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Sep 10 2009, KOFIC News
Take Off director’s cut in cinemas
Director KIM Yong-hwa will release a newly edited version of the box office smash Take Off on 10 September. The director’s cut will improve the story with newly added scenes. Also, KIM re-edited, and added footage to the Olympic special effect scenes. Take Off director’s cut will only play at cinemas with digital screening rooms. Take Off accumulated 7 million viewers on 7 September since its release on 29 July, and claimed The Good, the Bad, and the Weird’s eleventh place in the most successful Korean films chart.The fictional tale partly based on true events follows an unlikely outfit who aim for the Olympics. The ski jumpers – an uncommon sport in Korea – are hardly professional and have to come from far to realise their objective. HA Jung-woo plays the lead character, an Korean adoptee skier who happens to be in Korea to search for his biological parents. He is reluctant to represent Korea.
Yi Ch’ang-ho (KOFIC)
Sep 2009
Take Off has drawn 7 million viewers.
Aug 24 2009, Korea Herald
Korean sports film draws over 5 million viewers
Ticket sales for the Korean ski jumping film “Take Off (Gukgadaepyo)” topped 5 million over the weekend, becoming the second most-watched local film among this year’s releases, the Korean Film Council said Monday and Yonhap News reported.
Featuring the country’s oft-overlooked national ski jumping team, the film drew more than 5.2 million viewers as of Sunday, its 26th day of screening, the film council said.
“Take Off” is the second movie to surpass the 5-million viewer mark among this year’s domestic releases following “Haeundae,” and continues to top the local box office.
“Haeundae,” a big-budget disaster film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon, has drawn more than 10 million viewers, according to its distributor JK Films, becoming the fifth Korean movie to reach the milestone.
Part non-fiction, “Take Off” spotlights a hodge-podge ski jumping team assembled to support a bid by the Korean city of Muju for the Winter Olympics in 1996. Directed by Kim Yong-hwa, creator of the 2006 box office hit “200 Pound Beauty,” the film stars actor Ha Jeong-woo, who plays a Korean-American adoptee and former U.S. junior alpine skier.
MB_ “Moorupak Dosa”
August 7 2009, http://kpculture.wordpress.com/
Ha Jung Woo Reveals Family Matters
Press and VIP Premiere on July 23. Ha caught a severe cold but attended all premieres and press interviews in spite of worries of people.
Review
July 24 2009, Joongang Daily
Final 30 minutes saves overdone sports flick
Aug 04 2009, KOFIC
HA Jung-woo becomes a national ski jumper
Korean filmmakers have discovered a new-found love in sports dramas. Next is 200 Pounds Beautydirector KIM Yong-hwa who lined up HA Jung-woo as an Olympic ski jumper. The underdog sports drama Take Off is based on real life events.
A ski jumping team is required for North Jeolla’s Muju’s 2002 Olympic winter games bid. A ski instructor with no ski jumping knowledge assembles a ragtag outfit who are as unlikely contenders as they come in underdog sports dramas.
HA’s main character is an adoptee who is searching for his biological parents. He is reluctant to represent Korea because he feels betrayed by the Korean people. Another man joins because he is smitten with the pretty daughter of the coach. A third member wants to escape from his overbearing father, and the fourth hopes of success as a national athlete to avoid military duty because he is the breadwinner of the family.
The sports drama contains the recognisable elements of the genre, like the team building process, and the struggle of unfit people who turn into contenders. KIM is a comedy specialist and he strategically places humoristic moments throughout the film. Take Off is to jump off the screen from 29 July.
Yi Ch’ang-ho (KOFIC)
June 3 2009, Joongang Daily
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