She is able to help identify a Chinese restaurant that Joe's food came from while imprisoned. And if youre keeping track at home, both versions (American and Korean) are based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. We watch an extremely intoxicated man (please see the Substance Use category for more details) collapse on the sidewalk where he vomits all over his arm and hand and a pool of vomit collects under his head; we later see the intoxicated man stand up and no vomit is visible. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. Most of the hotel sequences are similar, but he doesnt just eat Chinese food: hes fed milk, Frosted Flakes, and even a microwaveable burrito, among other things. As a result, the real revenge plot was to subliminally get Oh Dae-su to fall in love with his own daughter, who was only four when he disappeared. Although Spike Lee's Oldboy fails to use the element of surprise and capture the visceral nature of Park Chan-wook's dark incestuous tale, it's still a tribute thatwarrants a watch. A man rushes into a woman's house (we later learn that she is his adult daughter) where she is bound and gagged and a man stands behind her while another man watches and two other men stand in the corner; two of the men grab the man, bring him to a table and pin him down as one of the men looms over him, threatening him and saying that he had tortured a woman for 16 days straight after she harmed him; the man pulls out a straight razor and appears about to cut the other man, when he is interrupted by a phone call and the man gathers the other men and they leave the house (one of the men slaps the woman on the behind as they walk out); the woman begins to cry and shoves the man as he tries to comfort her. [22], Spike Lee's version was 140 minutes long, but the producers heavily re-edited the film to 105 minutes[23][24] (re-edits by producers also included the "one-shot hammer" scene[25]); Lee and Josh Brolin were unhappy with it. Obviously not wanting to permanently scar his daughter, Oh Dae-su begs for Lee Woo-jin not to tell her, going so far as to cut his own tongue out as a gesture of what he would do to make sure she never learned the truth. He had imagined that she did kill herself, after the bad mouth from the others (including Oh Dae-su, that's why the revenge). Adrian Doyle Pryce only gives Joe 46 hours in Oldboy 2013. Here's how the U.S remake compares to Park Chan-wook's film. 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. SEX/NUDITY 8 - A woman with a towel around her helps a man remove his shirt and we see his bare chest; a portion of the woman's towel drops and we see her bare breast as the man and the woman kiss passionately, and then have sex: the man and the woman are seen switching positions multiple times with the man on top and then the woman on top and they are both fully nude (we see their bare buttocks, the man's bare chest and back and the woman's bare breasts in various positions; 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); another man secretly watches them on a CCTV and is aroused and delighted. A man grabs another man by the neck, holds him and punches him three times, until he is distracted by a video and drops the man to the ground. In the climactic scene at Lee Woo-jin's penthouse, he is threatening to tell Mi-do the truth about how she really had sex with her own father just after Oh Dae-su had learned it for himself. (at around 1h 12 mins) When Joe sneaks into Edwina Burke's (Evergreen Headmistress) home while she's talking to Marie, he pulls out a yearbook. A woman lowers herself into a bathtub (no nudity is visible). Of course, Oh Dae-su reaches for the remote, but upon pressing it he finds out that the remote actually turns on a loudspeaker that plays audio of him and Mi-do having sex. What I didnt understand was why were the other dozen? It's never revealed who Oh Dae-su really is to her. Director: Spike Lee Writers: Mark Protosevich The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. Oh Dae-su masturbates to women he sees on TV in Oldboy 2003. It is the second and most well-known installment of Park Chan-wook 's "Vengeance Trilogy", which begins with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and ends with Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. In the manga, Shinichi Got has the tracking device buried in his back near his right shoulder blade that Eri has to dig out with a knife. Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughters fourth birthday. Be aware that while we do our best to avoid spoilers it is impossible to disguise all details and some may reveal crucial plot elements. By the end of the film, its revealed that Arthur is having sex with both Amanda and Adrian. Served octopus, he bites into it without . 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. Oldboy. In a way, this has provided a blueprint for how series/movies use incest for plot twists in more recent media. I swear before God and eight motherfuckin' white people! Apart from bringing new life to 2003's Oldboy in Spike Lee's remake, Brolin and Olsen's pairing are at the center of the Thanos and Scarlet Witch beef, which was one of the most anticipated confrontations during the MCU's Avengers era. 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. The role was the motel prison captor who, in Parks film, gets his hand chopped off; remember him? Oldboy (2013) Synopsis Time to remake the remake. 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. A man watches footage of various disasters, including the following: the 9/11 disaster and he watches the World Trade Centers being struck by an airplane, and a man announcing that hurricane Katrina was moving toward New Orleans, as footage of flooding and mass destruction is shown. Adrian shows Joe that Marie is really his daughter and that he had engineered events to this point to make Joe feel what it is like to lose everything. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. These scenes are crucial to why, out of the movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, Oldboy is the most compelling. Right from the get go, I knew the American version of the film was dumbed down and playing it safe. Thus, the cycle of revenge moves into full effect. Joe calls Chucky with the name, and Chucky confirms Joe's guess that the Stranger is Adrian. A man watches a television program about the murder of his ex-wife and how he is wanted for committing the murder. He was portrayed by Yoo Ji-tae in his adult self. It should be noted that these films are linked thematically and not narratively. We see a sign that reads, "Guns don't kill, people do." It is a happy ending only if you have the willpower to ignore the truth of the situation and allow Oh Dae-su and Mi-do to live in a lie that has been meticulously crafted for them. 2013's Oldboy has a unique sequence where Joe befriends a white mouse, who keeps him company and makes him happy for a short period of time. There was no switch to turn my heart off' gadget. As Spike Lee himself explains, 2013's Oldboy remake is more a reinterpretation of the original Korean thriller than a remake. Become a member of our premium site for just $1/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. The fourth major fail was in the reveal of the incest. Sometimes these emotions can mix in a volatile way that can cause us to seek revenge over one another. He finds himself imprisoned in a hotel where hes fed the same Chinese food every day for every meal. Become a member of our premium site for just $2/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. A man watches a television news reporter announce that a woman had been murdered and we see a sheet-covered gurney (a small amount of blood is seen on the sheet) wheeled away; the reporter announces that the woman had a daughter, and we see a small girl being handed to an older woman; the man becomes very upset when the reporter announces that the police believe that he had murdered the woman. Stoker Trailer Starring Nicole Kidman and Mia . And you will be helping support our website & our efforts. [2:00]. A man has a flashback to when he was a teen boy and watched a teen girl having sex with an older man; the girl locks eyes with the man (as a teen boy), then leans her head back while having thrusting sex (no nudity is visible) and we later see the man realize that the teen girl having sex with the older man was actually having sex with her father. Junko lives in Los Angeles and is an actor, consultant, Japanese/English interpreter and translator in addition to being an equestrian and mounted archer, who peruses the aisles of the local Book Off (Japanese second hand bookstore) for her next manga discovery. The father of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and his girlfriend have been jailed for the six-year-old's killing. 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. Meanwhile, he puts himself back in the motel jail and has hidden camera feed of his daughter in the room. 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. He is the one who orchestrated Joe Doucett's twenty year imprisonment to make him pay for his family's abysmal death. Having just started his career with Collider in Fall of 2021, he hopes to bring a unique light towards shows that may otherwise be missed out on. [27] It was the last film to be distributed by the company, before Focus Features absorbed the company in October 2013. 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. What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? Related:Why Park Chan-wook Has Disowned His Debut The Moon Is The Sun's Dream. This concept alone isn't one that is unfamiliar to many, as I am sure we have all had our moments of small, petty revenge for things that would be seen upon looking back as not necessarily being worth getting revenge for in the first place. His unseen captors provide him with food, alcohol and hygiene items, but do not explain why he is captive. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. The fifth major fail and second plot difference is the ending. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. Oldboy.2013.720p.BluRay.DTS-5.1.x264-AXED (by: Matmanamane) Webdl ( 1 subtitles) Oldboy.German.2013.BDRiP.x264-EXQUiSiTE (by: Matmanamane) TH Thai Bluray ( 1 subtitles) Oldboy (2013) 720p BluRay - OCR (by: tre2004) TR Turkish Trke Webdl ( 1 subtitles) Oldboy.2013.BDRiP.AC3-5.1.XviD-AXED (by: mstskn) NL Dutch Nederlands, Vlaams Webdl [3][4] In November 2008, DreamWorks and Universal were securing the rights to the remake, which Will Smith had expressed interest in starring, with Steven Spielberg as director. What drives Lee Woo-jin to imprison Oh Dae-su for so long in Oldboy 2003 is that Dae-su tells his best friend, Joo-hwan, about Lee Woo-jin and his sister, Lee Soo-ah, having sex with each other back in high school. [6] Smith later clarified that Spielberg would not be remaking the film: he would be adapting the Old Boy manga itself,[7] which is considerably different from the film. Meanwhile, Joe gives the rest of his diamonds to Chaney who imprisons Joe back in the hotel room for the rest of his life. [21] The film marked Jackson's first time working with director Lee since 1991's Jungle Fever. Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. Joe is drugged shortly thereafter, and wakes to find himself outside with a cell phone and a small amount of money. Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film very loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name. Later, Chaney has his henchman Cortez rape Marie. The two embrace, and there's a conflicted expression on Oh Dae-su's face that makes one wonder if he will ever truly forget what the truth is. people imprisoned on the multiple cam shot that SLJ was watching. James White is a graduate from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln who loves to write and analyze various forms of media. When Lee Woo-jin is breaking down the rules of the game for Oh Dae-su into in Oldboy 2003, he claims to have a pacemaker with a remote that could cause Dae-su's heart to stop at any moment, and threatens to do this if Dae-su tries to kill him one of the many horror movie tropes and easter eggs in Oldboy. The movie title screen had 20 tick marks instead of 15. Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. Oldboy 2003 is a classic piece of Korean cinema, and it was remade in 2013 by Spike Lee. The remake chooses to hint at several of the most memorable elements from Oldboy 2003 with teases to those beloved scenes a common tool across modern movie remakes of old stories. One day, he sees an interview with Mia, who says she would forgive her father if she ever saw him. The two actors are more famously known by their respective characters in the MCU the Mad Titan Thanos and Scarlet Witch. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su eats a live octopus after hes released. Her twitters @GoJunko are usually filled with Star Trek-isms. A man tells another man that a school must have learned that a man was having sex with his teenage children, forcing them to leave the school and the country; the man implies that because the man was wealthy that no legal issue was made of the relationship. Marie recognizes the ringtone from the Stranger as the theme song to Evergreen Academy, where Joe attended. The plot for Zinda is almost identical to the storyline of Oldboy. Unsure of what to do, Oh Dae-su finds the hypnotist that tranced him earlier in the film and convinces her to make him forget the secret, so that he can go on without living in disgust with himself. Related:How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original. Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue with a pair of scissors at the end of Oldboy 2003. Written by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi, the Old Boy manga was published by Futabasha magazine between 1996 and 1998 throughout eight volumes. 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. Notably, Taika Waititi's hated film Jojo Rabbit explores this type of comfort hallucination better. . To the first question: He realized he killed his sister (and lover). Also, Josh Brolins character didnt gain any sympathy like the Korean protagonist. The entire point of revenge is that it is supposed to bring a level of satisfaction towards those who achieve it, however Oldboy makes it clear that the satisfaction brought out from revenge is not a feeling worth chasing. 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. If you could, you would have noticed the first sentence in the second paragraph that warns This write-up will be chock full of spoilers. Then, to solidify your role as ignorant douche bag of the year, you blame the author for ruining the movie by flying off the deep in a crazy rage of insults worthy of a 6th grade playground, all because..wellyou just didnt possess the necessary higher brain activity to prevent causing yourself the unjustifiable rage you felt for such a little thing. It is a remake of Park Chan-wook's 2003 South Korean film of the same name, and follows a man who searches for his captors after being mysteriously imprisoned for twenty years. So Ill just barf out the major wrongs about this sad re-make and be done with it. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. Apparently not for Doucett, who just ignores it and keeps fighting. Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for both 2003 and 2013 versions of Oldboy. Lee Woo-jins revenge comes in the form of hypnotizing both Oh Dae-su and Mi-do to fall in love with each other, but due to being in prison for 15 years Oh Dae-su doesnt recognize that Mi-do is his now adult daughter. In Oldboy 2013, Joe Doucett is an alcoholic but is never arrested; instead hes shown ruining a big meeting by hitting on the woman of a potential client. Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - A man walks into his teenage daughter's bedroom and as she goes to unbutton her shirt in a suggestive manner (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), the man shoots her in the chest with a shotgun (the force of the impact sends the girl backwards and we see a spray of blood hit the wall); the man leaves the room and shoots a woman in the torso (we see blood spray from behind the woman and a large, gory hole is shown in the woman's stomach); the man then walks into another room where his teenage son unbuckles his pants in a suggestive manner (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and the man shoots the teen boy in the chest and shoulder (the impact blows the teen boy backward and blood and gore spray from the wound); the man cocks the gun again and shoots himself in the head (blood and gore spray from his head, almost half his skull is shot off and his dead body collapses on top of the teen boy). As in, this last self inflicted act of stupidity on your part was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back? A man spits out his food, he then angrily throws a tray of food at a wall. 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. 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. Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review. [34], Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gives three of four stars, saying: "Because the Internet moves with the speed and ferocity of a hornet swarm, there's a chance that by the time you read this, Spike Lee's American remake of Oldboy will already have been stung to death. This raises the long asked philosophical question: is it better to live in a happy lie or to live in a sad reality? This then leads to Arthur aiming his shotgun, and shooting . A man angrily shouts at another man and tries to grab the man but is calmed down when a woman appears. [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. But in the process, he (I can't remember his name) is reminded that he couldn't stand the rumors, so he killed her. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. 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. It is a remake of Park Chan-wook 's 2003 South Korean film of the same name, and follows a man who searches for his captors after being mysteriously imprisoned for twenty years. All he has is the TV to keep him company. Joe goes to Adrian's penthouse, defeats Haeng-Bok, and confronts Adrian. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. 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