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  • #31
    Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

    Originally posted by GreatOz View Post

    One thing for sure, Hollywood always circles the wagons when something like this happens because they know they're going to get attacked in the media.

    The irony of course being that the media and Hollywood are interchangable. Both entities are owned by the exact same corporate masters. CBS/Viacom/Paramout. Universal/NBC Disney/ABC Fox/Fox etc. etc. etc.

    You know the drill.

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    • #32
      Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

      And I would be a raving lunatic.

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      • #33
        Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

        Not going to touch that one.

        Nope.

        Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
        It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
        -- Potter Stewart

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        • #34
          Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

          I think blaming it on the movies - blaming it on anything - is our way of trying to make some sense of insanity. We want the world to make sense so that we can make sure these things don't happen again.

          They will happen again. There is no reason - no way to really solve the problem. There have always been crazy people. Always been cruel people. Always been violent people. They are a very very small portion of society.

          Though today is kind of an odd day in history - Waco and Oklahoma City - most days nothing much happens. No crazed gunmen... just your usual crimes. People steal things. People kill friends and family that they've just had enough of. People die when they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. People get into car accidents. People die in war. Now, it may seem strange to say that those are just part of normal life - but they are. We flip on the news and there's a big car accident and someone has died and that's terrible... but we wait for the weather report. There are accidents every day where people die.

          When the strange thing happens - be it a campus shooting or an armed religious cult or a lunatic with a truck full of explosives and a grudge against the government - we scramble to figure it all out. To find some reason behind the unreasonable.

          There isn't any.

          Instead of focusing on the crazy guy, we should be focusing on the victims. They should be the news story.

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          • #35
            Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

            Originally posted by haunted View Post
            He was clearly nuts. He'd been declared a danger to himself as a result of those prior stalking incidents, but was unfortunately only required to have out-patient therapy.

            This tragedy has nothing to do with any movies he saw. It's about the system failing him and his victims. Or maybe it's only about the system being unable to fathom how deeply disturbed he was.
            or maybe it's about Cho being a killer?

            I've not been following this closely, seems he had depression and various allegations were made of minor-league stalking, but not prosecuted.

            Originally posted by telegraph
            "He found where she lived, started talking to her on AIM. Then he went over there.
            "He was using the name Question Mark, and said, 'Hey, I'm Question Mark'. And that really freaked the girl out." The female student complained to university police but declined to press charges.
            behaviour like this, depression, and a couple of screwed-up plays are enough to have him committed to an asylum? That may well have been justified in this case, but we only know that with the benefit of hindsight. What you are advocating (institutionalising kids for being depressed and harassing girls on AIM?) sounds quite precipitous, and I'm surprised to hear it from someone so concerned about personal freedoms and liberties.

            I'm not sure people who have been diagnosed with severe depression should be allowed a firearms permit -- at least not until it is being properly managed.
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            • #36
              Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

              or maybe it's about Cho being a killer?
              Gee, do you think that might be part of it?

              Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
              It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
              -- Potter Stewart

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              • #37
                Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                Originally posted by haunted View Post
                Gee, do you think that might be part of it?
                I think it's the all of it.
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                • #38
                  Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                  Originally posted by BROUGHCUT View Post
                  Hamboogul.

                  ...okay, I'll give myself a

                  Yeah, knowing that Hamboogul's last name is KIM not CHO.
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                  • #39
                    Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                    Originally posted by wcmartell View Post
                    There have always been crazy people. Always been cruel people. Always been violent people. They are a very very small portion of society.
                    - Bill


                    Nowadays they have better media coverage.

                    "The two things that run Hollywood are fear and greed." - Syd Field

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                    • #40
                      Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                      Originally posted by Sundancer View Post
                      Nowadays they have better media coverage.



                      Reminds me of the news report that quoted Governor George Maddox of Alabama in response to the question:

                      Governor, why do you think we're having so much trouble in our penitentiaries
                      ?

                      Governor Maddox: Well, Son, the problem is we need a better class of prisoners.



                      Seriously.
                      Last edited by andlary1; 04-19-2007, 06:01 PM.
                      Writers write to be read, right?

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                      • #41
                        Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                        Does anyone remember Stephen King's short story about the kid who takes the classroom full of kids hostage?

                        That was written probably around 1978-84? Maybe.

                        Anyway. I thought at the time I read it (I was sooo shocked at the concept), God, what if someone actually does this, and King's story gave him the idea?

                        I can't decide which influences what: art influencing reality or vice versa?

                        After all, who could have really written a story like the life of Anna Nicole Smith? Your agent would have used the pages as firestarters.

                        I'm beginning to understand the futility of understanding and expecting anything. Kind of nice in an existentialist way, I guess.
                        Writers write to be read, right?

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                        • #42
                          Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                          "Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether." - Quentin Tarantino

                          I love that quote.

                          Tom

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                          • #43
                            Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                            A silver hammer, huh?

                            Sounds familiar...

                            Joan was quizzical; studied metaphysical
                            Science in the home.
                            Late nights all alone with a test tube.
                            Oh, oh, oh, oh.

                            Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine,
                            Calls her on the phone.
                            "Can I take you out to the pictures,
                            Joa, oa, oa, oan?"

                            But as she's getting ready to go,
                            A knock comes on the door.

                            Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
                            Came down upon her head.
                            Bang Bang Maxwell's silver hammer
                            Made sure that she was dead.

                            Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again.
                            Teacher gets annoyed.
                            Wishing to avoid an unpleasant
                            Sce, e, e, ene,

                            She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away,
                            So he waits behind
                            Writing fifty times "I must not be
                            So, o, o, o.."

                            But when she turns her back on the boy,
                            He creeps up from behind.

                            Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
                            Came down upon her head.
                            Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
                            Made sure that she was dead...


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                            • #44
                              Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                              I think it's the all of it.
                              I don't doubt that for a second.

                              Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
                              It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
                              -- Potter Stewart

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                              • #45
                                Re: Cho imitating "Old Boy?"

                                Don't make me pull this message board over!
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