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“Stop watching my movie.”
This is what Song Joong Ki, the male lead of “A Werewolf Boy” tells his fans when he goes to give his stage greetings. Each time Song Joong Ki stood on stage before the movie started, he would say, “Stop watching my movie,” which perplexed the crowd. But finally, he opened up and shared his reasons.
Song Joong Ki shared, “I had a few conversations with some female students in the audience while we were giving our stage greetings for the film. The students told me, ‘I watched your movie 16 times,’ and ‘I watched it 35 times.’ So I told them, ‘Why did you watch the same movie that many times? Isn’t 7,000 won (about $6.50) big money to students?’ And then I had no choice but to tell them to stop watching the film.”
“A Werewolf Boy” was released on October 31 and has surpassed the 6.5 millionth view and it seems like it is largely thanks to the many female students re-watching the film over and over again. It is common for fans to re-watch performances like musicals, plays and concerts since it is a live performance and may contain different bits and pieces each time. However, it isn’t very common for people to re-watch films in the movie theater. A special event survey showed that a 16-year-old student watched “A Werewolf Boy” more than 70 times in the theater.
A 17-year-old high school female student, who is a Song Joong Ki fan, commented, “After the drama, ‘Nice Guy‘ was over, I couldn’t see oppa anymore so that’s why I went to the theater,” and “I cry each time I watch the movie because of Chul Soo (Song Joong Ki’s character in the movie).”
It is clear that Song Joong Ki’s immense star power had a lot to do with the success of this movie. Song Joong Ki, along with his co-star Park Bo Young and director Jo Sung Hee went around to 105 different movie theaters to give their stage greetings. It is rare for a film cast to give more than 100 different stage greetings. The stage greeting happens before the film starts and the audience members are able to see the stars of the film right before their eyes.
The film staff posted up dates and locations for these stage greetings on their Facebook, Twitter and Internet fan cafes, which also led to many requests for stage greetings being made from different areas. Last month, when the CSATs were over, an influx of female high school students occurred at these stage greetings. Over 600,000 “likes” were made for photos of these stage greetings on the “A Werewolf Boy” official Facebook page.
Director Jo shared, “I don’t think I’ll forget that one passionate fan who showed me her scrapbook filled with still cuts from the film and movie ticket stubs.”
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Date: 2012-12-14 04:56 am (UTC)I thought I was bad going to the movies like Harry Potter 3 times so I could go with different friends but 16 32 times?
Get a life! When do students even have time to see a movie that many times?
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Date: 2012-12-14 04:59 am (UTC)Wait till it comes out on DVD crazy fans!
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Date: 2012-12-14 04:57 am (UTC)With that said, I can't wait to watch Wolf Boy. Seriously.
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Date: 2012-12-14 05:03 am (UTC)35 times???
Date: 2012-12-14 04:59 am (UTC)Re: 35 times???
Date: 2012-12-14 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-14 05:00 am (UTC)it was good, but best melodrama of all time good??? idk... it just felt really long to me and it was so fucking depressing
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Date: 2012-12-14 05:43 am (UTC)spoilers in here
<*/lj-spoiler*>
without the asterisks
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Date: 2012-12-14 05:45 am (UTC)the saddest part of the whole movie though was the credits scene when he was making the snowmen. WOW I LOST IT THERE. idk why but it seemed so sad to me because he was going to wait for FOREVER for this woman. like, he didn't seem to age which implied he was going to live forever and ever and ever and he is just going to keep waiting and waiting and waiting
*sigh*
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Date: 2012-12-14 06:00 am (UTC)ugh i know, it was so sweet but depressing. every day he waited for her to come back, to open his door, and pet his head. EVERY DAY for all those years ;_; that would have been the rest of his life if she hadn't come back. i almost got mad that she just left him the next day after such a short reunion, but it did make sense that they couldn't have a life together at that point anymore. they missed that opportunity. he waited all those years for her and then in one day, that's it. he's back to living a solitary life with no one to love :( but i'd like to think that he learned some social skills and how to speak somewhat fluently so he could find a new friend. but even that's depressing because if he lives forever, his companions will keep dying and he'll be stuck in that heartbreaking cycle until he dies..
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Date: 2012-12-14 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-14 05:49 am (UTC)Seriously, that could pay for one of my courses
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Date: 2012-12-14 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-14 08:39 am (UTC)I got my fair of watching the same movies many times but only if they actually worth it -- acting, script, and overall storyline. And I only watch it once a year to reminisce the movies (not 70 times in a matter of 2 months). :O TBH I think that the only worth Kmovie to watch over and over again would be 'A Moment to Remember'. :3
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Date: 2012-12-14 12:14 pm (UTC)AnywayZZZ....Wooooowww. Was the movie that good to watch over and over?
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Date: 2012-12-14 10:33 pm (UTC)I hardly ever watch movies more than once or twice... dayum.
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Date: 2012-12-15 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-16 06:41 pm (UTC)but 16-32 times at a very short span of time is just crazy