#orv la

[gomini-v]

Now that dokkaebis are *checks notes* robots? cyborgs? distinctly not furry flesh-based organic life forms? Something like that… I present tamagotchi Biyoo

[ynkfva]

I think what pain me the most about orv live action is that the director completely misunderstood why we, as readers, love Kim Dokja and his story

We dont love Kim Dokja simply because he is an average working class man. There are countless stories like that, and there is nothing special about it. We love Kim Dokja because he is a reader. We love him because, despise seeing himself as selfish, he still sacrifice all to save his companions. We love him because, even when he sees himself as not worth it, we still see that his companions love him and would do everything for him. We love him because we, as readers, see ourselves in him

I love Kim Dokja because, when his story was saved by another, my own story was saved by his. Kim Dokja saved me, just like Yoo Joonghyuk saved him.

[chososhoeso2]

When yoo joonghyuk wants to regress but kim dokja exists

[akuji05]

ORV FANS DO NOT WATCH THE LIVE-ACTION, I REPEAT DO NOT WATCH THE LIVE-ACTION.

HERE'S WHY.

Dokja is a just a nice guy when he’s supposed to be a selfish scheming bastard who scams people.

Dokja doesn’t scam anybody. He split the money 5:5 with Bihyung and legit gave Pildu 100,000 coins in return for him protecting everybody at Geumho station.

It doesn’t feel like KDJ likes TWSA very much.

The scenarios are supposed to be some sort of divine punishment

No Bookmark

No 4th Wall

No Omniscient Readers Viewpoint

Dokja earns over 60,000 coins in the first scenario.

He also gets like 50 sponsorship options.

Gilyoung is basically a baby.

Yoo Joonghyuk is an asshole with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Worldlines collapse when YJH regresses?

Constellations are ignored for the entire movie.

Cheon Inho is some sort of monster hybrid

Yes, Lee Jihye uses a gun (and only a gun) for the entire film.

The final boss is a souped up version of Lesser Dragon Igneel.

King of No Killing can revive other people.

They did the 3rd scenario, but they FUCKING IGNORED the theatre dungeon and the KDJ vs YJH fight for a shitty boss fight.

Director didn't even read the source material; he MISSED THE FUCKING POINT AND SOMEHOW TURNED THE CENTRAL THEME INTO TEAMWORK

-from a reddit post by a Korean fan

[rlaehrwk21]

i'm saying this at the risk of sounding mean: i'm glad the orv la flopped. from the very beginning, it was obvious that the director was not going to honor the source material. to which one might say, well, it's difficult to adapt stuff exactly the same, change is needed. that's true. but this applies to effects or impossible scenes etc. etc. not towards the characterization of a character, especially if they're important. especially not the main character. if kdj hates twsa, if kdj has a good relationship with his mom, if kdj is a bully, all of that strips him of what makes him the character we grew to love and to relate to. and the story would not exist in the first place if these factors, him loving twsa, having a complicated relationship with his mom, being practically the underdog, didn't influence him in the first place. he would not have read twsa if he wanted to LIVE, and why did he want to die? because his life was a mess; his mom in jail, getting bullied by his relatives and classmates. if you take all of that away, who is kim dokja anymore. the story builds on how he keeps moving on thanks to twsa, thanks to yjh and thanks to hsy, despite everything. how he manages to SURVIVE and LIVE with the help of a story. twsa isn't just a story to him, it's his love, his life, the very thing that nurtures him. and without twsa there's no kdj. simple as that.

and don't get me started with the way they butchered the other characters. making sangah a healer, when her whole character arc is about being seen less of a perfect female lead and more like a human with strengths and weaknesses, not needing any protection because she can do it herself. additionally to removing the misogyny she has experienced at work and the sexual assault heewon has experienced only hightlights the true misogyny of the director. they are reduced to nothing but something to uplift the main character, which is something many have been literally discussing for so long; a female character is allowed to exist and to have issues and an arc outside of the male characters. orv did that. orv gave them this realness that so many could relate to. the live action stripped that away completely, reducing them to nothing but stereotype rooted in misogyny.

they had a huge opportunity and they squandered it. instead of putting in the proper effort, they relied on the fans of the actors instead. which lead them to their downfall. i hope this will be a lesson for the future. a lesson to actually put in the effort and to do the original justice instead of relying on its name and fame.

[records-of-a-slacker]

The duality of man as exhibited by the ORV live action adaptation trailer:

[sylviesecond]

In a way, I'm glad that Ahn Hyo-seop is in K-Pop Demon Hunters, because it's good press for his upcoming ORV live action movie. No, I don't like that the ORV movie is happening, but that doesn't mean I want it to flop.

[evilchloe]

orv being a celebration of storytelling as an artform just for its own story to be butchered and altered into capitalistic mainstream media slop is actually sick and thinking about it makes me nauseous