[HanCinema's Film Review] "The Royal Tailor"



Dol-seok (played by Han Seok-Kyu) makes fancy clothes for royalty, having risen up in the proper way, through official connections. Up-and-coming talent Gong-jin (played by Ko Soo) is more crude, using clever advertising schemes to showcase the popularity of his product. Gong-jin gets his chance to break into the big leagues when the Queen (played by Park Shin-hye) has to look for support outside of official channels.

At its best, the film looks really, really pretty. There are loads of beautiful traditional Korean clothes on display here. What's even better is when "The Royal Tailor" actually gets into the topic of what makes some clothes look so excellent that all your rivals will be jealous. It's a pretty compelling argument for making sure to dress nice at job interviews. Clothes just don't make you look confident- they make you feel confident by just being so gosh darn comfortable.

Then there's the story, which makes less sense the more I think about it. A royal intrigue where the weapon is fashion design is certainly a pretty strong plot hook with lots of potential. The problem is that the rules of this conflict are rather poorly defined, except when matters get somewhat incestuous. Gong-jin and the Queen conspire to get back at an uppity concubine by...well, look, I understand that the montage in question is supposed to be funny, but that doesn't change the fact that director Lee Won-seok appears to literally be conflating fashion with whoredom.

The final act in particular takes a rather dark, confusing, and pointless turn. Technically I don't see how anyone has actually committed a crime. Sure, royalty can do whatever it wants. In narrative terms, though, it's pretty unsatisfying for a film to straight up say that nothing which has happened really mattered since apparently jockeying for position in certain specific ways warrants a death sentence. Just a scene establishing or even implying there were actual dangers would have done a lot to effectively build up the conflict.

Even this rather sudden shift at the end would be reasonable if any of the characters were worth caring about. But they're really not. A cameo appearance by Lee Do-yeon is the closest "The Royal Tailor" ever gets to eliciting real sympathy. And this is mostly because Lee Do-yeon is playing the same character role she always plays. Consequently, I knew exactly what she wanted, how she could succeed, and how she could fail. By contrast, the other main characters lack any such clear definition of motive.

For what it's worth "The Royal Tailor" is obviously more concerned with visual feel than with narrative coherence. Unfortunately as far as screentime goes there's not quite as much emphasis on the fashion and comedy as there is on the rather grim plot. For this reason "The Royal Tailor" fails to reach the cult sensibility of "Fashion King - Movie", which used similar tropes to similar effect. Really this is just a movie that tries to do too much. It already has Park Shin-hye wearing all manner of beautiful hanbok. That's the main hook. From that point there's really no need to make things so complicated.

Review by William Schwartz

"The Royal Tailor" is directed by Lee Won-seok and features Han Seok-Kyu, Ko Soo, Park Shin-hye and Yoo Yeon-seok.

source: www.hancinema.net/hancinema-s-film-revie...al-tailor-77182.html

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so this is the first review of this movie that i have read.. and i still cant watch the movie coz it i cant find any torrent of this one.. i need to watch it soon.. i need to be at peace.. i need to know if this review is well justified. And im worried! Though, i read good comments about this movie and PSH's acting. I wonder why this review turn out this way?

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TOP COMMENTS:
1) Was Park Shin Hye always this pretty? I really liked the humor and thought the movie was sad.
2) With a difficult theme and plot, this movie was made well. When Park Shin Hye first appeared in the movie wearing the amazing Han Bok, it gave me the chills! Good!!
3) The Han Bok's colors and the passion of the actors alone made the movie worth watching and was not a waste of my money! For over two hours, I laughed and cried painfully. I really enjoyed watching this movie ~ I hope this movie sells over 500 million tickets so I can watch it again with Director Cuts!
4) I fell in love with the beauty of Han Bok and fell in love again with the acting skills of the actors due to this movie!
5) All the actors' acting skills were good, the clothes were beautiful, and had the right amount of suspense. I though this movie was really good. Park Shin Hye is so pretty...Her crying skills made my heart feel her character's pain.

REPORTERS' COMMENTS:
1) Lee Ji Hye <Max Movie> Reporter
Although Looking at the Beatiful Hanboks was Good...
Rating 6.5/10 - Story 6 - Visual 7 - Cast 6 - Acting 7
[The Royal Tailors] is filled with love of clothes. The passionate love of clothes is strong enough to be shown even in critical moments in the movie with beautiful Han Boks. However, even though there was a love of clothes, the historical element of the movie was not felt or found at all.

2) Lee Eun Sun <Magazine M> Reporter
Plot Was Not Able to Persuade
Rating 6/10 - Story 6 - Visual 7 - Cast 5 - Acting 6
As the characters are intwined with the feeling of revenge, only those characters are valued. Viewers are not able to understand the reason for the character's revenge, so the viewers are stuck in a confusing endless series of continuous plots without having an end.

3) Song Kyung Won <Cine 21> Reporter
Sophisticated Misuse of Imagination
Rating 6/10 - Story 5 - Visual 7 - Cast 5 - Acting 7
The cast was enough to not make viewers yawn, but the connection between the characters were not good at all. Emotional persuasion, Deployment, Harmony, etc. were all over the place and not connected at all. Flashy clothing, embarrassing crude comedy, as well as garnished with useless plots.

trans: thefoodmonster on soompi

Each of the leads were asked this question: chose their 'BEST' Scene~
The King, Yoo Yeon Seok has chosen the scene where he was wearing the Emperor robe, watching all the sunbaes kneeling and paying respect to him~



Ko Soo has chosen the scene whereby he was taking down the measurements of the Queen, Park Shin Hye, feeling that there's little nervousness, and very ambiguous feel~


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The Leads of chose their 'BEST' Scene~ senior actor Han Suk Kyu has chosen the scene
whereby he was sitting down in in a backyard full of dyed cloth, with eyes closed, feeling the breeze with inner peace and sense of happiness~


cr: wintercherub

(Eng trans) 20141227 Yoo Yeon Seok’s Instagram update
"Stage greeting at Cheonan and Cheongju on the first week of ‘The Tailors’!!! The seats were filled with audiences who greeted us warmly, so thank you!!! "


(Eng trans) 20141225 Yoo Yeon Seok’s Instagram update
"Christmas together with ‘The Tailors’!!! "


Translated by Tokkipanda
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YYS has been busy.. he has another movie ..."the mood that day"
I feel bad that "The Royal Tailor" is not faring as expected.... they should have had a movie premiere where famous celebrities were invited... that drums up interest of movie goers.

Cr to the owners

The young queen #TheRoyalTailors
I wonder when ill be able to watch this movie....








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What a beautifuI queen...
Thank Jenzyy sweetie for the beautifuI picture.
Wish we can see more pictures of our queen PSH.

I hope to see her more smiIe in the movie..

more pics from Sanguiwon.....




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sis @elana it seems like our queen has a lonely smile in this movie nice to see you here sis....
i envy the people who are watching this right now.....hope i can get the link








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