What is the difference between Oldboy 2003 and 2013?

What is the difference between Oldboy 2003 and 2013?

Both films are based on Shinichi Gotō 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. In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su is a troublesome drunk that is arrested for his behavior on his daughter’s fourth birthday.

Why was Oldboy locked up?

In 1988, a businessman named Oh Dae-su is arrested for drunkenness, missing his daughter’s fourth birthday. After his friend Joo-hwan picks him up from the police station, Dae-su is kidnapped and wakes up in a sealed hotel room, where food is delivered through a trap-door.

Is there an English version of Oldboy?

After a drunken night on the town, a man wakes up locked in a private prison and he has no idea why. After 15 years he is set free and goes looking for answers.

What happened at the end of Oldboy 2003?

Its dark ending. Its unbelievably dark ending. As you may remember, the original ends with Oh Dae-su realising that he’s been manipulated into falling in love and sleeping with his own daughter, at which point he slices out his own tongue and hires a hypnotist to help him forget his secret, with questionable success.

What is the American version of Oldboy?

Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. It stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley. The film is an official remake, or as labeled by Lee a “reinterpretation”, of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 film of the same name.

What happened Oldboy 2013?

Like Park’s version, “Oldboy” tells of a drunken, abusive lout named Joe Doucette (Josh Brolin) who’s imprisoned for a long time by a mysterious jailer. He gets clean in prison, then escapes to learn the identity of his tormentor and punish him.

Is Mido Oh Dae-su’s daughter?

There, Woo-jin reveals that Mi-do is actually Dae-su’s daughter and that he used hypnosis to orchestrate their meeting and attraction.

Is oldboy Korean worth watching?

It’s probably worth watching if you’ve seen the remake. The original is excellent and I vastly prefer it to the US remake. However, the US remake is pretty darn good too. It’s basically the same movie though so if you are expecting anything markedly different, you’re in for a letdown.