Anyway, there's apparently a director's cut of this film that is at least 35 minutes longer. [24] Brolin has also said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he prefers Lee's version of the film, though it is not clear if this cut will ever be released. REVIEWS What I didnt understand was why were the other dozen? It is almost always better to face the truth, but that is easier said than done when the truth brings you so much pain. We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. Related:Why Park Chan-wook Has Disowned His Debut The Moon Is The Sun's Dream. From then, he loses consciousness, only to find himself in prison with a trap-door for food and a TV, which tells him that he murdered his wife. Just as Chaney is about to beat him savagely, the Stranger calls Chaney and offers to pay him for Joe's release, and Chaney lets them go. Manisha, the little girl, claimed that she was their deceased daughter Suman, who had died of typhoid at the age of 15 on December 14, 2000. Chaney is basically both characters while Adrians bodyguard is a woman named Haeng-bok; she has very few lines and doesnt do much besides fight and hold an umbrella. On holidays like Father's Day, that loss is even more evident because other children do have their fathers present. When he finds himself in solitary confinement in a prison cell . A man begs another man to kill him, the man refuses and the first man holds the gun under his own chin and shoots himself in the head as the other man watches (we see a spray of blood hit the wall behind the man along with small chunks of gore as it drips down the wall); the man's body is seen collapsed on the ground. He is a wealthy businessman who seeks out extreme revenge against his former classmate Oh Dae-su for playing an indirect part in his sister's death. 'Oldboy' Ending Explained: Is Revenge Really Worth It? Park Chan-wook was brilliant in keeping the audience and the hero in the dark about the reason for his imprisonment! FB: JunkoGodaFanPage It is a cycle that will continue to spiral as each person tries to come out on top. Joe hides Marie in a hotel for her safety, and they end up having sex, unaware Adrian is watching through hidden cameras. Reassure the child that you know they will have a hard time with the day, but that it's okay to be sad sometimes. Oh Dae-su uses these notebooks as journals to keep a record of his time locked away from the outside world. "[38], "Justin Lin Talks 'Fast & Furious 4' Gig and 'Oldboy' Departure", "Will Smith Says Oldboy Won't be Adaptation of Chan-wook Park's Film", "Will Smith Definitely Starring In 'Oldboy,' Says Steven Spielberg Film Won't Be A Remake", "Old Boy Publisher Sues Korean Studio Over U.S. Film Rights", "Will Smith & Steven Spielberg's Old Boy DEAD! Later, Chaney has his henchman Cortez rape Marie. His unseen captors provide him with food, alcohol and hygiene items, but do not explain why he is captive. Though these changes seem small, they play into where Oldboy stands in Spike Lee's filmography. A man discovers another man unconscious on the floor and he calls 911 but then hangs up; we see a woman giving the man an IV and tells the man that the unconscious man is exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished; the man wakes up with a start, grabs the woman and threatens to kill her, the woman talks the man down and he appears unharmed and unfazed. An older man makes a crude sexual remark to a man as a threat to the man's genitals. We see a smear of blood on the bricks of a shower as a man digs at the grout around a brick. Mr. Han is Lee Woo-jins right-hand man that fights for him and protects him at every turn, like how the infamous Luca Brasi served Don Corleone in The Godfather. Since Joe wins Adrians game, he receives the $20 million in diamonds. Related:How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original. A man tells another man that he gains pleasure from forcing him into a sexual relationship with his own adult daughter (the man did not know the woman was his daughter when they had sex), so he could feel the sexual connection that the man had shared with his own father. A man lightly kisses his wife on the cheek. Korean version killed American version. In 1993, alcoholic advertising executive Joe Doucett gets drunk after losing a major account. What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? We see a television reporter announce that a man, his wife and teenage daughter had been killed and a teen boy severely injured; a teen girl is wheeled out on a blood-covered gurney, and a blood-covered teen boy with a breathing mask on his face is seen being wheeled out of a house. A man grabs a hammer from the hands of a woman, and then shoves a young man off a bike and steals the bike, following a man driving an SUV. The 2003 film however did such a good job at presenting the theme of revenge that it has won a plethora of awards over its lifetime, such as the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival or how it won the Best Film at both the Grand Bell Awards and the Korean Film Awards. I never understood the smile at the end, but I assume that the Buddha duck represented karma (he got back what he gave out) and the smile may have represented an enlightened stage for him, an end to his chaotic experience. Another red flag was that there was lengthy setup of our hero being an asshole. Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) has never taken his role as husband and father seriously and has just been released from police custody for drunk and disorderly behaviour on his own baby daughter's birthday. A man opens a box and discovers a human tongue, and a woman looks in the box and cries out in horror. Also, Josh Brolins character didnt gain any sympathy like the Korean protagonist. That scene, however, along with much of Mr. Lee's initial, three-hour cut, was trimmed by the studio to make the final version'srun time. Instead, Lee decided that everyone should live happily ever after; therefore, Doucett ends up with a fortune and sends a share of it to help his daughter start her life over, telling her hell never see her again. Joe neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. people imprisoned on the multiple cam shot that SLJ was watching. Helping our teens deal with mistakes is a part of being a good parent. In 2013's Oldboy remake, Joe masturbates to a woman using a thigh master in Oldboy 2013 and its stretched out to have them groan and mutter, Yeah, to each other awkwardly. Ive seen the original Oldboy but Ive yet to see the remake if private prisons like the 1 in Oldboy actually exist then I imagine that a lot of money must be needed to run them. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film very loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name. A man is seen shirtless nearly throughout the movie, we see his bare back and chest and he wears only boxer-style underwear. Apparently not for Doucett, who just ignores it and keeps fighting. Director Park Chan-wook Cast Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Yun Jin-seo, Kim Byeong-ok, Yoon Jin-seo Rated R Runtime 120 min. I finally watched the South Korean version. Two men read a newspaper article about a man who had died in a car accident with his wife. Vincent Parker told investigators that he killed his 57-year-old mother, Carol, and 55-year-old father, Wayne, inside the family's Norfolk home on Dec. 19, 2013, according to his confession. Seeing the lengths he would go to, Lee Woo-jin decides to not have Mi-do learn the truth, instead leaving Oh Dae-su with a remote that supposedly would cause the pacemaker that Lee Woo-jin had installed to kill himself if Oh Dae-su tried to torture him. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. Starring: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong. Instead, Lees re-write was to manipulate our hero via TV show segments to convince Doucett that his daughter was alive and well. Joe calls Chucky with the name, and Chucky confirms Joe's guess that the Stranger is Adrian. The guy kidnaps Joe's daughter and gives him 48 hours to figure out who he is and why he hates him so much he locked him up for 20 years. 2003's Oldboy was remade in 2013, but the new version made some big changes to the original. He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. Apparently, Samuel L Jackson runs the prison and rented it out for use, hence, the scene with the tape recording of the deal he made with the main antagonist (sorry, forgot his name >.<) and why Joe was able to cut a deal to re-enter the jail even after the main villain's death. In Oldboy 2013, Joes ex-wife Donna is raped and murdered. I don't think it was a triangle, but instead that the whole family, dad, mom, sister, and brother, were all incestuous together. That said, it's incorrect to labelthe Oldboy remake a bad movie. Several men discover three dead bodies, and there's a lingering shot of the pool of blood under the head of the man whose head was cleaved by the hammer. They just show her driving away superimposed on the day / night screen behind him. As Spike Lee himself explains, 2013's Oldboy remake is more a reinterpretation of the original Korean thriller than a remake. I swear before God and eight motherfuckin' white people! We see a portion of one fitness video of women wearing bikini tops and bottoms and we see a tight shot of the woman's backsides as they bend down (cleavage, bare abdomen, bare backs and part of their bare buttocks are seen). Her twitters @GoJunko are usually filled with Star Trek-isms. [12] Josh Brolin was cast to star in the remake as the lead character, while Christian Bale was reportedly in talks to portray the antagonist character,[13] but it was later reported that Colin Firth had been offered the role. Samuel L. Jackson as a whiney hired-hand begging not to be tortured was just boring and under utilized his talents. Release Date 11/21/2003. Thanks for ruining the ending you worthless sack of shit. A washed up alcoholic is kidnapped and imprisoned in a single room by his unseen captors for 20 years. It's a question that, while seemingly easy to answer on the surface, provides some strong conflicting emotions when presented more directly into our lives. You can help us keep our independence with a donation. It should be noted that these films are linked thematically and not narratively. A man tells another man that he will give the man a video of him killing the man's ex-wife and raping her (as he is saying this we see black and white clips of the man, 20 years younger, ripping the underwear off a woman and then choking her); the man begs the other man to stop and the other man explains that he will produce a signed confession for the murder of the man's wife, as well as the man's kidnapping, if he solves a riddle, but if he is unable to solve the riddle, he will murder the man's daughter; the man forces the other man to watch footage of a woman being tortured and a man is shown standing behind her (as if to rape her) while the woman is bound and gagged.
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