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Ah-jung's Blue Eyes?

posted 15 years ago by DaliParton
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I just finished watching the korean bluray of this movie and one scene really stood out - a close-up of Ah-jung's face where her eyes are clearly blue. I even rewound and paused it and everyone in the room agreed - they were a dark blue, not caucasian blue, but definitely not the normal asian black.

That seemed so odd, and the close-up so deliberate that I expected we would learn something about Ah-jung to explain it. But I didn't notice anything else connected to her blue eyes for the rest of the movie

Here's a capture of that scene: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/0f111f01d1.jpg

Was it ever explained and I just missed it?

[–] djliquidz 15 years ago

Colored contact lens.

If they were not fake they would probably be the prettiest eyes I ever saw!

I guess that's why they made a close-up on them, because they were amazing.

[–] siobahnit 15 years ago

There is a recessive gene for greyish eyes among certain East-Asian populations. My grandfather had such eyes.

P.S. Black is not a real eye colour; Asian people usually have very dark brown eyes.

[–] adesinish 15 years ago

those are very very clearly colored circle contacts. they have a black outline so that the colored part of the eyes look bigger and the inner part is blue.

[–] siobahnit 15 years ago

If she is so poor that she literally has to turn tricks for rice, how could she afford such a frivolity as coloured contacts?

[–] adesinish 15 years ago

lol. bc i'm pretty certain even if you're playing a poor character in a movie, in 2009 they still probably needed to wear contacts to see.
anyway i speak from experience bc i have circle contacts & that's what they look like.

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[–] Zerose 15 years ago

Her eyes are coloured contacts. Hee-ra Mun's real eye colour is normal brown. Blue eyes tend to stand out more in movies (that's why there are so many blue-eyed actors) so perhaps giving her blue eyes to make her eyes stand out in this movie for cinematic reasons?

(for your information -- blue, grey-blue and green eyes do exist among Asian people. Not many, but it exists. My grandmother had dark grey/blue eyes probably because of the recessive gene. She never had good experiences having them while growing up because it made her a social freak! There's no such thing as black eyes. "Black" is the darkest shade of brown. "Black" eyes are also rare. Many Asian people have normal brown eyes. There are some natural light-browned and fair-haired Asian people too, especially western Mongolians, northern Japanese people, and North-west(?) Koreans.)

[–] DaliParton 15 years ago

perhaps giving her blue eyes to make her eyes stand out in this movie for cinematic reasons?

I dunno they really aren't blue enough to stand out - I certainly didn't notice them in any other scene - and I watch on a 10' wide screen.

But thanks for understanding the question - all those other posters answering the question of why? with "because she's got contacts" sure was wearing thin.

As for black eyes, I've stared deeply into the of eyes of plenty of asian women and while not technically black, if you can't distinguish the iris from the pupil without the brightest of lights then for all intents and purposes it is black.

After over 30 years of regularly looking in the mirror, my wife (who has an engineering degree so its not like she's a rube), was surprised to learn that her pupils were distinct from her irises - she didn't believe me until I got an extra bright flashlight and showed her. She thought only white people had irises, lol.

[–] christy51274 14 years ago

I don't think there's any rhyme or reason as to why this character's eyes are blue (not that I even noticed prior to reading this post). Being half Korean myself and spending time with other Koreans (and Eastern Asians, in general), it's safe to say that the vast majority of them have brown eyes. Many young people like to experiment with eye color...nothing new. And, colored contacts nowadays are very inexpensive. Here in the U.S., you can easily get them for $50.

@DaliParton:

Oh, and regardless of whether your wife has an engineering degree or not, one must be a "rube" in order to have believed that only white people had irises (with a child being the exception). Not to insult you or your wife, but even a country bumpkin from deep down in the countryside would know this (engineering degree or not).

"Don't like me? Then jog on, my friend."

[–] dcartist 14 years ago

"I've stared deeply into the of eyes of plenty of asian women"

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Sorry, but nobody's irises are so "dark" that you can't distinguish the pupil from the iris close-up, The pupil is literally a hole, and the iris surrounding it is right there less than a cm below the cornea and has rather obvious texture to it. Unless you have extremely poor close vision, you can see the separation.

In looking at literally thousands of eyes up close on ophthalmologic exam, nobody's come close to being true "black" and even true black is easily distinguishable from a HOLE.

From a distance, some people look black in the iris, but I can't buy that you "stared deeply" into even one asian woman's eyes and were unable to distinguish the pupil.