The illusion of seeing someone or something is still there, but it doesnt dig as deep. 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. 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. 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. 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. To get this to happen, Lee Woo-jin had Oh Dae-su's wife murdered and his daughter Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung) hypnotized to ensure that the two would fall for one another once Oh Dae-su was released. [29] It opened in 18th place at the box office and finished with a worldwide gross of $5.2 million. [28], The film grossed $885,000 in its first five days, one of the weakest Thanksgiving openings of all time, according to Variety. Oldboy. The knife is stabbed in Joes back at the end of the fight compared to Oh Dae-su getting stabbed closer to the middle. Later, Chaney has his henchman Cortez rape Marie. Directed by Spike Lee. The father of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and his girlfriend have been jailed for the six-year-old's killing. 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. Meanwhile, he puts himself back in the motel jail and has hidden camera feed of his daughter in the room. Anyway, there's apparently a director's cut of this film that is at least 35 minutes longer. Joe learns that Chaney and his men are seeking revenge by attacking Marie, and he races there, only to be captured by Chaney. Follow us @TheNerdsofColor. Joe's actions at school ruined what was, in the perception of the stranger, a close, loving family life. 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. This write-up will be chock full of spoilers which will save you a lot of time and money. Before he gets locked away, Joe isnt a good father. 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. Im shocked you complained about spoilers Mike, since I figured you cant even read. Oldboy (2013) Synopsis Time to remake the remake. 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). Watch Oldboy (2013) Online Actors Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Imperioli, Pom Klementieff, James Ransone, Max Casella, Linda Emond, Elvis Nolasco, Rami Malek, Lance Reddick, Hannah Ware, Richard Portnow, Hannah Simone Directors Spike Lee Countries USA Release 2013 Categories This raises the long asked philosophical question: is it better to live in a happy lie or to live in a sad reality? It's never revealed who Oh Dae-su really is to her. 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. Pretty harsh implication there, that Joe is such an asshole he could anger a person that much and not even remember it. 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. 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. Director: Spike Lee Writers: Mark Protosevich 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. I wish you luck with that Michael (thats the full version of your name by the way, in case you were wondering. Spike Lee's Oldboy remake contains several differences, with changes made in a bid to give the film its own identity, but it failed to make the same kind of impact. THE ASSIGNED NUMBERS 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). 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. 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. But then, the most laughable thing happens: the villain shoots himself on the spot. The second film in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy back in 2003, Oldboy is the one most associated with the director's success. 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. Contents Oldboy official theatrical trailer 1 2013 josh brolin elizabeth olsen movie hd Joe follows a delivery from the restaurant to a warehouse where he was imprisoned, and meets Chaney, its owner. Both Oldboy films are based on the Japanese manga of the same name. 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. We watch an extremely intoxicated man (please see the Substance Use category for more details) collapse on the sidewalk where he vomits all over his arm and hand and a pool of vomit collects under his head; we later see the intoxicated man stand up and no vomit is visible. 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). Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. The movie title screen had 20 tick marks instead of 15. 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. Upon meeting Lee Woo-jin for the first time, Oh Dae-su leaves Mi-do vulnerable and shes held captive by Mr. Park and his men. FB: JunkoGodaFanPage Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film very loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name. A man angrily shouts at another man and tries to grab the man but is calmed down when a woman appears. 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. That. A man beats his head against a wall. 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. Not everything from Oldboy 2003 transitions over to Oldboy 2013. Chan-wook Park makes his English-language directorial debut with this drama about a mother and daughter who are visited by a mysterious relative. His letters are filled with his regrets and his desires while asking for forgiveness for never being there for Mia. A shirtless man (his bare back is visible) urinates in a toilet and the sound of urination is heard. 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). VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - A man walks into his teenage daughter's bedroom and as she goes to unbutton her shirt in a suggestive manner (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), the man shoots her in the chest with a shotgun (the force of the impact sends the girl backwards and we see a spray of blood hit the wall); the man leaves the room and shoots a woman in the torso (we see blood spray from behind the woman and a large, gory hole is shown in the woman's stomach); the man then walks into another room where his teenage son unbuckles his pants in a suggestive manner (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and the man shoots the teen boy in the chest and shoulder (the impact blows the teen boy backward and blood and gore spray from the wound); the man cocks the gun again and shoots himself in the head (blood and gore spray from his head, almost half his skull is shot off and his dead body collapses on top of the teen boy). The story of Oldboy 2003 is based on how a father has been struggling to find his daughter for so many years. A man watches a workout video with a woman wearing a one-piece bathing suit while using a Thigh Master and making what could be interpreted as sexual sounds; the man places a pillow over his crotch and masturbates as he watches the woman (we see a tight shot of the woman's crotch and legs spreading; no nudity is visible); the man passes out while he is masturbating when the room fills with a chemical fog. The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life parents" as her own. 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. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. Reassure the child that you know they will have a hard time with the day, but that it's okay to be sad sometimes. 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. Oh Dae-sus wife is murdered after he is imprisoned for one year. It is a cycle that will continue to spiral as each person tries to come out on top. 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. 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. 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. But make no mistake Oldboy is all over the place, sometimes playing like a subdued melodrama and elsewhere erupting into flamboyance and gore. "It's not one shot," Mr. Lee said. Took me a minute to figure that one out. However, Lees film also revealed that the villains father was having sex with his own 16-year old daughter (not the villain having sex with his sister as in Park Chan-wooks film). We see a smear of blood on the bricks of a shower as a man digs at the grout around a brick. 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. 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. 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. 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. Adrian congratulates him, giving him the diamonds and escorting him to where Mia is. [9] Later in November 2009, it was reported that DreamWorks, Spielberg, and Smith had stepped back from the project. The heinous act is recorded and used as leverage against Joe. A man rushes into a woman's house (we later learn that she is his adult daughter) where she is bound and gagged and a man stands behind her while another man watches and two other men stand in the corner; two of the men grab the man, bring him to a table and pin him down as one of the men looms over him, threatening him and saying that he had tortured a woman for 16 days straight after she harmed him; the man pulls out a straight razor and appears about to cut the other man, when he is interrupted by a phone call and the man gathers the other men and they leave the house (one of the men slaps the woman on the behind as they walk out); the woman begins to cry and shoves the man as he tries to comfort her. [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. When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. Yes, you heard me right: a dad that spies on his daughter from a small jail. It was like Lee put down a soft feather pillow for the audience to land on. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we accept compliments too. A washed up alcoholic is kidnapped and imprisoned in a single room by his unseen captors for 20 years. Though I will give props to Josh Brolin for his work as an actor during the reveal. Reviewed by: Spencer Schumacher CONTRIBUTOR Moral Rating: Extremely Offensive Moviemaking Quality: Primary Audience: Adults Genre: Action Thriller Suspense Mystery Drama Remake Length: 1 hr. Oldboy was released in the United States on November 27, 2013, by FilmDistrict. Marie recognizes the ringtone from the Stranger as the theme song to Evergreen Academy, where Joe attended. 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. 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. Related:How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original. 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. 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.) Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. Joe finally escapes and violently dispatches hordes of his jailors. Arthur moves his family away to Luxembourg where he later murders his wife and daughter with a shotgun and only wounds Adrian. A Houston-area father fatally shot a 17-year-old boy who was inside his teen daughter's bedroom early Thursday morning, MyFoxHouston.com reported. Batman and The Wasp Flashpoint Mania. [24] Lee even removed his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film" during the editing process. 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. through the culturally critical eye of a POC. 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. In Mr. Lee's new film, "Oldboy," Josh Brolin plays Joe Doucett, an alcoholic ad man and negligent father who is imprisoned in a small, mysterious room for 20 years for no evident reason.. Oldboy is a South-Korean thriller movie based on a Japanese manga series. The tongue of Chucky, Joes best friend, is sent to him as a gift instead in Oldboy 2013. When Chucky insults Mia, Adrian, who is listening on a cloned cell phone, kills him before Joe can arrive. Oldboy is a dramatic revenge saga of a man who is abducted and held captive for 20 years. It was the second film, coming after Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and before Lady Vengeance. The torture scene itself was a tween version of torture porn: pouring salt on open wounds while SLJ squeals. We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. 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). A man walks into a teen girl (his daughter's bedroom), the teen girl goes to unbutton her shirt in a suggestive manner, the man then goes into a room with a teen boy (his son) and the teen boy then unbuckles his pants in a suggestive manner. So Ill just barf out the major wrongs about this sad re-make and be done with it. 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 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. Instead the viewer developed no pity for Lees main character. Served octopus, he bites into it without . Oldboy has even inspired a 2006 Bollywood film called Zinda, which appears to be another Oldboy remake. I recommend trying.. In Oldboy 2013, Joes ex-wife Donna is raped and murdered. 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. 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. Furthermore, every meal comes with at least one bottle of vodka, Joes drink of choice. [34], Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gives three of four stars, saying: "Because the Internet moves with the speed and ferocity of a hornet swarm, there's a chance that by the time you read this, Spike Lee's American remake of Oldboy will already have been stung to death. [21] The film marked Jackson's first time working with director Lee since 1991's Jungle Fever. He offers Joe some of his popcorn but disappears once Joe happily reaches for some. The two actors are more famously known by their respective characters in the MCU the Mad Titan Thanos and Scarlet Witch. 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). 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). But Americans love torture porn, though. Joe is drugged shortly thereafter, and wakes to find himself outside with a cell phone and a small amount of money. 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. Lee Soo-ah commits suicide because of it. Both films are based on Shinichi Got being imprisoned for 10 years in the manga, but the 2003 film increases that time period to 15 years while the 2013 remake doubles it to 20. Another red flag was that there was lengthy setup of our hero being an asshole. But Spike Lee never felt sorry for a damn thing he ever did. Oh Dae-su masturbates to women he sees on TV in Oldboy 2003. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. Joe goes to Adrian's penthouse, defeats Haeng-Bok, and confronts Adrian. 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. [32], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 39% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. 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. Then when the shot zooms in, it says "Adrian Doyle Pryce". 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. If you get hit by a 24 plank of wood, doesnt it hurt? [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. 2003's Oldboy was remade in 2013, but the new version made some big changes to the original. If so, too bad. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. Joe collapses from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie to help. Stoker Trailer Starring Nicole Kidman and Mia . Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. Shawn Rounsavall is charged . "One of the 50 Coolest Websitesthey simply tell it like it is" - TIME, The current economic climate has reduced our revenues. A man smokes a cigarette, we see a woman smoking a cigarette, a man smokes and chews on a cigar. First major fail. 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. The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. Most of the hotel sequences are similar, but he doesnt just eat Chinese food: hes fed milk, Frosted Flakes, and even a microwaveable burrito, among other things. 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. That said, some CGI is used for the knife in Dae-sus back and to land hidden punches. It was Wierd and dumb for there to be a love triangle between the dad, daughter and son. An American remake of Oldboy (2003) previously had director Justin Lin attached, with Ernesto M. Foronda and Fabian Marquez writing the screenplay after previously collaborating with Lin on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002). In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughter's fourth birthday. 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. 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. 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