Elegant Empire (Elegant Empire) is the next long-running drama to air on KBS this year, after the success of Woman in a Veil. The film has been compared with the SBS blockbuster – Penthouse right from the time it aired because the colors and poster layout are quite similar. In addition, Elegant Empire is also set in the upper world with power and money struggles.
However, if Penthouse has an excellent main cast, the Elegant Empire, which has only aired a few episodes, immediately caused controversy because of the acting of the male lead Kim Ji Woo.
Play the role of an old general, lacking in accents
In the drama, Kim Ji Woo plays Gi Yun, who is described as a very smart and handsome young president of WJ Entertainment. He is famous for his perfect appearance and is extremely romantic and kind to everyone. But behind the seemingly perfect exterior, Gi Yun is actually an ambitious man with a dark secret that he can’t tell others.
It can be seen that Gi Yun is in the form of the male lead that is too familiar on the screen. Most recently, King the Land also built this type of role and was criticized for its old script and unattractive character. Going to Elegant Empire, the audience is no longer interested in this type of character. And after the first episodes, the character Gi Yun is no better than the male lead King the Land when the audience sees that he does not really look like the president.
The appearances of Gi Yun make the audience feel “funny” more than the feeling of being captivated as the original description of this character. I don’t know if he has a big secret hiding or not, but it seems that the audience doesn’t care much when seeing that Gi Yun is quite innocuous and innocuous in the overall story. The audience is more interested in Shin Ju Kyung, an ambitious poor girl who tries to approach Gi Yun with her dream of “escape from poverty”.
Acting was criticized for being too “fake”
In fact, with a long-running TV series, the main audience is the elderly and housewives like Elegant Empire, the audience does not ask too much for the script to be new and interesting. What viewers care more about is the acting of the actors. But even this, Kim Ji Woo is controversial. After the show aired for the first week, many negative feedbacks, saying that the actor surnamed Kim acted fake, his expressions were exaggerate
On the Mydramalist page, many comments were bewildered when knowing that this movie had a length of up to 100 episodes, which had just opened, causing many disappointments. Some commenters even said that if they couldn’t watch half an episode, how could they be persistent enough to follow such a long journey.
Audience comments:
– Gi Yun’s crying looks fake like he’s fake crying out of pity. I also thought this was an amateur actor who was forced to act like that (but he also seems to have been in movies for years).
-The male lead’s acting is so bad, it makes me feel like the character is joking.
– I thought this was a serious drama but why is the male lead’s tone humorous?
– Episode 1 is a waste of time.
– I watched half of the episode and… it’s so messed up. Seriously, are you guys going to watch 100 episodes?
