History Film / Oldboy2013

* MemeticMutation: [[spoiler: [[Creator/JoshBrolin Thanos]] has sex with [[Creator/ElizabethOlsen Wanda]].]]
** While [[Creator/PomKlementieff Mantis]] watches.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Early in his captivity, Joe "takes matters in hand" while watching a Thighmaster infomercial with a pillow over his crotch.

''Oldboy'' is a 2013 film directed by Creator/SpikeLee, and a remake of the famed [[Film/{{Oldboy 2003}} South Korean film]] from 2003, itself loosely based on the [[Manga/{{Oldboy}} Japanese manga series]] of the same name.

It follows advertising executive Joe Doucett as he 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.

The film stars Creator/JoshBrolin, Creator/ElizabethOlsen, Creator/SharltoCopley, Creator/MichaelImperioli, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/PomKlementieff, and Creator/RamiMalek. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02k8Zac-so here (NSFW)]].

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The film stars Creator/JoshBrolin, Creator/ElizabethOlsen, Creator/SharltoCopley, Creator/MichaelImperioli, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/PomKlementieff, and Creator/RamiMalek. It was released on October 25, and the trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02k8Zac-so here (NSFW)]].

* MeaningfulName: Joe Doucett strikes the ear in much the same way as Oh Dae-su. Sadly, such a direct translation removes any potential for the double-meaning that Oh Dae-su’s name held.

''Oldboy'' is a 2013 film directed by Creator/SpikeLee, and a remake of the famed [[Film/{{Oldboy 2003}} South Korean film]] from 2003, itself loosely based on the [[Manga/{{Oldboy}} manga series]] of the same name.

''Oldboy'' is a 2013 film directed by Creator/SpikeLee, and a remake of the famed [[Film/{{Oldboy 2003}} Korean film]] from 2003, itself loosely based on the [[Manga/{{Oldboy}} manga series]] of the same name.

The film stars Creator/JoshBrolin, Creator/ElizabethOlsen, Creator/SharltoCopley, Michael Imperioli, and Creator/SamuelLJackson. It was released on October 25, and the trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02k8Zac-so here (NSFW)]].

* PaperTiger: Adrian's bodyguard gives off a tough demeanor and a confrontation with Joe is build-up through the film. When they finally face off in the climax, [[spoiler:she only manages to get a couple of licks on Joe before he slashes her throat and kills her]].

* {{Fanservice}}: [[spoiler:Joe and Marie have sex in a hotel, and the viewer gets a good look.]]

* PaperTiger: Adrian's bodyguard gives off a tough demeanor through the film and a confrontation with Joe is build-up through the film. When they finally face off in the climax, [[spoiler:she only manages to get a couple of licks on Joe before he slashes her throat and kills her]].

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Downplayed. Chaney has many of the same threatening sleazy demeanor as his 2003 counterpart Mr. Park, but Samuel L. Jackson takes the character in a more deliberately comedic direction.

* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the BigBad. The lengths both Woo-jin and Adrian go to in order to hurt the protagonist are largely the same, but the difference in motivations make Adrian less sympathetic. The men are both angry at [[spoiler:the protagonist gossiping about their sister]], but Oh Dae-su witnesses something that creeps him out whilst Joe witnesses what's basically a crime [[spoiler:Adrian's father having sex with his own daughter]]. Neither antagonist are justified in what they did, but Woo-jin [[spoiler:avenging his innocent sister's suicide]] adds a sympathetic dimension to him while Adrian's motive is partially to avenge [[spoiler:his father, who killed his family and molested both his children,]] just further shows how twisted he is.

* BerserkButton: Never call Adrian's sister a "whore" in front of him, as [[spoiler:Chucky]] learned a ''very'' hard way.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Adrian succeeds in his plan to make Joe unknowingly have sex with his own daughter Marie, and a horrified Joe writes Marie a letter saying they can never see each other again, which Joe ensures by using some of the diamonds Adrian gave him to pay Chaney to return him to the captivity of the hotel room, allowing Chaney to continue his kidnapping scheme untouched. On the other hand, with Adrian dead his rampage has finally stopped, and Joe and Marie not seeing each other again is presented as the best thing to do for the situation, especially for her so as to allow her to live a normal life, plus Joe actually leaves most of the diamonds to her. This is in stark contrast with how in the original Oh Dae-su got himself hypnotized to erase the truth of Mi-do being his daughter from his memory so that he can continue having a romantic relationship with her, and even then the final shot of that film implied that the memory wipe actually didn't work.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Marie apparently had one of these, having lived in broked (adopted) homes, and drug use was also involved. [[spoiler:Adrian claims to have had a hand on this when revealing to Joe that she's Joe's daughter, but he doesn't specify how.]]

* GambitRoulette: Perhaps even more so than in the original film. [[spoiler:Like Woo-jin, Adrian's plan depends entirely on the protagonist having a relationship with a specific woman, who turns out to be his own daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she was a baby. However, in the 2003 film, Woo-jin actually used hypnotism to ensure that Oh Dae-su and Mi-do (the Joe and Marie analogues in that film) would fall in love. No such thing is present on this film, meaning that Adrian more or less betted that Joe and Marie would have sex ''somehow''.]]

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joe tortures Chaney by flaying his neck with a Stanley knife to obtain information about the "Stranger" who arraged for his kidnapping.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Joe is a sexist alcoholic schmuck, but as we see over the course of the plot most of his misdeeds from from thoughtlessness, not evil and he DOES have a line he won't cross.

* PetTheDog: Joe befriends a mouse he finds in his bathroom and makes a pet of it growing quite attached to it, showing that while he was/is an odious and thoughtless person he is not truly evil.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Joe stops drinking alcohol, exercises and practices fighting while being held captive. He's in much better shape 20 years later.

* RageAgainstTheReflection: [[spoiler:Subverted. Joe smashes the mirror because he wants to cut his wrists with the broken glass of it during his 20 years captivity]].

* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Marie gets orphaned, her mother is murdered, and she's unknowingly manipulated into an incestuous relationship with her presumed-dead father...all for a gossipy comment her father made when he was a teenager.]]

''Oldboy'' is a 2013 film directed by Creator/SpikeLee, and a remake of the famed [[Film/{{Oldboy 2003}} Korean film]] from 2003.[[note]]Which, in itself, is based on the [[Manga/{{Oldboy}} manga series]].[[/note]] It follows advertising executive Joe Doucett as he 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.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Adrian succeeds in his plan to make Joe unknowingly have sex with his own daughter Marie, and a horrified Joe writes Marie a letter saying they can never see each other again, which Joe ensures by using some of the diamonds Adrian gave him to pay Chaney to return him to the captivity of the hotel room, allowing Chaney to continue his kidnapping scheme untouched. On the other hand, with Adrian dead him rampage has finally stopped, and Joe and Marie not seeing each other again is presented as the best thing to do for the situation, especially for her so as to allow her to live a normal life, plus Joe actually leaves most of the diamonds to her. This is in stark contrast with how in the original Oh Dae-su got himself hypnotized to erase the truth of Mi-do being his daughter from his memory so that he can continue having a romantic relationship with her, and even then the final shot of that film implied that the memory wipe actually didn't work.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Downplayed}} with the BigBad. The lengths both Woo-jin and Adrian go to in order to hurt the protagonist are largely the same, but the difference in motivations make Adrian less sympathetic. The men are both angry at [[spoiler:the protagonist gossiping about their sister]], but Oh Dae-su witnesses something that creeps him out whilst Joe witnesses what's basically a crime [[spoiler:Adrian's father having sex with his own daughter]]. Neither antagonist are justified in what they did, but Woo-jin [[spoiler:avenging his innocent sister's suicide]] adds a sympathetic dimension to him while Adrian's motive is partially to avenge [[spoiler:his father, who killed his family and molested both his children,]] just further shows how twisted he is.

* IfYouDoAnythingToHurtHer: Marie's co-worker gives Joe one of these, noting Marie's DarkAndTroubledPast and saying that she doesn't need more misery on her life.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Subverted with the ending, which gives the film a somewhat happier and less ambiguous outcome.

* GenderFlip: The bodyguard of Adrian's counterpart in the original Korean film was a man, here she's a woman.

* PsychopathicManchild: Adrian definitely comes off as this, even more so than his counterpart in the Korean film.

** After Adrian reveals that [[spoiler:the "Mia" Joe has seen through the film was actually an actress at his employ, he shows Joe how the actual Mia grew up, revealing that the grown-up Mia is actually Marie, the woman Joe ended up sleeping with.]]

* WhamShot: While not played up as one, the reveal that Chaney [[spoiler:has got ''a dozen other people'' imprisoned in the same overly elaborate fashion]] is going to hit some people.

* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Downplayed}} with the BigBad. The lengths both Woo-jin and Adrian go to in order to hurt the protagonist are largely the same, but the difference in motivations make Adrian less sympathetic. The men are both angry at [[spoiler:the protagonist gossiping about their sister]], but Oh Dae-su witnesses something that creeps him out whilst Joe witnesses what's basically a crime [[spoiler:Adrian's father having sex with his own daughter]]. Neither antagonist are justified in what they did, but Woo-jin [[spoiler:avenging his innocent sister's suicide]] is adds a sympathetic dimension to him while Adrian's motive is partially to avenge [[spoiler:his father, who killed his family and molested both his children,]] just further shows how twisted he is.