2008 south korean movie by Kim Jung-kwon
BA:BO, besides known as Miracle of a Giving Fool ( 바보 ) is a 2008 south korean film. [ 2 ] Based on a popular webtoon, the film was directed by Kim Jung-kwon, and stars Cha Tae-hyun and Ha Ji-won in the moderate roles .

plot [edit ]

Ji-ho ( Ha Ji-won ) is a bright pianist who has been studying and playing overseas for years, but her career takes a blow when she is struck with stagecoach frighten. Upon returning home plate, Ji-ho is reunited with her old school ally, Seung-ryong ( Cha Tae-hyun ), who saw her returning home and they finally met while Seung-ryong was busy trying to gaze at the stars in the middle of the day. Ji-ho then learnt how Seung-ryong become mentally handicapped through her aunt and she takes inaugural to rekindle their friendship. Seung-ryong much sells toast near the gamey school of his unseasoned sister where he can be near to her baby who he guards with his life as that was the endow from his mother. Ji-in ( Park Ha-sun ) hates the fact that her brother is selling toast near the school and frequently chastise him for being mentally disabled.

In a flashback of a memory of Ji-ho, she mistaken that Seung-ryong burnt the piano that was donated to the center educate which finally led to Ji-ho to be huffy at Seung-ryong but the fire was actually started by Sang-soon who was smoking near the piano while the lie were having physical activity in the field but all the kids blamed Seung-ryong for causing the fire but Seung-ryong mother believed that he did n’t started the fire. Ji-ho then walks surrounding the area where she lived as a child and frequents a café that was run by Sang-soo ( ( Park Hee-soon ) which was coincidentally went to the center school as Ji-ho and Seung-ryong. In the café, one of the proletarian is adoring of Sang-soo but she is held hostage by a gangster whom she owes money to and resort to sell her body to repay the debt which causes Sang-soo to be angry which led to him drinking accompanied by Seung-ryong. Sang-soon finally wakes up at Seung-ryong family and told Ji-in ( Park Ha-sun ) to consume the breakfast that her older brother prepared for her but she was diamond that she hates toast. One night whilst Ji-ho was walking in the snow-white road, she overheard Seung-ryong sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and realized that Seung-ryong were the one who helped her performed the sung in front of the church she was attending which she late told Seung-ryong.

One day, Seung-ryong noticed that Ji-in ( Park Ha-sun ) was belated while going to school and learn that she was ghastly through the conversation from her class-mates. Seung-ryong barged into her school and clarified to her teacher that she is her sister. Ji-ho then gifted Seung-ryong a newly match of shoes which he finally cherishes. Ji-in finally was told by her attending doctor of the sacrifice that Seung-ryong have made since he was a child selling crispen and finally the two siblings become closer and finally her illness was cured. Sang-soo ( Park Hee-soon ) late falls into worry with some gangsters after trying to safe her love one from being in perturb and the throng bos sent person to finally kill Sang-soon but the two hit-men did n’t know what Sang-soo looks like and finally attacked Seung-ryong and he finally succumb to his injury.

Upon eruditeness of the passing of her older buddy, she finally saw what made Seung-ryong be so positive and have such solid will to live. Sang-soo finally take over the toast shop from Seung-ryong whilst Ji-ho who were able to recover from her stage frighten played in a distinguished manor hall with attendance with rest and finally she paid court to what Seung-ryong had done for her to recover from the phase frighten .

background [edit ]

BA:BO was adapted from a popular webtoon of the lapp name created by Kang Full, which ran from January to April 2004. Director Kim Jung-kwon, himself a fan of the comedian, was approached directly by Kang, and described the film as being faithful to the source material. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

draw [edit ]

  • Cha Tae-hyun as Seung-ryong. A fan of the original comic, Tae-hyun stated at a press conference that he “cried [his] eyes out” when reading it. Rather than draw his inspiration from mentally challenged people in reality or as portrayed in other media, he felt it necessary to play the character as written in the comic. Cha gained eight kilograms during production, and was unable to lose all of that weight for his wedding in 2006.[3]
    • Seo Dae-han as young Seung-ryong.
  • Ha Ji-won as Ji-ho. Playing the role of a frustrated pianist, Ji-won performed on the piano herself for the film. Although she had studied piano as a child, she received tutoring from singer/songwriter No Young-shim, who also taught her subtle gestures and postures.[3]
    • Sulli as young Ji-ho.
  • Park Hee-soon as Sang-soo.
  • Park Ha-sun as Ji-in.
  • Greena Park as Hee-yeong.
  • Jeon Mi-seon as young Seung-ryong’s mother.
  • Lee Ki-young as “Small Star” president.
  • Lee Sang-hoon as junk seller.

Box agency [edit ]

BA:BO was released on February 28, 2008, [ 5 ] and was ranked third at the box office on its opening weekend, grossing $ 2,302,058. [ 6 ] By April 6 the film had grossed a total of $ 6,450,178, [ 7 ] and as of March 23 the sum total of tickets sold was 951,573. [ 5 ]

References [edit ]

  • BA:BO at IMDb
  • BA:BO at HanCinema