Oldboy

Oldboy (2003)

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Dae-su Oh: I thought I'd lived a simple life. But I've sinned too much.

Woo-jin Lee: My sister and I loved each other, despite everything. Can you do the same?

Woo-jin Lee: And now... now, what joy will I have left to live for?

Dae-su Oh: How's life in a bigger prison, Dae-su?

Mr. Park: We put a hypnosis-inducing drug in your water.
Dae-su Oh: Sodium barbiturate?
Mr. Park: Ha! TV Man knows it all.

Woo-jin Lee: Remember this: "Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same."

Woo-jin Lee: You really are the very monster I created, aren't you? But you won't find out the "why" of this if you kill me. Fifteen years of being curious would go to waste.

Dae-su Oh: Please. Don't tell Mido. What has she done wrong? You know it was all my fault... I have committed an unforgivable sin, against your sister. And I also... Did you wrong. But, please leave Mido alone... If by any chance Mido finds out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'll tear you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.

Woo-jin Lee: I'm going to kill every woman you love until you die. You're notorious for not protecting your women.

Dae-su Oh: You need not worry about the future, Imagine nothing.

Dae-su Oh: When the melody turns on, gas comes out. When the gas comes out, I fall asleep. I found out later it's the same Valium gas the Russians used on those Chechen terrorists.

Mi-do: Dae Su. In front of me is some kind of box. He's telling me to open it. It's the same violet box.
Dae-su Oh: No! No Mi-do don't. Don't open it no matter what. Or something terrible will happen.

Woo-jin Lee: What I am isn't important. WHY is important.

Dae-su Oh: Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again.

Woo-jin Lee: My sister and I loved each other, despite everything. Can you two do the same?

Mr. Park: You see, they say that people shrivel up because they have an imagination. So, don't imagine anything, you'll become brave as hell.

Dae-su Oh: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

Woo-jin Lee: Mister. Are you all right? What happened to you? Saewoon Apartments, Eung-am building 8. Take care of him.
Dae-su Oh: Thank You.
Woo-jin Lee: Not at all. Well, then. Farewell, Oh Dae Su.
Dae-su Oh: Farewell, Oh Dae Su.

Dae-su Oh: If by any chance Mido should find out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'm going to rip you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.

Revealing mistake: After Oldboy takes care of the guys who turn up in the elevator to beat him up, the exit door opens in the garage, and all the knocked-out thugs fall out or down in the elevator. However, one puts his arm out to stop a hard fall to the ground, even though he is supposed to be knocked out.

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Trivia: Choi Min-sik had to eat four live octopuses for the infamous scene in which his character Oh Dae-su wants to "eat something alive." Min-sik is a Buddhist, and would pray before each take and profusely apologize to the octopuses before eating them. The director later personally thanked the octopuses during an acceptance speech for an award he got for the film.

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Question: When Mido was trying to come up with a screen name for Oh Dae-Su early in the movie, why was Dae-Su so interested/startled by the mention of "The Count of Monte Cristo"?

Answer: Perhaps because in the movie/book "The Count of Monte Cristo" that's what happened to him. In the book/movie the hero Edmund Dantes is renamed "the Count" in order to disguise that fact that he is Dantes after having broken out of jail. This way he is free to seek revenge on the ones that put him in jail under false charges.

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