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I cried "corn beef" in a demonic voice in front of people I'd just met. If that tells you anything about me...
Other than that, the name is Nabilah Johari who goes by her days embarrassing friends with her shameless antics.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:37 PM


So, I started 'Friend, Our Legend', which promised me rival gangsters in 80s Korea and best-friends-turned-deadly-enemies and Seo Do Young in schoolboy garb. What I didn't know? Before airing, someone apparently decided that a gangster drama needed to be kid-friendly. EVERYTHING IS BLURRED OUT. Seriously -- any hint of blood or violence has been slapped under a blur -- in a gangster drama. I just. What? The fight scenes were blurred. All weapons were blurred. Even the gangster's tattoos were blurred. It went from bizarre to downright hilarious. Don't worry kiddies, that's not a blurred baseball bat, he's just giving that man a CLOUD HUG! TO THE FACE!

My favorite is when the hero drops his cigarette to the ground in one of those artsy close-up moments -- and yes, it's blurred.


WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF THAT SHOT. "As a concerned parent, I had wanted to complain about this gross display of lawlessness, but since you blurred the filter it's clearly not recognizable as a cigarette, which of course my children have never seen."

I know Korean networks can be crazy with censorship (like in a BOF kiss blooper where the director yells at Lee Min Ho to CLOSE HIS MOUTH, thereby answering all my questions about the state of kiss scenes in dramas), but I thought it had to do with demographics and target audience? Do they think a lot of kids are watching historical gangster epics?





THIS IS A FIGHT SCENE.


I DON'T KNOW ABOUT Y'ALL BUT I'M REALLY FEELING THE TENSION.



Extremely amusing: some guy's heartfelt yell as he swings his blobbed fist at the enemy. PHOTOSHOP IS COMING FOR YOU, FUCKER!




I don't know who he is, but he's hot! It's the James Dean of Korea!








It's actually pretty gorgeous in a desaturated, look-at-me-I-am-srs-give-me-an-award way.



What did this poor guy do to deserve the blur? What if he'd been really looking forward to his appearance on TV? What if his mother had been watching his drama debut? "Yeah mom, I'm the one that's all... vague..."



Watch out! He's armed with indiscernible blurs!!!



THE FOG LEAVES NO SURVIVORS.




"Mommy! I'm scared!" "Don't worry, all weapons are made of bubble wrap."


I'm given to understand they're hardcore rebels because they wear their hats at jaunty angles, defying the 1980s school administration which demands nothing less than impeccable uniforms from its brawling unsupervised hooligans.



SEO DO YOUNG. THE REASON I PUT UP WITH THIS.




Say you blame me.
But on the bright side, from what I saw of the drama was quite good. The DVDs will be my salvation.


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