The American version of "Old Boy" released in 2013 is a remake of the 2003 South Korean movie of the same name. Some netizens commented that the original version is a genre film that exudes a strong personal style; And the remake is only a criminal and violent commercial film.
One of the biggest gimmicks of this American version of Old Boy is Elizabeth Olsen, who later became popular with the Marvel character Scarlet Witch, and Thanos actor Josh Brolin, the two dedicated their lives to art in the film and staged a fiery passion scene.
Gimmicks aside, the story of the old boy itself is very bloody. Let's take a look at the plot of the movie.
Plot:
Thanos is a well-dressed sales manager during the day in the film, and at night he becomes a rotten person who is an alcoholic, and one night he is so drunk that he actually teases the customer's girlfriend, only to be bumped into by the customer, not only blown by the negotiated business, but also slapped by the customer.
Thanos was depressed all night, drunk, and met a doll stall on the way home, only to realize that today was his daughter's third birthday, and Thanos was confused and paid for a small toy. Turning his head and seeing a beautiful girl on the side of the road, he stepped forward to talk.
The camera turns, Thanos wakes up in bed, hungover, confused and completely unable to remember what happened, he gets up and turns around to find himself locked in a closed room, not even a window, shouting loudly and no one responds.
Although someone regularly brings dumplings and beer from the small window, there is still no one to take care of Thanos, fortunately, there is a TV in the room, and you can watch the beautiful women vent. Just when he comforted himself to the "critical moment", a cloud of white smoke suddenly erupted from the ceiling, and Thanos passed out.
Then came a mysterious group of men in white who collected Thanos' nails and hair.
Soon after, Thanos woke up again, and a few days later, Thanos saw news reports on TV that his ex-wife had been killed, he had become a suspect, and his daughter, who had just turned three, had become an orphan. Thanos got angry again and almost smashed everything in the room.
But every day should not be, called the earth is not spiritual, Thanos began to collapse, he wanted to end himself, but when he cut his wrists and fell into a coma, a mysterious person would appear to save him.
I don't know how long later, Thanos saw his daughter being adopted by a family on TV, looking at his daughter's appearance, Thanos was determined to cheer up.
He began to exercise himself in the room and stopped drinking, seemingly changing a person. After this went on for a while, white smoke appeared in the room again, stumbling Thanos.
But this time Thanos opened his eyes and found that he had left that room!
Thanos was overjoyed to be free, but because he had been isolated for too long, Thanos was very unfamiliar with the current world, and Mary, a community servant, kindly helped him find his old friend.
After learning that he has been imprisoned for 20 years, Thanos is determined to find the mysterious man for revenge.
He started with the flavor of dumplings he ate when he was locked up, tasted them from restaurant to restaurant, and really found a familiar taste, and after a few days of squatting spots, he found a suspicious person, and then followed the person to a warehouse, determined that this was the place where he was imprisoned.
It is a pity that the person in charge of the warehouse insists that he imprisoned Thanos as ordered, and has never seen the commander, let alone know who he is.
Who knew that the mysterious man took the initiative to find out the door that night and told Thanos that as long as he could find out his identity and the reason why he had been locked up for twenty years within 48 hours, then he would help him clear the charge of killing his wife, and there was also a huge bill reward.
If Thanos doesn't agree, or doesn't understand, his daughter's life will be in danger.
So Thanos can only accept, he found Mary, Mary expressed trust in Thanos' bizarre encounter, and helped him find out the truth, back and forth, the relationship between the two quickly warmed up and in-depth understanding of each other.
Long story short, Thanos found out the identity of the mysterious man, it turned out that Thanos had bumped into the mysterious man's sister and father "checking each other's bodies" at night, Thanos felt novel, so he publicized their scandalous story.
Who can accept such transcendent things? The mysterious man's father could not bear the immense pressure, and after shooting the whole family, he committed suicide, only the mysterious man survived.
After remembering this incident, Thanos figured out the reason why he was imprisoned by the mysterious man, so he decided to go to fight the mysterious man to the death and find his daughter's whereabouts.
After seeing the mysterious man, the mysterious man did not hurry to tell Thanos what he had done to his daughter during the twenty years of captivity.
It turned out that the news about his daughter that Thanos saw on the TV in the room was fake, arranged by the mysterious person, and even the Mary that Thanos met after he came out was also deliberately done by the mysterious person.
Hearing this, Thanos collapsed, thinking that the mysterious man did all this for revenge, then Mary must be the daughter he was looking for! I did the same thing as the mysterious man's father!
The mysterious man finally committed suicide with a triumphant expression of successful revenge.
Thanos thought about it alone for a long time, he did not tell Mary the truth of the matter, let alone tell her that he was her father, he could only choose to bear it alone, and Thanos finally returned to the room where he was originally imprisoned, but for the rest of his life.
Epilogue:
The whole story is bizarre and evil and dark, very fascinating, in addition, the movie is very violent and bloody, of course, the favorite is the love of "Ao Mei" Olsen. If you don't want to watch the content of the movie, just watch Ao Mei, you may wish to slide directly to 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Compared with the Korean version of Old Boy, the ending of the original story is profound, and the excellence of the original version is indispensable for the setting of the ending; The ending of the remake is not shocking and profound enough; Can't stand up to the previous plot top-heavy.
The author feels that this is the difference between Eastern and Western cultures, the Korean version is more emotional, artistic and artistic, while the American version is more logical and focuses on scenes.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that several of the main actors who appeared in the film have participated in Marvel movies, and it is difficult for people not to act, so to paraphrase the names of heroes in Marvel movies, this movie summarizes that Thanos was imprisoned by Nick Fury for twenty years, came out to find his daughter with the help of Scarlet Witch, killed the boss's subordinate Mantis Girl, and finally found that the Scarlet Witch who slept with himself was his own daughter.