Kim Woo-bin added another life character
Sep 17, 2024
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Released on the 13th, 'Martial Arts Practitioner' is an action film about Lee Jeong-do, a Taekwondo, kendo, and judo dancer who works together as a martial arts practitioner who closely monitors electronic anklets 24 hours a day to prevent crimes at the suggestion of probation officer Kim Sun-min.
Kim Woo-bin played Lee Jeong-do, a passionate youth who became a martial arts practitioner by chance, adding another big life character. In particular, he gave off a brilliant presence not only as a movie but also as a main character of unanimous acclaim.
Kim Woo-bin's bead sweat that he shed to become one with Lee Jeong-eun drew attention early on. To achieve a high synchronicity with the character, he made bold changes from the visuals. He gained 8kg to express his favorite characteristics of eating and exercising. He wanted to show a realistic bulk-up that was strengthened by exercise in real life, not a well-woven sculpture-like body.
In addition, Kim Woo-bin is known to have come up with ideas himself and created 'this much of blonde hair'. For Lee Jung-do, who is happiest when doing something fun, bleaching his hair would have come as an interesting topic. To this end, Kim Woo-bin made a special transformation to bleach his entire hair for the first time since his debut. As such, the curiosity about 'the martial arts practitioner' grew day by day due to Kim Woo-bin, who made each and every detail of the character by himself and put his heart and soul into it.
And after the work was released, Kim Woo-bin changed his expectations to admiration. With his deeper acting skills, he excelled in portraying the character's emotional variations, and he also excelled in the real hitting action that gave him a pleasant catharsis.
What stood out the most was Kim Woo-bin's more playful performance. On top of that, as his eyes, which changed from moment to moment, were combined, viewers were automatically synchronized with Lee Jung-do. From the dullness of early thought and other tasks to the excitement of the long-awaited first dispatch, to the growing sense of professional vocation and the desire for a safe world. Kim Woo-bin's passionate performance, which captured the changes in emotions that changed over time and solved them in three dimensions, heated the hearts of viewers. At the previous production presentation, the changes that a young man who only pursued fun became a martial arts practitioner and became a sense of mission came to be fun. I wanted to express how I felt to the viewersHis desire to be " was perfectly fulfilled in "the martial arts practitioner".
In addition, Kim Woo-bin's action was cool enough to take away the late heat. The kicking and bare-handed actions that stretched out to the cheerful rhythm pierced everyone's insides, while the so-called 「Jangdokdae Action」, which caused a significant blow to the source of evil, provided both exhilaration and fine laughter to highlight the movie.
In this way, Kim Woo-bin's hard carry of the full package for 107 minutes was responsible for the beginning and end of 'the martial arts practitioner'. Thanks to this, the martial arts practitioner ' was ranked third overall in the global Netflix film category and ranked in the top 10 in 85 countries as of the 16th, a content viewing ranking website on OTT platforms around the world. It can be seen that Kim Woo-bin's power to make him believe and see worked again, both at home and abroad.
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