Episode 386 Overwhelming (15)
The view of Henry Gordon or Kang Woo-jin in ‘Pierrot’ changed. It was no longer the shabby bus where the terrible ‘Pierrot’ ran wild. Somewhere in New York crowded with people. It was around daytime. It was his past. Woo-jin was walking on the sidewalk. However, his steps were losing their strength.
It was really trudging.
His mad appearance that was seen in the shabby bus was nowhere to be found. The inside and the outside were the same. The current ‘Henry Gordon’. No, what should I say about Woojin’s feelings? He was damp like a wet dishcloth. His body was heavy and his mind was soaked in mud. He felt like all his energy had been drained.
“······after-”
Kang Woojin sighed softly as he walked down the street. Among the numerous people passing by him, some glanced at Woojin strangely. They were all dressed in neat suits or neat clothes. Kang Woojin noticed the stares. However, he didn’t care.
-Ugh.
Woojin, who was walking, stopped in front of a mart and looked at himself reflected in the glass window. He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, jeans, shoes with the soles worn down, long, messy hair, a slightly bent waist and shoulders, and an overall slim body.
This was his current form.
Soon, the door of the mart opened and a fat man who seemed to be the owner came out. He had a bald head but a thick mustache. As soon as he saw Woojin standing blankly in front of the mart, his eyes turned suspicious and he frowned.
“what?”
Woojin’s hunched shoulders hunched even further in embarrassment.
“Oh, no. I.”
“Okay, just go on your way.”
“misunderstanding-”
“Get out!”
The fat owner’s shout, similar to a scolding, made the people walking around turn their gazes, and Woojin, who had been hesitating for a moment, managed to move his feet. When he glanced behind him, he saw that the fat owner was still glaring at Kang Woojin.
Parentheses.
This obviously hurt Kang Woo-jin’s feelings, but he ignored his feelings as he walked down the street again. It happened often.
“Yeah, it’s okay. Just erase my thoughts.”
At that moment, Woojin’s emotions rang out clearly inside him. It was meaningless. The world he saw, the things that existed in that world. Perhaps even the fat man behind him.
It was silent.
Kang Woo-jin’s emotions, strengths, weaknesses, and feelings as he moved his feet. None of them were right. At this point, Woo-jin felt an indescribable sense of loss. It was neither hot nor cold, nor comical nor tragic. It was just meaningless and insignificant.
Woojin, who was walking down the street, entered an alley.
A small pizza place right in front of him. It was where he made deliveries. Woojin, with his hunched back, looked at the pizza place for a moment, then sighed and opened the door.
at the same time.
“hey!!”
A shout rang out from the kitchen of the pizza place. A large man wearing a flour-covered apron lost his temper as soon as he saw Woojin. It was the owner of the pizza place.
“I got a call from a customer!! You’re 7 minutes late?? Why do you do things like that!!”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
Woojin, who was overwhelmed by the situation, immediately apologized, but the pizza shop owner seemed to have no intention of lenient words and stood in front of Kang Woojin, acting all smug.
“How much is the pizza?”
“I didn’t······receive it.”
“This is driving me crazy.”
“That···is because the customer who ordered it gave me the wrong address.”
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“What? Are you blaming the customer? Are you saying he did a good job?”
“No, I’m sorry.”
The pizza shop owner, who had been glaring at Woojin as if he was going to kill him, bit his molars.
“That son of a bitch, he begged so much that I made him do the work for me, but I’m going crazy. Okay, get out.”
“yes?”
“Get out.”
“Hey, if you do that all of a sudden!”
“Get out!!”
The sharp contempt spread like a roar. Woojin endured it. His shoulders and back were hunched, but he clung to the pizza shop owner as best he could. He was so desperate that he even stuttered.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I’ll work really hard to make sure something like this never happens again!”
“Do you want to go when I tell you, or do you want to break something and then go away?”
“······”
Hope had just faded. Woojin was barely making a living working at this pizza place. He, who had become as small as he could be, spoke again with difficulty.
“···Then, at least the money I earned so far-”
-Bam!
The pizza place owner threw down a few bills and coins. Of course, there weren’t enough.
“The mistakes you made and the money you didn’t receive today are deducted! Get out now!”
Woojin, who was looking down at the money scattered on the floor, slowly reached out his hand. His pride told him not to pick it up. His pride hit rock bottom. However, reason and reality corrected him. Pride and self-esteem do not give him money. When he reached out his hand to the floor, he felt annoyed, but as soon as he picked up the scattered bills, a great sense of emptiness spread.
‘Yeah. That must be right.’
Endure. Woojin accepted the persecution that was rampant but silent as usual. He picked up all the money and left the pizza place. He heard the pizza place owner spitting on the floor behind him. He pretended not to notice.
Kang Woo-jin walks again.
After walking a few steps, I saw a store with several TVs hanging on it. A woman in a suit was making a comment on the TV.
-[“Hold on to your anger. Anger that explodes indiscriminately is a disease. It needs to be treated. Anger is the root of many problems.”]
The woman in the stylish suit seemed like a psychology expert. And it sounded like something she was telling Woojin, ‘Henry Gordon’. Woojin, who was filled with a sense of loss, walked again and muttered to himself.
“Right, if I had been angry, I wouldn’t have gotten the money.”
Suddenly, rain began to fall lightly. People without umbrellas were running on the street. But Woojin.
“······”
He just put a hood on his head. A bus stopped in front of him on the crosswalk. A child was visible through the window. He was smiling brightly. Woojin also forced a smile, following the child. It didn’t last long. The mother covered the child’s eyes with her hand. The smile quickly disappeared from Woojin’s face.
It was because we had adapted to repeated excessive prejudice.
Several words were swirling in my head: bear with it, tolerate it, ignore it, let it go, close your eyes.
Suppress your anger.
“I need to······find a job.”
At home, my younger sister, who was not in her right mind, was waiting for me. There was no time to rest. Soon, I started to feel frustrated.
The rain became heavier.
-Saah!
Kang Woo-jin picked up a newspaper from the trash can in front of him. He was about to cover his head with it when he stopped. It was because of the headline on the front page of the newspaper.
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『The bank robbers whose whereabouts were unknown were found abandoned in front of the police station, unconscious! Who is the hidden hero?』
‘Hidden Hero’. I’ve been seeing articles like this a lot lately. Soon, Woojin snorted softly and threw the newspaper into the trash can.
Hero. Sounds good. But even heroes need villains to exist, right?
If you think about it, how many villains did Kang Woo-jin meet today? But Woo-jin couldn’t defeat any of them. Why is that? He arrived home. It was just a small room and a bathroom. He-jin’s younger sister was sleeping on the bed. Woo-jin covered her with a blanket and went into the bathroom. He looked in the mirror.
“······”
I smiled again. But for some reason, I felt angry. I smiled, but my heart was burning. I didn’t do anything. But why? Why only to me? The kindness I showed to the world all day was a defense mechanism to survive.
Woojin clenched his fist.
He was so angry that he tried to smash the mirror with his fist. But he held back. Instead.
-Bam!
I threw the soap on the floor. It was my limit.
A few days later.
Kang Woo-jin’s vision changed once again. He was now holding a billboard for a large mart and running around the entrance to the parking lot. He had found a new job.
However, his behavior and clothing were unusual.
Pale bald head, white-painted face, two sharp red square eyes, thick lips that resembled a straight, split smile. Even the clothes were clown-like.
A ‘clown’ shaking a billboard.
While he was shaking, a familiar male voice was heard from behind.
“Hey, Henry.”
Henry Gordon, or Kang Woo-jin, aka ‘Pierrot’, turned his head. A large man was giggling. It was the owner of the pizza place he had quit.
“Haha, that’s right? Hey Henry. Maybe it’s because you’re slightly bent at the waist, but you look good in this photo?”
“······”
“No, is it because you’re so skinny? Dance, dance. A ‘clown’ has to impress his customers.”
Contempt, persecution, discrimination, prejudice, contempt. Maybe more. The foul smelling things swirled around Kang Woo-jin. He was getting angry. But what should he do? In the end, Woo-jin just stood there dumbly. The pizza shop owner giggled for a few minutes and disappeared in the direction of the mart.
The ‘Pierrot’ who took down the billboard just looked at his back.
“······”
The expression was strange.
And the night it rained heavily.
The big, muscular owner of the pizza place was watching TV alone and drinking beer. It seemed like he had finished his business.
-Kugugugu!
The sound of rain mixed with thunder. At that moment, the door of the pizza shop creaked open. The slightly startled pizza shop owner turned his face. There was a strange man drenched in rain. No, a ‘clown’ standing there. The pizza shop owner, who immediately recognized who the ‘clown’ was, jumped up and shouted.
“Henry?! Why are you here, you punk!?”
Thunder and lightning striking simultaneously.
-Kugugugu!
The gunshots are buried in that sound.
-Tang tang!
‘Pierrot’ or Kang Woo-jin was standing. A gun in one hand. The pizza shop owner was sprawled on the floor. Blood was slowly spreading on the floor. At this moment.
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“······ah.”
Kang Woo-jin regretted it. He also felt the anger he had been holding in burst out all at once, and strangely enough, his hunched shoulders straightened out. His back was the same.
It flashed at that moment.
Thanks to the lightning outside, the dark ‘Clown’s’ face was clearly visible. It was still a ‘Clown’ face, but the rainwater was causing red to run down the side of his eyes.
A face that at first glance looks like it’s crying with bloody tears flowing.
Kang Woo-jin laughed.
“Kuhahaha! Hahahaha! Hahahahahaha!”
It’s not forced. Then something caught Woojin’s eye. It was one of the things scattered on the floor as the pizza shop owner collapsed. One of many cards. Kang Woojin picked up the card with blood on it.
“hmm-”
The card had a picture of a clown or ‘clown’ on it.
-‘JOKER’
How long has it been?
Kang Woo-jin, who lived in the world of Henry Gordon in ‘Pierrot’, had returned to reality, inside the van. Outside the window, it was still snowing heavily. As expected, nothing had changed at all since the moment Woo-jin entered the subspace.
but.
‘Whew- Are you feeling a little sore?’
Woojin, who has lived a hard life, has personally experienced and acted out extraordinary things. No, should we say that he experienced the ‘birth period’ as a villain? If it weren’t for the concept, Woojin would probably be laughing so hard that his mouth is about to burst right now.
It was because the aftertaste of the clown, the ‘clown’, lingered.
However, Woojin, like a subspace veteran, wiped away the madness and insanity he had felt. Then, while maintaining a poker face, he looked down at the ‘Pierrot’ scenario on his lap.
‘What is this – the scenario is fun, but isn’t it on a whole other level to read (experience) it yourself?’
Because there are so many emotions hidden in the scenario itself, and because there is so much ‘subtext’ in the lines and texts. Subtexts are like landmines that the writer or screenwriter has secretly hidden. It feels like the real meaning of the lines or texts is implied.
The main character, Henry Gordon, was also unique.
At first, he is weak, has low self-esteem, and is the epitome of the weak, but the anger and rage that builds up inside him is stronger than anyone else’s. However, as the story progresses, ‘Henry Gordon’ becomes more mad and pleasure-filled, and there is no anger or rage.
Woojin thought about how many times he had read (experienced) such a ‘Henry Gordon’.
”Freedom of Role’ or ‘Role Composition’ – I think you can also use ‘Beastization’.’
I’m talking about releasing the villain from ‘Pierrot’ into reality.
‘Or other abilities. Hmm, that sounds fun.’
Of course, in an upgraded state.
Meanwhile, in LA.
It was morning in Korea, but afternoon in LA. In Hollywood, which is several times more noisy than Korea, in a medium-sized conference room of Columbia Studios, a hot spot for “Pierrot,” Director Ahn Ga-bok, an interpreter, and executives from Columbia Studios were sitting on the other side. A total of four people. Director Ahn Ga-bok was working on a nearby set or stage when he was suddenly called.
That’s why.
‘What is it? Their expressions are a bit- serious.’
I looked at the expressions of the executives of Columbia Studios, who were heavily involved in the movie ‘Pierrot’, including the bald head on the other side. They were deliberately serious. It was almost like a secret meeting.
It was around this point.
“Director.”
Among the executives who were talking, a man with bald head handed Director Ahn Ga-bok a transparent file.
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“There’s something you need to know.”
“······”
Director Ahn Ga-bok of ‘Pierrot’ picked up the transparent file that was handed to him without saying anything. At the same time, the bald executive spoke.
“The title of ‘Pierrot’ will change before its release.”
“···The title?”
“Yes. It’s similar, but a little different. As you can see, it will change to ‘Pierrot: Birth of a Villain.’”
The bald executive who was muttering a new title, ‘Pierrot: Birth of a Villain’.
“And the movie ‘Clown: The Birth of a Villain’ is the starting point of a large-scale project that we have been planning in secret for quite some time. A hero series where several movies are organically connected. In other words, a cinematic universe. The male lead of ‘Clown: The Birth of a Villain’, ‘Henry Gordon’.”
He continued speaking calmly and firmly.
“He will be the first villain character to introduce our cinematic universe to the world.”
