His letters are filled with his regrets and his desires while asking for forgiveness for never being there for Mia. It is not unreasonable that someone so young would not remember the appearance of their father after a 15 year absence. However, any commercial reproduction of anything appearing within this site is both illegal and in really bad taste and we will take action |more|. 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. 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. 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. First major fail. This concept alone isn't one that is unfamiliar to many, as I am sure we have all had our moments of small, petty revenge for things that would be seen upon looking back as not necessarily being worth getting revenge for in the first place. I recommend trying.. 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. Joe makes a bed for her made out of torn up toilet paper, and she has babies, which Joe is ecstatic about an empowering relationship somewhat reminiscent of Remy and Linguini in Pixar's Ratatouille. 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). and instead of just one person committing suicide the dad shoots his daughter . 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 Oldboy (2,874) 5.8 1 h 43 min 2013 X-Ray R. An advertising executive set free after 20 years of imprisonment launches a bloody mission of revenge against his one-time captor. Obviously not wanting to permanently scar his daughter, Oh Dae-su begs for Lee Woo-jin not to tell her, going so far as to cut his own tongue out as a gesture of what he would do to make sure she never learned the truth. Lee Woo-jin is the main antagonist of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy. [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. That leaves Lee's film as the lone true Oldboy remake, although it also contains a lot of notable differences. Joe learns that Chaney and his men are seeking revenge by attacking Marie, and he races there, only to be captured by Chaney. 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. 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. 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. Adrian Doyle Pryce adds more rewards to Joes release in Oldboy 2013. Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE & LANGUAGE on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest depending on quantity & context |more|, Print a page, share with friends, and yes, please go ahead and email links. 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. In fact, the film itself is part of a trilogy of films titled The Vengeance Trilogy that all center around the theme of revenge. 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. Shot over the course of three days in Oldboy 2003, the hammer/corridor sequence has no hidden cuts and is actually shot in one-take, unlike other movies that use tricks for one-shot scenes. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. [10] The producing team announced on November 2009 that the project was dead.[11]. She drives off to live her life with the rubber duck on the dashboard of her truck. Yes, you heard me right: a dad that spies on his daughter from a small jail. 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. Out of the blue, Joe is kidnapped and locked alone in a room for twenty years. When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. FB: JunkoGodaFanPage Chaney: I swear, I don't know nothin'! 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. 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). The fourth major fail was in the reveal of the incest. The story of Oldboy 2003 is based on how a father has been struggling to find his daughter for so many years. Chaneys bleached Mohawk pays homage to Mr. Han. 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 This is all you need to know about Spike Lees Oldboy remake. Sometimes these emotions can mix in a volatile way that can cause us to seek revenge over one another. A third major fail was deconstructing the fantastic hallway fight scene into a senseless, story-less jumble. 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. As Spike Lee himself explains, 2013's Oldboy remake is more a reinterpretation of the original Korean thriller than a remake. [24] Lee even removed his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film" during the editing process. Parents need to know that Oldboy is a classic but brutally violent movie from South Korea, and a beloved cult favorite among fans of genre movies. 44 min. Yep. Contents Oldboy official theatrical trailer 1 2013 josh brolin elizabeth olsen movie hd It is a cycle that will continue to spiral as each person tries to come out on top. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughters fourth birthday. Served octopus, he bites into it without . Essay by Brian Eggert March 23, 2009. After all, neither of the characters attempting to get revenge in the film have good endings. The father of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and his girlfriend have been jailed for the six-year-old's killing. Old Boy MPA Rating : for strong brutal violence, disturbing images, some graphic sexuality and nudity, and language. Lee Woo-jin shoots himself after convincing himself that revenge was all he wanted out of life, thus preventing him from ever moving on and forever locking his life to the past, and Oh Dae-su tries to make himself stay with his daughter in an attempt to make himself ignorant of the painful truth. 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. It could have been the best Hollywood thriller ever since the days of Hitchcock. Emma Tustin, 32, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 29 years at Coventry Crown Court on . 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. 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 has even inspired a 2006 Bollywood film called Zinda, which appears to be another Oldboy remake. 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. The movie title screen had 20 tick marks instead of 15. I find it hard to believe Spike Lee could adapt this film for an American audience. It was like Lee put down a soft feather pillow for the audience to land on. I never understood the smile at the end, but I assume that the Buddha duck represented karma (he got back what he gave out) and the smile may have represented an enlightened stage for him, an end to his chaotic experience. Though these changes seem small, they play into where Oldboy stands in Spike Lee's filmography. "One of the 50 Coolest Websitesthey simply tell it like it is" - TIME, The current economic climate has reduced our revenues. 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. In Oldboy 2013, Joe stares at an octopus in a fish tank. 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. A man wakes up in a bed and he is shirtless; he stands up and we see his bare buttocks as he walks away and he pulls on boxer-style underwear, covering his bare buttocks. He is based on Lee Woo-jin from the original film. 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. Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. 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. 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. "[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. 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). The knife is stabbed in Joes back at the end of the fight compared to Oh Dae-su getting stabbed closer to the middle. 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. However, the rights were never obtained, and Zinda isnt considered to be an official remake. 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. After being outed and humiliated, their father killed his daughter (Adrian's sister), his wife (Adrian's . 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. He calls his wife a bitch and tells her that their 3-year old daughter wouldnt notice if hes not there for her birthday because shes so young. While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. Its not the octopus scene or the fighting that makes it so brilliant. 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. 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. I finally watched the South Korean version. [27] It was the last film to be distributed by the company, before Focus Features absorbed the company in October 2013. Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. Joe goes to Adrian's penthouse, defeats Haeng-Bok, and confronts Adrian. 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.. 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. 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. 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. It is almost always better to face the truth, but that is easier said than done when the truth brings you so much pain. Oldboy is a South-Korean thriller movie based on a Japanese manga series. Joe calls Chucky with the name, and Chucky confirms Joe's guess that the Stranger is Adrian. 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. 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. However, for the protagonist and antagonist of 2003's Oldboy, revenge could not be more serious of a topic for them. The remake chooses to hint at several of the most memorable elements from Oldboy 2003 with teases to those beloved scenes a common tool across modern movie remakes of old stories. That said, it's incorrect to labelthe Oldboy remake a bad movie. Thus, the cycle of revenge moves into full effect. The hallway sequence is allegedly re-edited by producers in Oldboy 2013 and is about 15 seconds shorter in comparison, and tries to outdo how impressive the original sequence is. 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. Unfortunately for Oh Dae-su, the revenge for his actions is far from over like he thinks. 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 eats a piece of food, then spits it out (visibly half-chewed) into a napkin. See ratings & reviews at Critics.com. Samuel L. 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