Oldboy director Park Chan-wook has detailed what he’d change in his acclaimed motion thriller, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this 12 months.
Loosely based mostly on the Japanese manga of the identical identify, Oldboy follows Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) in his quest for vengeance in opposition to his captors after being imprisoned inside a cell for 15 years.
Talking about revisiting the movie for the remastered 4K model, Chan-wook defined that, if he had identified how profitable Oldboy would turn out to be whereas making it, he would have made a selected change to the unique movie.
“Initially once we have been designing Woo-jin’s penthouse, I had this concept of making a really lengthy single-lane pool,” Chan-wook advised IndieWire. “When it’s mirrored on the glass and he’s swimming, it nearly seems to be like a white fish swimming in a protracted strip of water in opposition to the darkish sky of night time.
“I wished to create a really surrealist picture however couldn’t due to the funds. If I had identified again then that the movie was going to be successful, I’d have invested more cash and made the pool that I wished.”
The director, who solely watched the movie for a 3rd time throughout the restoration course of, recalled how the one time he loved watching Oldboy was to mark the tenth anniversary.
“The one time I used to be in a position to take pleasure in watching the movie was 10 years in the past, for the tenth anniversary,” Chan-wook stated. “I watched it once more with the forged and heads of departments, and I discovered the character of Woo-jin to be much more fascinating than I remembered. The actor who performed him, Yoo Ji-tae, gave an incredible efficiency.”
An American remake of Oldboy was launched in 2013, starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. The revamp, nonetheless, confronted combined critiques and was a field workplace flop.
Since 2003’s Oldboy, Chan-wook has directed movies Sympathy For Girl Vengeance, Thirst, The Handmaiden and final 12 months’s Determination To Go away.
