"What are you doing So Ra? That's not your line! And why are you leaning on him?"
"I'm just following the script, Director Sir" she stated with the same confused look as him.
"Really?" he took So Ra's script from her assistant and studied the page.
"How is this possible!"
"But the same thing is there in my script too, Mr. Bo. What do you mean it's not right?" Jin asked
"Take a look for yourself." The director gave his script paper to them.
"What the hell!" they yelled after reading.
"This is the original script. Then how can there be an error in the copy? And moreover, there are supposed to be many more dialogues after Jin's line" He cocked his head at Mr. Cha, as in questioning him.
"I have no idea what's going on, Bo. After Taehyung gave me his script paper, I just segregated the dialogues accordingly and mailed them to Chan woo (assistant director) who took printouts and distributed to each actor their respective script."
"So... you didn't make any changes?" Mr. Bo reconfirmed
"Not at all"
"Strange" he muttered, and raised a brow at Chan Woo suspiciously.
"I just revised the mail once and took printouts, Sir" Chan Woo said.
"You sure you weren't drunk while reading the script?"
"I wasn't, Sir. When I'm drunk I also make spelling mistakes" Chan Woo tried to protest as politely as possible
"Hmm. I don't like to suspect you, Chan Woo. You've been very loyal all these years. But if something is wrong, you know you can be honest with me"
"I didn't make any changes, sir. Please trust me"
"The boy never made mistakes in all the years I've known him, Bo" Mr. Cha intervened "He's got no reason to mess up things. I think we should trust him at least now"
Mr. Bo nodded. "Well... it's only a page. Not a big deal to be made of" he said more to himself, and addressed to the lead actors "Learn the next few dialogues from my paper. We'll resume the shooting after twenty minutes."
Tae was passing by, and stopped beside So Ra who was learning the script.
"This is so beautiful....and tragic" she said, sensing his presence.
Tae smiled in relief that she finally spoke with him. 'I'm glad you liked it. But a little disappointed that what I couldn't make it happen, after all script did" he responded in his mind.
"By the way, that poem you once wrote-" So Ra spent few seconds recalling the lines, before narrating
"O, where would you rather dwell,
In Shakespeare's verse,
where your beauty would appear flawless?
Or in that of mine,
where your flaws appear beautiful?
I could never come up with an answer for that. I'm sure most of the readers couldn't. I always wondered whom you'd choose if you were the reader"
Tae was impressed at her memory. "Well, that poem wasn't really meant to offer a choice. It's purpose was to make the readers question themselves again and again. To put them in a dilemma.
If I'm not wrong, this is my only poem which you could've read more number of times"
So Ra gasped.
"I'm sure it's the same with everyone. The poem was framed in such a way that you'd read it more than once.
Some questions sound more beautiful without an answer, don't you think?"
YOU ARE READING
LEFT WITH WORDS || KIM TAEHYUNG
FanficKim Taehyung is a genius assistant scriptwriter working for South Korean Productions after he quit poetry. Will he be able to grow in the film industry while being suppressed by his superiors? The story depicts an irony between his beautif...
