu Yeon-woo, they don’t just count him as one of the handsome actors.’

 

The mass media evaluates him with various descriptors.

 

His challenging spirit in pioneering new genres, his acting spectrum that handles various roles from con artists to Korean-Americans, and so on.

 

However, when CEO Kim Ju-seong personally evaluates Ryu Yeon-woo, the point he values most highly is his ‘eye’.

 

‘He has a really good eye for choosing works. And he’s also good at cleverly acting out those good scenarios to make them successful…’

 

Having operated an actor-specialized entertainment company and media production company for a long time, among the countless actors he’s met in the industry, such actors rarely catch his eye.

 

Most people think that directing dramas or movies is entirely the director’s responsibility, but clever and outstanding actors intentionally induce the directing they want from directors through their acting.

 

An actor is not simply a machine that reads scenarios.

 

Before acting out that scenario and presenting it to the audience, there’s someone they must first convince.

 

The director.

 

Only when they get an okay can they move on to the next scene, and since editing is ultimately done with that original material, a director alone cannot create something from nothing.

 

Camera movement, eye movements, voice projection and breathing, and even detailed facial expressions.

 

‘Effectively conveying the image you want to show and ultimately making the other person believe it to be so. That’s essentially the essence of acting.’

 

From Kim Ju-seong’s perspective, Ryu Yeon-woo was an actor who possessed the most powerful weapon in exactly that regard.

 

***

 

Even if they don’t understand the technical details of acting ability like critics, the eyes of general audiences are always the most accurate.

 

The movie “Moon,” which started being successful from the first day, rode on word of mouth and Internet reactions, with the number of sold-out theaters increasing day by day.

 

Usually, romance movies rarely sell out completely.

 

This is probably because the target audience is couples, so rather than having the purpose of ‘watching a movie’ itself, the purpose is often a ‘date’.

 

When going on a date, you don’t deliberately reserve the front row seats to crane your neck looking up.

 

For a movie to be sold out, even those empty seats need to be filled, and there are people who fill exactly those seats.

 

Multiple viewing audiences.

 

– [Anonymous D]: Came back from watching “Moon” for the 4th time today. Even though I know the whole story, when the OST starts playing at the end, I’m already getting emotional and tearing up in advance…

└ [Anonymous H]: Wow, 4th time! Actually, I watched it with my boyfriend yesterday, but today I’m planning to watch it alone after work. You can immerse yourself more when watching alone, right?

└ [Anonymous D]: I watched it alone all four times? You bastard! Shouldn’t you ask if I even have a girlfriend first?!

 

As signs of box office success became visible, movie specialist YouTubers immediately caught on and started picking up the breadcrumbs.

 

 

“Hello everyone. This is CineTube. I went to see the latest release ‘Moon’ today, starring actor Ryu Yeon-woo who becomes an issue whenever he films anything, whether it’s a movie or drama. If you haven’t seen it yet, there are some spoilers included, so please click back. No need for long explanations, let’s dive right in. Let’s get it.”

 

– ENDI: Damn

– Smash Everything: Get it!

– Diabetes on the Cliff: But Moon is a romance movie, what’s there to analyze separately?

 

Movie specialist YouTuber CineTube compiled the initially released official trailer and the subsequently released 2nd and 3rd trailers and played the video.

 

– I was trying to create a map of Helium-3 buried within the Moon crater. My mission is to narrow down the range from the size of a vast sea to the size of a single playground. In the future, it emerges as a spotlight energy resource, so all countries competitively explore the Moon.

 

This was the scene where Hong Yu-jeong spoke while Cha Su-hyeon and Hong Yu-jeong were having a conversation with paper cup phones, getting to know each other.

 

“In the movie, she heads to the Moon to create a map of Helium-3, a resource buried on the Moon, and she says she does work to narrow down the range from the size of a vast sea to the size of a single playground.”

 

And the video moved to a photo showing the surface of the Moon.

 

“So what would be the ‘sea on the Moon’ that Hong Yu-jeong mentions in the drama? The most famous one for us is the Sea of Tranquility. This is the area where the famous Neil Armstrong of the manned spacecraft Apollo 11 took his first steps.”

 

CineTube continued with a humorous voice.

 

“But why am I suddenly talking about the real Moon when discussing the movie ‘Moon’? The Sea of Tranquility is known to have a diameter of about 876km.”

 

The video returned to the movie “Moon” and moved to the scene in the latter half where Cha Su-hyeon talks with the South Korean government.

 

– My ships and submarines are currently entering the territorial waters of Tonga and Fiji without permission, so please just prevent diplomatic friction.

 

And immediately a world map appeared on the screen.

 

“Tonga and Fiji. These are island nations within the range of the South Pacific where the lunar exploration vessel that Hong Yu-jeong boarded crashed.”

 

CineTube zoomed in on the map to show the island nations Tonga and Fiji located east of Australia.

 

“If you connect the end of Tonga with the end of Fiji’s main island, surprisingly that distance is exactly 876km. Do you remember this number? It’s exactly the diameter of the ‘Sea of Tranquility’.”

 

Then real-time chat messages came up.

 

– 60 Servings of Tracking: No way? They calculated this?

– Kim Monkey: Holy shit

– PC Room Attention King: This is fucking crazy

 

CineTube used the mouse to circle around Tonga and Fiji marked on the map and placed a semi-transparent Moon over it.

 

The range of sea that CineTube drew in a circle including Tonga and Fiji perfectly matched the Moon’s region called the ‘Sea of Tranquility’.

 

“Could this really be a coincidence? I got goosebumps. ‘The work of narrowing down the range from the size of a vast sea to the size of a single playground’ ultimately refers to the field that Cha Su-hyeon researched to find Hong Yu-jeong who crashed into the sea.”

 

There were also various other devices hidden in the movie.

 

“The red thread connecting the two people’s paper cups is used to symbolize fate in various East Asian cultures. Let’s also look at this scene.”

 

The video continued with Cha Su-hyeon heading toward the scenic spot in the back mountain.

 

Once together with Hong Yu-jeong, and another time alone to find Hong Yu-jeong who had run out on a rainy day.

 

“He walks along a well-maintained country path, then enters rough terrain that’s not really a path. And after passing through a cave-like place created by densely intertwined low-growing apricot tree forests, he reaches the destination called a ‘scenic spot’.”

 

CineTube caught his breath for a moment and continued.

 

“I think this is actually a device that symbolically represents Cha Su-hyeon’s life. He lives an ordinary life represented by the ‘country path’, then at some point, due to some trigger, he enters a ‘path that’s not a path’ that no one has pioneered.”

 

And the video CineTube prepared continued to the last part of the movie, overlapping the scene of Cha Su-hyeon entering the passage connecting the submersible and spacecraft to save Hong Yu-jeong with the scene of Cha Su-hyeon entering the tree cave to find Hong Yu-jeong in the past.

 

“Cha Su-hyeon’s life left the country path, pushed through paths that weren’t paths, and eventually passed through darkness, which is why he encountered the ‘scenic spot’.”

 

***

 

While the internet was heating up with the discovery of various breadcrumbs like this, Yeon-woo was in Director Yoon Mi-yeon’s office.

 

“At this rate, no matter how you look at it, it’s definitely going to be a box office hit, so let’s take a reward vacation. To Okinawa.”

“…Hmm, well, that’s true, but.”

 

Director Yoon Mi-yeon looked at Yeon-woo sitting at the table.

 

This man is serious about reward vacations.

 

‘Have I been scheduling Actor Ryu too tightly lately… Well, he did YouTube variety shows, then immediately after finishing the South America schedule, he filmed a movie while preparing for a drama.’

 

It seemed like she should move up the timing of the Okinawa reward vacation as Yeon-woo wanted.

 

‘It would be a big problem if he gets burned out. Actor Ryu is Saebyeol’s alpha and omega.’

 

Director Yoon Mi-yeon was misunderstanding that he wanted to play because of his packed schedule, but Yeon-woo was actually both alpha and omega in other places too.

 

‘Now let’s start playing with fire a little. When the money flow gets blocked and arteriosclerosis sets in, let’s see where the tail starts showing…’

 

When those bastards get desperate, they’ll inevitably end up moving around frantically, leaving traces behind.

So we need to use this opportunity to find several of Baeksol’s tails.

 

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