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"Oldboy" director Park Chan-wook is ready to put "Twilight" to shame!
Park Chan Wook (my favorite director), the man that brought us "The Vengeance Trilogy" is about to reveal his vision of everyone's favorite, blood-sucking, soulless creatures!
He even takes time to give us his take on the American remake of his classic film "OLDBOY".
Source: Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean director who won the Grand Prix at Cannes for "Oldboy," a film that gave revenge a fresh and disturbing twist, returns to the festival with a movie that puts another Hollywood staple, vampires, in a new light.
Park Chan-wook sees his movie "Thirst," about a Catholic priest turned vampire and which will be in competition at Cannes when it opens this week, as a morality tale.
"I wanted to make audiences more conscious of the moral aspects of choices, whether large or small, by presenting a once-in-a-lifetime, life-or-death decision and exaggerating it to the extremes," Park said told Reuters in an interview.
"Many of South Korea's modern films do not dodge, but squarely confront, moral questions that other films in other countries tend to see as anachronistic."
Park, known for films that question human nature through scenes of shocking violence and dark humor, presents a blood-drenched thriller in "Thirst," which opened in South Korea this month to critical acclaim and strong box office receipts.
The movie, called "Bakjwi" in Korean, stars veteran actor Song Kang-ho as the priest who becomes a vampire during a medical experiment and who is then seduced by a bored housewife bent on murder, played by rising star Kim Ok-vin.
"I thought I could add some changes to this old genre by approaching the subject -- vampire-ism, so to speak -- without the usual mystery or romanticism but from a realistic perspective where being a vampire is sort of a disease," Park said.
The movie will be the first Park has entered in competition at Cannes since "Oldboy" in 2004. He will be up against movies including World War Two drama "Inglourious Basterds" from director Quentin Tarantino, who championed Park five years ago.
After "Oldboy," Park finished his revenge trilogy with "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" and then made the offbeat movie "I'm a Cyborg but That's OK."
"I felt exhausted and a bit devastated after the trilogy, which is why I made a 'cute' film. 'Thirst' marks a new start for me," he said.
"Thirst" was the first Korean film to receive production funding and a distribution deal from Hollywood studios with Universal Pictures and Focus Features investing in the project in a vote of confidence for Park, U.S. entertainment trade publication Variety reported.
Industry trade paper Hollywood Reporter also said that "Oldboy" is heading for a Hollywood remake with Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio likely to take the lead in production and Will Smith being floated as the possible star.
"Whoever makes the film, I would like it to turn out as a completely new movie," Park said when asked about the remake.
He even takes time to give us his take on the American remake of his classic film "OLDBOY".
Source: Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean director who won the Grand Prix at Cannes for "Oldboy," a film that gave revenge a fresh and disturbing twist, returns to the festival with a movie that puts another Hollywood staple, vampires, in a new light.
Park Chan-wook sees his movie "Thirst," about a Catholic priest turned vampire and which will be in competition at Cannes when it opens this week, as a morality tale.
"I wanted to make audiences more conscious of the moral aspects of choices, whether large or small, by presenting a once-in-a-lifetime, life-or-death decision and exaggerating it to the extremes," Park said told Reuters in an interview.
"Many of South Korea's modern films do not dodge, but squarely confront, moral questions that other films in other countries tend to see as anachronistic."
Park, known for films that question human nature through scenes of shocking violence and dark humor, presents a blood-drenched thriller in "Thirst," which opened in South Korea this month to critical acclaim and strong box office receipts.
The movie, called "Bakjwi" in Korean, stars veteran actor Song Kang-ho as the priest who becomes a vampire during a medical experiment and who is then seduced by a bored housewife bent on murder, played by rising star Kim Ok-vin.
"I thought I could add some changes to this old genre by approaching the subject -- vampire-ism, so to speak -- without the usual mystery or romanticism but from a realistic perspective where being a vampire is sort of a disease," Park said.
The movie will be the first Park has entered in competition at Cannes since "Oldboy" in 2004. He will be up against movies including World War Two drama "Inglourious Basterds" from director Quentin Tarantino, who championed Park five years ago.
After "Oldboy," Park finished his revenge trilogy with "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" and then made the offbeat movie "I'm a Cyborg but That's OK."
"I felt exhausted and a bit devastated after the trilogy, which is why I made a 'cute' film. 'Thirst' marks a new start for me," he said.
"Thirst" was the first Korean film to receive production funding and a distribution deal from Hollywood studios with Universal Pictures and Focus Features investing in the project in a vote of confidence for Park, U.S. entertainment trade publication Variety reported.
Industry trade paper Hollywood Reporter also said that "Oldboy" is heading for a Hollywood remake with Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio likely to take the lead in production and Will Smith being floated as the possible star.
"Whoever makes the film, I would like it to turn out as a completely new movie," Park said when asked about the remake.
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Comment by AJ on May 14, 2009 at 12:25am - that's the dude that played the north korean in C.W. Park's JSA! nice
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Comment by Brendan on May 14, 2009 at 12:10am - I hope Speilberg's/ Will Smith's Oldboy never happens either.
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Comment by ThaShining on May 13, 2009 at 9:49pm - I'm hoping that the American version of Oldboy gets stuck in development hell and doesn't get made. If it does get made it's gonna be PG-13!
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Comment by keyser soze on May 13, 2009 at 8:56pm - a dreamworks remake of Oldboy starring Will Smith......uuugh....Am I the only one that feels like blowing chunks when reading this sentence?
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Comment by Thatmunkybites on May 13, 2009 at 8:51pm -
Killing Twilight's hype is easy. Rent it.
Although this does look sick. I'll check it out.
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Comment by Siriusly Black on May 13, 2009 at 5:16pm -
You guys are missing the big picture.
How will this compare to Let the right one in
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Comment by AdventChild on May 13, 2009 at 4:44pm - It looks pretty awesome. Hopefully, it will defeat or kill the hype of Twilight even though I didn't watch, fail see why it was hyped in the first place? Possibly all the teen girls drooling for Edward or just fans of the book.
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Comment by ShibuyaRiver on May 13, 2009 at 4:20pm - Got me at Park-Chan wook.
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Comment by Troupe on May 13, 2009 at 3:52pm - i'm all for it.
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Comment by Travis Pickle on May 13, 2009 at 2:42pm - For some reason it dont have subtitles but on YOUTUBE it does so i watched it on there and this looks very very nice!
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