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| ▲ This photo, provided by KBS, shows a scene from the KBS drama "Bloody Heart." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲This photo, provided by KBS, shows a scene from the KBS drama "Bloody Heart." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲ This photo, provided by KBS, shows a scene from the KBS drama "Bloody Heart." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲ This photo, provided by KBS, shows a scene from the KBS drama "Bloody Heart." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲ This photo, provided by KBS, shows a scene from the KBS drama "Bloody Heart." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲ This photo, provided by KBS, shows director Yoo Young-eun. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- Wang Lee-tae (Lee Jun), who has grown feelings for Yoo-jung by meeting each other secretly once every fortnight, and Yoo-jung (Kang Han-na), the daughter of a traitor who does not know Lee-tae's identity. The moment the two man and woman face each other on the bridge, the fireworks of Nakhwa Nori (A type of fireworks performed during the night of Jeongwol Daeboreum, April 8th of the lunar calendar) begins to scatter like cherry blossom petals.
Director Yoo Young-eun of KBS 2TV's Monday-Tuesday drama “Bloody Heart”, which was praised for its cinematic visual beauty and delicate direction, said about this scene, "I hoped the relationship between the two would be shown symbolically."
"The relationship between Yoo-Jung and Lee Tae is beautiful yet dangerous at the same time,” director Yoo, who recently met with Yonhap News after the drama ended said. “It was shown as if the fire would engulf the two. I wanted to express the danger of their relationship that leads to catastrophe when they find out the truth about each other."
“Bloody Heart” depicts the process of political confrontation in which the scarecrow king Lee Tae, who dreams of becoming an absolute monarch, begins a counterattack against Park Gye-won (Jang Hyuk), the most powerful and anti-communist leader of Joseon.
"If you look at the script, 80% is political and 20% is about romance,” director Yoo explained. “One of the greatest pleasures of this work is that it can really change the situation by doing things that exceeds expectations.”
What sets it apart from other political historical dramas is the subjectivity of the female characters. Yoo-jung makes Park Gye-won helpless, and the preparer Choi Ga-yeon (Park Ji-yeon) also fights hard as an independent politician rather than simply being Park Gye-won's helper.
Director Yoo emphasized, "The female characters are portrayed as characters who play Go on their own, not as stones on the board."
“Bloody Heart” revolves around the meticulous head fights of the people in the palace, but the driving force behind politics was the feelings of love embraced by the characters. In the play, the love between Lee Tae and Yoo Jung, and Park Gye Won and Choi Ga Yeon is depicted.
"There was a sense of pressure to deliver the romance in a short and bold manner because most of the scenes were about politics," director Yoo said. “I especially tried to show the characters’ emotions and the change in their relationship symbolically.”
She chose the scene where Park Gye-won threw himself into the pond with the queen shot with slow motion using a high-speed camera, as an example.
PD Yoo said that she worked hard to convince the viewers the wrong loyalty of Park Gye-won, who was trapped in the trauma of his tyrannical days and decided to establish himself as a good king.
"It was important not to be seen as a one-dimensional villain," she said. "When he shouted ‘how can you get on your knees so easily?’ to Lee Tae, who was on his knees, it showed a part of him that a normal villain would not do.”
"One of the biggest goals was to capture the beauty of Joseon well,” said director Yoo, who took on the challenge for the first historical drama. “I hope that the overseas viewers will see how beautiful the Joseon Dynasty was and how our ancestors had a high level of knowledge.”
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