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20 once again 4/?

Sebelum me-review film 20 Once Again, biarkan gue curhat bentar *laughs*

Jadi, tepat pada hari Sabtu kemarin (21/3) sebenernya niatan awal mau nemenin temen yang kebetulan dapet satu ticket gratis untuk screening 20 Once Again di blitzmegaplex Grand Indonesia dari LUHAN UNION INA (atau lebih sering disebut LUI sama temen gue). We’re (yes, me and my another friend) kind of worried about this friend of mine since she never go to that place, so we decided to accompany her. Just wanna make it sure if she comes safely and not getting lost *laughs*

Akhirnya sampai tujuan--Grand Indonesia West Mall 8th floor, Blitzmegaplex--setelah menghabiskan waktu 1.5 jam untuk perjalanan karena harus nanya kanan-kiri dulu. Soalnya kita kesana naik commuter line plus modal nekat dan pengetahuan seadanya *laughs* 

Sampai disana, kita langsung disambut oleh antrian  pemenang ticket screening 20 Once Again yang ternyata banyak juga. Karena ternyata yang ngadain quiz (?) itu ada 2, yakni: LUHAN UNION INA sama Korean Updates. Sembari menunggu temen gue dapet ticket, gue muter-muter mau lihat jadwal siapa tahu bisa satu studio buat nonton. Tapi ternyata begitu liat di jadwalnyua, baru ada jam 13.40 WIB (JENG!JENG!!) meanwhile gue udah disana sebelum disana dari jam 9 lewat. Jadi, gue gak punya pilihan lain selain nungguin untuk 2 jam kedepan atau berharap adminnya mau menjual ticket bagi yang tidak diundang ataupun menang quiz nya. 

Akhirnya temen gue dapet ticket plus banner, fan dan photocards Luhan (ASDFGHJKL). Dia akhirnya nanya gimana, ada jadwal yang sama kayak jadwal dia screening dan kita jawab muka masam. Temen gue akhirnya memberanikan diri untuk nanya nanya sama admin nya ada ticket lebih apa gak, gak masalah kalo harus bayar full. But, like old people says, “Good things happens to good people”, gue dapet ticket screeningnya. AND IT’S FREE!!!!! (WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!)

Here’s the banner, fan and photocard of Luhan EHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEU

Sebelum film dimulai, kita juga sempet foto bareng sama penonton yang lain.

Nah, waktunya balik ke movie review nya.

20 Once Again (重返20岁) film arahan Leste Chen yang dibintangi oleh Yang Zishan, Kuei Ya-Lei, Bolin Chen, dan Lu Han. Film ini merupakan remake dari film arahan Hwang Donghyuk, Miss Granny (2014).

Film ini menceritakan mengenai seorang nenek berusia 70 tahun yang bernama Shen Mengjun (Kuei Ya-Lei). Mengjun merupakan tipikal Ibu mertua yang keras kepala, suka mengatur yang mana membuat sang menantu, Yang Qin (Li Yijuan), akhirnya jatuh sakit karena terlalu banyak tekanan. Dokter yang memeriksa Yang Qin menyarankan agar Yang Qin tidak diberi tekanan dan juga diet sehat. Mendengar hal tersebut, Guobin berunding dengan kedua anaknya, Xiang Xinran (Yin Hang) dan Xiang Qianjin (Lu Han), tentang keputusan apa yang harus diambil, yakni: harus mengirim Mengjun ke panti jompo untuk sementara waktu atau membiarkan Mengjun tetap tinggal di rumah dan membuat Yang Qin  kian tertekan. Namun, Mengjun yang sedari awal sudah menguping pembicaraan keluarga kecil itu akhirnya memutuskan untuk pergi ke panti jompo.

Merasa dibuang oleh anak sendiri karena sudah menyalahkannya atas apa yang sudah terjadi kepada istrinya, akhirnya Mengjun memutuskan untuk berjalan-jalan dan memutuskan untuk mengambil potrait photo untuk pemakamannya kelak di sebuah studio photo yang secara tidak sengaja dia lewati. Namun, begitu keluar dari studio, Mengjun baru menyadari bahwa dirinya sudah berubah menjadi dirinya pada saat umurnya 20 tahun. Dengan diberikannya kesempatan kedua ini, Mengjun akhirnya menggunakan kesempatan ini dengan merubah namanya menjadi Meng Lijun (Yang Zishan) dan memutuskan untuk mewujudkan cita-citanya terdahulu yag belum sempat tercapai, yakni sebagai seorang penyanyi. 

Meng Lijun nantinya akan bertemu Mr. Tan (Bolin Chen) yang merupakan agen pencari bakat serta cucunya Xiang Qianjin yang memang seorang gitaris di band nya, The Forward Band. 

Segitu aja spoilernya, ntar kalo gue ceritain semuanya gak seru *laughs*

Harus nonton sendiri, recommended kok ^^

Honestly, gue lebih suka 20 Once Again dibandingkan versi aslinya, Miss Granny. Karena plotnya dibikin ringan dan tidak membosankan plus so kekinian, berusaha memberikan detail meski tidak mendalam tapi bagi gue itu cukup menjelaskan kok. Kayak dibagian awal waktu menjelaskan pekerjaan Guobin itu apa? Xinran itu mahasiswa atau pengangguran? Paman Li (Deshun Wang) itu memiliki hubungan apa dengan Shen Mengjun? Ya, detail-detail seperti itu.

Gue suka cara mereka membuat detail-detail kecil yang tidak membuat Lu Han sebagai pendatang baru di dunia perfilman awkward disitu. Kayak waktu Qianjin berantem sama Xinran masalah duduk harus dimana atau berantem masalah siapa yang lebih tua atau bahkan ketika di meja makan *laughs*

Dan plus, pelajaran yang harus diambil itu terpampang jelas.

Jangan pernah menyingkirkan orang tua begitu mereka sudah berusia lanjut. Well, mereka udah membesarkan lo dari lo jaman masih bayi sampe berumur dan mereka bahkan gak pernah ada niatan untuk menyingkirkan lo dari kehidupan mereka karena lo sendiri merupakan hao yag berharga bagi mereka.

Hargai orang tua lo sebagaimana layaknya lo ingin dihargai oleh orang tua lo.

Ini cuma cerita fiksi, dimana orang bisa mendapatkan kesempatan kedua namun dikehidupan nyata gak semua orang mendapatkan kesempatan itu. Jangan sampe menyesal pokoknya :)

Well, sampai disini aja kayaknya movie review-nya ya! ^^.

Box Office Results of “Back to 20” breaks the 1.3 billion mark, Luhan watched his first movie shyly.

After the dramatic period of Luhan filing a lawsuit against SM Entertainment, Chinese Idol Luhan left the Korean group EXO and went solo. But his popularity did not drop because of that, instead, he became someone that every company is putting attention on, and his acting invitations are countless. His first movie “Back to 20” received RMB100,000,000 within 4 days, the entry ticket of the Taiwan Premiere Conference also sold out in seconds. He gave himself a 60 marks for his performance in his first movie, while Yang Zi Shan and Chen Bo Lin gave him the full marks-100 marks. No matter what marks he gets, he is still the most adorable Male God in his fans’ hearts.

The 24 years old Luhan was scouted by a talent agent when he was in high-school, he went to Korea for training, and debuted as a member of EXO. Because of his harmless and adorable appearance, he became one of the most popular members. Last October, he filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment, using his health problems and his parents as his reasons, causing a scene. Many people were worried that his career might affected. In the beginning of the year, he released his first production “Back to 20” after becoming solo. It was estimated that they could only recover their expenses for the movie if the ticket sales exceeds RMB120million (around TWD620million), unexpectedly, just within 2 weeks, they have already passed the RMB250million mark (around TWD1.3billion), proving that he is still succeeding well in both singing and acting, 30-40 films are waiting for his approval.

"Using his talent to memorise the guitar chords"

First time acting in a movie, Luhan confessed that he was very nervous, his body would turn cold, his palms would sweat, but when he is in front of the camera, he still shines as usual. Chen Bo Lin also complimented on his acting, "He is much better compared to me when I acted for the first time, maybe because he had stage experiences previously, and also had professional training, he is talented and also earnest." Yang Zi Shan said jokingly, "I should learn from him. He is very smart, he remembers many things that the director teachers him, I probably need to learn how to do aegyo from him." His sunbaes kept on praising him, Luhan quickly begged for their mercy while blushing.

Actually, Luhan was born to be an artist, he acted as a passionate teenager with a dream of becoming a rock star, scenes with him playing the guitar is a must, from not knowing how to play guitar to learning the guitar chords for the whole song, he would only take 40 minutes to do so. He stated modestly: "When I was young I went for one lesson, but it was too painful for my hands, so I gave up. This time I had to memorise the chords because it was required by the movie." Yang Zi Shan praised him and said: “He can really play it out loud, he can sing while playing the guitar.”

After all he is a singer, sometimes Luhan would get too into playing the guitar that he forgot he was supposed to act. When the director says ‘action’, he would lower his hand and focus on playing the guitar. Chen Bo Lin also had to remind him to put some attention on his face expressions during filming and exhibit his charisma during the right time, or not he would have this habit of always staring at the camera, when he acts he would always search where the focus of the camera is, resulting to NGs. He laughed and said: “As singers, when we film MVs, we have to act cool and sometimes smile, we must look at the camera. When I’m acting, I am not supposed to look at the camera but I still have the habit of searching for the cameras, haha.”

"Doing aegyo to Yang Zi Shan to get 90 marks"

That working habit is not the only thing that Luhan couldn’t change, he still pays a great deal of attention to the concept of seniority because he went for training in Korea for a long period of time. There was a scene where he and Yang Zi Shan had to drink alcohol, he drank it in a way as if he was in Korea, he naturally turn his head to the side and drank it in order to show respect. Of course, the scene had to be refilmed, Yang Zi Shan comforted Luhan and said: "It’s alright, you’re now in China, turn your head back and drink, Granny is here to protect you (She acted as Luhan’s granny who turned young in Back to 20!)." The drinking scene where they sat in the BBQ Restaurant and Luhan had to tease Yang Zi Shan, to make Luhan feel more relaxed, at the end, the director wanted him to drink real beer, and use the alcohol to boost his courage in order to let him get into the movie easier, "But after drinking, he started to forget his lines, haha."

When we talked about his acting experience, he stated that everything was fresh for him, just like how he had to put in emotions even when dubbing the film, it took some time for him to get used to it. "Sometimes I have to dub the laughing voices, I feel that my laugh is very dry/fake." He even revealed that he was really worried when he watched himself on the cinema screen, “When the other actors appeared, I watched very comfortably, but when I appeared, I started to freak out, I’ll somehow get nervous and critical, I just don’t want to look at myself.” Even his parents didn’t watch his movie. "They are quite cool, they want to watch it at home when the official DVD is out, they don’t want to reveal themselves to the public."

After the movie is screened, the box office results continued to rise, the movie critics have also made unbiased positive reviews about Luhan’s acting. When he was asked to rate himself, he first said 6 marks, Yang Zi Shan and Chen Bo Lin got a shock and asked him "What’s the full mark for that?", only then he realised what was happening and said "60 marks, I thought the full mark was 10." The interesting part is- when it was Yang Zi Shan’s turn to rate his acting, he nervously went next to her ears and whispered "90 marks, 90 marks." Yang Zi Shan laughed and said: "The director gave him 100 marks because being able to have such an effective acting was considered difficult for someone acting for the first time. This 100 mark is also given to encourage him to continue his acting career properly, I agree with what our director said."

"He refuses to lip sync even if his voice cracks"

Other than acting, Luhan also sang the movie’s OST “Our Tomorrow”, in the past when he was still in EXO, all of them were given a number of lines. This was considered his first complete solo song, he stated "Being able to record the full song for the first time, anyone would feel excited, because suddenly, because the number of singing lines have increased. And one more thing, last time, everyone would sing one after the another, the emotions might not be there, this time I had to sing with emotions from the beginning till the end, it was quite difficult."

This time, he came to Taiwan for his movie promotions, he feels that there is a big difference compared to when he came here with EXO members for the concert. When we asked him whether he feels lonely without other peoples’ accompany, he paused for a while and said, although he left Korea, he still remembers Korean, he would occasionally watch Korean dramas, listen to Korean music. "(My) mood will definitely not be that great, but how do I say it? Fans are still as enthusiastic as before, so I feel relieved/steady."

When he was filming for “Back to 20”, Luhan hadn’t filed a lawsuit against SM, now, he’s on his own. Yang Zi Shan witnessed his growth, she said sincerely, "I have some mother-like love for Luhan, maybe it’s because he acted as my grandson in the movie. I remember when we were filming, all the staffs were still Korean, I was like aww that’s so pitiful, it must be difficult for him to be alone overseas. Now seeing that he has return, becoming better, and he always says that he got chubbier, I feel very happy." She also said that everyone finds Luhan very adorable, but when you get close to him, he is a strong-minded, persistent and thoughtful person. "Sometimes his throat would feel uncomfortable, but then we would need to film the singing scene, so I told him that he could lip sync, but he said no, he wants to sing for real, he said that he would insist on singing even if his voice cracks."

"Rebuked crazy sasaeng fans who followed his car"

Luhan doesn’t really like to be called adorable, he is actually manly, he likes to play football, watch anime, he also imitates the funny videos trending on the Internet, "I am a manly man, I’m quite humorous in private." He exhibited his manliness when he was protecting his family. Fans followed him every day during the filming period, there was once when the fans’ cars were too close to the car he was in and almost led to danger, he couldn’t hold himself in, he got out of the car and spoke to them. "At the time my parents came over, we wanted to get a meal, so I told her ‘You can stop following now/ Please stop following’ and she replied ‘who said I am following you?’. I said ‘Don’t film me’. She replied ‘Who said I’m filming you?’, then I wanted to film her, she said ‘Don’t film me, I have portrait right’ , I didn’t want to care about it, so I just left."

With Luhan’s presence, fans remain crazy every moment, no matter it is the hotel lobby or underground parking, fans wait for him 24/7. Some fans even bought the staff pass for RMB20,000 (Around TWD10,0000) to enter the press conference that he was in. Some crazy fans who went overboard would even call his house's phone number, "My parents would occasionally pick up the calls, and they will be asked: ‘Are you Luhan’s parents?’" Luhan feels bad for their parents, he said helplessly, "When I first debuted I asked my parents: ‘Do you want to come over and watch my showcase performance?’, they said ‘it’s alright, we’ll just look at pictures’. I was really stressed when I was about to debut, I called them and told them about my hardships, they just said ‘well who told you to become a singer in the first place?’". He emphasized that his parents are very low-profiled, he doesn’t hope that their lives will be disturbed/affected because of him.

Luhan said that his parents respected his decision of becoming an artist, they told him that he shouldn’t regret the decision he makes, because of that, in the beginning of 2013, when he gave his parents the first salary he had received, the satisfaction he felt was simply indescribable. This year’s Chinese New Year, he specially did not accept any schedules, because after he debuted in Korea, it has been 6 and a half years since he has returned to his hometown, he lived outside since high-school. Now he finally has the opportunity to return home, of course he would want to unite with his family and give red packets to the elders to show love and respect. He now knows how to treasure everything even more, especially after he filmed “Back to 20” - where the granny became young  and lived her youth once again, a production which emphasized on the family relationships. "I know that I need to spend  more time with my parents within this limited time, I’m too shy to say out  these 3 words ‘I love you’, but we do hug each other."