"Anna" has entered a new phase. On the 12th, Coupang Play released its eight-part "Anna" A Pharase. Coupang Play said, "We respect the direction of the director's editing following the six-part Anna', which was successfully completed last month, and we have released the 8-part A Pharase that we have already promised to viewers."
Director Lee Ju-young, who directed Anna on the last two days, issued a statement claiming the "one-sided editorial tyranny" of Coupang Play (relevant articles: "Anna" situation, which is seen as an example 20 years ago, and Coupang's gang). Director Lee claimed that Coupang Play unilaterally edited the original work edited in eight episodes regardless of the intention of the director or staff, and the fact that Coupang Play side revealed the factual relationship until the release of the six episodes has been repercussed.
The Coupang play side's behavior was "gap" and suggested a legal response. Then on the 3rd, Coupang Play emphasized that it had obtained "the consent of the production company", and refuted that "Coupang Play edited the work to meet the original production intention based on our rights specified in the contract, and as a result, a highly acclaimed work of viewers was produced."
Anna, which was first released on June 24, has attracted a lot of attention with her exciting material, "Bae Suzy" Bae Suzy, director Lee Ju-young's debut with "Single Rider", and "a woman who has lived a completely different life since she started a small lie".
In the meantime, the main staff of Anna gave an unprecedented statement and strengthened the director's claim. On the 11th, a day before Coupang Play released A Pharisee, director Lee Ju-young reconfirmed that the first interview with the media since the production of Anna was released and the Anna incident that caused the film industry and OTT industry to cease.
Immediately after the release of A Pharisee, social media and the Internet community were lined up with a review comparing A Pharisee and Coupang editions. The reviews that empowered the director's arguments were overwhelming, such as "(Anna A Pharisee) is a work in a completely different direction" or "The director is angry."
One Twitter user also said, "The viewers cut off the parts that will make the rice cakes and characters to be eaten in double lines, so that the directors and staffs keep chewing on the position. I really did not have any courtesy to the creators. "
It's literally what it is. As viewers have confirmed, A Pharisee <Anna>, which has reduced the amount of Coupang play to six episodes, is delicate enough to be compared with the six episodes, and the level of gender issues, class conflicts, and social criticism is even stronger and more comprehensive. Lee Yoo-Mi - Lee Anna's psychology and double-track, which had to lie, was a completely different work designed in detail.
Anna's tragedy, which the six-part episode emphasized every opening, did not exist - right, it's a rustic way. The speedy development that the six-part series compressed through the first half was called "YouTube Summary Review". For the speed of the feeling, Yumi's psychological construction as well as the relationship with his family and the backgrounds that he could know through his acquaintances were volatile.
The first half of the series: Lee Yoo-Mi (Bae Suzy) falls short of the CSAT exam after several turns; minor lies are gradually inflated, leading to fake college students in the third-year process. Lies are lying, are intoxicated by the lies, and the surrounding environment unintentionally helps them. The lies frustrate their studies in the United States with their boyfriends.
Shortly after, his father's sudden death drops Lee Yoo-Mi into an Indian fall. The missing scenes were also the scenes that intimately depict Lee Yoo-Mi's psychology. A Pharisee emphasizes the fact that the lie is not a Lee Yoo-Mi individual's fault but a set of multi-layered and complex factors. On the other hand, the six-part work makes every effort to emphasize one-dimensional and single-linear emphasis on "Why did Lee Yoo-Mi become a villain?"
For example, Lee Yoo-Mi was mostly reduced or edited to the extent that he was concerned about his father, who was very supportive of India, and his mother, who was deaf. The father had left his debts, and Yumi had lived hard for a living as a head, but the screens that recognized cyber college admissions were blown away. Even Kim Jin-gyun Yumi's psychology of the ballet stage scene was blown away.
In a rough summary, all the infinite information and psychological descriptions that could have been given by the reduced two-time difference were blown away. A typical example is the music that Mogg has worked on. If the six-part music is a single-line direction that strengthens the atmosphere in the scene, A Pharise often helps to distance itself from situations and emotions or even create ironic feelings.
Kim Jin-gyun Yumi's "little star" learned from the US military wife who emphasized "poker face" is used as a theme, or the form of Yumi's label Bolero encompasses the entire main sequence. It doesn’t stop with the beginning or ending screen changing every time, but the mood of music that covers the entire drama and the way of using certain songs have been changed or deleted. This change in music utilization can be seen as the obvious change of the intention of the scene production including Lee Yoo-Mi's psychology.
The cut and cut change is common. Compared to A Pharisee, the Coupang version used the front cut of the ship Bae Suzy. It is a one-dimensional editorial intention to emphasize the face of a star actor, and the scenes and ambassadors of the main actors except Lee Yoo-Mi have also been blown away. There are also quite a few examples of the edited scene compressively describing Lee Yoo-Mi's psychology or background.
Typical is the episode of Koshiwon General Affairs. Lee Yoo-Mi takes a Korean buffet and proposes a friendship and gets angry at Koshiwon General Secretary who was molesting him. The production of the lines and actions of Lee Yoo-Mi in the scene really implies and compresses a lot.
"You, you son of a bitch. I'm a good fucking bitch, huh? What am I wrong about? You're a lawyer? The first thing she does is, if you think you're wrong, you're going to get dirty later. Do you understand?"
Unfortunately (?), Coupang play, which did not hide such intentions and even edited 'Gapjil', seems to have lost too much. <Anna> A Pharisee was a work of an outstanding and unprecedented female director whose narrative and psychology of female individuals penetrate the back of the political plate beyond the description of the upper class society in Korea. If A Pharisee had been released as it was, I would have been able to expect more awards and awards at various awards. Coupang Play itself has kicked off such a bright future.
More curious is the real intention of reducing it to a six-part episode: The OTT platform has a profound impact on viewers' viewing duration. Even Netflix has taken into account the disclosure of the entire release and has conducted some of the releases of the 4th season of The Strange Story. Even if A Pharisee was a six-part story, it would be insufficient for the Coupang play to increase it to eight episodes.
The intention of directing may not be liked by investors or producers. Such editorial debates are not today. However, considering the public A Pharisee, the reduction of the Coupang play side's six-part series seems to be difficult to explain any single factor.
Even if you pursue 'YouTube summary video', Coupang play side is a loss. It would be a shame that such a Coupang play was blasphemy for viewers who had to pay subscription fees again for the creators, directors and staff, as well as A Pharase. I will also have to watch the judgment of other viewers to watch A Pharisee, but it seems that it is not much different from the evaluation so far. Now, only to watch the legal response process of director Lee Ju-young, who claims 'authority rights', remains.