where the sun always shines: author's notes

[luminors]

author's notes. these are the accompanying notes to where the sun always shines that i didn't want to write at the notes portion of the fic on ao3 because it's pretty lengthy already as is and i'd rather keep this wordy bit separate.

• this fic was largely inspired by purple noon, the man from u.n.c.l.e., rififi, cinema paradiso to an extent, and my love for wes anderson's films + cinematic style
• a friend told me that this reminded her a lot of the man from u.n.c.l.e and it isn't far off since, like i said, that film was one of the inspirations for this fic and i actually based sejeong a lot on napoleon solo and some of his background. another character i based her off of was tom ridley (played by the godly alain delon) from purple noon, at least in terms of skills anyway. the farthest comparison and inspiration would probably be mr. fox from fantastic mr. fox, lmao, because of reasons and things, such as his refusal to turn back from stealing chicken/the life of theft.
• there's a scene in the earlier part of the fic that serves as a nod to and is taken right out of rififi. this scene would be the one where somi's staring at sejeong like that again and tells her she's pretty. smooth. in the film, there's a 30 minute long heist scene that's shot in near complete silence, which just added to the suspense and thrill of the heist.
• as for the flow of the story or its structure, i based that off of how wes anderson tells stories in his films. if we look at the grand budapest hotel, the royal tenenbaums and fantastic mr. fox for example, you'd see that he divides his films into parts or chapters (in the case of the royal tenenbaums and fantastic mr. fox) and i love how he tells the stories for his films, so i decided to do the same with mine. lmao the fic was super scattered when i first started writing it, all over the place, and i seriously didn't know yet how i wanted it to flow. but thankfully after a few rewatches of wes's films, i was guided to the right path.
• this is the fountain scene that they replicated in the fic, from the film la dolce vita
• i have no idea about the actual age difference between sejeong and her brother, whether or not she's the older sibling or not, but for the fic i made her the older sibling, with an age difference of 2 years.

okay that's enough rambling from me.