Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 140

Music Monster Overnight! 131

Director Bell met YC four days later.

He wanted to meet him on the day of the contract, but YC was busy promoting YC Revolution, so he had no choice.

Of course, Director Bell wasn’t just playing around during those four days.

He was busy writing the scenario and storyboard based on the comic.

‘The King of Arrogance’ is a really well-made work, but the problem is that it’s a comic.

Exaggerated expressions for the sake of the unique fun of comics, as well as various settings that were lightly passed over, had to be realistically reproduced, so he had no choice but to write a new scenario.

Of course, Director Bell respected the original ‘King of Arrogance’ and tried not to change the story as much as possible.

He is a director who can be called a master, but it was possible because he is also an excellent screenwriter.

“Hoo~ I’ve roughly written it for now.”

Three days after encountering ‘The King of Arrogance’, the script for the first episode of ‘The King of Arrogance’, ‘Encounter’, was completed.

However, this script was only a temporary script.

This is because the direction of the script changes depending on how well YC plays the role of ‘Jin’, who is the most important in ‘The King of Arrogance’.

The current temporary script he wrote assumed that ‘Jin’ had a 20% sync rate [synchronization rate, referring to how well YC embodies the character].

Some may think it’s only 20%, but anyone who has read ‘The King of Arrogance’ and has even a little knowledge of directing would definitely say it’s a whopping 20%.

That’s because ‘Jin’s ability and noble lineage in ‘The King of Arrogance’ were powers in a form far removed from reality.

Even though Director Bell knew that, the reason he wrote the temporary script with a sync rate of 20% was because the aura that YC had shown him was absurd.

The music video, the commercials he had filmed, and the tour concert videos of singers recently uploaded to YC Film were so unrealistic.

“Is that really not CG [computer graphics]?”

Director Bell shook his head, muttering that several times.

That’s why on the day he faced YC in person, Director Bell’s heart was racing more actively than ever before.

Like the day he first received a camera from his father. He was facing a big gift like a child.

And…….

“Nice to meet you. I’m Park Young-chan.”

The first time he met YC, he exceeded his imagination.

It felt like fireworks were exploding in his head.

‘……What the hell is this guy?’

Although not as much as Hong Ui-chan, he also had an excellent eye for beauty, and his insight was no less than that of a master.

That’s why he doubted whether the person in front of him was even human.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Hong Ui-chan. Please call me Mr. Hong.”

It was director Hong Ui-chan, who came with YC, who awakened him from the sea of confusion.

He nodded as if he understood Director Bell’s confusion.

Director Hong Ui-chan himself was so out of his mind when he first met YC at the chicken restaurant that he didn’t know what to do. He thought it was only natural that the world-renowned director Bell would react like that.

No, if he hadn’t reacted like that in the first place, Director Hong Ui-chan would have been disappointed.

“……Please call me Bell.”

Thanks to Director Hong Ui-chan, Bell, who had escaped from the confusion and barely introduced himself, finally had a seat with them in earnest.

“The scenario is really excellent. The feeling I got from the ‘King of Arrogance’ comic came to me more three-dimensionally, and I felt like it was happening in reality.”

YC’s words were by no means empty words.

YC, who had received the scenario the day before this meeting, had read it several times.

It was a scenario that brought him such overwhelming fun, so he wanted this work to be made into a movie as soon as possible.

At the same time, when he became aware of the fact that he was playing the main villain in the scenario, he had to accept complex emotions that he couldn’t put into words.

Most of the complex emotions were worry and skepticism.

At the time, Director Hong Ui-chan looked at YC with a curious look at his worried appearance.

“A person who can get anything he wants…….”

He didn’t think his thoughts were exaggerated.

No, in fact, he has been incredibly successful in everything he has done so far, without any failures.

Whether it’s music, business, or nurturing talent, everything his hands touch turns to gold, like the mythical Midas’s hand [a reference to King Midas, who could turn anything he touched into gold].

Where is it just work?

Any beauty would be easily captured if he set his mind to it.

But fortunately, YC didn’t abuse his abilities.

‘That’s really fortunate.’

Director Hong Ui-chan really thought so.

If YC had the personality of a sociopath, he thought that a terrible thing would happen in reality, if not as much as ‘Jin’ in ‘The King of Arrogance’.

Director Hong Ui-chan, who had been watching YC’s incomprehensible worries for a while, approached him.

“I don’t think you’re sure.”

“I guess so.”

Director Hong Ui-chan shook his head and said to the representative who readily admitted it.

“You don’t have to think too hard. Just do as I told you when we were filming the music video.”

Unlike the forced injection he had initially imprinted, Director Hong Ui-chan gradually ordered more diverse things from Young-chan.

“Think of it as a musical.”

A musical is a performance that combines song, dance, and acting. Among them, the most important thing is music. Through this music, dramatic elements and dance are harmonized.

Of course, he wasn’t really telling Young-chan to do a musical.

It was a word he took out to make Young-chan, who was probably in an incomprehensible realm when it came to music, understand. In fact, after saying the word musical, Young-chan changed at a frightening speed.

The way he used his body, his vocalization, and his expressiveness became as skillful as someone who had been rolling around in that field for decades.

There was nothing Director Hong Ui-chan could do for him.

All he could do was adjust the concentration of expressiveness, which was different from musicals.

At the time, Young-chan didn’t take his acting so seriously, but the reason why Hollywood was in an uproar and sending him love calls was because of that.

Following Director Hong Ui-chan’s words and instructions, Young-chan uttered a line from the script he had read several times.

“There have been people like you in the past. Those who tried to stand up to me as if they didn’t know fear… What do you think happened to them?”

Young-chan looked at the darkness knight in confusion as if he was in front of him, then closed his eyes.

“They were ruined like frightened rats. That was… a natural thing. The source of courage they showed in trying to stand up to me was, paradoxically, fear…”

He looked really sad and said with sad eyes to the darkness knight who must be gritting his teeth again.

“Maybe you won’t be any different either.”

Could it be the feeling of a child who knows that his favorite toy will be broken soon?

Jin, the King of Arrogance, showed a pitiful smile to the darkness knight who was burning his will like the countless people who had opposed him in the past.

“!!!”

YC’s acting, which had made Director Hong Ui-chan lose his mind on the plane back to New York the day before, was unfolded in this place, and Director Bell couldn’t help but be shocked.

“……Jin.”

This is because in front of him was ‘Jin’, the King of Arrogance, who was more three-dimensional than he had vaguely imagined.

Director Bell, who had lived a long life and seen many things, faced the king of noble lineage and lowered his head without realizing it.

At this moment, he came to understand the feelings of the peasants towards the ancient nobles, who could not dare to oppose the unreasonable things and measures that modern people find difficult to understand.

The existence in front of him and himself were not the same human being.

He just looked the same, but he was an existence like a natural disaster.

All a weak human being could do in front of such a transcendent being was to bow down.

It was when YC finished acting that Director Bell, whose face was turning pale with the fear he was experiencing for the first time, raised his head again.

“That’s all I’ve prepared. I guess it’s because I haven’t received the scenario for long…….”

“…….”

“Hmm.”

Director Bell and Director Hong Ui-chan were speechless at YC, who had played an absurd being and immediately returned to his original self.

It was Director Hong Ui-chan who had seen it for the second time, but that didn’t mean that the shock was lessened.

Rather, because it was the second time, he could see more, and he was shocked as if his heart had stopped.

Perhaps Hong Ui-chan was paler than Bell.

“I have to rewrite the scenario.”

After the shocking meeting with YC, Director Bell decided that he had to rewrite the scenario, not just revise it.

This is because of the sync rate of ‘Jin’ shown by YC, which exceeded the scope of revision of the temporary script.

Originally, the revision range of the sync rate of the temporary script he wrote was in the 10% to 30% range.

But the sync rate of YC’s ‘Jin’ that he saw a little while ago exceeded at least 70%.

Even if you consider that he had only received the costume, the location, and the scenario for only a day, something ridiculous would actually happen if all the conditions were met.

“It’s right to see him as ‘Jin’ himself.”

He recalled the absurd aura that YC had shown him when he was acting again, and then stopped breathing for a moment.

Then, he swallowed hard and calmed his breathing, and muttered quietly.

“I wonder. Can I fully capture this on camera? That. Can I really capture that unbelievable thing?”

Director Bell wondered if that was possible, then shook his head.

‘You can’t think, ‘Can I capture it?’ You have to capture it on camera as much as possible no matter what.’

It was clear that this would be a work that he would never have again in his short film career, and if he couldn’t capture it, he wouldn’t be qualified to be called a film director.

“I think I need to talk to Director Hong Ui-chan a lot.”

Director Bell thought that Director Hong Ui-chan, who had been capturing YC on camera lenses for a long time, would be able to find the answer.

* * *

The topic of conversation caused by the appearance of ‘The King of Arrogance’ was enormous.

Love calls came from all over Asia and Europe, including Japan, not just the United States and Korea.

In particular, the request from K broadcasting station’s mini-series ‘Return to Spring Day’, which was made in collaboration with YC Film and is approaching a huge viewership rating of 20%, was difficult to refuse easily.

This is because it was the place that accepted the work that was pushed forward with Kang Ah-young as the lead role amidst much controversy.

Now, it’s a huge hit with no room for controversy, but there was a lot of controversy until this work was aired.

In particular, there were many people who criticized the fact that it was a collaborative work funded by YC Film.

‘It was really amazing.’

Nevertheless, the reason why K broadcasting station accepted this work was because Kang Ah-young’s acting in the 1st and 2nd episodes, which were filmed as test videos, was so impressive.

‘Return to Spring Day’ is a drama that begins when an actress who has risen to the top star in the entertainment industry suddenly returns to her rookie days when she was unknown.

The main content was about how she realized that she had lost a lot while living, thinking that she had gained everything before her return, and trying not to lose it.

The breathtakingly beautiful appearance and the subtle emotional expressions of the difficult character were acted out nonchalantly and naturally, and even those who didn’t know about acting were impressed.

However, apart from that, considering the past merits of protecting and enduring Kang Ah-young from the criticism, the current request could not be easily dismissed.

“I have no choice but to accept it.”

Fortunately, the broadcasting station didn’t want much.

It was just a cameo appearance, and according to the script, it would only be shown on the drama for about 30 seconds.