The Haunted Monster Actor - Chapter 69
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Episode 69
At dawn, when everyone was asleep, a silver Carnival pulled into an apartment complex in Incheon.
“Brother, did you have a good night’s sleep?”
“I’m sorry for making you suffer from the early morning.”
“No, brother. Did you have a good time with your family?”
“Yeah, I feel like all the fatigue from the past has gone away.”
“Haha, no matter what anyone says, home is the best.”
Hyunsoo nodded with a small smile at Gogun’s words.
“It’s so early in the morning that I think I’ll be able to get to Seoul in about 30 minutes. In the meantime, get some more sleep.”
“No, I really slept well. What about the script?”
“If you open the bag in the seat next to you, you’ll find it.”
When I opened the bag, what I found inside was the script for episode 2 of Nineties Dive.
Unlike episode 1, which I had previously watched with the help of producer Jeong Geun-ho, I was not able to receive the video for episode 2, which had not yet been edited.
Of course, there was a script I had received before, but what I had in my bag now was the final draft that writer Choi Ui-jeong had revised after being inspired by the trailer highlight filming.
“I see that even in the revised script for Episode 2, there’s almost no screen time for Hyung-nim. It was the same in Darkness, but I wonder if Hyung-nim has become the writers’ ‘secret weapon’ at this point.”
As Go Gun said, Hyun Soo’s Ji Yoo Han will make his first appearance in the last scene of Episode 2, which is scheduled to be filmed today.
‘It’s from the latter half of episode 3 that he starts to get seriously entangled with the other members.’
This is why we were able to start filming about a month in advance without the main character, Hyun-soo.
‘Even so, things are different now than they were back in the dark.’
The character Lee Ji-woon’s identity was hidden until the middle of the play, but…
‘Ji Yu-han’s presence has been very evident since episode 1.’
Most of the narrative in episodes 1 and 2 deals with the members’ pasts.
If the previously seen episode 1 dealt with the 20-year-old Rising Dive in the 1990s, the main content of episode 2 shows the 15 years of the ‘unlimited’ Rising Dive.
Rising Dive, a 20-year-old where Jiyuhan existed.
Rising dive until the age of thirty-five, when Jiyuhan disappeared.
‘Whether present or not, Jiyuhan is always at the center of this story.’
That was the clear difference between you and the dark Lee Ji-woon.
And viewers will probably start to notice from this point that Nineties Dive is not just a simple youth drama.
The coexistence of cheerful brightness and gloomy darkness that I felt when I first read the script with Woo Ji-yoon.
If the content of Episode 1 dealt with the ‘bright’ side of Rising Dive.
From episode 2 onwards, the ‘dark’ development begins in earnest.
‘… … So maybe that’s why the band’s name is Rising Dive.’
The fact that the band name uses the polar opposite words ‘going up’ and ‘jumping down’ must have something to do with the storyline of the play.
That’s right, as soon as I heard the script, I started analyzing the work without even realizing it, and then a thought suddenly occurred to me.
‘As I received the script, I felt like I was getting drawn into the story.’
Hyunsoo began reading the script for Episode 2 of Nineties Dive, feeling a strange sense of being both the main character and the listener to the story.
S#1.
Black screen.
The screen goes black with a loud, unintelligible noise, and gray concrete fills the frame.
S#2. Somewhere in Hongdae Street. Night.
Thirty-five-year-old Shin Jung-hyeok staggers along, leaning against a concrete wall, drunk.
“Yoo Han-ah… … Yoo Han-ah… … !”
No matter how much you shout, there will be no answer.
The sight of Junghyuk calling the name of an old friend who is no longer by his side.
“The drama starts with a dark atmosphere from the second episode. The development is faster than I thought.”
When he first received the script, the ‘gloomy development’ he felt from the synopsis was placed much earlier than Hyun-soo had expected.
The second episode script shows each member’s life, which is darker than before.
Shin Jung-hyeok, who showed off his powerful drumming skills, sold his parents’ restaurant and used the money to open a bar instead.
S#9. A shabby pojangmacha. Night.
Junghyuk hits the table with a soju glass instead of a drum.
Concert hall on weekdays, church on weekends.
Cha Woo-ram, who used to type on the keyboard with an excited face every day, started studying theology late in life to become a pastor.
S#16. Church. Dawn.
A pastor preaching passionately from the pulpit.
Behind him, Woo-ram is reading a comic book overlapping with the Bible, giggling.
And Oh Yul, an all-rounder with good looks, family background, academics, athletic ability, and a natural bass player, is working at a large company and rising through the ranks. He is still living a perfect life.
S#24. Company. Night.
Oh Yul looks engrossed in his work.
There is not an inch of disarray.
S#25. Company. Dawn.
Oh Yul looks engrossed in his work.
There is not an inch of disarray.
S#26. Company. Morning.
Oh Yul looks engrossed in his work.
There is not an inch of disarray.
S#27. Company. Broad day.
Oh Yul looks engrossed in his work.
There is not an inch of disarray.
S#28. Company. Night again.
Oh Yul looks engrossed in his work.
There is not an inch of disarray.
Shin Jung-hyeok, who went from being a drummer to a bar owner.
Cha Woo-ram started his life as a keyboardist and then became a pastor.
The error rate is still just an error rate.
If you look at it this way, it’s actually more like it’s dark.
“It feels close to ordinary, but… … .”
Objectively speaking, the lives of these three people are fairly ordinary and smooth.
But the appearance of the three people in the script that depicts that ordinary life.
“It looks dark again for some reason.”
S#31. Live Kitchen. Early morning after business hours.
Junghyuk’s mother raises her voice towards Junghyuk.
“No, if that bar owner drank all the alcohol in the store himself! How on earth is he going to run a business! If that’s the case, he should give up the store and go back to his mom’s restaurant or something!”
S#36. Church pastor’s office.
The pastor’s harsh reprimand continues towards Woo-ram.
“Be honest with me. You don’t want to be a pastor, you’re just here because it seems like a good fit. Otherwise, why haven’t you been able to get out of that damn educational pastor job for years?”
S#41. Company. Morning.
Team leader Ho-jin opens his mouth with a worried voice towards Oh-yul.
“Mr. Oh Yul, I know you’re really good at your job… … But if you do that, you’ll get in big trouble, right? How many nights have you been up just now? Didn’t you get taken to the hospital last time? Work is good, but moderately… … Oh, Mr. Oh Yul, your nose is bleeding… … Hey! What’s going on, come to your senses, come to your senses, Mr. Oh Yul!!”
A drummer who opened a bar simply because he was thirsty for alcohol.
A keyboardist who locked himself in a church using the god he believed in as an excuse.
A bassist who is an all-rounder but also suffers from chronic fatigue and has become a self-abusive workaholic.
Hyun-soo, who was reading the script, soon understood why their lives seemed dark.
That’s right.
“It’s because of Jiyuhan’s absence.”
When Ji Yu-han, who had shined so brightly in episode 1, disappears, the ordinary story of the three people feels even darker.
It was a darkness that lasted for a full 15 years.
Hyunsoo continued reading the script.
A scene depicting three people slowly moving away from each other.
S#44. A noisy bar. Night.
Even though Yuhan is not around, the three of them share a drink every day, remembering him.
We laugh, cry, and fight while reminiscing about Yuhan, filling the empty space of our friends with alcohol.
S#47. A noisy bar. Night.
Three people clinking their glasses.
Now, no one cares about the empty space of the finite.
S#48. A noisy bar. Night.
A bar with not many customers. Junghyuk is drinking alone.
S#50. Bar. Night.
Only an empty space remains.
“And will we meet again towards the end of episode 2?”
S#56.
Junghyuk calls Wooram and Ohyul for the first time in about 3 years.
– Shall we have a drink after a long time?
S#61. The chaplain’s office.
Woo-ram puts down the Bible that he can hardly see and opens the door to the pastor’s office.
S#63. Hospital.
Oyul gets up from his sickbed, pulling out his ringer and loosening his tie.
S#67. A noisy bar. Night.
Woo-ram and Oh-yul arrived at the same time as if they had made a promise.
When they arrive at the meeting place, the first thing that catches their eye is none other than an ’empty seat’.
There are ‘four’ chairs placed at the table that Shin Jung-hyeok has set up.
Woo-ram and Oh-yul open their mouths at the same time, recalling an old ritual they used to perform to remember an old friend that they had stopped doing a long time ago.
“Junghyuk, do you still drink a lot?”
“Didn’t we decide to stop this?”
These were Shin Jung-hyeok’s first words to his two friends whom he had met after a long time.
“Yuhan is back.”
Shin Jung-hyeok with a determined face.
Cha Woo-ram with an expression that says he is not praying.
Oryul shows no reaction.
“Let’s try again.”
S#78.
The camera frame that had been capturing the faces of the three people changes back to the cracked concrete ceiling of the bar, turning it into the same gray color as the opening scene.
… … .
… … .
… … .
S#79.
The finely cracked, gray concrete walls soon turn white.
A slowly opening view.
Yeong-woo regains consciousness in a hospital room surrounded by white ceilings and walls.
“Patient Ha Young-woo, Patient Ha Young-woo! Are you awake? If so, would you please blink your eyes!?”
The man called Ha Young-woo blinked.
It wasn’t that I blinked in affirmation, but rather that I squinted because the ‘light’ coming in through the window curtains was dazzling me.
White ceiling.
White curtains.
White nurse.
and.
‘Ha Young-woo?’
I think that’s my name.
What should I say?
‘That name doesn’t sound interesting at all.’
“Ha, Patient Ha Young-woo! Do you know where this is?!”
‘Where is this? Well… … .’
The man, who had been briefly recalling memories in response to the nurse’s question, suddenly jumps up from his seat.
“The stage! What happened to the stage?! Just a moment ago, I was… … .”
I was giving a great performance on a flashy stage!
“Patient Ha Young-woo, what on earth are you talking about? This is a hospital, not a stage, and Patient Ha Young-woo… … .”
“no.”
“… … ?”
And now the man was able to recall the reason why he had not liked his name, Ha Young-woo, all along.
“It’s not Ha Young-woo, it’s Yoo Han.”
“yes……?”
“… … Jiyuhan, that’s my name.”
Youngwoo. No, at the time when Yoohan was saying his own name.
The curtains on the window are drawn open, and the bright sunlight reflects loudly inside the hospital room.
At the same time, Jiyuhan checks his reflection in the window.
“uh……?”
At the window, a man she had never seen before was looking at her.
‘who……?’
When I shake my head with a blank expression, the face at the window also shakes its head in return.
“Huh?”
Let’s raise our arms, so let’s raise our arms.
“Eight!”
As I stretch out my legs, the man at the window also stretches out his long legs.
“Huh?”
Jiyuhan opened his mouth, facing himself with an unfamiliar face.
“Oh, I think my legs have gotten a bit longer.”
It was undoubtedly Jiyuhan’s return.
… … Cut! Okay!
“Actor Kim’s expression was really good just now!”
The filming of Episode 2 of Nineties Dive ended with Jiyuhan waking up again.
Continued in the next episode 
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