Know when new reviews are published We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time, We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. 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.) Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. Watch Oldboy: Josh Brolin Transformation (Featurette). 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. So there you have it! Since Joe wins Adrians game, he receives the $20 million in diamonds. He then appears to stumble across a young social worker named Marie. Follow us @TheNerdsofColor. Related:What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? Lee Soo-ah commits suicide because of it. 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. 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! He had imagined that she did kill herself, after the bad mouth from the others (including Oh Dae-su, that's why the revenge). 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. Director: Spike Lee Writers: Mark Protosevich To give some context surrounding the climactic ending of the film, Oldboy is a South Korean film directed by Park Chan-Wook that focuses on the journey of a man named Oh Dae-su ( Choi Min-sik). The program only has one viewer for its entire run. 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. MESSAGE - Revenge can drive people to extremes. Furthermore, the dimly lit sequence lasts about three minutes. Oh Dae-su masturbates to women he sees on TV in Oldboy 2003. The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life parents" as her own. There you have it! This raises the long asked philosophical question: is it better to live in a happy lie or to live in a sad reality? Park Chan-wook was brilliant in keeping the audience and the hero in the dark about the reason for his imprisonment! Chan-wook Park makes his English-language directorial debut with this drama about a mother and daughter who are visited by a mysterious relative. Joe learns that Chaney and his men are seeking revenge by attacking Marie, and he races there, only to be captured by Chaney. It was like Lee put down a soft feather pillow for the audience to land on. Shawn Rounsavall is charged . We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. The sex scene in the American version was so overdramatic it was almost funny. Im also assuming that my readers have seen the original, Korean version of Oldboy. The protagonist wronged someone, they got revenge on him, and now he wants revenge on them. Apparently not for Doucett, who just ignores it and keeps fighting. He is based on Lee Woo-jin from the original film. Oldboy was released in the United States on November 27, 2013, by FilmDistrict. It was Wierd and dumb for there to be a love triangle between the dad, daughter and son. 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. Thus, the cycle of revenge moves into full effect. 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. [29] It opened in 18th place at the box office and finished with a worldwide gross of $5.2 million. 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. We see a smear of blood on the bricks of a shower as a man digs at the grout around a brick. It's never revealed who Oh Dae-su really is to her. Adrian Doyle Pryce adds more rewards to Joes release in Oldboy 2013. Its entitled Zinda. In 1993, alcoholic advertising executive Joe Doucett gets drunk after losing a major account. 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. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. 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. All he has is the TV to keep him company. Oldboy is a 2013 film directed by Spike Lee, and a remake of the famed South Korean film from 2003, itself loosely based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. 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. 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. Chaneys bleached Mohawk pays homage to Mr. Han. Oldboy (2013) Synopsis Time to remake the remake. Chaney: I swear, I don't know nothin'! While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. As Doucett learns through a stagy newscast that his daughter is now an orphan after his ex-wife was brutally raped and murdered (presumably by him), Lee is allowed to explore the reality of how so . The two actors are more famously known by their respective characters in the MCU the Mad Titan Thanos and Scarlet Witch. I don't think it was a triangle, but instead that the whole family, dad, mom, sister, and brother, were all incestuous together. A man's room fills with gas and the man awakens in a field, unharmed but completely disoriented. Oh Dae-su told his friend No Joo-hwan (Ji Dae-han) who then spread the rumors across the school. 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. A man pounds his fists against a door and shouts angrily until a small slot opens from under the door; the man tries to pull his body through the slot when a foot stomps away the man's hands and head. As Spike Lee himself explains, 2013's Oldboy remake is more a reinterpretation of the original Korean thriller than a remake. As a man writes a letter, we hear his voiceover read it to his daughter and he explains that he did not kill his ex-wife, his daughter's mother. What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? Stoker Trailer Starring Nicole Kidman and Mia . 44 min. 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. He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. Joe collapses from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie to help. If Joe can figure out who Adrian is and why he imprisoned Joe, Adrian will give Joe the recording of him raping and killing his ex-wife, a written confession of those crimes along with his imprisonment, $20 million in diamonds, and he gets to watch Adrian blow his brains out. Meanwhile, Adrian fakes televisions longest running crime program just to get inside Joes head in Oldboy 2013's ending not unlike WandaVision's darkly comedic use of a sitcom-within-a-series. 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. THE ASSIGNED NUMBERS "[33] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Instead the viewer developed no pity for Lees main character. Synopsis: Joe Doucett, an advertising executive, is kidnapped and held prisoner for twenty years in solitary confinement. Adrian congratulates him, giving him the diamonds and escorting him to where Mia is. "[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. 'Oldboy' Ending Explained: Is Revenge Really Worth It? The problem with remaking a movie that's hinged around a single giant twist is that the element of surprise no longer applies. But make no mistake Oldboy is all over the place, sometimes playing like a subdued melodrama and elsewhere erupting into flamboyance and gore. This American version of Park Chan-Wook's Korean thriller is Lee's most exciting movie since Inside Mannot a masterpiece by any stretch, but a lively commercial genre picture with a hypnotic, obsessive quality, and an utter indifference to being liked, much less approved of. Why were they there? Samuel L. Jackson as a whiney hired-hand begging not to be tortured was just boring and under utilized his talents. By the end of the film, its revealed that Arthur is having sex with both Amanda and Adrian. That said, it's incorrect to labelthe Oldboy remake a bad movie. Although Oldboy and Squid Game are vastly different, a similar characterization can also be observed in Squid Game protagonist Gi-hun. It could have been the best Hollywood thriller ever since the days of Hitchcock. 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. That leaves Lee's film as the lone true Oldboy remake, although it also contains a lot of notable differences. That said, some CGI is used for the knife in Dae-sus back and to land hidden punches. Dear (Lousy) Mother, First, don't be so quick to call yourself a lousy mother. 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. The love that blossoms between Mi-Do and Oh Dae-Su is not as romantic as it seems anymore, not when they are father and daughter. Marie recognizes the ringtone from the Stranger as the theme song to Evergreen Academy, where Joe attended. Its literally heart-wrenching, a little hopeful, and a little painful. 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. Over the next 20 years, Joe quits drinking and works himself into shape, intent on escaping and getting revenge. Oldboy. His unseen captors provide him with food, alcohol and hygiene items, but do not explain why he is captive. Did you know that theres a Bollywood remake of Oldboy? To the first question: He realized he killed his sister (and lover). Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous.