LOOKISM STUFF 2.0

Fanblog of Lookism Webtoon by Park Taejoon. Run by @lookismstuff. NOT SPOILER FREE. Pic by Sasha Kaunas on Unsplash.

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"Back when we were kids, we would always knew when to stop. Now all the good kids are messing up. Nobody has gained or accomplished ... anything."

("Comforting Sounds", by Mew)

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Promotional Material for PTJ Comics Pop Up Event at World Webtoon Festival (2)

Source: PTJ Comics

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Promotional Material of PTJ Comics POP UP event at World Webtoon Festival

Source: PTJ Comics' Instagram Story

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"I found no people for killing time. So I found time for killing people..."

-Atomship, "Time For People"

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Belated Happy Birthday, Vin Jin...

His official birthday is on Sep 18.

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📢 📢 GIVE ME THE LIGHTSTICK OF THIS ROOKIE KPOP BOYGROUP

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@chococorner

My bias is Max (lowkey digging the current styling). hahahahahahah. Bias wrecker is Derrick. Because Eli is obviously the leader plus visual and maybe everyone in the fandom is his fan. Warren is taken but he's still popular too.

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📢 📢 GIVE ME THE LIGHTSTICK OF THIS ROOKIE KPOP BOYGROUP

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SPOILER ALERT

Other than for plot reasons, PTJ had James dye his hair black to match G-Dragon's current hair color. The same reason why Vin was made to grow his hair long (to match Beenzino's current hair length).

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SPOILER ALERT

Lookism Cinematic Analysis (6)

tw: suicide

This panel is loosely based on one of the posters of a critically acclaimed Korean film, "Socialphobia" (2014).

"Socialphobia" is a story about the mysterious death of a social media user who was some sort of a keyboard warrior, and the subsequent social media frenzy that it caused.

In the film, the social media user was objectified after her death. For the other young characters, the allure of the mystery surrounding her death was more important than her humanity. At the end of the film, it's never clear whether she was murdered or it was a suicide, and nobody cared about it.

In Lookism's case, the moment Charles took his own life, all the exposé about his crimes became secondary compared to his dead body. Who he was before HNH, his personal life, etc etc at that moment disappeared. He was but the grotesque body.

Notice how in both the panel and the poster, different angles were taken by the press and the civilians when photographing the dead. This also works as a symbolism: people only knew about the dead girl and Charles the way whoever took photos of them chose to. They were both presented differently, framed differently, depending on the angle.

In a world where reality is fabricated, what is real never matters.

Credit: Socialphobia (2014), dir. Hong Seokjae

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"All I am is a weapon. I shoot 'em down 'til I end up alone..."

(Against the Current, "Weapon")

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"Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo."

(My Chemical Romance, "The Sharpest Lives")

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"The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead."

(My Chemical Romance, "The Sharpest Lives")

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I'm late but LMAOOOOOO

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"I want to go back to believing in everything and knowing nothing at all..."

("Field of Innocence", Evanescence)

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Lookism TMI (Trivia)

Back in 2014 when there were talks of adapting Lookism as a Korean film (which had since gone nowhere), PTJ actually wanted to cast these two actors as the original Daniel and the Second Body Daniel.

AHN JAEHONG (top picture) for the original Daniel and PARK BOGUM (bottom picture) for the second body.

This is how they looked like back then (I can see PTJ's vision):

Ahn Jaehong's latest project is the critically acclaimed limited series "Mask Girl" on Netflix, and Park Bogum is mostly known for the kdrama "Love in the Moonlight" and the film "Coin Locker Girl". They both starred in the kdrama "Reply 1988".

Source: here

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"I tried my best just to catch a fuckin' smile. But for now I see myself ain't hittin' the thirty-five ..."

(Cheriimoya, Sierra Kidd - "Livin' Life in the Night")

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"Oh, look at all the lonely people..."

(Cody Fry, "Eleanor Rigby" -orig. The Beatles)