A glimpse into Rain’s world in Berlin.
It hurt our feelings terribly when the MBC documentary that showcased Rain’s poignant, painful, and utterly triumphant journey through SPEED RACER, the making of NINJA ASSASSIN, and his return to Asia was yanked off the Internet. How in the world are we supposed to introduce anyone to the inner-workings of his amazing personality and the lessons his life teaches, much less get to know him ourselves, without access to those tools that we cannot get on our own TVs, much less buy?
That’s why this little snippet makes us so happy. It may only be a minute, but it is from that documentary, when Rain and Lee Joon were training and shooting Ninja Assassin. It starts off in the kitchen of their dorm, with Rain fixing the lunch he had so grown to hate. The voice-over journalist was saddened by how demoralized he seemed, and impressed at the same time by how determined Rain was to do what had to be done. He toasted the nuts to make them more palatable, and ended up burning his fingers on the pot. He couldn’t help telling the cameraman how the stuff on his plate made him absolutely sick and that he never wanted to see it again. The snippet ends with Rain and Joon relaxing at a German cafe one afternoon. For a moment, at least, Rain could have a coffee and be an ordinary human being. — Stephe ^@@^
(courtesy of absolutelymblaq)
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Poor Rain. I’m glad he got to go to the cafe. But I seem to recall in the English-subbed video that the narrator said that he was having black coffee. Which, of course, has minimal calories and no fat. Sigh.
Terri 8-/
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If she did say he was having black coffee… something is off. Look in his cup. This beverage has cream or mocha or something in it. It’s certainly not black.
Unless something went screwy in post-production and she was describing a different piece of footage.
Stephe ^@@^
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