|
|
楼主 |
发表于 2007-2-23 14:11
|
显示全部楼层
[12-Feb-07][ZDF]Article about Rain in Germany local channel
In Germany, I and one German fan got an interview with a German reporter and he worked for German local TV ZDF. We mentioned about Rain (superstar in Asia) and his movie "I'm Cyborg but it's ok". He felt interested about Rain and wrote below article for his TV group. I am glad that I can do something for Rain.
Here is the originial link in German.
here the link:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/17/0,1872,4361553,00.html
And below is the English translation quoted in RainEurope.
Korean Wave at the Berlinale
by Torsten Haselbauer, 12.02.2007
source: ZDF (german TV channel)
translated: freya1507/raineurope
Movies from Korea have cult status at the moive festival
„Hallyu“ is Korean and means „wave“, and the nice word play “hallyu wood” is describing the actually boom, of the Korean movies. The Berlinale is already in a kind of Korean rush. And the first fan clubs started to form by now in Europe.
As Jeong JiHoon is walking on the red carpet, there is a lot of screaming and it’s quite loud too. Maybe it’s a bit like with “Tokio Hotel”, a right now very hip Boyband in Germany. Jeong is also a real star in his home country, South Korea. Huge concert halls are sold out in minutes. In Japan, China or Malaysia or elsewhere in Asia the good looking Jeong Jihun has already a huge fan community. Mostly female, no wonder. And now Europe catches up.
Europe we are coming!
And now Berlin, Europe. Therefore, Jeong invented an American stage name: “Rain”. Jeong or “Rain” presented his new movie at the Berlinale. Called “I’m a Cyborg, but that is ok”. It’s a so called “art house” movie, a nearly surrealistic love story, which happens in an asylum. Joeng/Rain has the main character. The good looking singer from South Korea plays a young man who falls in love with a woman.
The problem he has is difficult to solve. His beloved thinks she is a Cyber robot. To make it even a bit more absurd and scurrile, the 24 year old heart-throb is yodelling in the movie. Yodelling Koreans: In Europe this has not really a good take up at the moment. Korea is said to be the most lively movie making country at the world. At the Berlinale are not less than seven movies to watch from this Asian country and all get great reviews.
If robots are in love
Nowadays it’s quite hip to watch Korean movies, especially for reporters, this noticed a colleague from the press office at the Berlinale quite well. As the Korean film has been classified as a secret hint in the beginning of the Berlinale, it has become to a real fast seller in just four days. Korea booms, also in Berlin. The movie “I’m a Cyborg but that’s okay” from Park Chan Wook has a realistic chance to win and “bear” at the Berlinale.
Skipped unrelated…
One for all
Daniela Welzel has just travelled to Berlin from the Austrian capital Vienna, to see her idol Jeong/Rain close. She and eight, certainly female fans, form the first official European fan club of Jeong/Rain. Who can afford follows the handsome singer and actor to Europe, Asia and around the whole world. “He is quite special, and first of all he does not act in this Asian action movies, which are normally shown in the cinema.” explains the 41 year old teacher.
The club of the Joeng/Rain fans is well mixed. Judy Ho travels from New York to the German movie capital, 4 young women from Hong Kong, 2 from France and a young girl came by train from the provincial town Braunschweig. All of them are unified with one single wish: They want to see, their Korean Pop- and meanwhile pan Asian Movie-star in flesh and blood. They don’t want to miss a single second of Joeng/Rain. Therefore they went to all 3 movie screenings. And all this cause: “We fear the movie will not be shown at cinema in Europe.” tells Daniela Welzel.
Korea is everywhere
The club of the female Rain-Fans is everywhere, where Jeong shows up, or might show up, at the red carpet, at the press conference. The ladies are on the search for their idol in several hotel bars, where he maybe will drop in. “The mixture of love, feelings & pain, and the unexpected … are the things what make is special.” explains the Viennese Welzel, the appeal of the South Korean.
Yes this and a lot more seems to be the things what make the attraction of Jeong/Rain, and at the same time it’s the secret of success of the Korean movie at this Berlinale at all. Cause the Korean movie is unpredictable, and it always comes in a different way as expected. Quite like in real life |
|
发表于 2007-2-15 07:40
