Joo-hwan then tells his girlfriend and word quickly spreads around campus. Reviewed by: Spencer Schumacher CONTRIBUTOR Moral Rating: Extremely Offensive Moviemaking Quality: Primary Audience: Adults Genre: Action Thriller Suspense Mystery Drama Remake Length: 1 hr. "She ran into our arms when she saw us. All he has is the TV to keep him company. Stoker Trailer Starring Nicole Kidman and Mia . 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. The tongue of Chucky, Joes best friend, is sent to him as a gift instead in Oldboy 2013. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su eats a live octopus after hes released. 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. I wish you luck with that Michael (thats the full version of your name by the way, in case you were wondering. Chan-wook Park makes his English-language directorial debut with this drama about a mother and daughter who are visited by a mysterious relative. As in, this last self inflicted act of stupidity on your part was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back? 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. In a way, this has provided a blueprint for how series/movies use incest for plot twists in more recent media. Joe hides Marie in a hotel for her safety, and they end up having sex, unaware Adrian is watching through hidden cameras. He is the one who orchestrated Joe Doucett's twenty year imprisonment to make him pay for his family's abysmal death. It is a cycle that will continue to spiral as each person tries to come out on top. He buys a Chinese rubber duck from a street vendor for his daughters third birthday and is abducted by a woman carrying a yellow umbrella. It was directed by Chan Wook-Park (who also did the screenplay). In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughters fourth birthday. Oldboy (Korean: ; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldboi) is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir action thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook.A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, the film follows the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned in a cell which resembles a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor nor his captor . 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 well-paid actress has pretended to be Mia the entire time, as well. 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. He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. 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. Meanwhile, in 2013's Oldboy, Joe catches Adrians sister Amanda having sex with their father Arthur at school. Adrian Doyle Pryce adds more rewards to Joes release in Oldboy 2013. 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. Oldboy is a movie that doesn't hold back with its depictions of the taboo events that can unfold in our lives and the ever-growing thirst to get revenge on those who have wronged us. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. 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. The protagonist does not win in this film, he only does what he thinks is necessary to dampen the pain of his loss, and through that we are left to digest the impact that revenge has had on his life. [24] Lee even removed his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film" during the editing process. Method 1 Supporting the Child Emotionally 1 Recognize their loss. I have no idea how that ending was suppose to make sense. Joe spends a great deal of effort to determine if any of the men on his list are the Stranger, but they all prove to be innocent. Oldboy was released in the United States on November 27, 2013, by FilmDistrict. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. 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 The Spike Lee joint is making a resurgence on the streaming giant, coming in at sixth . Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. Also, Josh Brolins character didnt gain any sympathy like the Korean protagonist. Joe calls Chucky with the name, and Chucky confirms Joe's guess that the Stranger is Adrian. Jesus H. Christ, God, Oh My God, Jesus, Jesus Christ). (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 with a bruised eye and a cut lip appears to have her hands bound over her head; we learn that the woman is a paid actress and see her wipe away the black eye and cut lip. Essay by Brian Eggert March 23, 2009. Since Joe wins Adrians game, he receives the $20 million in diamonds. 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. [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. Joe is drugged shortly thereafter, and wakes to find himself outside with a cell phone and a small amount of money. The torture scene itself was a tween version of torture porn: pouring salt on open wounds while SLJ squeals. . - NibblyPig Aug 24, 2016 at 14:51 Add a comment 1 Answer Sorted by: 1 After being outed and humiliated, their father killed his daughter (Adrian's sister), his wife (Adrian's . 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. "[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. Oh Dae-su told his friend No Joo-hwan (Ji Dae-han) who then spread the rumors across the school. Just go to our search page or use the search bar, with or without a keyword, from the top navigation menu. 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. After a man comes onto a woman inappropriately (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), her husband overhears him and makes a terse threat to the man, then slaps him extremely hard in the face. 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. 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In Oldboy 2013, Joe stares at an octopus in a fish tank. Joe neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. This write-up will be chock full of spoilers which will save you a lot of time and money. A man with a knife stands up to attack another man as two other men with guns point them him; a woman grabs the knife from the man and kicks him in the stomach and torso, the man drops to the ground and we see two guns drawn and pointed at the knifeman. [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. Oldboy 2003 makes a thought-provoking comparison between ants and loneliness, as Mi-do states that when youre lonely and desperate you hallucinate and see ants. Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. On July 11, 2011, Mandate Pictures sent a press release stating that Spike Lee would direct a remake of the South Korean film (ignoring the earlier version's adaptation of the manga) with a screenplay written by Protosevich. "It's not one shot," Mr. Lee said. There was no switch to turn my heart off' gadget. In fact, the film itself is part of a trilogy of films titled The Vengeance Trilogy that all center around the theme of revenge. There you have it! DISCUSSION TOPICS - Consequences, revenge, regret, alcoholism, guilt, incest, divorce, shame, reparations, finding peace, resolution, disappointment, murder-suicides. Later, Chaney has his henchman Cortez rape Marie. 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 also bites the webbing of his hand until it bleeds in order to draw a face in his blood on his pillowcase for comfort, in a way that reminds of Wilson from Cast Away. Apparently not for Doucett, who just ignores it and keeps fighting. 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. Mr. Han and Mr. Park seem to have been rolled into one in Oldboy 2013. On return to Chucky's bar, Joe finds the Stranger there with the woman with the yellow umbrella, his bodyguard Haeng-Bok. It should be noted that these films are linked thematically and not narratively. REVIEWS 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 fourth major fail was in the reveal of the incest. 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. Lee Woo-jin is the main antagonist of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy. A man announces that he is going to urinate as we see him face the toilet, spit (we see spittle leaving his mouth and hear it hit water) and then begin to urinate (we hear the sound of urination). The film does not necessarily give a direct message to be learned, except perhaps to be wary of how revenge can completely ruin another person's life as well as your own. We see a man's bare buttocks as he swims fully nude (his bare back and buttocks are visible); the man gets out of the water and wraps himself in a towel (we see a portion of his heavily scarred chest) as a woman wearing a thong and a sheer nightgown kisses his chest (we see her bare buttocks and cleavage). He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. The website's critical consensus reads, "Suitably grim and bloody yet disappointingly safe and shallow, Spike Lee's Oldboy remake neither surpasses the original nor adds anything new to its impressive legacy. The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life parents" as her own. He gives most of them to Marie along with a box full of other mementos like the rubber duck and a letter saying shell never see him again but that hell love her forever. She drives off to live her life with the rubber duck on the dashboard of her truck. A man is seen with yarn wrapped around his waist and legs, pinning him to a table and a metal knitting needle stuck through each hand and into the table (we see blood on the needles and from the hand wounds); another man stands over him holding a box cutter to the man's neck, where a series of dashes have been drawn with a permanent marker and the man tells the pinned down man that he is planning on cutting enough of the man's neck that he will be able to rip off the man's head with his bare hands; the man with the box cutter cuts into the man's neck, throwing the bloody pieces into a trash can and as he continues to cut, the man pauses and pours salt into the wounds, followed by water; the torturer is interrupted when another man knocks on the door and the torturer leads the man out of the room (blood is pouring from the man's wound-covered neck) and we see the torturer holding the box cutter to the man's neck as he walks through a crowd of other men. ATMORE, Ala. (WALA) - A 2-year-old Alabama boy is dead after police say his father left him inside his truck for several hours instead of dropping him off at daycare. 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. Additionally, Oh Dae-su is given five days to figure out Lee Woo-jins identity to coincide with the death of Lee Soo-ah. He is based on Lee Woo-jin from the original film. 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. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we accept compliments too. 2003's Oldboy was remade in 2013, but the new version made some big changes to the original. It is intentionally left vague if the phantom pregnancy was what happened or if that is just what Lee Woo-jin said to hide himself from his past actions and the possibility of actually causing his sister to become pregnant. Took me a minute to figure that one out. Did you know that theres a Bollywood remake of Oldboy? Joe's actions at school ruined what was, in the perception of the stranger, a close, loving family life. 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. 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. Image from Oldboy (2013) The original Korean made 2003 Oldboy was a gripping tale of mystery, anger, and revenge with a horrifying twist that would make anyone cringe. Oldboy 2003 is a classic piece of Korean cinema, and it was remade in 2013 by Spike Lee. The little boy, Xavier . Its powerful cinema indeed. He misses his daughter's birthday but is bailed out the next day by his friend. The father, who was not identified, was notified . Just. 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. A man watches fitness videos of women wearing bikini tops. 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. A third major fail was deconstructing the fantastic hallway fight scene into a senseless, story-less jumble. 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. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. Related:Malcolm X True Story: What Spike Lee's Movie Changes & How Accurate It Is. These TV show segments were so unusually well-timed that the viewer knows that its fake and a set-up. What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? 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. Mr. Park runs everything at the hotel in Oldboy 2003, and hes more of a secondary crime lord to Lee Woo-jin, who keeps tabs on all of the hotels tenants. A shirtless man (his bare back is visible) urinates in a toilet and the sound of urination is heard. [9] Later in November 2009, it was reported that DreamWorks, Spielberg, and Smith had stepped back from the project. [14] Firth later passed on the role,[15] which was later offered to Clive Owen. [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. Thought Id save you at least a little more frustration by letting you know that). Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. Synopsis: Joe Doucett, an advertising executive, is kidnapped and held prisoner for twenty years in solitary confinement. Joe writes letters to his daughter Mia in Oldboy 2013. Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. 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. [29] It opened in 18th place at the box office and finished with a worldwide gross of $5.2 million. He finds himself imprisoned in a hotel where hes fed the same Chinese food every day for every meal. Joe follows a delivery from the restaurant to a warehouse where he was imprisoned, and meets Chaney, its owner. Joe sees a news report that says his ex-wife Donna was raped and murdered and he is the prime suspect, while their infant daughter Mia was adopted. He offers Joe some of his popcorn but disappears once Joe happily reaches for some. The way Oh Daesu pleads, the cutting of his own tongue, were powerful in a way that Spike Lee underestimated. The first conclusion that audiences have of Oldboy is that this is Oh Dae-Su's revenge, and when you think deeper, a revenge within a revenge film. OLDBOY is an American remake of a 2003 Korean thriller. 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. He refuses but takes her business card. But when he removes a knife from his back, he squeals and squeals and squeals. A man angrily shouts at another man and tries to grab the man but is calmed down when a woman appears. 44 min. Oldboy (2013) - soundtrack - Movie HD - ThmovieHDD.com I recommend trying.. 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,. Shawn Rounsavall is charged . Its literally heart-wrenching, a little hopeful, and a little painful. Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for both 2003 and 2013 versions of Oldboy. 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. Related:The Best Horror Movies On Netflix. Served octopus, he bites into it without . The plot for Zinda is almost identical to the storyline of Oldboy. But in the process, he (I can't remember his name) is reminded that he couldn't stand the rumors, so he killed her. While he recovers, Marie is taken emotionally by Joe's letters to Mia, and offers to help him further. Even after the Oldboy remake came out in 2013, 2003's Oldboy continues to inspire modern series and movies. Oh Dae-su uses these notebooks as journals to keep a record of his time locked away from the outside world. 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. 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. It is almost always better to face the truth, but that is easier said than done when the truth brings you so much pain. She is able to help identify a Chinese restaurant that Joe's food came from while imprisoned. Perhaps it is an attempt to make us show more empathy towards those around us, and to not be so rash as to act out on those emotions that would demand for us to seek revenge. Oldboy is a 2013 American drama film, and a remake of Park Chan-wook 's 2003 South Korean film of the same name. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. In the 2003 film, Oh Dae-su is being tracked by a bug located in the sole of his shoe. Parker was later replaced by James Ransone, due to a scheduling conflict. "One of the 50 Coolest Websitesthey simply tell it like it is" - TIME, The current economic climate has reduced our revenues. Apparently, it was safer to say that Doucetts daughter was 23 years old, rather than 18. 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. [27] It was the last film to be distributed by the company, before Focus Features absorbed the company in October 2013. Then when the shot zooms in, it says "Adrian Doyle Pryce". When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. . It was the second film, coming after Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and before Lady Vengeance. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. Throughout the duration of the film we find out that the person targeting Oh Dae-su is a man by the name of Lee Woo-jin (Yoo Ji-tae) who is getting revenge on him for causing the death of his sister. We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits. Im shocked you complained about spoilers Mike, since I figured you cant even read. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. 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.) Director Spike Lee Writer Mark Protosevich (screenplay by) Stars Josh Brolin Elizabeth Olsen Samuel L. Jackson See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video What's different in the Oldboy remake also makes it unique, andit remains a worthwhile piece of cinema living in the shadow of a great piece. Watch Oldboy: Josh Brolin Transformation (Featurette). Joe goes to his friend Chucky, and explains what has transpired. Doucett follows the Temptress who leads him to where his daughter is working. What the what!? Move sliders from 0-10 in any combination, check and uncheck MPAA ratings and use keywords to further filter results -- please let us know what you think. Dark, vibrant and twisted revenge thriller by Korean director Chan-Wook Park. After he is suddenly released, he goes on a mission to find the person responsible for his imprisonment, later discovering that his life is still caught in conspiracy and torment. You can help us keep our independence with a donation. These scenes are crucial to why, out of the movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, Oldboy is the most compelling. FB: JunkoGodaFanPage 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. We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. The heinous act is recorded and used as leverage against Joe. 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