Superstar From Age 0

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: AgRoseCrystal

Chapter 593

“What do you think the young master thought when he saw the hill that was emptied by the fire nine years ago?”

-Of course… it was 1910.

-I should have noticed it when it was vaguely nine years ago ㅠㅠ

“Yes. 1910. The year when the country was taken away by Japan. He must have thought of that day. Especially when Min-han said that there would be no more days when flowers would bloom.”

-In literature, flowers and spring usually mean independence.

-Min-han: There will be no more independence…

-Don’t translate! It’s a spoiler!!

“But it still doesn’t have a big meaning yet. Time passes, and the merchant comes with a letter. When the merchant doesn’t say anything, I wonder if it’s the aftereffect of torture.”

-Merchantㅠㅠㅠ

-Just think of everyone who appears here as independence activists with different jobsㅠㅠ

The audience nodded as if they agreed.

“Let’s talk about the two letters. The first letter that arrived had a death notice. It was the death of Gojong.”

-He must have been shocked.

-22 He was important until then.

-33 The adults were influenced by Joseon.

-There was also a rumor that Japan and the pro-Japanese faction assassinated him.

-They didn’t even hold a proper funeral.

“There must have been many reasons, but Gojong’s sudden death brought a great shock. The young master locked himself in his room, and Mr. Lee and Madam Go, who had experienced many frustrations and failures, moved busily to get out of this shock. Then, another letter arrives.”

-The provisional declaration of independence arrives!

-Min-han can’t read it!

The audience and the viewers laughed softly at the comment that changed the mood.

“When the provisional declaration of independence first appeared, I thought it was after the March 1st Movement, but I realized it wasn’t yet when Mr. Lee said it was a ‘draft’.”

-It was mid or late February because Japan’s story also came out?

-ㅇㅇ It seems like the February 8th Declaration.

-Those students are amazingㅠ

“Yes. It was still February. The people who were shocked by Gojong’s death started to move again. The young master, Mr. Lee, and Madam Go also regained hope and cheered up. The young master also promised Min-han, who was disappointed, that he would tell him everything when the day came.” �

-Drawing is so sadㅠㅠ

-He kept trying even though his hand was losing strength.

-He also drew the sunsetㅠ

-22 After hearing that he was afraid of the light in front, it felt differentㅠㅠ

-But the crisis always comes at times like this.

“Yes. That’s right. On a rainy night. Madam Go wakes up Min-han. Unlike Min-han, who was confused, Madam Go and the young master looked familiar.”

-How many times have they been chased?

-It seems like the agents came here because they were nervous about the February 8th Declaration and the preparation for the March 1st Movement.

-I really watched it with sweaty palms.

“I did too. The agents didn’t show a single hair, but it was a tense scene. The music that matched the rain also added to the tension. It was an original song made by a student of Korea National University of Arts. And he’s only 17 years old.”

-Ooooh. Amazing. Did he enter early?

-Violinist Kwon Se-ah! I wondered why she didn’t have a concert, but maybe she was studying composition.

-She’s a violinist… She’s also good at composing!

-There was an article. It seems like she will be active in the movie music field in the future.

“Although it wasn’t accurate information, the agents left with Mr. Lee’s threat. Mr. Lee said, ‘The owner of this mansion is a Westerner, can they just come in as they please?’ It was a line that reminded me of the historical situation where they had to rely on the power of the West.”

-…So that’s why it’s a Western-style mansion.

-I guess so.

-There were actually many foreigners who helped with the independence. The owner here seems to be one of them.

-The owner is a good personㅠㅠ

“That’s how the agents left and the three people promised Min-han with a brighter face than ever that they would tell him everything when the March 1st Movement succeeded and they became independent.”

-But they failedㅠㅠ

-Even if they succeededㅠㅠㅠthey wouldn’t have been independent.

-The people back then were too naiveㅠ

-They believed in national self-determination.

-22 The announcement was made by the US president, so they trusted him more. Because he was a powerful country.

-It’s still like that.

-33 Japan was a victorious country, so they didn’t know that we didn’t applyㅠㅠ

The audience smiled bitterly at the viewers who were sorry.

“A letter arrived to announce the failure of the March 1st Movement. The young master, who had not been in the independence movement for long, locked himself in his room again, and Mr. Lee and Madam Go, who had gone through many setbacks and failures, soon got up and prepared to welcome the guests.”

-Guestsㅠㅠㅠ

-They are the ones who were injured in the March 1st Movementㅠㅠㅠ

-Ah, so that’s why Min-han cleaned the room.

“Yes. It was a foreshadowing that the injured independence activists would come again. While doing that, Min-han heard that his benefactor had died. It was a shocking news for Min-han, who had been waiting for the day to meet him again.”

-ㅠㅠㅠI thought he would.

-22 He was an independence activist if he came as a guestㅠㅠ

-The person who showed Min-han the pocket watch also diedㅠㅠ

-But who is that benefactor? The person named Lee.

The audience chuckled and said.

“Of course, this is my guess.”

-Just believe the audience’s guess.

-22 The review is reliable!

“Haha. Thank you. In my guess, if Min-han, who looks like he’s in his twenties, was young, it would be about 14 or 15 years ago, and if the year in the work is 1919, it would be around 1904 or 1905. And the day he passed away was two years ago, which is 1917, and the place is abroad. Then you can specify one person.”

The audience showed a black and white photo.

It was a picture of a man with a mustache wearing a suit.

“He is an independence activist, Mr. Lee Sang-seol.”

-…Huh?!

-Lee Sang-seol!!

-I’ve heard of him!

“Yes. Do you know the Hague envoy? He is one of the three envoys who left with Gojong’s secret order. The other two are Lee Jun and Lee Wi-jong.”

-They are all Lee.

-That’s right. Amazing.

-But why?

-What’s the reason for thinking that?

-The comment aboveㅋㅋIt’s like a textbook questionㅋㅋㅋ

The audience and the viewers laughed and the audience announced the answer.

“Lee Sang-seol tried to kill himself after hearing the news of Min Young-hwan, who killed himself after hearing the Eulsa Treaty in 1905, but failed. And in 1906, he fled to Yongjeong in North Gando. The movie ‘Fire’ is a fiction that he stopped by a Western-style mansion and named Min-han at that time.”

A monitor showed an arrow that stretched from Hanyang to Bukgan-do.

The vast northern region. There were probably remote villages and Western-style mansions everywhere.

-…Wow…

-If you go from Hanyang to Bukgan-do, you’ll have to stop somewhere in the middle, right?

-You’ll have to recover from the failed suicide attempt, right?

-The snow won’t melt until March in the north!

-…This is crazy…

“And on March 2nd, 1917, he passed away from illness in Nikolayevsk, now called Ussuriysk. It’s a city in the Maritime Province.”

-…Until the day he passed away… This seems real.

-He found it again.

-Moviegoer is amazing.

Moviegoer smiled and said.

“Thank you. It felt like I was studying history again while looking for it.”

-I feel like I’m taking a history class right now.

-I’ll never forget this lecture.

-22 Failed suicide attempt in 1905, Bukgan-do, passed away in the Maritime Province in 1917.

“Then, back to the movie, Min-han, who was frustrated, headed to his room to talk to him. But there was only a torn canvas.”

-The torn canvas is so heartbreaking.

-22 He just gave up everything.

-How sad he must have been to tear up the painting that he liked and drew himself.

-There were many independence activists who were frustrated after the March 1st Movement failed.

“Then he arrived at the hill where the flowers had not bloomed for nine years. The first place that came to his mind after the March 1st Movement failed, he looked at the hill where the flowers did not bloom and was frustrated again. And he thought he wanted to draw.”

-Artists are like that. They express their feelings through writing, poetry, painting, music.

-Artists have that in their blood.

-But his handsㅠㅠ

Moviegoer nodded. And he thought of [Fire].

“So he regretted his past independence movement again. But soon he was disappointed in himself. And he thought of Min-han. He thought of Mr. Lee, Madam Go, and the people. He thought that if those people could live in an independent country, he would be willing to give up his arms…”

-ㅠReally… How could he do thatㅠㅠ

-I think he could have enough worriesㅠㅠ

-The independence activists must have had things they wanted to doㅠ

“Yes. They must have. Things they wanted to do, families they wanted to take care of. They must have thought about them all the time while doing the independence movement. If only we could be independent… If only we could be independent…”

“He started to draw. He couldn’t use his hands, so he decided to use his feet. The paint was blood. The red blood made flowers on the white snow. It was a really amazing scene. As the narration said, it was like a flower, like a flame… It seemed like he was venting his anger. And it also seemed like he wanted to make flowers, independence, even like this.”

-I did tooㅠㅠ

-It seems more like that because the paint was blood.

-22 It was independence that was achieved by giving bloodㅠㅠ

-I felt like I couldn’t breathe while watching it.

“This climax scene was helped by Matteo, the art consultant. Matteo is a very famous rookie painter now. He has some installation art and paintings on snow, so it was very helpful.”

-Special) Introducing Seo-jun.

-ㅋㅋIf you cast Seo-jun, famous painters will roll inㅋ

“Ah, actor Seo-jun also gave a lot of inspiration and help to the painting. That’s why the painting looked very natural.”

-I wish there was a video of him drawing from start to finish.

-Me too.

“Me too. He left a message that the flowers bloomed and collapsed. I thought he looked like a white butterfly sitting on a red flower in that scene. There is a poem that comes to mind when I think of the historical situation and the white butterfly in the work.”

-I thought so too!

-…I don’t know anything.

-I don’t know much about poetry;;;

“That’s okay. You can learn now. I’ll show you. The title is Sea and Butterfly. It’s a poem by Kim Gi-rim.”

Moviegoer laughed and showed a poem on the monitor.

[Sea and Butterfly-Kim Gi-rim]

<Because no one ever told him the depth of the water

The white butterfly was not afraid of the sea at all.

He went down thinking it was a blue radish field

But his young wings got wet in the waves

And he came back exhausted like a princess.

The March moon sea is sad because the flowers do not bloom

The blue crescent moon is cold on the butterfly’s waist>

-…Suddenly a Korean class.

-History class and Korean class… Didn’t someone say he was a teacher last night?

The viewers and Moviegoer laughed, remembering the April outdoor broadcast.

“Haha. Yes. I’ll make it short. There is a textbook interpretation and there are many other ways to interpret it. But since this is a review of ‘Fire’, let’s compare it to his situation.”

[Blue radish field = utopia/independence]

[Sea = reality/failure]

[Waves = aftermath of reality/frustration]

“In the poem, the butterfly mistakes the sea for a blue radish field. Eventually, his wings get wet in the seawater. If we apply this to ‘Fire’, we can interpret that he thought he was approaching independence, but it was a mistake and he failed. ‘Waves’ can be the aftermath of failure, frustration. In other words, he who collapsed after drawing was a white butterfly who came back exhausted from frustration.”

-It’s so sadㅠ

-I keep thinking of that sceneㅠㅠ

-ㅅㅂ I’m going to watch it again tomorrowㅠ

-Now his name is white butterfly… White butterfly…

-Nameless painter, white butterflyㅠㅠ

-ㅠㅠㅅㅂ It’s sadder because it suits himㅠㅠ

“Here, ‘March moon’ and ‘flowers’ also appear. ‘The March moon sea is sad because the flowers do not bloom.’ You don’t have to interpret it separately, it’s a sentence that fits his situation perfectly. ‘The blue crescent moon is cold on the butterfly’s waist’. This is the result of the independence movement. That is, the wound on his arm. The shape of the wound is also similar to the crescent moon.”

-…I’m so dry from crying. ㅇ>-<

-22 He became a dry sprout.

-33 Survive as a dry sprout.

-ㅅㅂ Moviegoer always cuts it close.

-Mom!! Hit him!!

-Now (sob) I will never (sob) forget this poem. (sob) Thank you?

-Phew. I’m glad it was a happy ending…

-22 Seriously. I thought I was going to die.

-He brought the heavenly disease poet Gwicheon last time!

-If you bring up the poem, it’s over.

“Ah.”

Moviegoer stopped at “ah” and the chat room also stopped at “uh”. The fantasy partners seemed to realize what each other was going to say.

-ㅅㅂ Don’t do it.

-Moviegoer ‘ah’ banned.

-I’m running away!!

The mild lovers reacted strongly to just one letter. The spicy lovers chuckled.

-But isn’t it too late?

-Now he escapes without even leaving a comment?ㅋㅋㅋ

-He must have gotten used to itㅋㅋ

Juuuk, Moviegoer was not flustered by the decreasing number of viewers. He knew that the subscribers of the channel [Moviegoer] would come back on their own because they were curious.

He was more interested in the fact that there were more viewers left than when he did [Flowing Away].

“It seems like there are more people who like spicy than I thought.”

-This is like, a frog in boiling water.

-22 I just got used to it by listening to Moviegoer’s review.

-33 You get used to spicy things if you keep eating them.

-Oh. He’s coming.

“Okay. I’ll continue.”

-It’s not over yetㅠㅠㅠ

-He was chattingㅋㅋㅋ

-ㅋㅋI waited for youㅋㅋ

-You bad…!

Moviegoer smiled and waved his hand.

“It’s not that bad. Originally, the movie was supposed to end with his death. In the scene where he collapsed after drawing.”

The chat room paused for a moment.

And they all grabbed Moviegoer’s collar with one mind and one heart. Very tightly.

-…(collar) How is that not bad! (collar shake) How is that not bad!!