The Haunted Monster Actor - Chapter 59
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Episode 59
Im Jin-han said with shining eyes after learning why Hyun-soo had left the studio in a hurry.
“You received an invitation from the Khan? Then I guess I’ll have to cancel the party.”
“… … ?”
“At that rate… … we should have a festival instead of a party! I may not be a filmmaker, but I know how great that would be!”
“… … You don’t have to go that far. I already had a small celebration with my colleagues yesterday.”
“What do you mean, it looks like you drank quite a bit. Why didn’t you rest for another day? Why did you come out?”
As Im Jin-han said, because it had been a long time since the seal was lifted, I had a worse hangover than usual.
However, Hyunsoo was in no position to relax even for a single day.
‘… …Jeong Isin.’
Even though I was deeply asleep from being drunk, Jeong-in Shin appeared again on the stage in my dream last night.
This means that his acting is strongly imprinted in Hyun-soo’s subconscious.
‘As of now… … my acting is no match for Jeong I-shin.’
I know why the judges cast me.
It’s not because of ‘Jiyuhan’ that Kim Hyun-soo prepared.
It was the existence of the ‘musician’ that Jeong Ee-shin brought out that captivated them.
I have no choice but to admit it.
Actor Kim Hyun-soo’s acting skills are still insufficient to compete with the great genius Jeong Yi-shin.
So, there is only one thing Hyun-soo has to do during the remaining time until the main shoot.
‘I make the existence of the musician… … completely mine.’
But this wasn’t just something that was necessary for Ji Yu-han’s acting.
‘It would be a problem if the musicians start to run wild after filming begins.’
From year-end award interviews, drug kitchens, and audition venues.
Hyunsoo is still in a situation where he cannot fully control the existence of the musician.
Therefore, this was absolutely necessary to ensure stable filming.
‘The most important mechanism for controlling dreams is the ego.’
Their presence is affected as Hyun-soo’s ego grows and shrinks.
However, this is a story that only applies when you understand the ‘true nature’ of the dream.
To control a musician, you must first know him.
‘Musician… …Who are you?’
Hyunsoo started working on his dream in earnest, which he had neglected due to the end-of-year awards week and audition preparations.
* * *
There are two clues in total.
‘The stage in my dreams, and the melody.’
Over the years, I’ve watched countless videos of band performances to research references for my acting.
But none of them had a stage or melody from a dream.
Actually, this was a bit strange.
‘The number of spectators in front of the stage in my dream was in the thousands… no, tens of thousands.’
It didn’t make sense to Hyunsoo that there wasn’t a single video of a singer performing on such a large stage.
‘So then… … I guess I have no choice but to look around.’
As was the case with Jang Ki-chun and Lee Jun-hyeok, ‘musician’ was also likely to be a motif for ‘Nineties Dive’.
Until recently, there was no way to find out because he wasn’t an actor appearing in a drama, but now that he’s been cast as the main character, things are different.
After thinking about it, Hyunsoo immediately took action.
After finding out the number of the writer Choi Ui-jeong through Go Geon, I called her.
“Hello, writer. I am actor Kim Hyun-soo who has been cast as Ji-yu-han. I am calling you to personally thank you after hearing the news of your casting.”
Soon, a pleasant laughter will be heard over the phone.
―Haha, why even a thank you? Actor Kim Hyun-soo did all the acting. Anyway, let’s do well together from now on.
“Yes, please take care of me too!”
-Is this number Actor Kim’s personal number?
“Yes.”
– I’ll save it. Since actor Kim is the main character, I think he’ll have more opportunities to communicate with me than with the other actors.
“That’s what you’re talking about… … Is it possible to do so now?”
-……huh?
After a moment of silence, the same pleasant laughter from the other end of the phone burst out.
―Haha, what is this? You started nitpicking before you even started reading the script? Now that I think about it, this was your real goal? Of course it would be. What, do you have any questions?
“By any chance… … may I ask who the incident or person was that inspired Jiyuhan?”
-Motif?
“Yes, I think it will help me analyze the character.”
―Hmm, when I saw you at the audition, your character analysis was almost perfect. Are you going to delve deeper into it? Hmm, your attitude as an actor is good, but… … . Do you really need to do that? Ji-yu-han isn’t a particularly serious character.
“… … .”
―No matter what the motif is, the content and characters in the work are all fictional events and characters that I created. The setting itself is completely fantasy, so knowing the motif helps in analyzing the character? I don’t think so.
“It’s not just about character analysis.”
-……sure?
“I want to know about the ‘origin’ of Rising Dive. That’s also the reason why Jiyuhan reappeared with his friends.”
-The origin of… …Rising Dive?
“I don’t think Jiyuhan appeared in front of them simply because he wanted to do music again. I felt that there was ‘something’ that wasn’t revealed through lines or text alone.”
―Let’s dig into that… … through the motif of the work?
“Rather than saying I want to dig, I think it would be more accurate to say I want to look into it.”
―… … There was a reason why you showed such an impressive performance in the audition. The way you approached the character was quite fresh. Well, the writer and the actor have different ways of understanding the work and different perspectives. If you’re that curious, I’ll tell you.
And, the next words that followed were something that Hyunsoo had never expected.
―The motif of 90’s DIVE is… …as the title suggests, ‘the era.’ To be more precise, it is all the ‘people’ who lived in the 90s.
times.
People of the 90s.
―I just made a subcategory of them into bands. The golden age of rock music in the 90s. Legendary bands like Oasis and Nirvana, and Korea’s Next that we can’t see again now… … What if they were to reunite at this moment and show us another stage? I started writing this piece while imagining such things.
In a word, the motif of the work was nostalgia for the 90s itself.
―From there, I turned my gaze slightly lower. The Rising Dive in the piece is not a legendary band. Instead, it is a band that ‘dreams’ of becoming a legend.
So to speak, Jiyuhan is… … .
“So you’re saying that it was inspired by the ‘dreams’ of youth living in the 90s?”
– I guess so. Well, I don’t know if it helped. As I was talking, it seemed like I was just spouting things off without any order.
“Not at all. Thanks to you, author, I think I’ve found a clue.”
-Haha, that’s good.
Although I didn’t get any clues about the musician’s real-life persona, Choi Ui-jeong’s words just now helped me a lot in understanding the character of Ji Yu-han.
―I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of acting you’ll show us at the script reading. If you have any questions, please contact me anytime.
“Yes, thank you.”
After finishing the call with Choi Ui-jeong, Hyun-soo thought about his conversation with her for a while.
Musicians from a glorious era that can no longer return.
“And the dreamy youths who followed their brilliant lights… … .”
I still don’t know who he is, but one thing is certain.
The musician in the dream is one of the youths who had the ‘dream’ of the past that Choi Ui-jeong just mentioned.
Hyunsoo held the guitar in his hand.
Now I played it, recalling the dreams that were not realized and that I will never be able to return to.
I just strummed the four chords that resonated from the musician’s stage as I pleased.
After finishing playing for a very short time, I opened my eyes.
“… … ?”
He saw Im Jin-han’s face looking at him with eyes of disbelief.
“Hyunsoo, you… … That code… …!”
“Do you know this code?”
“I know, I know very well.”
“… … !”
“Did you imitate it after watching the video? Or… … did you come up with it yourself?”
As I said before, no matter how much I searched through video sites, I couldn’t find the musician’s melody.
Strictly speaking, it was just imitating the chords of a musician that came to mind, but there was no need to go that far.
“I thought of it myself.”
“… … I see. That’s right.”
Hyun-soo thought to himself at Im Jin-han’s unusual reaction.
‘Could it be… … that the musician’s ‘connection’ is connected this way?’
Hyunsoo has only had three dreams so far.
The place where the musician’s existence continues may not necessarily be the ‘script’ side.
“Can you tell me about this code?”
“That’s not difficult. That code is called the money code.”
“……yes?”
“Don’t you know the money code? Money code. In a word, it’s a code that makes money.”
When you listen to hit songs or pop songs, you often hear similar melody progressions.
The reason is simple.
This is because they used almost the same or similar code progression.
Money code.
Literally meaning a code that brings you money, many popular hit songs used this money code.
“Hey, how long have you been learning guitar and you’re already trying to make money with music? You’re still a hundred years too early, you punk!”
“Is this… a famous code?”
“A famous chord? Rather than famous… … It’s just basic common sense to people who make music. It’s a chord that’s still used frequently.”
It’s basic common sense…
“Kihihihi, it looks like you played it without even knowing it was a money chord. Why, you couldn’t sleep all night because your heart was pounding because you thought you found some kind of amazing melody? Haha, hahahahahaha!”
Im Jin-han bursts into laughter, holding his stomach and shedding tears, wondering what was so funny.
“Haha, hahaha, haha… … I miss you… … I miss you.”
As Im Jin-han spoke like that, his eyes suddenly turned red.
“… … ?”
“I had a friend who did exactly the same thing as you.”
“friend……?”
“I used to sit all night playing guitar in a basement practice room that was even smaller and smellier than this one. One day, this funny guy played a money chord in a half-asleep state and thought it came from his head.”
“… … .”
“Both of them are killing it. They’re all dead now. We were jumping around excitedly, and then we realized that it was the exact same money code that the Red Hot Chili Peppers used, and we laughed so hard.”
“… … .”
“In the end, because of that idiot, I remember composing songs, being hungry, and eating ramen in the morning before going to sleep. Oh, you know that ramen I make for you? That’s his recipe. He was a guy who could really play the guitar as well as his ramen recipe. Absolutely, absolutely not like that… .”
Im Jin-han’s gaze was now turned to the old electric guitar that Hyun-soo was holding.
“I wasn’t a friend who would go in vain.”
The musician’s presence was much closer than Hyunsoo thought.
Continued in the next episode 
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