When it comes to well-known Korean cartoonists, it is necessary to mention Cho Seok.
You may be unfamiliar with the name, but when it comes to his work, The Voice of the Heart, you might say, "Oh~."
Yes, yes, that's right, he's the creator of Heart.
In 2006, Zhao Shi officially debuted with "Heart".
The work was serialized on naver, one of South Korea's largest portals, for 12 years, with more than 5 billion cumulative hits.
Heart, one of the most popular and one of the longest-lived networks in Asia, is affectionately known as "National Manga" by Korean netizens.
Because the comic was so popular, Heart was almost developed to the maximum, and it can be seen in the field of games and film and television.
Today, Xiao Chu will talk to you about its live-action TV series version, which was launched in 2016 and starred by the well-known Korean funny artist Lee Kwang-joo and others.
The Voice of the Heart
"Heart" has a high score of 9 points on Douban, and there are almost no bad reviews!
As a comic adaptation, the TV series also follows the style of the manga, each episode is 10 minutes, and "Heart" only has 12 episodes, which is simply short and concise, not procrastinating, very low!
The drawing style of "Heart" is very unique, taking every character in the comic, their faces are hexagonal, and each character will have a prominent and conspicuous place that can even be said to be ugly, and the appearance is extremely exaggerated.
However, this is also where Zhao Shi is smart, "Heart" is very personal, and the painting style that does not conform to the audience's aesthetics makes him "kill a blood road" in the cruel comic circle.
However, the face of the comic can be drawn like this, but the real person cannot act like this!
It doesn't matter, the live-action version of "Heart" just finds the original feeling from the plot.
Then, you need to find an actor who has passed the acting skills.
Lee Kwang-so, starring in "Heart".
I believe that everyone is no stranger, he is a very funny actor in South Korea.
Some netizens even said, "I want to laugh when I see him" and "Lee Kwang-so is simply a natural actor".
The rest of the main actors are also the old faces in the Korean film and television group, and the acting skills are leveraged, and the fans of the original work do not have to worry about them ruining the comic.
So after talking for so long, the audience who knows "Heart" for the first time will think: What kind of story is this bubble noodle fan telling?
It is actually a story of Zhao Shi using his daily life as a source of inspiration to integrate reality and brain holes.
The live-action version of "Heart" has only 12 episodes, and it is obviously impossible to finish the story that has been serialized for more than ten years, and the director condenses the daily story of the lead actor Zhao Shi from a nameless painter to a well-known cartoonist into 12 episodes.
What kind of daily life it is, to be honest, Xiao Chu does not know, because it is really really really nonsensical, and many episodes are based on the gods in life as the theme of the series.
For example, if you're watching TV at home with your family and suddenly there's a lot of noise from your next-door neighbor, then that noise is the theme of the next episode, and there's an episode in Heart.
The protagonist Zhao Shi's family has a total of four people, and in the first episode, the director used a few clips to outline their distinct character style.
Grumpy mom. Holding any great power in the family, the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the three men in the family are only hers.
Useless dad. He runs a fried chicken shop but has no economic sense, and often leaves work on time before the peak period for eating fried chicken.
Brother of a newcomer to the workplace. Saying that he is a newcomer, he is actually 32 years old.
And the protagonist Zhao Shi, unemployed at home, is even more difficult to say.
Although he looks tall and tall, he is cowardly and timid, and his appearance is also indescribable.
When I was studying, my grades were always at the bottom, and my head was not very bright.
But the brain hole is very strange, always with a brain circuit that does not know how to do things, but also insists that he will become a cartoonist, stand out, even if he is always beaten by his mother, and is called "useless son" by his mother.
It is such an ordinary family, but it has created one hilarious laugh point after another.
Mother does not know how to use the convenient functions of the mobile phone network, in order to show off in front of friends to find a sense of superiority, the husband as an intelligent robot on the phone end of the phone constantly make the husband to do things;
In order to break the rule set by my mother that "you can only speak English at home or you will be fined", dad went to the construction site to work hard, and then threw a bunch of money in front of his mother and spoke Korean loudly;
The brother did not listen to his mother's words and washed the dark clothes and white clothes together, and as a result, he wore a dyed shorts and shorts, and appeared on the scene with laughter...
As for Zhao Shi himself, he was simply a laughing body.
When studying, a tug-of-war competition was held, and in order to win, he directly turned against the enemy, and the result was that the students attacked him en masse;
Borrowed a friend's luxury car in order to play handsome, and as a result, he would not drive on the road in a suit and push the cart straight;
I thought it was to help a friend sign up for a second, but I didn't expect to be a substitute class for a second to become a professor, but I didn't know that my computer was directly connected to the classroom screen, and the students saw indescribable things...
Between events and events, and between each episode and between each episode, there is no clear connection point, and the nonsensical plot makes people laugh, and Xiao Chu personally feels that this is the biggest success of this show.
In addition, audiences familiar with Korean variety shows and Korean artists will be pleasantly surprised to find that "Heart" has invited almost half of the korean entertainment industry.
In which episode of the noise mentioned by Xiao Chu above, mc Shin Dong-yeol of "Immortal Famous Song" was invited, mc Quan Hyun-moo in "Hidden Singer" and guests Jeong Joon-young and Park Jeong-hyun in the show "The Masked Singer King" were invited, which can be described as a huge lineup!
In addition, Song Joong-ki, Kim Jong-kook and others have also made super powerful cameos to help Lee Kwang-so's strength, full of love!
I have to say that the main creative team of "Heart" is very smart, and the support of a large number of stars and variety shows is a strong publicity lineup, which lays the foundation for the popularity of "Heart" in this regard.
There is no intricate character relationship, no ups and downs of the plot, no big truth that goes over and over again, "Heart" is so nonsensical, but it tells his nonsense story with heart.
Life does not know when there will always be some unknown things, these nonsense things are often another kind of surprise of life.
Zhao Shi himself once said in an interview that 90% of the plot of "Heart" comes from fabrication, and it comes out of his brain hole.
Yeah, how can a person have so many experiences close to fantasy and funny plots? Don't want to think about where the ten years of serialization came from? Nonsensical stories are not so easy to write.
You may think that it is meaningless to watch a work like "Heart", but as long as it can win your laughter, it wins, because it contains Zhao Shi's own efforts and persistence for more than ten years.
Family, noisy, frivolous. Zhao Shi, with his brush, let us see another possibility of life: nonsense can also be very happy!