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So far, so good.

I just threw them some firewood, and they started roasting each other and burning it to a crisp.

It was a stroke of genius to focus on child abuse.

It is not easy to gather opinions on the making of a movie because it is a matter of taste, but everyone is quick to criticize socially unacceptable acts such as child abuse.

‘The box office success has also declined.’

By now, the production company and distributor must be in a state of mourning.

That pervert Kim Si-woon must have turned pale too.

As planned, articles are pouring out from all over the place.

The media is always thirsty for news, so there’s no way they’d miss out on such high-quality material.

At this point, even a child psychologist appears and contributes to the chaos.

An article caught Jin So-hee’s eyes as she was laughing happily.

[Focus of the Week — TTN Boys to Appear on ‘Movies Are Good’ This Weekend]

‘If it’s TTN Boy, then it’s the child actor who appeared there, right?’

The only purpose of going on that show is to promote myself.

If I remember correctly, he didn’t even participate in the stage greeting.

But why are you promoting it at a time when things are so hot?

It seems like the distributor’s doing something, so why did they put up with this kind of self-inflicted wound?

But Jin So-hee didn’t know at that time.

The fact that the one who said he would go out there was a 7-year-old kid.

*****

“Today, we have a very special guest in the studio. It’s a hot movie these days in many ways. It’s Byeon Ha-jin who gave a great performance in director Kim Si-woon’s new film ‘Confessions of a Pianist’.”

MC Kim Sung-min introduced me.

He is responsible for one of the reasons for the popularity of ‘Good Movies’ thanks to his witty remarks.

“Hello. I am Byun Ha-jin, who played the role of the protagonist’s childhood in ‘Confession of a Pianist’.”

When I came into the studio, he whined that it seemed like there was an extra light.

When you respond with appropriate comments and eye smiles, the PD, camera director, and surrounding staff members collapse.

If you’re handsome, you’ll get explosive reactions even to trivial things, which makes things more comfortable in many ways.

“I first met director Kim Si-woon on Sora’s birthday while she was appearing in Waggle Waggle Kindergarten… .”

Promoting the movie wasn’t difficult because we exchanged the script several times before filming.

We asked him how he came to appear in the drama, whether it was okay to act in a drama that was very different from kindergarten programs, and whether he got along well with actress Ko Eun-hye, who played the mother.

It was probably a question conscious of this controversy, and it was something we wanted as well.

“Talking to ghosts was hard. I was talking to a wall and trying to control my emotions… .”

After returning to kindergarten, I tried to imitate the way the kids spoke.

Since I was 6 years old again, I thought I should talk like a child so that no one would suspect me.

But here, that limit has been lifted.

He spoke in a polite tone, adding difficult words to appeal to his maturity.

Because I wanted to show that I wasn’t a reckless little kid who did whatever the adults told him to do on set.

MC Kim Sung-min was sweating profusely to see if it was effective.

“Wow, if I just listen to your voice, I’d believe you if you said you were talking to a veteran actor. This is my first time interviewing a child actor, but do child actors usually speak this well?”

“I don’t know about other child actors, but I practiced by watching Hong Jeong-woo on a talk show because he was so good at speaking. Thank you for your kind words.”

They said they would show scenes of me and actress Ko Eun-hye joking around on set and scenes of me volunteering at a daycare center as insert cuts.

I calculated the timing of the export and started to explain further.

“Some people might say that this was edited for promotional purposes, but my mom filmed it to use in a family video album. This video was taken before the current controversy broke out, so I hope there is no misunderstanding.”

I started to feel emotions.

“I was curious because I heard that you were volunteering at a daycare center, so I followed you. It was so nice to see you cherishing and serving the children. It was so unfair that people were talking about child abuse just because such a senior acted so realistically… .”

He paused with a choked expression and wiped away his tears.

The camera director pulled the screen, saying, “Let’s look at the camera with moist eyes.”

“I don’t know where that came from, but I hope you realize that it was an act. Senior… You really acted well.”

He sniffed at the right time and stared at the camera with a sad expression.

Then, in a tearful voice, he called out to the surroundings.

“I’m sorry… I thought of the happy teacher preparing food for the children at the daycare center, so I stopped… .”

Koreans are particularly weak to melodrama.

I’m confident I can pull off this kind of melodrama to great effect.

Anyone can cry with the explosive acting skills after returning.

Several people standing next to the camera are already sniffling and rubbing their eyes.

MC Kim Sung-min is also having a hard time controlling his facial expressions.

If the studio is like this, what must the viewers be like?

He was watching me sob on the screen with soft BGM playing.

As expected, the viewer bulletin board exploded after the broadcast.

*****

[What the f*ck guy made our Hajin cry!]

[I saw actress Ko Eun-hye again. Haha. From what I saw in the video, she really does like dogs, right?]

[They seemed really close on set. What kind of abuse was that?]

[But where did the story about abuse in the movie first come out?]

[Where was the Brichal Film Club?]

The ripple effect of ‘The Movie is Good’ was beyond imagination.

The sympathetic public opinion that heated up the viewer bulletin board over the weekend quickly spread to movie clubs/cafes and bulletin boards.

From opinions about seeing actress Ko Eun-hye again to previously unknown anecdotes and her consistent volunteer work, these were enough to turn the controversy around.

The media also moved quickly and wrote an article combining my interview with the good story about actress Ko Eun-hye.

In just one week, the situation was completely reversed.

As audiences flocked back to theaters, the box office momentum gained momentum, reaching 2 million admissions in the first three weeks of release and 4 million a month later.

Director Kim Si-woon, who has never had a movie attract more than 2 million viewers, has now created a box office hit.

“Hahahaha, this is working. A miracle, a miracle happened!”

“What kind of miracle are you talking about? Haven’t you seen Hajin cry in front of the camera? If it weren’t for that, you wouldn’t have come this far.”

“That cry was really expensive. It saved a dying movie.”

Of course, it wasn’t a happy twist for everyone.

“How, how can this happen! Why is everyone acting like this just because one kid cried on TV!!”

Jin So-hee threw the keyboard and went crazy.

I was just waiting for the day the movie sign would come down, and then something absurd happened.

“You’re crazy, everyone’s crazy!!”

But there was no one who would sympathize with this cry.

It was an obvious result, since it was something that was planned while hiding behind the wall of anonymity.

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I showed Director Kim Si-woon what Dewey had written.

The original post has already been deleted, so I showed you the captured image.

“What is this?”

“I’m showing you this because I think it’s the article that started the child abuse controversy.”

“Where did you find this?”

“Brichal Film Club. I heard there was a lot of talk about this movie, so I went to read the posts and happened to see it.”

Director Kim Si-woon frowned as he read the content.

“He’s smart. He’s inciting and then disappears. His acting is so realistic that I doubt it. I don’t think something like that would happen in a Korean movie… That’s what he wrote at the end. He said he’d done it once.”

“If you look at the comments, everyone has passed. It’s because it was written by someone with a lot of followers.”

“Who on earth wrote something like this… Dewey?”

“I also run a movie review board. I’m pretty famous there.”

Dewey’s Movie Warehouse is a place famous for movie reviews, both in its past life and now.

“No, why would someone like that write something like this? Do you have a grudge against us or something? You don’t even know who he is in the first place?”

“I’m not sure, but judging from the terminology and tone used when writing movie reviews, it’s not an ordinary person. I think movie staff wouldn’t be this idle, so I think they’re probably movie magazine reporters or critics. There are a lot of people there who don’t like the director.”

Director Kim Si-woon was a public enemy, especially among female critics.

“Ugh… Don’t go around remembering things like that. It hurts my heart.”

“If something similar happens later, search for this nickname. Even if you write something problematic because you are showing off, you will always use this nickname.”

The reason I told you this was to warn Director Kim Si-woon.

Jin So-hee didn’t commit a crime, so we can’t get rid of it now.

Even if she fails this time, Jin So-hee will continue to attack Director Kim Si-woon.

So I gave them the bare minimum of clues they needed to counterattack.

“Okay. I’ll tell the PR team about the next work and tell them to keep monitoring it.”

This is how the child actor abuse controversy came to an end.

The public opinion that changed after my TV appearance dramatically increased the box office success of the movie.

It surpassed 4 million during the peak summer season, but it cruised along without falling far behind other strong blockbusters, ending with 5.5 million viewers.

It was a record-breaking box office success, with the number of viewers more than tripling compared to previous works.

“At this point, we can look forward to this year’s Red Dragon Film Awards.”

In the future examples, not a single trophy was won, but now that the controversy has died down, no one knows what butterfly effects await.