With his curly hair and surly expressions, Lee Min-ho turned a global obsession after Boys Over Flowers — a show that makes him cringe, as he admitted. It was the present that established him within the mould because the wealthy brattish boy, who’s reformed after falling in love with a feisty woman of average means. Just a number of years later, he starred within the enormously profitable The Heirs, the place he performed a wealthy man once more with a sob story, who falls in love with a lady of easy means, and has to combat together with his snobbish household for acceptance. There are just some variations — as a substitute of a conniving mom, there’s a stone-cold father. There’s a former finest friend-turned rival right here as nicely and so they each shove across the woman between themselves whereas they battle out their natural instincts.
Lee Min-ho has now portrayed the position of a bratty wealthy child with energy to such conviction, that it nearly appears troublesome to see him as anything. He’s often the ‘bad boy’ that you simply’re pressured to root for (not a lot in Pachinko), and the writers hope that he wins you over together with his smarmy allure. But actually all you may marvel is… why is he at all times such a poisonous lover and a bully in his most profitable exhibits?
So, it was a little bit of a nice shock to look at him within the Legend Of The Blue Sea, which was probably the most un-Lee Min-ho romance that he has starred in.
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Running between two totally different timelines, Legend Of The Blue Sea is a fantastical love story that feels prefer it was written throughout an extended spell of delirium. And but, its absolute outlandishness provides to its allure. You can both love or hate it—there’s no in-between. It’s the story of a mermaid falling in love with a person, with a twist of re-incarnation. The man in query, performed by Lee Min-ho is a con-man, who can hypnotise folks and even craft eventualities of their head—and that’s whenever you cease asking questions. He’s a hypnotist who falls in love with a mermaid who will get human legs when she walks on land. See, instructed you, it sounds batty. But then this comes from the author of My Love From Another Star, the place a 400-year-old alien, who desires to return to his dwelling planet, falls in love with a lady (performed by Jun Ji-hyun once more).
In all its pleasant absurdity, The Legend Of The Blue Sea looks like a calming sea-breeze that evolves right into a slight gale in the direction of the tip of the present. The romance between Lee Min-ho and Jun Ji-hyun is quirky and hilarious, nearly like a languid breeze, and doesn’t get the sugary, saccharine therapy. Yet, with regards to being severe and emotional, the present is aware of the right way to pull on the heartstrings, particularly the moments between the lead couple that happen underwater. Lee Min-ho leaves apart the brattish faculty pupil avatar, and sinks into the position of con-man, discovering new methods to outlive whereas battling previous traumas. He exhibits off his sense of humour—that we’ve solely seen glimpse of in his earlier exhibits—- and that matches Jun Ji-hyun’s maddening antics as she performs a mermaid who struggles to regulate to the world of people. While the trope of reincarnated lovers at all times appears a little bit trite and far-fetched, the present slowly finds a technique to let the story develop on you. The story isn’t with out regular K-drama tropes after all. In this case, the mermaid has the power to wipe out recollections, which she does at the price of a lot heartbreak.
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Amnesia tropes are a favorite in K-dramas. However, this collection handles it in a deeply emotional method that makes you neglect its clichéd facet. In one of many climactic scenes, Lee Min-ho asks her to vow that earlier than she returns to the ocean, she gained’t erase his recollections. To save from the ache of a lifelong wait, she kisses him. While that’s romantic with soothing instrumentals within the background, it’s additionally heart-breaking on the identical time, as she slowly erases his recollections. Yet, true K-drama love at all times finds a means, no matter whether or not you’re a mermaid or not.
Legend Of The Blue Sea was Lee Min-ho’s comeback to tv after over three years in 2016, and have become one of many highest-rated exhibits. It was positively considered one of his finest, non-problematic and swoon-worthy romances. He was effortlessly pure and clean within the present, nearly relatable at factors (minus the hypnotics a part of it). He deserves to be in exhibits of various genres and escape of the mould that has been set for him, as a result of there’s quite a bit to his performing abilities that we’ve solely seen glimpses of. In the controversial The King: Eternal Monarch, a maddeningly inexplicable sci-fi romantic thriller, he as soon as once more went again to being somebody in energy, this time a king, no much less, although quite a bit much less poisonous, and the consuming romance with Kim Go-eun saved the present. However, he returned to toxicity within the latest present, Pachinko—however fortunately, we weren’t anticipated to cheer him on.
Lee Min-ho is among the stars that spear-headed the Hallyu wave—hopefully, he will get to experiment extra sooner or later and present totally different points of his performing. Maybe attempt him out in a criminal offense thriller subsequent time?
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