The "Burim Incident" refers to the September 1981 incident in which the South Korean dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan illegally arrested and imprisoned 22 teachers, staff, and students who participated in a book club on suspicion of violating the National Security Act for circulating harmful books, organizing illegal assemblies, and allegedly violating the National Security Act. The court eventually convicted 19 of the 22 www.biquge.info and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from one to seven years, and it was Roh Moo-hyun, who later became South Korea's president, who defended them for free.

"The Defender" is based on this matter.

Roh Moo-hyun's popularity in South Korea is very high, and although he committed suicide because of "Park Yeon-chimon", there are still many of his supporters in the country, and there has always been a debate about whether it is black or white. At first, Song Kang-ho refused to act, because he was worried about the impact on him, and later agreed after Park Ji-hoon's repeated invitations.

It is of great significance that such a film can be born in the company N.E.W.

If it weren't for a Korean, or not a fan of one of the actors in the movie, the movie would look a little boring. But in South Korea, such a film is given a lot of meaning.

South Korea's film industry is still relatively free, and there are often works critical of the government, and even without Park Ji-hoon, this film would have been born. However, with Park Ji-hoon taking on the pressure, the director, staff, etc. will be much easier.

On Wednesday, December 18, the film was officially released.

Many people have walked into the theater, including many middle-aged and elderly men who don't usually watch movies.

Regardless of the film's intentions, the name "Roh Moo-hyun" is a good gimmick. Moreover, after the VIP premiere, the media spoke highly of the movie, and even compared it with "The Crucible"!

Although the box office of "The Crucible" is not very high, it has an excellent reputation and great social impact, which has aroused the attention of the whole society to the disadvantaged.

Naturally, many people can't help but see "The Defender" as the "popular or not" genre of "The Crucible". There are very few movies that can really achieve both word-of-mouth and box office. That's why some filmmakers define "Looking" as the peak of Park Ji-hoon's directorial career.

As it turned out, the media reporters were not lying.

"A very meaningful and touching movie, it is indeed worth watching!"

"A rare thought-provoking film. ”

"Song Kang-ho's acting skills are very exciting, fully interpreting the charm of the role, which is endlessly memorable!"

The audience is different from film critics and professional reporters, and there are not so many in-depth analyses and comments, especially a group that does not often watch movies, and the replies are often very monotonous. But it is these reviews that prop up the reputation of a movie.

Although the media propaganda has a huge reach, the word of mouth of the audience is even more powerful.

Yoo-ri, Taeyeon, Seo-hyun and others went to see the midnight stall together.

Because of their age and life experience, they don't have too deep feelings about the "Purim Incident", but it does not prevent them from being moved by the movie, especially the defenseless ending, which is also the sublimation of the whole movie - when the lawyer played by Song Kang-ho was tried for the crime of disturbing public order, 99 of the 142 lawyers in Busan came to court to defend him!

This movie is the main theme of the N.E.W Christmas file.

Summer file, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas file, n.e.w all have works come out, especially the "trilogy" that dominates the entire summer file, although the audience is addicted to watching it, but it has caused many peers to be jealous and dissatisfied - these people will not consider how their works are, but think that because n.e.w's works are too good, their work results will be greatly affected.

This Christmas, many film companies are looking forward to sniping "The Defender" once and suppressing the arrogance of N.E.W.

Otherwise, the whole year of 2013 will become a one-man show for N.E.W!

The films released at the same time include "The Way Home" (released a week earlier) based on real events starring Jeon Do-yeon and Gao Xiu, and the romantic comedy "Heart Thief" starring Zhou Yuan and Kim Ya-jung...... And then, there was no more.

Because N.E.W doesn't have its own cinema, it's easy to get restricted at the time of release, and no one can avoid some small actions on the edge of the rules. CJE&M, Rakuten Entertainment is the main force of the Christmas file, and it is also the main force of sniping N.E.W, the situation of Lotte and N.E.W joining forces to fight CJE&M together is long gone, this year's N.E.W is too strong, so strong that it was sniped by two of the four major film companies!

There are also other movies waving their flags, but in the end, when the Christmas Eve box office data came out, only CJE&M's "The Way Home" and Lotte's "Heart Thief" stayed in the top ten.

"The Defender" stood out with 1,752,162 viewers and a market share of 45.2%, dominating the first place in the weekly box office list and the only work to break through one million this week!

"The Way Home" has a total of 1,430,279 viewers in two weeks after its release, and "The Heart Thief" has a total of 300,916 viewers in one week of release, which is not at the same level as "The Defender"!

No one thought that "The Defender", which I thought was the kind of "The Crucible", would be so strong at the box office.

"Is N.E.W's work really so unsolvable?" so much so that some filmmakers directly shouted such a question.

It is already a semi-open secret in the film industry that several major film companies have joined forces to suppress the arrogance of N.E.W, and even N.E.W itself knows that it has no intention of fighting back. Although Park Ji-hoon is very strong, the film industry has its own rules, and he also feels that this year's N.E.W's results are too dazzling and should be accepted.

Therefore, the scale of publicity for "The Defender" before was not very large.

However, all of them can't stand the audience's liking!

Not to mention a few major film companies, even N.E.W itself was a little dumbfounded - I was ready to go only for the awards, but it turned out to be such a big surprise!

"This is the best Christmas present!" said Park Ji-hoon's words of thanks on the homepage of the official website.

Today's N.E.W already has a group of its own fans.

The box office of "The Defender" in the first week was better than "The Gift of Room No. 7"!

Can expect more!

......

On Christmas Day, Park Ji-hoon was busy shooting, and Taeyeon, Yoo-ri and others had their own announcements and had no time to meet.

Yoon Hee-jin is busy with the promotion of the new movie.

Not to mention Jung Yeon-a, she is so busy that she is dizzy, and it is impossible for her to visit Park Ji-hoon.

In the end, Park Min-ah went alone.

I met someone else on the set. (To be continued.) )