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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Following a lawsuit from the real Park's son, the Seoul Central Court ordered the filmmakers to delete newsreel clips of both protests against the Park administration and Park's funeral. The theatrical cut shows a black screen with titles noting that the scene was deleted due to orders from the government; both times, the screen remains black for exactly the amount of time that the newsreels were supposed to appear. The footage was restored a year later after the court order was overturned.



* DeletedScene: In-universe. Korean censors ordered newsreel clips (of 1979 protests at the beginning, and Park's funeral at the end) deleted. The theatrical cut shows a black screen with titles noting that the scene was deleted due to orders from the government. Both times, the screen remains black for exactly the amount of time that the newsreels were supposed to appear.



* DisproportionateRetribution: Soo-bong was arrested afterwards simply for being present in the murder and was not allowed to be singing on [=TV=] and radio until 1981.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Soo-bong was arrested afterwards simply for being present in the murder and was not allowed to be singing sing on [=TV=] and or the radio until 1981.



** Kim insists that the military shouldn't be used against protestors too heavily or more anti-government riots will spring up.

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** Kim insists that the military shouldn't be used against protestors too heavily or more anti-government antigovernmental riots will spring up.



* ExtremelyShortTimespan: There are a few brief epilogue scenes but most of the film dramatizes the evening and early morning of Oct. 26-27, 1979.

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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: There are a few brief epilogue scenes scenes, but most of the film dramatizes the evening and early morning of Oct. 26-27, 1979.

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''The President's Last Bang'' is a 2005 film from UsefulNotes/SouthKorea, directed by Im Sang-soo. It is a dramatization of the bizarre RealLife events surrounding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Park_Chung-hee 1979 assassination]] of South Korean President [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chung-hee Park Chung-hee]].

At the time of his murder in 1979 President Park had been the ruler of South Korea for 18 years. Since 1972 he had been dictator in all but name, having rammed through a new Korean constitution that made him president-for-life. President Park is a decadent lecher who cavorts with prostitutes and other pretty young women brought to him by his security forces. (The movie does not mention that Park had been left a widower when his wife was killed by a [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Korean]] bullet meant for him in 1974.) When he is not fondling nubile women or getting drunk with his buddies, President Park is demanding a more vigorous crackdown on the unrest and political protests then roiling South Korea. The person expected to crush the protests and crack down on opposition is Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) director Kim Jae-kyu. Kim loathes President Park, as well as Chief Bodyguard Cha, head of the president's security detail, who is a rival to Kim and is discrediting him to Park.

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''The President's Last Bang'' is a 2005 BlackComedy film from UsefulNotes/SouthKorea, directed by Im Sang-soo. It is a satirical dramatization of the bizarre RealLife events surrounding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Park_Chung-hee 1979 assassination]] of South Korean President [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chung-hee Park Chung-hee]].

At the time of his murder in 1979 President Park had been the ruler of South Korea for 18 years. Since 1972 he had been dictator in all but name, having rammed through a new Korean constitution that made him president-for-life. President Park is a decadent lecher who cavorts with prostitutes and other pretty young women brought to him by his security forces. (The movie does not mention that Park had been left a widower when his wife was killed by a [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Korean]] bullet meant for him in 1974.) When he is not fondling nubile women or getting drunk with his buddies, President Park is demanding a more vigorous crackdown on the unrest and political protests then roiling South Korea. The person expected to crush the protests and crack down on opposition is Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) director Kim Jae-kyu. Kim loathes President Park, as well as Chief Bodyguard Cha, head of the president's security detail, who is a rival to Kim and is discrediting him to Park.
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* DeletedScene: In-universe. Korean censors ordered newsreel clips (of 1979 protests at the beginning, and Park's funeral at the end) deleted. The film as released shows a black screen with titles noting that the scene was deleted due to orders from the government. Both times, the screen remains black for exactly the amount of time that the newsreels were supposed to appear.

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* DeletedScene: In-universe. Korean censors ordered newsreel clips (of 1979 protests at the beginning, and Park's funeral at the end) deleted. The film as released theatrical cut shows a black screen with titles noting that the scene was deleted due to orders from the government. Both times, the screen remains black for exactly the amount of time that the newsreels were supposed to appear.


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* ForeignCultureFetish: The film's version of Park openly admires Japanese culture (despite Japan's previous occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century), to the point of where he occasionally slips bits of Japanese into casual conversation.


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* TakeThat: When the film originally released, the Seoul Central Court required that nearly 4 minutes of footage be excised following a lawsuit by the real Park's son. Rather than edit the film around these cuts, Im Sang-soo decided to instead replace the cut portions with blank screens as a jab against the ruling.

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