The original movie starred Im Siwan, a member of the group ZE:Z to Z, as the son of the restaurant aunt. Im Siwan has not yet made his debut, and Song Yi cannot use his own company's movie to promote artists from other companies, so he naturally chose Lee Joon-gi, a male artist from SA Agency.
Unlike the original movie, Song Yi added a supporting female role to the movie "The Attorney", who is the girlfriend of the restaurant aunt's son, and this role is played by Moon Geun-young.
Moon Geun-young's good friend, actress Kim Ji-soo, plays the hotel aunt. This is the first time Kim Ji-soo and Moon Geun-young have worked together in the same movie, and the two play "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" in the movie.
Kim Ji-soo was born in 1972 and Moon Geun-young was born in 1987. Moon Geun-young and Kim Ji-soo play two generations without any sense of disobedience.
Except for SA Pictures' early films, such as "My Naughty Girlfriend", Song Yi served as a producer. In recent years, Song Yi has not served as a producer for SA Pictures' films, which shows how much Song Yi values the film "The Attorney".
Lee Joon-gi plays Park Jin-woo, the son of hotel aunt Sun-ae.
Moon Geun-young plays Park Jin-woo's girlfriend Choi Eun-hee, who is also Park Jin-woo's college classmate.
The reason why Song Yi added the character of Choi Eun-hee based on the original movie was to add a touch of warmth to this black and white movie.
Moon Geun-young played Choi Eun-hee as a child in "Autumn in My Heart". At that time, Moon Geun-young won the title of the national sister with this Korean drama. Song Yi also deliberately wrote the name of Park Jin-woo's girlfriend as Choi Eun-hee, which can be regarded as an easter egg in the movie "The Attorney".
After all, Moon Geun-young is very popular among the middle-aged and elderly groups in South Korea, and many uncles and aunts hope to have a well-behaved daughter or daughter-in-law like Moon Geun-young.
Park Jin-woo and Choi Eun-hee are college classmates. They became friends because of a reading club and often went to the library together on dates.
Choi Eun-hee is a quiet person who doesn't like to attend parties, while Park Jin-woo is an outgoing person who is eager to help others and has made many good friends.
Simply put, Park Jin-woo is an e person and Choi Eun-hee is an i person, but Park Jin-woo and Choi Eun-hee have complementary personalities and get along very well.
During their college relationship, Park Jin-woo and Choi Eun-hee had already met their parents. Park Jin-woo's parents were very fond of Choi Eun-hee as their future daughter-in-law and planned to get married after they graduated from college.
Park Jin-woo was very active during his college years. He loved sports, had a wide circle of friends, had a sense of justice, and was good at standing up for the weak. He enjoyed high prestige among the student community and was a student leader.
Later, Park Jin-woo was introduced to the Busan Reading Union. Because the college students were dissatisfied with the military dictatorship, some students verbally attacked the military dictatorship in the Busan Reading Union activities.
Choi Eun-hee and Park Jin-woo participated in several reading club activities of the Busan Reading Association together. She felt that the nature of the reading club activities had changed, so she withdrew from the activities.
Later, due to a tip-off, the Busan Reading Union was identified as a left-wing group by the South Korean authorities, and all the students of the Busan Reading Union were arrested.
The other college students were released one after another after their parents paid bail, but five students, including Park Jin-woo, have not been released. Hotel auntie Sun-ae realized that the matter was not that simple, and someone instructed the Busan police to deliberately embarrass Park Jin-woo and others.
Choi Eun-hee went to her father for help for her boyfriend Park Jin-woo. Choi Eun-hee's father is a university professor. Not only was he unwilling to help, but he also advised his daughter Choi Eun-hee to break up with Park Jin-woo.
Cui's father felt that Park Jin-woo had a strong character, was inflexible, acted on impulse, and could easily be exploited by people with ulterior motives.
Park Jin-woo was clearly not an early member of the Busan United Reading Club, but was eventually identified by the Busan police as the main organizer and leader of the Busan United Reading Club. Doesn’t this explain the problem?
Cui Enxi was very disappointed. She could understand Cui's father's choice, but she did not agree with his approach.
"Elite intellectuals like you are always good at weighing the pros and cons and protecting yourself. You always stand on the side of the winner, so of course you will never fail."
"People should not laugh at or denigrate those who are braver than him, because by speaking out, even if they cannot change the facts, they are attracting more attention and making their own efforts to build a better country."
“If the sky is dark, then live in the dark; if making a sound is dangerous, then keep silent; if you can’t illuminate others, then hide in a corner.”
“But please do not defend darkness while you are experiencing it, do not be complacent about your own cowardice, and do not mock those who are braver and more passionate than you.”
"We can be humble as dust, but we cannot be twisted like maggots," Cui Enxi said righteously.
Choi Eun-hee's words left Choi's father speechless, and he no longer advised his daughter Choi Eun-hee to break up with Park Jin-woo.
Cui's father advised Cui Enxi to find a powerful lawyer to defend her boyfriend Park Jinyu. After hearing this, Cui Enxi hurried to discuss with the hotel aunt Shunai.
Soon-ae was in a dilemma, she was just an ordinary restaurant owner, how could she know such an amazing person as a lawyer? Later, the restaurant owner thought of Song Woo-seok who often ate at their house, and this guy seemed to be a lawyer.
Song Woo-seok only has a high school diploma and took the Korean judicial examination seven times before he passed it. He later became a judge and then switched careers to become a tax lawyer.
A few years ago, Song Youshuo's family was poor and had difficulty making ends meet, so he often went to Sun'ai's small restaurant for free meals.
Shunai's husband, Lao Jin, was very dissatisfied with this. Shunai advised her husband, "After all, he is a very motivated young man. Eating a few meals won't bankrupt us. When he passes the exam, he will have enough money to pay us back for the meals."
Lao Jin was very skeptical. "A high school student wants to pass the judicial examination. Isn't that harder than the US landing on the moon?"
Later, Song Youshuo made money, and in order to repay the aunt, he often brought clients or subordinates to the restaurant for dinner and became a regular customer of the restaurant.
Now that her son Park Jin-woo has been arrested, Soon-ae has no intention to run the restaurant. At Choi Eun-hee's suggestion, Soon-ae finds Song Woo-seok for help. After struggling for a long time, Song Woo-seok resolutely embarks on the road of defending Park Jin-woo in the Bu-rim incident in order to repay the debt of conscience of the restaurant aunt.
Song Woo-suk also transformed from a tax lawyer to a human rights lawyer.
Although Song Woo-seok stepped in, it was not easy to clear these students of false charges during the period of the full-scale war law.
After being detained for a period of time, Park Jin-woo and others were later released with the support of the outside world.
However, Park Jin-woo received special care in prison and suffered irreversible injuries, but he died in the end. Choi Eun-hee did not marry and became a university professor. She has been taking care of Park Jin-woo's parents in the name of daughter-in-law.
Compared with the original version of "The Attorney", Song Yi feels that SA Films' "The Attorney" has a fuller plot and more three-dimensional characters.
In this movie, Song Woo-suk, Park Jin-woo and Choi Eun-hee are all very outstanding characters.
The first half of the SA version of "The Attorney" mainly tells the story of the tragic character Park Jin-woo, and also intersperses his emotional history with Choi Eun-hee, as well as Song Woo-suk's early experiences.
Movies at this time are warm-toned and healing. The content of the movies is also warm, and the audience is happy watching them.
After Park Jin-woo was arrested, the film turned into a cold tone, and the film changed from color to black and white. This tone also metaphorically represents the disorder during the French government period. This shooting style was also used in the movie "Memories of Murder".
Song Yoo-seok's defense is not meaningless. He became more and more courageous and kept speaking for the students. He also found a group of like-minded partners with the same beliefs, including Song Yoo-seok's assistant Park Fangzhen. The prototype of Park Fangzhen is the current mayor of Seoul, Park Donghao.
In 1988, Song Woo-seok went all out at a congressional hearing, launching a fierce attack on all of the Fifth Republic's cronies, including Hyundai Group founder Cho Jong-young.
This content was also broadcast in the documentary "Hello, I am Song Woo-seok", which showed the video footage of the liquidation hearing.
It is worth mentioning that Song Yi himself will play Zhou Zhengyong, the founder of Hyundai Group, in the movie "The Attorney".
In 1988, Zhou Zhengyong was the richest man in South Korea. The richest man in South Korea, Song Yi, played Zhou Zhengyong. Zhou Zhengyong is also Song Yi's uncle. This is also a major highlight of the movie "The Attorney".
Because Zhou Zhengyong plays a negative role in the movie "The Attorney", if other people played the role, Zhou Mengjiu and others might protest to SA Pictures. Song Yi's performance solved this problem.
In addition to filming "The Attorney", another important task for Song Yi in the first half of the year was Yahoo Korea's key game project "Dota 2".
After Chen Xinyu succeeded Song Yi as the president of Yahoo Korea, Chen Xinyu has been looking for ways to improve Yahoo Korea's performance.
Previously working at SA Soft, Chen Xinyu participated in the development of "KartRider" and led the development of "Audition", and has rich experience in game development.
Chen Xinyu still wanted to develop a multiplayer online game, so she asked Song Yi for his opinion, and Song Yi recommended a moba game.
moba games are actually multiplayer online tactical competitive games.
The core gameplay of this type of game is based on hero battles. Most of the time, there are more than two teams that choose heroes to fight. The competitive map usually has three lines of soldiers and bases. Gamers must defeat their opponents and destroy their bases to win.
moba games include Riot's "League of Legends", Valve's "Dota2", Penguin's "Honor of Kings", ByteDance's "Mobile Legends", and Blizzard's "Overwatch".
Among so many MOBA games, Song Yi set his research and development target on "Dota 2", which is the easiest to develop.
Song Yi’s plan is to invest in Riot Games and then acquire Riot Games’ shares like Penguin did.
In this way, SA Soft has "Dota 2" and Riot Games has "League of Legends". With these two MOBA games, Song Yi can start promoting the e-sports league.
SA Group will also set up a corresponding e-sports club SAT (SA E-sports Club), which will separately train the two games LOL and Dota2.
Xinya Network represented Blizzard's game "World of Warcraft". Seeing how popular "World of Warcraft" was in China, Chen Xinyu wanted to make an MMORPG game similar to "World of Warcraft" in Korea. Who knew that Song Yi actually suggested that she develop a MOBA game.
Song Yi said that the reason he wanted to develop "Dota 2" was mainly because he was inspired by IceFrog.
Dota is actually a map of War 3. After the Dota map was updated to the All-Star version, IceFrog became the main map programmer of the Dota map.
With the continuous updating of Dota map version 6.0, new heroes and new spells are constantly being introduced into the new Dota map, and the playability of the game is getting higher and higher.
The popularity of Dota has also quickly spread on university campuses, especially in mainland China.
Almost all college students who started school after 2000 bought computers, whether they were laptops or desktop computers assembled in computer malls.
College boys often get together to play Dota, because "War 3" itself is a free game, and the playability of the Dota map is very high. In addition, university dormitories often use the same network, and everyone's computer configurations are not much different, so the game delay is also not much different.
What is tested at this time is the gamers' understanding of the multiplayer online competitive game "Dota".
What kind of initial equipment do you need to buy when you go out, when should you go to the jungle, and when should you catch people with your teammates.
At this time, some of the more powerful Dota players have uploaded their game videos to video websites, and Dota players will also discuss tactics and the like on game websites such as 17173.
At this time, the Dota game already has the potential to be separated from the "War 3" game and become a separate game.
At this time, Dota players also suggested to Blizzard to develop a Dota game. However, Blizzard did not have the energy to develop Dota at that time, and did not see the potential of Dota game.
The Dota game has been free to players from the beginning to the end, and Blizzard completely fails to see the potential of the Dota game.
After MOBA games like "LOL" and "Dota2" became popular, Blizzard regretted it and missed another gold mine. Later, in order to win back MOBA game players, they later developed "Overwatch".
At that time, "LOL" had not yet been released, and Chen Xinyu started the research and development of "Dota 2", which actually gave her a head start.
If "Dota 2" is released before "LOL", gamers will have an advantage over "LOL" and then "Dota 2" may become more popular than "LOL".
South Korea has SA Soft, China has New Asia Network, and RB also has inschool. With these three Internet giants, the official "Dota 2" game can be the first to launch the "Dota 2" e-sports league.
SA Soft can also set high rewards for the official Dota 2 competitions to attract more e-sports players to play the game.
South Korea will host the Asian Games in Incheon in 2014. SA Soft can also add "Dota 2" to the competition. The SAT team also has the hope of winning the Asian Games gold medal and being exempted from military service.
Song Yi believes that with the temptation of bonuses and exemption from military service, South Korea will also produce awesome e-sports genius players like Faker.
Song Yi and Chen Xinyu met IceFrog in Seoul, a gaming star who is almost invisible on social media.
Song Yi and IceFrog talked about their understanding of "Dota 2".
Song Yi had no other requirements for the game, only that the first line of voice-over after the game started should be "The enemy has 30 seconds to arrive at the battlefield."
Although SA Group is the largest game company in South Korea, it is not as strong as in the mainland market.
Xinya Network is the agent for two online games, "World of Warcraft" and "Legend of Mir 2", and also operates several online games including "KartRider", "Audition" and "World of Legend".
If MOBA games become popular, as long as the SA Group holds the two popular games "LOL" and "Dota 2" at the same time, and adds the e-sports league organized by the SA Group and the SA live broadcast platform, the SA Group will create a gaming empire similar to Penguin!
(End of this chapter)