pure heart: 1991, i rode the sea’s breeze and found my first love
(image above) 2. In order to get medicine from Youngil, the army surgeon who had set up a temporary clinic in the church, Suok runs errands. Beomsil, unaware of why she is, sees Suok helping Youngil and becomes angry. Do Kyungsoo expressed regret with “Beomsil is honestly a simple, pure kid, but in the end he had to show anger.” 4. Even in reality, the five leads are of similar age. Every time they shoot a scene all together, it is filled with bright laughter. From the left: Ju Dayoung, Lee David, Kim Sohyun, Yeon Junseok, Do Kyungsoo.
▸ August 25, afternoon, late summer’s drizzle. Filming is in full swing in a small church of the village of Apyeong, nestled among rice fields. “Puhahaha, I’m sorry. I’ll do that over,” Do Kyungsoo (22), who acts as the country boy Beomsil, cannot hold back a laugh. The five other actors nearby follow. The laughing virus that started like this does not go away so easily and makes its rounds around them. “Let’s just have a good laugh and go again,” director Lee Eunhee (37) responds, looking upon them with a mother’s smile.
This place the young actors fill to the brim with their youthful energy is the filming site for the movie Pure Heart (release planned for the first half of next year). Its protagonists are five friends who brightly laugh and chat together in the island village they were raised: Suok, Beomsil, Sandol, Gaedeok, and Gilja. 1991 — Suok, too unwell to attend school, awaits the return of her friends who had gone to study on the mainland. Between these seventeen-year-old friends, every second is full and sweet. Pure Heart is a fantasy melo that spans both the present’s 2015 and the past’s 1991, and is the director’s debut feature length film.
On this day, they filmed a conflict between Suok and Beomsil, who has a crush on her. Beomsil suddenly becomes angry at the sight of Suok helping Youngil, an army surgeon who had come to their village. It is because unlike Suok, who believes Youngil can fix her illness, he knows of Youngil’s different intentions. The space was cramped, but although fifty staff members had to work hard to move equipment and rigging across the chapel’s seats each time a camera had to be relocated, the air was relaxed. The lead actors preserved the atmosphere of an intimate village by unwarily mixing with Goheung’s residents and freely running child actors. The director says, “Jupiter Film’s representative Ju Pilho’s hometown is Goheung. On his recommendation I came here, and I liked its comfortable, warm atmosphere and people so I picked it as our main film location. It is against the backdrop of this deep blue ocean and green forests that these seventeen-year-old friends will grow emotionally.”
Pure Heart is a film filled with the young actors’ energy. It features Kim Sohyun (16) who acted two-for-one in the recent drama Who Are You — School 2015; idol group EXO member Do Kyungsoo who showed nuanced acting in the film Cart and the drama IOIL; Lee David (21), a solid rising actor of the next generation; as well as Lee Junseok (20), Ju Dayoung (20), and Kim Kwon (26). Director Lee Eunhee says, “Do Kyungsoo adjusted and paid ₩22000 (~18 USD) to exercise at the local gym, and Kim Sohyun even visited Goheung’s sauna with her mom. Yeon Junseok stays even when he doesn’t have to film. All the actors worked hard to become people of Goheung.”
Q: Your thoughts on sending off two months of summer here.
Do Kyungsoo: I wonder if I’ve ever been this happy in my life. It’s to the point that it feels like every second on site has been happy. Should I say it feels like falling in love for the first time?
Q: What was most memorable?
Do Kyungsoo: We spent eleven days on Deukryang island, near Goheung, for filming. It was somewhere where we only had the ocean and our quarters. The supermarket was far away. We went fishing together, and caught around eleven fish.
Q: You seem familiar with Jeolla-do’s dialect.
Do Kyungsoo: Now it even slips out in everyday talk.
Source / Translations by: fydk-translations
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