Summer is coming, and it's time to relive Coffee Prince One.
Fresh, clear and vibrant.
The composition is also beautiful.
It looks like an idol drama, but it's not exactly.
How does love happen?
How to sprout, how to grow?
The whole TV series only tells the small matter of love in detail, specific and true.
Not only did it let the audience into the play, but also made the lead actor Kong Liu feel that in that summer, he talked about a love affair about youth through the role.
"Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop" also let Yoon Eun-hye, who plays the heroine, win the queen in one fell swoop.
She plays a 'tomboy', from her demeanor to her body language, she is completely a boy.
Makeup remover is also very realistic.
It is an atypical Korean drama that cannot be underestimated.
01
Love is this little thing
Because of the death of his father, Eun Chan took up the burden of the family early and worked like a boy around doing odd jobs.
Deliver milk, deliver takeaways, sew dolls, be a waiter...
The male protagonist Han Jie saw her for the first time and thought it was a boy.
In order to cope with the blind date, Han Jie paid for Eun Chan to play his "boyfriend" and let the blind date know that the 'man' was retired.
Marriage failed, and Grandma spurred Han Jie to open a coffee shop.
In order to make the coffee shop distinctive, Han Jie stipulated that all employees must be men, and the Coffee Prince No. 1 store was born.
And the 'boy' Eun Chan became his first employee.
During the day and night together, Han Jie actually had a heartwarming feeling for Eun Chan, although he could not tell for a moment that it was budding love.
As a result, he was always annoyed with Grace for no reason.
Let her move things, let her work, let her be in her sight at all times...
He began to doubt himself, sighed often, ran to the mental hospital for counseling, hugged the girl he had once liked, and confirmed that he was still a straight man.
He realizes that he may like Eun Chan, so he can't get along as easily as before, awkwardly.
Finally, to confirm, Han Jie hugged Eun Chan.
It is this hug that both of them know: the other is the one who makes their heart move.
After the hug, one leg softly supported the wall and pretended to be calm to leave, and the other was dazed in place, and his heart beat violently.
No more heart to work.
Peeking, it was found that it was hard-mouthed, covered up with quarrels, turned its head and was annoyed.
Han Jie's heart was repeatedly torn, and the pain could not be discharged, so he often quarreled with Eun Chan.
At the end, reconcile again, clench your fists, and motivate yourself.
In order to be able to get along with each other in a just and unsympathetic manner, Han Ming had a bad idea: learn from Liu Guan Zhang Taoyuan to marry righteousness, and worship as a brother.
But this brotherhood is nothing but self-deception.
When Han Jie and Eun Can go to the beach, they finally understand their state of mind: it is love at all, love that makes people cry and sad.
Therefore, after a long time of entanglement and distress, he was ready to bear all the consequences and ran to confess to Eun Chan.
These words are the footnotes of this play.
It only wants to pass on love itself, and it does not matter whether it is heterosexual or homosexual.
Although the male protagonist is ridiculed as 'first bend and then straighten', the process of pulling back and forth is the process of love gradually becoming clear until it is determined.
The specific emotions that love affects are in the details of life.
Falling in love is a small thing.
02
Why this 'tomboy'
"Coffee" borrows the classic model of the prince and Cinderella, but 'Cinderella' is not typical, even anti-routine, and the plot is not as innocent and ethereal as a fairy tale.
Rather, it is delicate and real, layer by layer, telling the audience why is she?
First of all, the prince is flawed.
The Han Jie family is very rich, but he has been idle for many years, has wasted a lot of time, and is ready to continue to splurge.
He is the 'lazy man' in his grandmother's mouth, as if he has no purpose in life, and he has to get by.
Before meeting Eun Chan, he was depressed.
And Eun Chan seems to always have endless energy, and immediately after crying, he can wipe away his tears and work well. As if he had been infused with his soul by Eun Chan, he began to have the idea of running a coffee shop well.
After having a goal, Han Jie changed from a person who slept until three rods a day to a person who commuted to work on time and began to run regularly and actively.
If this is enough to make him feel good about the 'tomboy', then the emotions that are involved tell us that love is coming.
After knowing Eun Chan, Han Jie, who couldn't arouse interest in anything and didn't have any emotions, walked away.
In its place was Han Jie, who became fierce and moody.
When he watched the movie, he would think of Eun Chan and smile closely;
He began to understand the reasons and difficulties of employee departures, and became humane;
He will yell and quarrel with Eun Chan, and learn to apologize after struggling;
When reconciled, he was childish like a child, running around and jumping around.
Eun Chan ends Han Jie's long vacation and makes him a vibrant person.
This is the power of love.
And Eun Can, also taking the equal identity of 'tomboy' as an opportunity, let love sprout in the shaky work, and eventually grow into a big tree.
Become like Shu Ting's "To the Oak Tree" wrote: I must be a kapok near you, standing with you as the image of the tree.
03
Diverse portrayal of women
In Korean dramas, the heroine Eun Chan is an unconventional heroine, not exquisite and not beautiful enough.
Her love affair with Han Jie is not attached, not in love with the brain.
Part-time workers also have to return the money they owe to her boyfriend, and even if the two have different ideas and make a big argument because of it, she insists on paying it back.
At the end of the plot, Eun Chan wants to learn coffee, not a momentary twist, but always foreshadowing.
Working in a coffee shop was probably her first stable job, and under the guidance of the old barista President Hong, Eun Chan worked hard to learn knowledge, often writing and drawing in a notebook. When you are not busy at work, practice the posture of pouring coffee.
The love did not relax, and when he called Han Jie and said 'miss you', he held a notebook in his other hand.
"No one can be responsible for another person for a lifetime".
Eun Chan has been moving towards a more promising place, even if she is not a strong career woman, she must be a woman with a career.
And there are two women who are excellent in their careers.
Hanjie's grandmother, an old entrepreneur.
Yu Zhu, a young artist.
They have successful careers, domineering and cute appearances, and gentle and powerful appearances.
At the same time, the play also portrays the different life choices of women.
For example, Han jie's mother, a wonderful stay-at-home woman.
She is gentle, empathetic, and a mother to the point of making others jealous.
Han Chengcheng has always envied his cousin Han Jie because he has a mother who can change the color of the curtains according to the changes of the four seasons.
And the mother of the heroine Encan shows the two sides of a woman's unity.
She is a mother, so she will firmly support her daughter's dream and not add chaos to her daughter's feelings.
She is still a woman, and she wants to be like a teenage girl, to be in love, to be invested in the admiration and jealousy of men. She knows the feeling of love, and will know that she will face the storm of love when Eun Can wants to confess to Han Jie, and give her warm arms.
The screenwriters try to tell us:
Each, as long as it is a woman, is a woman.
Regardless of gender, regardless of beauty and ugliness... Each, as long as it is you, is what love looks like.
04
Bright youth
Kong Liu said that this drama has rekindled his interest in acting.
Before acting in this play, he, like Han Jie, was experiencing a long vacation in his life, and if it were not for this play, he might not have acted again.
This drama carries his identification with the identity of the actor and the infinite nostalgia for the youth years.
Today, when we rewatch the show, we feel that it is not outdated, probably because it shows specific emotions and feelings.
From scratch, layer by layer, ups and downs, not just the accumulation of events.
Times are changing, props will change, but the emotional experience of people has not changed for thousands of years.
Coffee Prince No.1 Store also carries a beautiful youth.
In the morning of the leaves, talk with your lover and friends on the balcony on the second floor;
In the afternoon when there is no business, go outside to play a basketball game or go to the orchard to pick fruit;
On rainy days, practice pouring coffee in the shop. Smell the aroma of coffee and waffles, look through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and see the water vapor on the wooden floor;
In the night after the heat dissipates, take advantage of the instrument in hand, and have a concert with your friends crying wolf...
Happy, lost, wild.
In the coffee shop, everyone becomes better and more vivid in getting along, and everyone experiences bright youth.
15 years later, it has also become a youthful memory of the audience.
In a refreshing summer.