Old Boy

Synopsis: An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: FilmDistrict
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
R
Year:
2013
104 min
$1,227,546
Website
861 Views


What?

I said I just wanted to speak

What the hell? What's with

the way you f***ing talk?

Who the f*** are you?

My...

name is...

Oh Daesu

Why are you picking on

someone else's girlfriend?

Hold on

Am I picking on you? Mr. Oh Daesu!

Am I picking on you? F***!

Okay! Okay, I got it

Just a minute Okay! Okay!

F***!

Oh Daesu please sit down

Oh boy Must have drunk a lot

Who the hell did I pick on?

Hold on, let me piss first

Hey, this is a police

station I didn't do anything!

Hey! You son of a b*tch!

We really have to do something about him

A**hole! Mr. Oh Daesu

Oh man It is, so sit down

I'm very sorry F***, I gotta piss bad

Ah, great

Cute, huh? Yeah I saw it Now go sit down

Today's my daughter's birthday

I got her a present for her birthday

Snatches of clouds

floatin the sky Ah, great

A pleasure boat floats in the river

My name Oh Daesu, means...

"Getting along with people"

That's why I'm Oh Daesu

But, sh*t...

Why can't I get along

today? Set me free!

Huh! Shut the hell up! Shush!

Set me free!

Let go of me, damn it!

That son of a b*tch really

needs some prison time

Get away from me!

Hey, get him! Ow, f***, ouch!

I'll make sure he doesn't get drunk

and cause trouble again

Have a nice day Officer

He's usually a nice guy but... Let's go

I'll come visit you soon

We don't want you to come back

That's up to me you a**holes

Hey!

My Sweet Pea It's daddy

Daddy got my Sweet Pea a present

I'll be home soon with your gift,

so wait a bit longer

Let me talk to her Good girl, good

Good girl, good Give me the phone

Yeun hee, Joo hwan wants to talk to you

You know Joo hwan, right? Hold on

Hi, Yeun hee

It's me, Joo hwan

So today's your birthday? Happy birthday

I'll treat you to

something nice tomorrow

Hello?

Oh hello, Ja hyun I'm sorry

I know it's very late

Daesu is on his way now I'm sorry

Yes? Hold on Daesu, it's your wife

Daesu!

Daesu!

Daesu!

Hey, Daesu!

Daesu!

Hey, Daesu! Couldn't you hurry up a bit

Hey, stop fooling around and let's go

Ah, great

Daesu!

Daesu!

Hey, Daesu!

Sir, sir Wait come here

Come talk to me

I won't tell you to let me go

Just tell me why I'm here, okay?

I should know the reason at least

Sh*t, I've been locked up here

for two months already

Sir, wait, come here

Sir, wait What is this place?

Sir, just tell me how

long I have to stay in here

Just tell me that, huh?

Sir! F*** you!

Come here, you a**hole! Son of a b*tch

I saw your face, a**hole

You're dead if I get

out Come here, a**hole

I'm sorry I won't curse

Just tell me One month, two

or three? Hey!

Hey, where are you going?

Just tell me how long

you son of a b*tch!

I said tell me how long

you a**hole! You son of a b*tch!

You f***ing a**holes!

If they had told me

it was going to be 15 years

could it have been easier to endure?

Or could it have not?

When the melody turns on gas comes out

When the gas comes I fall asleep

I found out later

that it's the same Valium

gas Russian soldiers used

on the Chechen terrorists

When I wake up my hair has been cut

I don't like the style really

But they change my clothes

and clean the place up

Grateful bastards

One

two

three

It's too spicy

I don't want spinach You eat it

I won't eat spinach

I don't want to eat spinach

Kim Jahyun's body was found

deeply stabbed in the neck

Seeing that it was a cold blooded murder

with nothing valuable stolen

police suspect that the

motive was out of hatred

Her husband who disappeared

a year ago is a prime suspect

According to witnesses

her husband, Oh Daesu

drank often causing

trouble with his wife

and neighbors said

they fought frequently

Blood samples found at the scene

matched Oh Daesu's

Fingerprints found on a cup

also matched Oh Daesu's

It was confirmed by sources that

Oh Daesu visited his wife recently

The stolen family album

also backs their theories

After three years

many wrinkles have formed on his face

Ah, that is around 8

million wons 8 million wons?

For a knife 8 million wons...

Of course for a sushi master

you need the best tools

If you stand aimlessly

at a phone booth on a rainy day

and meet a man whose face is

covered by a violet umbrella,

I'd suggest that you get close to the TV

The television is both

a clock and calendar

It's your school, home

church, friend

and lover

But...

But,

my lover's song

is too short

This morning around 7:30 the top 50m of

the Sungsoo Bridge in Seoul

suddenly collapsed in the middle...

I wrote down all the people

whom I fought with, bothered, and hurt

This was both my prison journal

and autobiography of my evil deeds

I thought I had lived an average life

but I've sinned too much

All I thought about at that moment

was that the guy next door

probably ate with one chopstick

But...

But

who would've imprisoned me?

Was it Yoo Heung sam?

Lee So young or Kang Changsuk?

Whoever it was, just wait

Wait a bit more

I'll rip your whole body apart

and no one will be able

to find your body anywhere

Because I'm going to chew it all down

One line for one year

I have to sew six lines

at first

I guess next year will be easier

The more the tattoos

the shorter the chopstick

The shorter the chopstick the

bigger the wall's hole gets

Anyway,

time passes well

Enforcement of an arrest warrant

Handover of Hong Kong

Yesterday's convention center

Death of Princess Diana

Funeral for Princess Diana

Westminister Monastery

IMF, Financial support

officially approved

Artillery Salute

Arrival of President

Kim Dae Jung in Pyungyang

Underdog Korea!

Miraculous Quarterfinals!

Elected

Elected Noh Moo Hyun 49% 11, 502, 958

I'll be out in a month

I'll be out in a month

I'll be out

I'll be out after a

month I'll be out of here

I'll be out in a month

In exactly one month

I'll be out

I'll need money when I get out

So what should I do?

Should I steal or rob?

What shall I eat first?

Anything will be fine

except for fried dumplings

Where am I anyway?

With all the cars honking

it must be the city

The most important thing

is what floor I'm on

What if I pierce through the

wall and it's the 52nd floor?

Even if I fall to my

death I'm still getting out

I'm getting out I'm getting out

In one month, I'm getting out

Right now

you're lying on a plain

When you hear the bell

you will turn your head and look down

You will see an endless

field of green grass

The sun is shining bright

and there's a cool breeze

It's a human being

Don't stop me!

Mister

Even though

I'm no worst than a beast

don't I have the right to live?

Mister

Even though

I'm no worst than a beast

don't I have the right to live?

Yes

That phone booth alley was just here

Now there's an apartment building

So he throws me on the

roof What a numskull

I want to tell you my

story Delay your death

What?

I see

Of course

Now I'll tell you my story

You see

the reason why I want to die...

Hey!

It's a woman being

That lunatic... Hurry, go!

Hey, Mr.! Come over here!

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Mark Protosevich

Mark David Protosevich is an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for the films Poseidon and I Am Legend. Protosevich was born in Chicago, Illinois and is an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago. more…

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