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. Doucett follows the Temptress who leads him to where his daughter is working. and instead of just one person committing suicide the dad shoots his daughter . If you get hit by a 24 plank of wood, doesnt it hurt? A man pounds his head against a mirror and the mirror breaks and we see a small amount of blood on his forehead; the man then pounds his fists against a mirror, it breaks and the man takes a piece of the broken mirror and uses it to slit his wrists (we see blood pour from the wounds); he is then seen waking up in a bed with a bandage over his arm and his bloody forehead cleaned. In fact, the film itself is part of a trilogy of films titled The Vengeance Trilogy that all center around the theme of revenge. In order to fully answer the question of what's different in the Oldboy remake, as well as to understand why Spike Lee remade Oldboy, viewers need to know the history behind the Korean thriller. 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. [14] Firth later passed on the role,[15] which was later offered to Clive Owen. . I wont go into the other levels of failure and why it didnt work, but it was pretty bad in conveying any sort of story within the fighting like Parks fight scene achieved. [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. Not everything from Oldboy 2003 transitions over to Oldboy 2013. The heinous act is recorded and used as leverage against Joe. Im also assuming that my readers have seen the original, Korean version of Oldboy. However, Joe wakes up one day to find the mouse and her babies gone, and sobs over her disappearance. He spots the woman with the yellow umbrella and gives chase, but ends up running into Marie Sebastian, a nurse that offers to help. [10] The producing team announced on November 2009 that the project was dead.[11]. A man bites his own hand so hard that he draws blood and uses the blood to create a smiley face on a pillow case, which he holds as he sleeps. Oldboy | 2013 | R | - 8.9.8 Remake of the 2003 Korean revenge thriller about a man (Josh Brolin) who was kidnapped and held captive in a motel room for twenty years. The story of Oldboy 2003 is based on how a father has been struggling to find his daughter for so many years. A man chases a woman, he runs onto a football field and grabs the woman's arm, the woman shouts at the man and a nearby young man grabs the man and punches him; the man punches the young man to the ground and then fights the young man's five friends, including smashing one of the young men's heads against a bottle and straddling one of the young man and punching him with such impact that his neck whips backwards (a group of young women beg the man to stop); as the man walks away, we see the bodies of six young men lying on the ground and they all appear unconscious. The hallway sequence is allegedly re-edited by producers in Oldboy 2013 and is about 15 seconds shorter in comparison, and tries to outdo how impressive the original sequence is. 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). Park Chan-wook was brilliant in keeping the audience and the hero in the dark about the reason for his imprisonment! See production, box office & company info, Surprisingly engaging Brolin pulls out all the stops, WatchMojo: Another Top 10 Worst Hollywood Remakes. We see a woman wearing brief-style underwear while a man is above her, he appears as though is he going to rape her; they are interrupted and we see the man leave as he smacks the woman on the backside before walking away and the woman pulls up her pants in a panic (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). 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 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. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. Reviewed by: Spencer Schumacher CONTRIBUTOR Moral Rating: Extremely Offensive Moviemaking Quality: Primary Audience: Adults Genre: Action Thriller Suspense Mystery Drama Remake Length: 1 hr. Crushed, humiliated, and in unimaginable pain, Oh Dae-su lies on the floor of the penthouse broken as Lee Woo-jin descends the elevator. When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. "I want to eat something alive," he explains. One large plot difference with Lees version is the complete absence of the hypnotist and the hypnotic conditioning that, in the original film, explains the movie and leads to a rather brilliant ending. Liar, Liar (Between Father and Daughter) VHS Lifetime Movie Canadian Full Andrew Spannaus 2.23K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K Share Save 162K views 6 years ago A Canadian little girl notorious for. In a way, this has provided a blueprint for how series/movies use incest for plot twists in more recent media. 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. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. His favorite movie is Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, not just for the good story or the amazing animation, but for the incredible soundtrack as well! A man eats a piece of food, then spits it out (visibly half-chewed) into a napkin. It could have been the best Hollywood thriller ever since the days of Hitchcock. 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. Joe hides Marie in a hotel for her safety, and they end up having sex, unaware Adrian is watching through hidden cameras. While we read all emails & try to reply we do not always manage to do so; be assured that we will not share your e-mail address. The program only has one viewer for its entire run. The villains bodyguard was a female for no other reason than to have a mute Asian female Temptress (, )who at one point is scantily clad for the asexual villain, View thenerdsofcolors profile on Facebook, View thenerdsofcolors profile on Twitter, View thenerdsofcolors profile on Instagram, View thenerdsofcolors profile on YouTube, see Julies post on Jeff Yangs Marvels and Monsters exhibit, The N.O.C.s Most Read Posts of All Time | thenerdsofcolor, 300. It was directed by Chan Wook-Park (who also did the screenplay). He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. Its been a little over a day since I saw both versions of Oldboy one by Spike Lee and one by Park Chan-wook back to back. Having fulfilled his revenge plot that was so long in the making, Lee Woo-jin takes his own life feeling that he is now finally satisfied. 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. Both Oldboy films are based on the Japanese manga of the same name. [5] Mark Protosevich was in talks to write the script, although the acquisition to the remake rights were not finalized. Become a member of our premium site for just $2/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. It stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley . She drives off to live her life with the rubber duck on the dashboard of her truck. Oldboy Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Josh Brolin Movie HD - YouTube Watch FREE FULL MOVIES in exclusive https://bit.ly/3woTiHZOldboy directed by Spike Lee and starring Samuel L. Jackson,. "There . Become a member of our premium site for just $1/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. However, Adrian asks Joe to think why he had let Joe go in the first place, and shows that the interview with Mia was all a set-up, and "Mia" was a paid actress. It should be noted that these films are linked thematically and not narratively. He was portrayed by Yoo Ji-tae in his adult self. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. 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. 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Oldboy is a South-Korean thriller movie based on a Japanese manga series. Its literally heart-wrenching, a little hopeful, and a little painful. The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life parents" as her own. 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. A man lightly kisses his wife on the cheek. Served octopus, he bites into it without . A man spits out his food, he then angrily throws a tray of food at a wall. An extremely intoxicated man pounds on the door of a restaurant until another man comes to the window and sends the man away. It is a cycle that will continue to spiral as each person tries to come out on top. Oldboy Plot Synopsis After another night of drunken revelry, Oh Dae-su is sent to prison. This then leads to Arthur aiming his shotgun, and shooting . "[35], Justin Chang of Variety said that "Lee and Protosevich have made a picture that, although several shades edgier than the average Hollywood thriller, feels content to shadow its predecessor's every move while falling short of its unhinged, balls-out delirium. It follows advertising executive Joe Doucett as he is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. A man takes a bite of food and runs out of the restaurant and vomits out the doorway (we hear the sound of vomit and see what appears to be a small amount of vomit leave his mouth). Like. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. The most noticeable difference between the two films while the main character is imprisoned is what they write on the paper provided to them in the hotel room. Joe's actions at school ruined what was, in the perception of the stranger, a close, loving family life. Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, the original movie, is definitely better than the 2013 Oldboy remake, which is one of the more underwhelming films made by Spike Lee. Dear (Lousy) Mother, First, don't be so quick to call yourself a lousy mother. So there you have it! The big problem with Lee's "Oldboy" is that for all its dark confidence, it doesn't reimagine the original boldly enough.This isn't like Martin Scorsese's "Cape Fear," David Cronenberg's "The Fly" or Jonathan Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate"or the recent superhero-inflected version of "Carrie," which I liked better than most criticsall of which drastically rethought their inspirations. As you may remember, Dae-su asks the hypnotist to make him forget all the horrible things that happened and when he is reunited with his daughter, we see this wonderful struggling, mixed emotion from Dae-su. I mean REALLY trying not being such a moron in the future, and maybe you wont have to spray your inwardly directed anger at everyone but yourself. The father of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and his girlfriend have been jailed for the six-year-old's killing. While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. 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. 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. Joe collapses from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie to help. A man's room fills with gas and the man awakens in a field, unharmed but completely disoriented. Instead, Lees re-write was to manipulate our hero via TV show segments to convince Doucett that his daughter was alive and well. Mr. Han and Mr. Park seem to have been rolled into one in Oldboy 2013. When children lose a parent, the sadness runs deep. He then appears to stumble across a young social worker named Marie. 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). 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. The fifth major fail and second plot difference is the ending. Im no therapist (although you may think about seeing one), but do you you think maybe, just maybe, it wasnt the author you were so angry with, but rather, years and years of building frustration at your own near retardation level of intelligence finally boiling over? Release Date 11/21/2003. Adrian Doyle Pryce only gives Joe 46 hours in Oldboy 2013. He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. These TV show segments were so unusually well-timed that the viewer knows that its fake and a set-up. Her twitters @GoJunko are usually filled with Star Trek-isms. A woman lowers herself into a bathtub (no nudity is visible). The scene isnt meant to be sexual, but more of a means of feeling something from another human being. Watch Oldboy: Josh Brolin Transformation (Featurette). 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. through the culturally critical eye of a POC. The knife is stabbed in Joes back at the end of the fight compared to Oh Dae-su getting stabbed closer to the middle. Here's how the U.S remake compares to Park Chan-wook's film. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue with a pair of scissors at the end of Oldboy 2003. I don't think it was a triangle, but instead that the whole family, dad, mom, sister, and brother, were all incestuous together. [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. And you will be helping support our website & our efforts. 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. Mi-do relates it to a time when she was alone on the subway and saw a human-sized ant in the same car as her. Instead the viewer developed no pity for Lees main character. 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. 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. But Americans love torture porn, though. Essay by Brian Eggert March 23, 2009. View all posts by Junko, A place to discuss, comment on and geek out about stuff in the world of fandom (i.e., comics, movies, gaming, animation, toys, etc.) There are juicy and nauseating sound effects, but its fairly brief. The problem with remaking a movie that's hinged around a single giant twist is that the element of surprise no longer applies. A man is seen shirtless nearly throughout the movie, we see his bare back and chest and he wears only boxer-style underwear. He refuses but takes her business card. The real act of revenge wasn't just to lock Oh Dae-su away for fifteen years, but it was actually to make him feel the same levels of pain as Lee Woo-jin had gone through. Joe follows a delivery from the restaurant to a warehouse where he was imprisoned, and meets Chaney, its owner. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. 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. In the original movie, Oh Dae-su had been jailed for 15 years (it was ten years in the manga), but Spike Lees Joe Doucett was imprisoned for 20 years. 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. Directors Spike Lee Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin Genres Suspense, Drama, . Furthermore, the dimly lit sequence lasts about three minutes. Took me a minute to figure that one out. In fact, because of the original Oldboy's cult status, even some who've never seen the movie are aware of its father-daughter incest twist, which has become the subject of jokes, memes, and online discussions about pop culture. 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. That said, some CGI is used for the knife in Dae-sus back and to land hidden punches. Its not the octopus scene or the fighting that makes it so brilliant. Two men read a newspaper article about a man who had died in a car accident with his wife. Stars: Samuel L Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin, Michael Imperioli, Hannah Ware, James . That. Oldboy was also remade in 2013 by director Spike Lee, though it was seen as a mediocre reinterpretation that failed to add anything substantial to the narrative. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. Lee Woo-jin shoots himself after convincing himself that revenge was all he wanted out of life, thus preventing him from ever moving on and forever locking his life to the past, and Oh Dae-su tries to make himself stay with his daughter in an attempt to make himself ignorant of the painful truth. I finally watched the South Korean version. The second film in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy back in 2003, Oldboy is the one most associated with the director's success. When they were both still kids in high school, Oh Dae-su caught Lee Woo-jin committing an act of incest with his sister Lee Soo-ah. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. The two actors are more famously known by their respective characters in the MCU the Mad Titan Thanos and Scarlet Witch. 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. Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film very loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name. OLDBOY is an American remake of a 2003 Korean thriller. Then when the shot zooms in, it says "Adrian Doyle Pryce". [9] Later in November 2009, it was reported that DreamWorks, Spielberg, and Smith had stepped back from the project. The ending of Oldboy gives a false sense of happiness and closure to viewers. An older man makes a crude sexual remark to a man as a threat to the man's genitals. He finds himself imprisoned in a hotel where hes fed the same Chinese food every day for every meal. But in the process, he (I can't remember his name) is reminded that he couldn't stand the rumors, so he killed her. Although Thanos is dead, given Brolin and Olsen's onscreen chemistry, the two could soon pair up (or face off) once more in another feature. Year of Release: 2013 USA Release: 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. 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