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). Im shocked you complained about spoilers Mike, since I figured you cant even read. 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. A man smokes a cigarette, we see a woman smoking a cigarette, a man smokes and chews on a cigar. While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. 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. However, Lee's film also revealed that the villain's father was having sex with his own 16-year old daughter (not the villain having sex with his sister as in Park Chan-wook's film). 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. 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. SUBSTANCE USE - A man offers to buy a woman an "eight ball" of drugs and the woman turns him down. The plot for Zinda is almost identical to the storyline of Oldboy. 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). These TV show segments were so unusually well-timed that the viewer knows that its fake and a set-up. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we accept compliments too. Follow us @TheNerdsofColor. But Spike Lee never felt sorry for a damn thing he ever did. There are juicy and nauseating sound effects, but its fairly brief. 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. Just go to our search page or use the search bar, with or without a keyword, from the top navigation menu. Several men discover three dead bodies, and there's a lingering shot of the pool of blood under the head of the man whose head was cleaved by the hammer. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. Joe goes to his friend Chucky, and explains what has transpired. 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. Joe learns that Chaney and his men are seeking revenge by attacking Marie, and he races there, only to be captured by Chaney. Even after the Oldboy remake came out in 2013, 2003's Oldboy continues to inspire modern series and movies. 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. Chaney is basically both characters while Adrians bodyguard is a woman named Haeng-bok; she has very few lines and doesnt do much besides fight and hold an umbrella. Took me a minute to figure that one out. 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. Sometimes these emotions can mix in a volatile way that can cause us to seek revenge over one another. Marie recognizes the ringtone from the Stranger as the theme song to Evergreen Academy, where Joe attended. He is the one who orchestrated Joe Doucett's twenty year imprisonment to make him pay for his family's abysmal death. 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. Release Date 11/21/2003. Helping our teens deal with mistakes is a part of being a good parent. Additionally, Oh Dae-su is given five days to figure out Lee Woo-jins identity to coincide with the death of Lee Soo-ah. Patrick Bateman 31 1 2 3 It is his daughter's 4th birthday, and he is imprisoned for 15 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. 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. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. 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. I finally watched the South Korean version. While in his hotel room, Oh Dae-su sees an ant crawling under his skin before a swarm of them are suddenly crawling all over his face. 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. Im also assuming that my readers have seen the original, Korean version of Oldboy. 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. Doucett follows the Temptress who leads him to where his daughter is working. That said, some CGI is used for the knife in Dae-sus back and to land hidden punches. [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. Thanks for ruining the ending you worthless sack of shit. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. We see a television reporter announce that a man, his wife and teenage daughter had been killed and a teen boy severely injured; a teen girl is wheeled out on a blood-covered gurney, and a blood-covered teen boy with a breathing mask on his face is seen being wheeled out of a house. 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. FB: JunkoGodaFanPage 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). Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Enter your email address to subscribe to The NOC and receive notifications of new posts by email. And you will be helping support our website & our efforts. THE ASSIGNED NUMBERS Principal photography began in October 2012. 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. It was the second film, coming after Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and before Lady Vengeance. Lee Woo-jin is the main antagonist of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy. On return to Chucky's bar, Joe finds the Stranger there with the woman with the yellow umbrella, his bodyguard Haeng-Bok. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. Essay by Brian Eggert March 23, 2009. 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. Joe's actions at school ruined what was, in the perception of the stranger, a close, loving family life. Adrian Pryce is the main antagonist of the 2013 remake of Oldboy. After so long with no real human interaction, Oh Dae-su wants to find out whom he wronged to deserve the punishment he just endured, and he wants to make them pay for the torture they just placed unto him. We see a sign that reads, "Guns don't kill, people do." After finding that he has been framed for murder he sets out for revenge and vindication. 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. Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue with a pair of scissors at the end of Oldboy 2003. It was directed by Chan Wook-Park (who also did the screenplay). . Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. Related:Why Park Chan-wook Has Disowned His Debut The Moon Is The Sun's Dream. (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. Another red flag was that there was lengthy setup of our hero being an asshole. But when he removes a knife from his back, he squeals and squeals and squeals. 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. The scene isnt meant to be sexual, but more of a means of feeling something from another human being. In Oldboy 2013, Joes ex-wife Donna is raped and murdered. Joe neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. 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. His unseen captors provide him with food, alcohol and hygiene items, but do not explain why he is captive. [24] Brolin has also said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he prefers Lee's version of the film, though it is not clear if this cut will ever be released. Action Drama Mystery Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. Woo-jin orchestrated the entire thing to make Dae-su fall in love with his own daughter so that he too could know the pain of incest, with the knowledge that it cannot be resisted. [37], Eric Kohn, in a largely positive review at Indiewire said: "It's been so long since Lee made such a thoroughly amusing work that fans should have no problem excusing its messiness. Also, Josh Brolins character didnt gain any sympathy like the Korean protagonist. Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. It was like Lee put down a soft feather pillow for the audience to land on. He doesnt spy on his daughter with a hidden camera at the end. "I want to eat something alive," he explains. Adrian Doyle Pryce adds more rewards to Joes release in Oldboy 2013. Two men read a newspaper article about a man who had died in a car accident with his wife. 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. 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. "She ran into our arms when she saw us. These rumors combined with the "phantom pregnancy" that Lee Woo-jin says his sister developed lead to her eventual suicide. 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. Like. Oh Dae-su told his friend No Joo-hwan (Ji Dae-han) who then spread the rumors across the school. He misses his daughter's birthday but is bailed out the next day by his friend. The fifth major fail and second plot difference is the ending. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. Contents Oldboy official theatrical trailer 1 2013 josh brolin elizabeth olsen movie hd It contains a whopper of an ending, and it's difficult to discuss the movie without giving anything away, but it contains extremely mature sexual themes, a sustained sex scene, and some nudity (female breasts and bottom, male bottom). But then, the most laughable thing happens: the villain shoots himself on the spot. Apparently, it was safer to say that Doucetts daughter was 23 years old, rather than 18. A woman reads a man a message that she had taken from another man: the message instructs the man to "stay away" from the other man's sister and the man listening to the message makes a crude gesture implying that the woman had large breasts. Dear (Lousy) Mother, First, don't be so quick to call yourself a lousy mother. On holidays like Father's Day, that loss is even more evident because other children do have their fathers present. Samuel L. Jackson as a whiney hired-hand begging not to be tortured was just boring and under utilized his talents. 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. James White is a graduate from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln who loves to write and analyze various forms of media. [10] The producing team announced on November 2009 that the project was dead.[11]. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. For Oh Dae-su, a man that was just utterly demolished mentally, physically and emotionally, he did not have the strength to endure his life with the knowledge of the truth. Korean version killed American version. 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. Did you know you can now filter searches by any combination of ratings? 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. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. Thus, the cycle of revenge moves into full effect. 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. 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). Both Oldboy films are based on the Japanese manga of the same name. The City of Lawrence, Kansas, honored a heroic father-and-son duo who saved a 4-year-old boy with autism from drowning in an apartment complex's pool earlier this month. See ratings & reviews at Critics.com. Joe finally escapes and violently dispatches hordes of his jailors. 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. A third major fail was deconstructing the fantastic hallway fight scene into a senseless, story-less jumble. That release is all a part of the game as the world is essentially a bigger prison the captor has trapped their prisoner in. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. 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. Anyway, there's apparently a director's cut of this film that is at least 35 minutes longer. 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. [32], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 39% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. 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. However, the rights were never obtained, and Zinda isnt considered to be an official remake. Boring. His letters are filled with his regrets and his desires while asking for forgiveness for never being there for Mia. This write-up will be chock full of spoilers which will save you a lot of time and money. Served octopus, he bites into it without . So there you have it! It stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley . To the first question: He realized he killed his sister (and lover). Furthermore, the dimly lit sequence lasts about three minutes. Its entitled Zinda. Director: Spike Lee Writers: Mark Protosevich Oldboy is a South-Korean thriller movie based on a Japanese manga series. 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. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. Oldboy was released in the United States on November 27, 2013, by FilmDistrict. 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. You must tell your daughter both that you were . But in the process, he (I can't remember his name) is reminded that he couldn't stand the rumors, so he killed her. Joe calls Chucky with the name, and Chucky confirms Joe's guess that the Stranger is Adrian. 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. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Not everything from Oldboy 2003 transitions over to Oldboy 2013. That scene, however, along with much of Mr. Lee's initial, three-hour cut, was trimmed by the studio to make the final version'srun time. The remake chooses to have windows with sunlight, as the mayhem take place on three separate levels, and Joe seems to take less damage than Dae-su. That leaves Lee's film as the lone true Oldboy remake, although it also contains a lot of notable differences. 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. Get off the author dick Josephine mike gave his opinion but I guess you have the right to dickeat smh. Why were they there? Just. LANGUAGE 8 - About 32 F-words and its derivatives, 14 sexual references, 12 scatological terms (1 mild), 6 anatomical terms, 46 mild obscenities, name-calling (old man, big boy, fiend, freak), 2 religious profanities (GD), 7 religious exclamations (e.g. It is not unreasonable that someone so young would not remember the appearance of their father after a 15 year absence. 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. I have no idea how that ending was suppose to make sense. REVIEWS 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. 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. 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. The two actors are more famously known by their respective characters in the MCU the Mad Titan Thanos and Scarlet Witch. 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. These scenes are crucial to why, out of the movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, Oldboy is the most compelling. 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. Year of Release: 2013 USA Release: You can help us keep our independence with a donation. 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. A man watches fitness videos of women wearing bikini tops. The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. Starring: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong. As the film reaches its climax, Woo-jin reveals to Dae-su that Mido, who Dae-su had fallen in love with and had sex with, was actually his daughter. When children lose a parent, the sadness runs deep. Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. [29] It opened in 18th place at the box office and finished with a worldwide gross of $5.2 million. The role was the motel prison captor who, in Parks film, gets his hand chopped off; remember him? When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. Parker was later replaced by James Ransone, due to a scheduling conflict. It is the single most important goal that fuels all of their actions, and it is the centerpiece upon which the entire film is built around. 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 In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su eats a live octopus after hes released. It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean film of the same name, directed by Park Chan Wook. It is both one of our best strengths and greatest weaknesses, as while rampant emotions can lead us to doing things that we may later regret, without them, we lose a huge chunk of what makes us human in the first place. It stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley. The way Oh Daesu pleads, the cutting of his own tongue, were powerful in a way that Spike Lee underestimated. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. An extremely intoxicated man pounds on the door of a restaurant until another man comes to the window and sends the man away. Oldboy. [24] Lee even removed his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film" during the editing process. Its not the octopus scene or the fighting that makes it so brilliant. [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. A man spits out his food, he then angrily throws a tray of food at a wall. 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. She compares it to ants being in groups and lonely individuals always thinking about that, since they only have themselves to keep them company. A man eats a piece of food, then spits it out (visibly half-chewed) into a napkin. 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. While the ending is portrayed as being potentially happy, it is far overshadowed by the truth that the most positive ending for these two is to never know that they are actually related. 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. 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 . He offers Joe some of his popcorn but disappears once Joe happily reaches for some. All he has is the TV to keep him company. 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. The second film in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy back in 2003, Oldboy is the one most associated with the director's success. 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. By the end of the film, its revealed that Arthur is having sex with both Amanda and Adrian. MESSAGE - Revenge can drive people to extremes. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. A heavily intoxicated man shouts in the streets, asking for more liquor and we hear an unseen woman crudely shout back at the man to be quiet. Oldboy (2013) - soundtrack - Movie HD - ThmovieHDD.com He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. 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