Become a member of our premium site for just $2/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. Director Spike Lee Cast Josh Brolin Elizabeth Olsen Samuel L. Jackson Sharlto Copley Michael Imperioli Lance Reddick So they remade Oldboy. [14] Firth later passed on the role,[15] which was later offered to Clive Owen. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughters fourth birthday. 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. 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. 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 Related:How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original. Jesus H. Christ, God, Oh My God, Jesus, Jesus Christ). Chaneys bleached Mohawk pays homage to Mr. Han. 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. 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. 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. Adrian congratulates him, giving him the diamonds and escorting him to where Mia is. [24] Lee even removed his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film" during the editing process. Manisha, the little girl, claimed that she was their deceased daughter Suman, who had died of typhoid at the age of 15 on December 14, 2000. 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. 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? 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. 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 third major fail was deconstructing the fantastic hallway fight scene into a senseless, story-less jumble. Thus, the cycle of revenge moves into full effect. 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. A man shouts angrily at a woman (his ex-wife) over the phone and the woman angrily screams back. (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. Chan-wook Park makes his English-language directorial debut with this drama about a mother and daughter who are visited by a mysterious relative. Its not the octopus scene or the fighting that makes it so brilliant. Took me a minute to figure that one out. An older man makes a crude sexual remark to a man as a threat to the man's genitals. "I want to eat something alive," he explains. As the author, I had to make a fact correction regarding *Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. You must tell your daughter both that you were . Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue with a pair of scissors at the end of Oldboy 2003. We hear a squishing crunching noise, which we learn is a man fatally smashing another man in the face with a hammer; we see as the man smashes the hammer into a second man's face, a spray of blood leaves the man's head as his nose bridge caves in from the hammer, and the man walks over to a third man and cleaves the claw portion of the hammer into his head (we see the man's eyes bug out and blood pours from the wound as the man slumps over and blood pools under the man's head). Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue and hypnotizes himself to forget about the truth regarding Mi-do in Oldboy 2003. [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. Adrian Doyle Pryce adds more rewards to Joes release in Oldboy 2013. 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. The problem with remaking a movie that's hinged around a single giant twist is that the element of surprise no longer applies. Release Date 11/21/2003. 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. While he recovers, Marie is taken emotionally by Joe's letters to Mia, and offers to help him further. Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. 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. It follows advertising executive Joe Doucett as he is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. Oldboy (2013) Synopsis Time to remake the remake. Out of the blue, Joe is kidnapped and locked alone in a room for twenty years. 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. [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. 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. Oldboy isn't the only movie featuring both Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen. Furthermore, the dimly lit sequence lasts about three minutes. 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. Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. 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. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. It could have been the best Hollywood thriller ever since the days of Hitchcock. Enter your email address to subscribe to The NOC and receive notifications of new posts by email. Before he gets locked away, Joe isnt a good father. Later, Chaney has his henchman Cortez rape Marie. Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. Director: Spike Lee Writers: Mark Protosevich A man is shown heavily sedated by a gas as we see hands plucking hair from his head, taking a swab from the man's mouth and then placing the man's hand on a crow bar (we learn that these were planted as evidence in the murder of the man's ex-wife). Oh Dae-su told his friend No Joo-hwan (Ji Dae-han) who then spread the rumors across the school. 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. We see a portion of one fitness video of women wearing bikini tops and bottoms and we see a tight shot of the woman's backsides as they bend down (cleavage, bare abdomen, bare backs and part of their bare buttocks are seen). REVIEWS On return to Chucky's bar, Joe finds the Stranger there with the woman with the yellow umbrella, his bodyguard Haeng-Bok. By the end of the film, its revealed that Arthur is having sex with both Amanda and Adrian. 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. Sometimes these emotions can mix in a volatile way that can cause us to seek revenge over one another. 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. That leaves Lee's film as the lone true Oldboy remake, although it also contains a lot of notable differences. I just saved you a few bucks. We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. 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. On holidays like Father's Day, that loss is even more evident because other children do have their fathers present. 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. Though these changes seem small, they play into where Oldboy stands in Spike Lee's filmography. She drives off to live her life with the rubber duck on the dashboard of her truck. Again, the movie makes it unclear if Oh Dae-su actually found the hypnotist or if it is just a way to project his own attempts to block the memory, as the next scene shows her nowhere to be found and instead, he is laying in the snow where Mi-do finds him and confesses his love for him. 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). He offers Joe some of his popcorn but disappears once Joe happily reaches for some. Both films toy with the captor releasing his prisoner. To the first question: He realized he killed his sister (and lover). Joe neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. Chaney: I swear, I don't know nothin'! "One of the 50 Coolest Websitesthey simply tell it like it is" - TIME, The current economic climate has reduced our revenues. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. 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. If you get hit by a 24 plank of wood, doesnt it hurt? It was like Lee put down a soft feather pillow for the audience to land on. 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