I m Angry Like I m 18 Again
Colorful Throwback: 18 Again (2020)
Howdy, dear MDL readers!
This It'south the get-go fourth dimension I will try to bring the well-nigh out of a lively casted Korean autumn remake of the classic American movie 17 Again (2009). I will hope you this much: It'due south gonna be a fun ride for sure! So, expect no longer, and let's go...
Fair Warning: This article contains major spoilers upwards to the finale, episode xvi!
(With scenes included).Best fitted for calorie-free fashion reading!
Jung Da-Jung is a hard-working and warm-hearted female parent of two 18 years old twins, a girl, and a boy. Being already 37 years old and being in a desperate search for a stable job, she finally gets an opportunity to work as a news ballast. Being married to Hong Dae-Young for more than 20, she has seen all the good, the bad, and the weirdest sides of him, until one day she decided it'south time for a change in her life since Da Jung could no longer alive with him under any circumstance because she started to hate every activity he does: even snoring loud in his sleep. And to make information technology worse, when Hong Dae-Immature got fired, that was the final straw for her, since he plant himself property in hands the divorce papers. Having to go through a humiliating experience at piece of work and ending upward getting fired while his married woman was seemingly overjoyed to finally detach herself from him and be free for once, Dae-Young finally starts to securely regret the way he has lived his life upwards to this indicate. During ane stormy and strange night, his nearly earnest wish comes true, every bit his trunk suddenly transforms into the grade of his teenage days! Now, living as an 18 twelvemonth old with a different identity equally Ko Woo-Immature, what choices will he make this fourth dimension? And how will his actions affect his life and future from this moment on?
"You lot look just like him."
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(Video source in the outset GIF: iQIYI 爱奇艺 on YouTube )
To view the English subtitles from the trailer, simply click on the small gear icon "CC" in the right corner of the video.
" The husband [I honey and detest] has become 18 years onetime!"
(First teaser poster source: Soompi)
Kim Ha Neul as Jung Da Jung
Here is what Kim Ha Neul, herself said about her character: "She'south a working mom. She gave up on her dreams to exist a wife and mother, but now she's decided to leave her married man and pursue what she wants from life. I could relate to her existence a working mom. Before I got married, I would have all the fourth dimension to myself to focus on scripts, but as a mother, it's a lot harder. My child is nevertheless young and Da Jung'due south children are in high school, and then it's a little different, merely there are a lot of similarities." (Source: Soompi)
The true side of Jun Da Jung is reflected through these words, as they depict her perfectly:
"I want someone with a cute smile. I want someone so brave and cheerful that just watching her uplifts my mood. She can be clumsy at times, but she rocks at work. I want someone who tin surprise me, and I want a warmhearted and mature woman."
Kim Ha Neul was also asked if she wanted to render dorsum to high school and she replied: "One of the times in my life that I enjoyed the most was high school. I accept and then many expert memories with my friends in loftier school. I loved wearing a uniform and going to school every day. Simply in reality, I have a baby now." (Source: Soompi)
And the fiddling things in life that makes ane reflect on his / her actions:
"At that place are things you want to give even if it's incommunicable. In hindsight, they weren't that yard.
They were and so small and insignificant, y'all considered them to exist unimportant.
But these small things brand y'all grin. I finally realized that. "
"On the days I miss him, he becomes function of my memories. Our warmth blocked the cold night wind.
Having someone in my corner comforted me on a difficult day."
"I would have thanked him and been able to comfort him."
"I hope the other half is doing okay… even if I can't see it, I hope information technology'south doing well."
"Whenever something skilful or something bad happens to me, you were always the beginning person to come up to mind."
"I missed y'all, as well."
"At night when the stars low-cal upwards my room
I sit past myself talking to the moon
In hopes you're on the other side… talking to me too. "(GIF paradigm and the last quote source: dohyunsoo on Tumblr)
Yoon Sang Hyun as Hong Dae Young [37 years old]
Every bit a 37 twelvemonth old developed Dae Immature, is a broken human being in more ways than 1: financially, morally, and spiritually. Being a son who distanced himself even further away from a relationship with his own male parent, he somewhen ended up becoming but similar him unknowingly, as he started drinking abroad his sorrow and troubles, while having an even colder human relationship with his children and married woman, considering of the harsh reality he faced every day/
Here is what Yoon Sang Hyun, himself said virtually his grapheme: "I was curious nearly who was going to play Get Woo Immature. After I heard it was Lee Practice Hyun, the managing director approached me to enquire if I could share some tips on how Lee Exercise Hyun could match my tone at the script reading. In that location wasn't a lot to match. He'southward young only has a lot of acting experience, so he picked it up right away. We adept a lot with the director while reading through the script." (Source: Soompi)
Yoon Sang Hyun was also asked if he wanted to return back to high school and he replied: "But I accept children." He added, "My wife actually mentioned this while I was working on the drama. She asked if I'd be able to go back and leave the kids." He connected, "If I did go back, I'd want to go back to the second half of my twenties later I was discharged from the army. Considering of work, I've never been able to just go out and take fun." (Source: Soompi)
Some wise words that describe the older Hong Dae Yong in a flash:
"The male child we loved dorsum so was a memory to someone. To someone, he was her present. And to someone, he was a dream. Years later, the male child from the by became an ajusshi with two kids. But he was nonetheless the aforementioned boy. "
This drama also embodies some valuable lessons about choices and regrets that once are formed, at that place no turning dorsum, unless you lot are determined to prove the contrary though your own actions:
" There are things that yous tin't turn back. From the moment yous confess your love until the moment you break up. Words that hurt each other, and the regret that follows. I don't empathize why we are separating."
"When I said I regretted meeting Da-jung, I wasn't beingness honest.
Simply it'due south true that I blamed her. If I await dorsum, it was all my fault. "
"It'due south impossible to share my sincere feelings, as it'south too belatedly. Simply I'll exist okay as long every bit it makes you smile."
"I said that I was decorated all the fourth dimension then that I could come up home tardily, and was always drunk at home, with the excuse that I'k tired. I missed it all, the times my family really needed me. I'm trying to be proficient now. I stopped drinking, too. But if she finds out that I'one thousand Hong Dae-immature, Da-jung will feel uncomfortable."
Lee Exercise Hyun as Hong Dae Young [xviii years old] / Go Woo Young
"I know today was rough, only it's okay. Yous did well today."
What if i day, yous were to suddenly find a magic pill that could take y'all on a journeying to mend your ain mistakes and you could relive the by again as you learn that the world around yous can be far more unlike than y'all imagined at first? Well, Go Woo Immature became the actual embodiment of that 1 in a million chance, returning in his prime number time , at eighteen. But the choices and trials he has to face up will show to him, that he was terribly wrong well-nigh many things, including the relationship with his own father!
How this marvelous young actor prepared for this role is a whole different story. Here is what Lee Do Hyun, himself said: "I closely observed and studied Yoon Sang Hyun." How he walked, even the shape of his hands when he held his cell telephone… I tried difficult non to miss these kinds of small-scale details." (More information and to find out what his streetlight is equally an actor, read further at Soompi)
Lee Practice Hyun was also asked if he wanted to render back to high school and he replied: "I'd live more passionately," he said. "I was too caught up in my studies and just went to private lessons. [If I went back], I'd go outside and run effectually and play with my friends more." Kim Ha Neul and Yoon Sang Hyun said, "Simply it hasn't even been that long for you. Y'all can nevertheless count how many years it's been since you graduated loftier school. We tin can't do that anymore." (Source: Soompi)
Here is an emotional letter that the younger Hong Dae Young gets to read in the courtroom for his loved i:
"Da-jung-ah, I don't think I can tell you in person. I'll do as you say when it comes to custody and child support. I finally realized why you wanted to go a divorce. I regret what happened at our high school reunion, but I won't make excuses. Da-jung-ah, you lot're an astonishing person, and you're more than I deserve. I don't want you to be discouraged. I want you to be bright wherever you are. Don't become hurt. Don't overwork yourself. To be honest, I don't want to let y'all go. Of all the decisions I have to make in life, I will regret this the about. But I promise you can leave without regrets. I'll exist the ane to regret it. I'yard lamentable. Thanks. Be happy, Da-jung-ah."
Most of us remember him as handsome and emotional,
Become Chung Myung, the Yeongju helm of the guards, right?
(GIF image source: belsmultifandommess on Tumblr)
(Video source with English subtitles n the first GIF: tvN D ENT on YouTube)
He sure was shining brilliantly like a jewel, in this heartbreaking
purple ruby flower moment from Hotel Del Luna!
This drama is filled with touching moments that volition make yous tear up,
so make sure you have some tissues abreast you:
"It's okay. Whatsoever it is, it's okay. It'southward okay, you did well today… it's okay, you did well today…"
"Turning your dorsum on someone, fifty-fifty someone you hate, tin can bring more pain than you lot recollect. "
"Hyacinths flowers and their true actual meaning is a plea for forgiveness: Dad, you said you were the happiest when yous watch me play. I wanted to show you lot over again. I'm sorry that it took me so long. I'm distressing, Dad."
"I had forgotten that if I treat her like a gem, she can smoothen then brightly, similar at present. I wanted her to be loved all her life, but I used my busy life as an alibi and fabricated her into my married woman and the mother of my children."
"When the world turned information technology's dorsum on you, I believed in you.
Nosotros were covered in wounds, but we were each other's brightest stars."
" I was next to you."
"Y'all should always live your twenty-four hour period, to the fullest. And never forget your loved ones around y'all."
"No matter how old you get, in that location is always something new to acquire.
If you lot think of it equally a regret, and then that's the end of information technology.
Simply when y'all call back of it as a lesson learned, it brings a new beginning."
Other cast members with supporting or guest roles are included here: Cast
Here are some of my nearly favorite moments of this story, along with a wonderful list of heartfelt quotes:
"At that place was a girl who shone radiantly. She had a brightening voice
and…a dazzling dream. In times of hardship, I reminded myself with her favorite quote.No matter how hard life gets, Never regret annihilation that made you smiling."
(GIF image credit goes to hwanginyeop on Tumblr)
(Video source in the first GIF: iQIYI 爱奇艺 on YouTube )
To view the English language subtitles from the trailer,
simply click on the pocket-sized gear icon "CC" in the right corner of the video.
"Hither is what Audrey Hepburn once said: Forgive apace.
Osculation slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably."
"You may non know, but I'm closer to the kids than you tin can ever imagine."
This drama is also a blood-red blossom sweetness delight with rain!
(GIF images credit goes out to hwanginyeop on Tumblr and hither) |
"On rainy days, people tin can mensurate how large their beloved is. Even when they share umbrellas, as everyone holds them at dissimilar angles, information technology's clearly visible how big their love is. And then love and rain come hand in hand."
"The person my kids need right now isn't Hong Dae-Immature the father, only their schoolhouse friend, Go Woo-Immature."
Meet Hwang In Yeop every bit Goo Ja Sung [Basketball team leader]
(GIF prototype credit goes out to hwanginyeop on Tumblr)
Even the notorious high school great seems to soften up in the presence of a certain someone...
"Violence isn't the right fashion. But there are times you shouldn't put upwardly with bullying…
when you need to protect something love to your middle."
An eerie meeting in the rain...
(Video source: JTBC Drama on YouTube ) | (Photo source: Soompi)
Tender and heartfelt stories about unlike first loves and life,
with a gorgeous touch.
(GiF images source: moonlightsdream on Tumblr)
Give me the chance to baby-sit your dreams...
The soundtracks in this production are also lovely:
Song: Hello by Sohyang OST Part ii 
(Official music video source: 1theK 원더케이 on YouTube)
" Hi Hullo How-do-you-do Hello
Hello Hi Hullo How-do-you-doAne solar day, like a red flower blossomed my dream
Yous fabricated my heart flutter
Even afterward a long twenty-four hours
You stayed by my sideI know that these times that experience like they'll last forever
Will come to an cease some twenty-four hours butHullo, I'm telling y'all
With a trembling smile, that I love you
Howdy, that in these dazzling and cute times
It'south yous I will think forever..."Lyrics found at: Popgasa.
Song: 1 Person by Solji OST Function 4
(Official music video source: 1theK 원더케이 on YouTube)
" It was so hard to let yous get
So why is my middle property onto y'all again?I try to run far abroad till I run out of breath
Merely my heart is in the same identifyThe one person I know, the one person I know
I call back of y'all and so I erase yous and I echo thisBut a person that's not you lot, a honey that's non y'all
Can't fill me upward, that's just the kind of person you are
Please call up how it had to be you lot for meThis isn't how I actually feel
Simply why are my lips saying goodbye?I tried deceiving my center to let y'all go
But all 24-hour interval, I'yard crying and crying..."Lyrics found at: Popgasa.
The last touches are 4 self-selected tunes, that alloy so well with this youthful theme: ane). Song: Every second by Baekhyun (EXO)
Reshuffled OST from Tape of Youth (2020)
(Official video source: MUSIC&NEW 뮤직앤뉴 on YouTube) | ( Photo source: Hancinema)
"Each step you have
I'yard matching my feet with you
Nosotros're walking together, side by side
Every dayWhen I hold out my arm
And wrap it around your shoulder
Information technology feels similar it's simply us in the worldWhatever You want
Whatever You say
I'll ever make it with youWhatever You want
Whatever You say
And then you can always smileYou see me, I won't change
No matter what it is
I'll remain with y'all
Simply as I am..."Lyrics institute at: Popgasa.
2). A nostalgic self-selected tune awaits you lot, to mind to blare:
Vocal: 18 Years by Daughtry
"My husband, who seemed similar my nemesis, has become 18!"
(Official audio source: Daughtry on YouTube) | (Second official poster source: Soompi)
"All mean solar day all nighttime
Go along pressing rewind
All 24-hour interval all nighttime
I remember
All day all night
Go on pressing rewind
All day all night
I call upWe were young, we were wild
Nosotros were halfway free
Nosotros were kids on the run
On a dead-end street
Looking back in the rear view mirror
Y'all know the view used to be much clearer
But we'll laugh and we'll cry
Till there'southward no more tears
And tonight tin nosotros but hold on to those eighteen years
xviii yearsSome ran downwardly the highway
To hunt away their ghosts
Some are frozen in the same place
This fourth dimension inside their bones
Remember throwing TVs off the overpass onto the tracks, yeah
But the trains whorl on through the pocket-sized town and never looked back, yeah..."(Lyrics: AZLyrics )
The 3rd cocky-selected tune is inserted in this gorgeous photo.
I'm certain my lovely friend Brownie , will recognize it right away:
MYSM & Wade Graves - Ever
(Official audio source: MYS1000 on YouTube)
"I barbarous for your eyes
On the day that they met mine
And what I'd do to make you grinning is non confined to where you are
I saw yous're doing fine
On the newsfeed storyline
But I know how to fake it too I own't mad at you
When yous say you're fine
But if I read minds you'd say
That I need you e'er
And I'thousand holding on
I nevertheless hear that song we played
And I need you always
'Cuz girl I ain't mad at you
I hope you lot don't detest me too
Nosotros had a lot to loose
Nosotros had even more to prove..."
Lyrics found at: musixmatch.com
[Loosely inspired by my own previous article and this 1].
Recommendation corner:
ane). A fresh and sweet Chinese romantic one-act that concluded airing on 1st October :
Commencement Romance (2020).
(Fan-fabricated poster source: hither) | )2nd affiche source: here)
Now available with English subtitles at:
Viki and YoYo English language Channel on YouTube.
Some more lovable official stills from backside the scenes:
(Photos official source: Youku on Weibo)
ii). Some other sweet romance and light-hearted Chinese story about archery await you in:
The Best of You in My Mind (2020)
(Photos source: A Virtual Voyage on Twitter)
Now available with English subtitles at:
Viki and KUKAN Drama Channel on YouTube.
three). The most awaited and loveliest romantic Chinese drama of this year is :
Honey is Sweetness (2020)
Bonus: The original soundtracks from this story are pure gold!
Vocal: Sometimes by Riley Wang
(Official audio source: 樂室娛樂 on YouTube) | (Official poster source: Twitter)
"Accept away the spirit from me
to somewhere love don't exist
burn my centre
steal my soul
ever
I tin bear on yous no more
but I do feel you lot and so real
just want you
to stay however for me
Sometimes
I dreamt of you
tears on my face up
all night long
Tell me
How (can) I live without you..."(Lyrics source: JSPINYIN )
At present all the episodes are available with English subtitles at iQyi.
The concluding self-selected song has a touching message for anybody:
Dear past Jordan Feliz
(Audio source: Jordan Feliz on YouTube) | (Photo : source: here)
"Head full of questions, how can you measure up?
To deserve affection, to ever be plenty
For this beingness, when did information technology get so har-rrd?
Your heart is beating, alive and breathing
And there'due south a reason why-hy-hy-hhy
You are essential, not accidental
And you should realizeYou are love, I wanted y'all to know
You are dearest, let information technology soak into your soul, oh-oh
Forget the lies you heard, ascent above the hurt
And listen to these words
Yous are beloved, I want you to know
You are dear
You lot-ou-ou, yous-ou-ou
You-you are belovedSometimes a heart can, feel similar a heavy weight
It pulls you under, and y'all just fall abroad
Is anybody gonna hear you lot call? Oh, oh
But there's a purpose, under the surface
And you don't take to drow-wn-wwnn
Permit me remind you lot, that love will find you lot
Let it lift you lot out.."(Lyrics were establish at: Genius.com)
four) Missing Wan Peng'southward acting again? Don't worry, because she is already dorsum in:
Coming together Yous (2020)
In this final photograph, I've included a very cute music video. But click below:
(Official music video source in the concluding photo: Mango TV Fancy Love Aqueduct on YouTube)
(Beginning yet image is from dramapotatoe on Twitter. The flowing photos are from Sina.com and here)
Now bachelor with English subtitles, just it will take a few weeks to exist fully updated :
MGTV Drama Channel on YouTube.
Let's request information technology together to be available also at Viki,
by completing this official form, as many times possible.
"In life, even if you miss out on happiness… As long as you lot have that 1 person who will look for happiness with you, your life will be worth living. Don't forget that you beloved each other. Be disappointed that you lot cannot cherish each other better. And promise for a better tomorrow. Simply similar that, our lives will continue ."
#StayatHome and take proficient care of yourselves!
(Last GIF images sources: hither and hwanginyeop on Tumblr )
Thank yous for reading! Goodbye for now! Run into you around adjacent time!
Sources: AsianWiki, iQIYI爱奇艺, Google, Youku, Viki, Hancinema and here, YouTube, Wikipedia, JTBC, Soompi, together with this article, this one, and this commodity and here, along with hither, here, hither, here and the last ane, plus MyDramaList. Near of the quotes that were used are from Dramabeans. The official poster source is from WeTV Philippines, still, the image and other photos are from Twitter, here, Sina.com, and hither. The official backside the scenes stills are from Youku on Weibo, the fan-made poster source is from here and the last official poster is from here. Wallpaper images were found hither. here, here and here. Lyrics were constitute at AZLyrics, Genius.com, musixmatch.com, Popgasa, hither, hither, and from JSPINYIN. GIF images are from Tumblr, here, here, here, here, hither, hither, here and hither. One more article with an older poster. All the banners were edited past Cryssy Anne with an online tool called Pixlr Ten. The inspiration came from my previous article and this one which both accept a very different feeling to them.
Editors: BrightestStar (1st editor)
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