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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Millionaire's First Love

So i go over to a Korean friend's house to have dinner. She's been helping three kids (2 boys 1 girl) from her church prepare for the HSK and they're there too. they're all 18 but of course barely look 16. anyways....they put a Korean movie on to watch with and after dinner. "the millionaire's first love" Classic Korean romantic cheesiness at it's best!!! I love the romantic Korean movies because they are always amazingly ridiculous and they're definitively what i wish real life was like
So this is the movie:
Orphan with a heart of gold...that just so happens to also have an incurable heart disease works her butt off every day to save money to save the oprhanage she grew up in from being destroyed....Meanwhile, a rebellious heir(who also has no parents cause they died in a car accident) to a hotel is sent to the country after his grandfather's will says his has to finish and graduate from this country high school to get his inheritance. He Learns life lessons from said dying girl, even gives up his inheritance to save her orphanage (yeah giving up his money saves it...don't ask) but by the time he tells her he loves her she could die at any second ( this is where a doctor actually delivers the line "even love can kill her") .....oh and then of course there's the production of "Sound of Music" he HAS to be in in order to graduate....

Yeah
Amazing....

So the whole time i keep wanting to laugh..but thess kids are really digging the move, so i hold back. Then, during the scene where millionaire and the dying girl have to act out a wedding during the "sound of music" production it gets SUPER corn ball, melodramatic of EPIC proportions.....I'm having serious trouble not totally busting a gut. Then all the sudden i realize THE WHOLE ROOM IS CRYING!!! everyone expect me is totally bawling!
At this point i cover my mouth and desperately try not to lose it, while thanking God we're in the dark and they don't notice me. Movie ends.....sentimental montage of prior scenes of the young lovers.....then....the credits roll......and i lose it. I absolutely die. the kind of bust a gut laughing that makes your stomach hurts and renders you unable to control your bodily funtctions. They whole room starts just staring at me silently while i cackle. Suddenly i get a grip on myself, look at them all, and say, "it was just so sad" and then i start laughing again. luckily the students start wiping their faces and laughing too, either because they realized how ridiculous it was...or because they think i'm crazy.

I don't know....and don't care.

1 Comments:

At 3:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

my money is on crazy.

 

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