Posted on 12/02/2020 12:17:08 PM PST by mairdie
"Boys Over Flowers" is a Korean romantic comedy about the F4, a quartet of rich and handsome heirs, currently seniors in high school, and the poor girl who obtains a scholarship to the school. F4's reputation is for major bullying and, when they can't break the new girl, they adopt her as the group mascot, with 2 of the 4 falling for her. Eventually, she's the catalyst for their maturation. This video highlights the relationship between the girl and the "Leader of the Pack."
"Boys Over Flowers" is one of the biggest Korean drama hits of our time, sweeping ratings and awards across Asia in 2009 and 2010." viki.com
Parents get a bad rap in this drama. The only reason the girl's parents aren't the worst is that the F4 leader's mother would make Cruella de Vil look like Mary Poppins.
It's interesting that the main male character does have what should be a fatal flaw. He allows himself to go in the direction that pressure is applied. Since the girl refuses to apply pressure, he's always looking for someone else to counter his mother.
The members of the F4 are beautifully balanced. An international corporate CEO heir, a mafia son, the grandson of the ex-President of Korea, and a museum level potter.
PING to a Korean drama music video
I am going to check it out now.
WAY off topic, a group of Italian singers cover “hallelujah” beautifully.
I listen to it a lot.
He went through women like Billy Jeff.
I keep a subdirectory of versions of Hallelujah and use different covers for different fandom music videos. LOVE Leonard Cohen. But then I also love Bob Dylan. Unfortunately, Dylan’s songs can’t go up on YouTube, while Cohen’s can.
There is something very attractive about a man playing a guitar and composing for you. I remember that from college.
Wow. That’s awesome.
There’s so many out there!!
Good video btw.
Good looking cast though a lot of violence!!
I thought it was more of a romance story :)
I sat through the “Meteor Garden” (Tiawan or Communist China?) with my Filipina Bride and we enjoyed it. She has seen most versions of it.
“Meteor Garden” version
Bullying violence is common in the asian school dramas. Makes me grateful for attending a Catholic girls school in the US. Thrown holy water was as bad as it got. But the theme of the dramas is always that violence is wrong except in self defense. On the other hand, in the special forces videos the killing of the opposition is so simple and straightforward that it doesn’t raise an eyebrow among the people in the operation. Husband was mentioning that this morning.
The moral codes of these dramas is like something out of 1950’s US. Purity and innocence are talked about as the ideal. In this one, for example, they’ve been pure throughout (though male players are not looked down upon by other men) and, at the end, the leads have been separated so that the girl can study to be a doctor while the boy runs an international company. And in an interview in the US before he returns to Korea, he admits that keeping away from other women for five years wasn’t easy.
For romance, many of the asian dramas seem to have the men attracted to a woman who knows martial arts. The leader falls for the girl after she knocks him out.
The video in my tagline,
Love O2O - Say It Once - Glass Pear
https://youtu.be/7zN90jMWhQs
is the opposite. It’s the basketball/scholar king of the college in love with the beauty/scholar queen - both computer science students. Most dates are study dates. It’s a two year frustration relationship because they will NOT take the modern US approach to dating. They will wait with teeth clenched.
Husband and I were noticing that we can almost count on one hand the references that might imply communism among what must be going on a hundred dramas I’ve watched. What they emphasis instead is 1950’s patriotism. Of course, it’s to China, but so would we if we were born there. Sports dramas are about the goal of representing China in international tournaments. Even gaming competitions want to represent China. But no one seems to be interested in communism. What they ARE interested in is religion. Again, I could number on one hand the dramas where the people don’t pray at some point. And that’s all government approved since the censorship pours out of the dramas.
It was originally a Japanese Manga that was adapted multiple times in Japan “Hana Yori Dango”. I actually prefer one of the Japanese TV adaptations as the best, but the Korean one is good as well.
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