It is not unreasonable that someone so young would not remember the appearance of their father after a 15 year absence. Just. movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original, movies that use tricks for one-shot scenes, how series/movies use incest for plot twists, Why Park Chan-wook Has Disowned His Debut The Moon Is The Sun's Dream, WandaVision's darkly comedic use of a sitcom-within-a-series, movie featuring both Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen, Why Zombie Scarlet Witch Cant Defeat Ultron (But Wanda Could Beat Thanos). REVIEWS On return to Chucky's bar, Joe finds the Stranger there with the woman with the yellow umbrella, his bodyguard Haeng-Bok. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. 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. Enter your email address to subscribe to The NOC and receive notifications of new posts by email. A teen boy grabs a pair of brief-style underwear from a teen girl's laundry basket, tossing them to another teen boy, who smells them deeply and makes a sexual remark about the girl; a second teen girl comes to the first girl's defense and tells the teen boys to stop teasing her. Lee Woo-jin then states that hell kill Mi-do if Oh Dae-su cant figure out who he is after five days have passed. A man spits out his food, he then angrily throws a tray of food at a wall. I find it hard to believe Spike Lee could adapt this film for an American audience. We hear a squishing crunching noise, which we learn is a man fatally smashing another man in the face with a hammer; we see as the man smashes the hammer into a second man's face, a spray of blood leaves the man's head as his nose bridge caves in from the hammer, and the man walks over to a third man and cleaves the claw portion of the hammer into his head (we see the man's eyes bug out and blood pours from the wound as the man slumps over and blood pools under the man's head). A man grabs a woman's upper thigh and makes a series of crude remarks asking her to have sex with him; the woman promptly turns him down and her husband overhears and is visibly upset with the other man (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). The protagonist wronged someone, they got revenge on him, and now he wants revenge on them. 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. Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. The movie title screen had 20 tick marks instead of 15. [2:00]. Chan-wook Park makes his English-language directorial debut with this drama about a mother and daughter who are visited by a mysterious relative. Related:What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? That said, some CGI is used for the knife in Dae-sus back and to land hidden punches. Apparently not for Doucett, who just ignores it and keeps fighting. Oldboy 2013 compiles the hallucinations and that dreaded sense of loneliness into one short sequence where a bearded and long-haired Joe sees a bellhop at the hotel sitting on his bed eating popcorn and laughing at the TV. Both films toy with the captor releasing his prisoner. She is able to help identify a Chinese restaurant that Joe's food came from while imprisoned. But Americans love torture porn, though. 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. After all, neither of the characters attempting to get revenge in the film have good endings. But when he removes a knife from his back, he squeals and squeals and squeals. 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[28], The film grossed $885,000 in its first five days, one of the weakest Thanksgiving openings of all time, according to Variety. Korean version killed American version. In Oldboy 2013, Joe stares at an octopus in a fish tank. Spike Lee's Oldboy remake contains several differences, with changes made in a bid to give the film its own identity, but it failed to make the same kind of impact. A man angrily shouts at another man and tries to grab the man but is calmed down when a woman appears. As a result, Arthur moved them to Luxembourg, but later murdered his wife and Amanda, severely wounded Adrian and committed suicide. We learn that a man and a woman that have been shown having sex are father and daughter and that neither were aware of their relationship when they engaged in sex, but the man is disgusted and horrified when it is revealed and he is forced to watch clips of CCTV footage of him having sex with his own adult daughter. To get this to happen, Lee Woo-jin had Oh Dae-su's wife murdered and his daughter Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung) hypnotized to ensure that the two would fall for one another once Oh Dae-su was released. It comes from a segment near the end of the 2013 movie review, in a flashback where Adrian's father, Arthur goes around with a shotgun, and tries to murder his family. Meanwhile, he puts himself back in the motel jail and has hidden camera feed of his daughter in the room. Im also assuming that my readers have seen the original, Korean version of Oldboy. At the school, they look through yearbooks; Joe recognizes one student, Adrian Doyle Pryce, and recalls tormenting his sister, Amanda, for her promiscuity, which led to the revelation that their father, Arthur, had incestuous relations with them both. And while bettering himself in the process he aims to find out why he endured his confinement. When he wakes, he finds himself locked within a hotel room. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. "It's not one shot," Mr. Lee said. However, Lees film also revealed that the villains father was having sex with his own 16-year old daughter (not the villain having sex with his sister as in Park Chan-wooks film). Get off the author dick Josephine mike gave his opinion but I guess you have the right to dickeat smh. The fourth major fail was in the reveal of the incest. The fifth major fail and second plot difference is the ending. Oh Dae-su writes a detailed journal of what he goes through over the course of several years in Oldboy 2003. A man's room fills with gas and the man awakens in a field, unharmed but completely disoriented. He is based on Lee Woo-jin from the original film. 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. Oldboy (2,874) 5.8 1 h 43 min 2013 X-Ray R. An advertising executive set free after 20 years of imprisonment launches a bloody mission of revenge against his one-time captor. Witness how far we as humans can go to get revenge as we explain the ending to one of the best revenge films ever made. Oldboy (2013) - soundtrack - Movie HD - ThmovieHDD.com By the end of the film, its revealed that Arthur is having sex with both Amanda and Adrian. It triggers what should normally be a happy ending where the protagonist gets with their love interest, which in turn makes viewers all the more unsettled when it sinks in that they are being emotionally manipulated to be happy for this incestuous relationship. What the what!? What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? Thought Id save you at least a little more frustration by letting you know that). While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. While we read all emails & try to reply we don't always manage to do so; be assured that we will not share your e-mail address. A man grabs the face of a woman and kisses her and they pause and kiss again; we later learn that the man and the woman were father and daughter (unbeknownst to them at the time, but later revealed to the man). Oldboy (2013) Synopsis Time to remake the remake. Later that day, his meal arrives on a silver platter, and the mouse and her dead babies are revealed to be inside cooked with garnish for Joe. Oldboy is a South-Korean thriller movie based on a Japanese manga series. Anyway, there's apparently a director's cut of this film that is at least 35 minutes longer. A man coaxes a mouse into captivity and we then see the mouse with ten baby mice; the man is extremely happy and tells the mouse never to leave; the man wakes up later and the mouse is missing causing him to panic and shout, a tray is slid under the door and he finds the mouse, dead and surrounded by its dead babies with a smear of blood on the plate; the man cries and appears inconsolable. A man is shown heavily sedated by a gas as we see hands plucking hair from his head, taking a swab from the man's mouth and then placing the man's hand on a crow bar (we learn that these were planted as evidence in the murder of the man's ex-wife). Batman and The Wasp Flashpoint Mania. Notably, both the original film and the manga predate the long-running Saw franchise and other contemporary movies and series that deeply explore body horror. All he has is the TV to keep him company. A man drinks liquor nearly throughout the entire movie, a man drinks vodka straight from a bottle on many occasions, we see a teenage boy and an adult man drinking to the point of black-out drunkenness, a man is seen drinking to the point of extreme drunkenness and he vomits on himself as he collapses on a street corner (he is later seen standing back up and he is still heavily intoxicated), a man drinks at a bar and he offers a man a shot of liquor (the man turns it down), a man pours liquor into a soda cup and drinks from the cup unbeknownst to people around him that he is drinking liquor, men and women are seen drinking wine at dinner, a group of young men are seen drinking bottles of beer, a man is seen suffering from withdrawal symptoms on his own accord as he begins to pour out a bottle of vodka typically given to him on a daily basis (the man shakes and is seen obviously suffering), a man and a woman discuss how the man is an alcoholic, and a woman tells a man that she is an alcoholic and implies that she had also had a drug addiction. Though these changes seem small, they play into where Oldboy stands in Spike Lee's filmography. 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. [8] In June 2009, the manga's publisher launched a lawsuit against the Korean film's producers for giving the film rights to Spielberg without their permission. Here's how the U.S remake compares to Park Chan-wook's film. But in the process, he (I can't remember his name) is reminded that he couldn't stand the rumors, so he killed her. A man holds a box cutter in his hand and it appears that he was planning on using it, but walks away when he sees an older man suffering from dementia. 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