"Hello, I'm Park Chan-wook." "I'm the director of photography, Chung Chung-hoon." "How have you been?" "It's been a long time." "How is the shooting of The Antarctic Diary going?" "It is going very well," "I hope." " How about your next film?" " I'm writing the script." "The logos are appearing in a pretty way." "Is this your first audio commentary?" "Yes, I haven't done it before." "We filmed this shot against the light." "What do you think?" "It wasn't easy to shoot, it was during the monsoon period." "We had to wait for a long time to get strong sunlight." "Yes." "It wasn't as bright as we wanted." "We had to follow the sunlight." "So we moved the actors constantly to follow the sun." "The policeman's voice in this scene is the cinematographer's." "People said my voice made the film depressing." "We tried to make this scene different from the other scenes." "Many of the other sets have a green and purple tone." "We wanted an ordinary and warm feeling in this scene." "We didn't use strong primary colors for this." "We applied bleach bypass to most of the scenes in the film." "The lighting team and the lighting director had some difficult times because of that." " Did we use bleach bypass on this?" " Yes, we did." "But we wanted the contrast to be lower for this." "We used lighting called Kino Flo to achieve that." "It looks soft." "The deleted shots from this scene are actually great." "Please explain the bleach bypass process." "To remove the silver particles when you develop a film, you have to bleach it." "Bleach bypass literally bypasses this process in the development." " Bypass?" " Yes, bypass." "We used bleach bypass on the negative film." "It can be a dangerous process." "Because it changes the original film." "If an accident happens, it is impossible to retrieve the correct image." "We took a big risk." " We were ignorant of the danger." " Yes." " Fortunately, the result was good." " Yes." "We were confident, since we did many tests." "As a result, the film has a strong contrast." "There's a big difference between the highlight and the shadow." "And the saturation is low." "Low saturation was the director's most important request." "Yeun-hee, it's Daddy..." "We couldn't decide whether to use bleach bypass or not, even on the first day of shooting." "Good girl." " We shot this very dark." " Yes." "Even the crane shot was very dark." "Hello, Yeun-hee." "The director wanted..." "I'm talking about the next shot." "There are some important props in this shot." "The director wanted those things to stand out." "The phone booth has a warm tone." "Other parts of the image were dark." "Dae-sul" "We used the wide lens for this." "It was the 10mm lens." "We used it many times." "We used both telephoto and wide lenses." "Various lenses helped make the extreme images of the film." "It's the umbrella." "It was difficult to get the purple color." "Buses were passing on that road." "So we didn't have much time to shoot." "We didn't have enough time." " This is 3D animation." " Yes." "The director, Yong E, did it." " He is in the film, too." " Yes." "I used a variety of lenses for this film." "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance mainly used the wide lens." "It didn't have much variety in terms of the use of lenses." "That was intentional." "Mr. Chung loves the telephoto lens." "Mr. Chung loves the telephoto lens." "I love the wide lens." "And we met for this film." "We shot a variety of extreme angles." "I won't ask you to let me go again." "The extreme angles were appropriate for the story." "We filmed this almost at the end of the production." "The film crew and the actor were relaxed, since we knew the work was going to end soon." "Please sir, just tell me how long I have to stay here." "The sides of the screen have a green tone." "The center of the screen has an amber tone." "Son of a bitch." "We used a green tone for the lighting." "And we used fluorescent lighting, which is usually avoided." "One month?" "Two?" "Three?" "Don't gol" "The lighting director, Park Hyun-won, is a real pro." "And he has an open mind." "It was great working with him." "Another wide angle." "The light temperature of the toilet and the room is different." "The toilet's light has a very green tone." "...would it have been easier to endure?" "With the use of light, the film's theme of contradiction can be seen in that shot." "The contrast in the lights." "When the music begins, gas is released." "We had to shoot in this boring space for a long time." "So we wanted to try many things in the room." "We used many lights." "We turned them on and off." "We wanted to give some variety to the room in pre-production." "It was a difficult scene." "The bleach bypass process was going to change the color of the wallpaper." "We did many tests on that and carefully chose the wallpaper." "Consequently, it was easy to control the color when we were shooting." "This is an extreme telephoto lens." "I don't want spinach." "You eat it." "I won't eat spinach." "The color of Choi Min-sik's prison clothes is strange." "It is different from the original color." " It looks washed out." " Yes, it looks washed out." "If I remember it correctly, there were purple prison clothes." "He changes into them later." "Neighbors also frequently argued with Oh Dae-su." "The arm is rendered completely on a computer." "Don't you think it looks awkward?" "We wanted the ant to look natural." "The original shot was rendered in 3D graphics." "The whole thing." "At first, it was very difficult for the CGI team." "I was anxious when I was shooting this." "There was no place to hide the lights." "The camera had to go around." "We used a Steadicam to get this shot." "I liked it." "It reminded me of Francis Bacon's paintings." "You like shots I didn't do." "For example, the Steadicam shot was done by the Steadicam operator." "You know the truth now." "We used strong colors such as green, purple and red for the lighting and the props." "For this film, the crew worked together very well." "The lighting team and the art team." "So the colors matched very well." "We were fortunate." "You can see the green color under the television." "We always used green lighting." "You can see the scan line because we used a very old TV." "That effect is different from the flickering effect." "The flickering effect has an up and down motion." "The prop team found a very old TV." "You can see even the shadows have a green tone." "If the viewer didn't like that effect, they would think that was wrong." "But that green tone was our intention." "Like the color of rusty iron." "I think the green tone in the shadows shows the depth of the darkness." "The lighting director did an excellent job." "He attached a green filter in front of the light." "We called it 'the mold'." "He attached the mold filter, and we filmed the scenes." "At first, I didn't want to use bleach bypass because it's been used too much in other films." "I didn't like that." "In our film, two things were different." "First, we used strong primary colors for the objects." "Second, the effect was weak." "Because of these two things," "I think the film is different from" "Darius Khondji's films or Memories of Murder." "The amount of bleach bypass applied was very small." "Compared to other films, it looks less exaggerated." "We controlled the effect." "These kinds of development techniques lower the saturation of the film." "It will look almost black and white." "We tried to show the strong colors on the film." "...the bigger the hole in the wall becomes." " Oh Dae-su's clothes have changed." " Yes, they have changed." "The red shirt looks much brighter in real life." "It is scarlet." "Bleach bypass gives a blue-green tone to the film." "This effect lowered the color saturation of the amber lighting and the color of the costume." "The left part of the screen is showing a typical bleach bypass color." "Yes, it looks a bit grainy and the details in the shadows are still there." "And a blue-green tone." "At first, we were going to make the size of the screens the same." "Most films use the same size." "We did it differently." "The ratio of seven to three." "It fits to the screen ratio." "This looks easy, but it was quite hard." "I was lifted by a cargo crane." "I trembled a lot." "I'll be out in a month." "I'll be out in one month." "Oh Dae-su's red clothes and the green patches of light are making an interesting effect." "On the first meeting with you and the other film crews, you asked my opinion about the color green." "Anything but fried dumplings." "But where am I?" "With all the car horns, it must be the city." "Many people suffered because of that smoke." "...I'm on the 52nd floor?" "Filming each shot is easy." "But the movement of the character should match in each shot, and matching it is difficult." "The floor is very dirty." "Spilled fluid." "And it dried on the floor." "Amber and green." "And the dried blood." "These colors are mixed with dark purple." "The colors have more depth." "Lying in a field." "The director had a request for this shot." "You wanted the focus to change." "So I moved the focus ring freely." "This is the lighting in the room." "Then we changed the lighting on Oh Dae-su's face abruptly." "It is sunlight now." "We filmed this by the riverside." "It is not the room." "It is not the roof." "It is somewhere else." "I like this image." "I wanted more sunlight for this shot." "I wanted clearer shadows." "It wasn't sunny, so we used our own lighting." "We can't win the fight with the sun." "The fight with the sun is the fight with the money." "If you have money, you can wait for the sun to shine." "We used the set for the eye shot." "We suddenly turned on the light to get the effect." "That's how we did it." "It was hard to find the right roof for this scene." "It was hard to wait for the right weather." "We had a roof, but somebody actually did commit suicide from there." "We couldn't shoot the scene at the first choice roof." "The camera crew were unhappy with you because of the white puppy." " Why?" " The bleach bypass was a problem." "The sun is bright in this shot." "The puppy was overexposed when the sun was bright." "We thought about applying some dirt to the puppy to darken his fur." "The purple screen is hanging on the building in the background." "Some people thought we put that up to match the tone." "But that was just a coincidence." "That was excellent location scouting." "The production team and the assistant directors put lots of effort into finding appropriate places for the film." "Even though I'm no better..." "The director wanted to hide Oh Dae-su's face in the opening then reveal his face in this scene." "We used natural light a lot in this scene." "Oh Dae-su's expression is ideal in this scene." "It looks scary." "He looks like a beast." "This shot is very interesting." " They left the frame." " Entirely out of the frame." "The screen goes totally white then part of the face returns." "It is one of my favorite shots." "What you like and I like is always different." "Die later." "What?" "It was a complete silhouette in the opening, but it is a little brighter in this one." "I see." "I used an amber gradation filter on the upper part of the lens." " It doesn't really show." " Not as much as I thought it would." "I like this better." "It doesn't have to be obvious." "That isn't interesting." "Heyl" "We made a set for the lift scene." "We used the 10mm lens." "The character looks weird and distorted." "His arms look like a spider's legs." "We tried different kinds of lenses for this shot." "We used the widest lens." "The ascending camera effect is done by computer graphics." "I was worried about this shot." "Fortunately, we succeeded with one take." "This is Busan." "It was in the early stages of the production." "I was highly motivated at that time." " You were enthusiastic." " Yes." "The image looks better." "I filmed it very carefully." "This was a very long take." "We shortened it in the editing room." "Choi Min-sik ran to the stairs." "But he is pretending he didn't run." "That was actually a single take." " This was a difficult take." " Yes." "You dickshitl" "It looks like nothing but it took a lot of time and effort to light the scene." "And it was difficult to control the bystanders." "We used a device called an RCU for this shot." "Usually, the change of speed is applied in the post-production stage." "The RCU can change the speed and the shutter angle of the camera when we shoot." "The exposure itself is constant but the speed is changed." "We continued shooting after that pillar." "But that was all we used." "We filmed it until sunrise." "To move the fish right into the center of the screen the camera and the prop crew held the fish's fin." "Yes." "Did we make another fish tank on the street or did we use the existing fish tank?" " We made a separate fish tank." " Yes, a separate one." "This has a strong green tone." "The intensity of the light was strong enough for this." " It helps the clarity of the image." " You are right." "I wish I had this much light every time." " You can if you have money." " Yes." "We shot this almost at the beginning of the production." "Many people asked if this was a set." "My colleagues especially asked." "We searched for a place that was similar to our set design." "This is a sushi restaurant in Busan." "It was a good place, but after a discussion with the art team, we further improved the small details of the restaurant." "I wanted to give a contrast with red and green." "I used the 10mm lens." "I'm on a small crane moving back." "The rail is hidden under the chairs." "One of the camera crew replaced the chairs quickly after I moved back." "He removed the chairs when the camera was moving in." "The art team covered the small bar Choi Min-sik is resting his arm on." "Yes, it is covered with colored paper." "Hye-jung just passed in front of the camera." "That was just her clothes." "There wasn't enough space between the camera and the bar." "We just moved the clothes in front of the lens." "It doesn't look different because Hye-jung is so small." " Yoo Heung-sam?" " Wrong." " Did Lee So-young pay you?" " Wrong again." "Lee Jong-yong?" "Kang Chang-suk?" "Hwang Joo-yeun?" "Kim Na-sung?" "The material of Choi Min-sik's suit was chosen very carefully." "The texture." "The stripes." "These things represent" "Oh Dae-su's character in the close-ups." "Location shooting is good because it feels real." "But it is difficult for the camera and lighting crew." "It is hard to install lights or achieve some height for the crane shots." "We discussed the Japanese restaurant scene a lot." "What did you do to me?" "I miss you." "We could have used the advantages of location shooting." "For example, we could have shown the street through the window." "The passing cars." "If we'd had more money, we could have made a set and shot the same thing." "That's right." "Actually, we thought of making a set, before we found the right atmosphere." "Min-sik was eating a live octopus for the first time." "He still feels sick when he sees an octopus." "We shot this all night." "Everyone was going to sleep when they had the chance." "Since we were recording location sound, we had to close all the doors." "The air was very impure." "We used the 10mm lens for this." "I wanted something less wide, but the ceiling wasn't high enough." " You are right." " Yes." "Fortunately, the ultra prime 10mm we used had less distortion than the other 10mm lenses." "It's hard to notice the distortion unless there is a straight line in the image." "The distortion was small." "You can see a doll in the corner." "We turned the face of the doll towards the camera to give an impression of a horror movie." " The one next to the fish tank?" " Yes." "We thought that was a mistake, so we were going to stop the camera." "If we had stopped the camera, we wouldn't have that." "We shot this in the indoor set." "The sunlight from the window makes the scene look like a real-life situation." "For this sequence, everyone wanted the lights to disperse and have soft boundaries." "We used the green filters to light the shadows." "That's how we got the details in the shadows." "The lock on the bathroom door is broken." "Don't get any bright ideas..." "Dae-su and Mido are getting close to each other in this scene." "Their love begins in this scene." "We wanted the image to be clear and bright." "Sales of that suppository soared." "Because it wasn't fixed properly, the stool repeatedly shifted from its place." " We nailed it so many times." " The shooting was delayed." "The blanket and the futon also really suit the film." "You will notice that the color of the wallpaper and other objects are similar." "You know, I brought you here because I like you." "You don't even know my name yet." "When you are looking through the lens, the acting looks extremely funny sometimes." "Oh Dae-su's sulky face was great." "The actor himself gets sulky easily." "We had to deal with that." "That expression is not Oh Dae-su's, it is Choi Min-sik's." "He and I went to the same school." "When he became sulky, we were very worried." "I may try to resist you again." "He might sulk again if he listens to this commentary." "He won't listen to this." "Give it..." "The sunlight in this room reminds me of Shin Ha-gyun's room in Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance." "Maybe because the same lighting director did it." "We used CGI for this, too." "This was tricky." "There was an error when we were scanning this." "We tried not to make any mistakes." "But we didn't have enough time to correct the minor problems." "The computer graphics themselves were OK." "The problem was the tone of the skin." "...although I have never done that." "We used CGI for this." "I think the train came in very naturally." "We filmed the tube scene on the evening of the first day." "The feelers are made of wood." "And we attached the hair with CGI." "We didn't use any separate lighting for this." "The train's fluorescent light was the main light source." "The original negative film has a blue tone." "And the result is very blue." "We achieved the green we wanted without extra lights." "Oldboy uses the 'boom up' with the digital dolly in many scenes." "Lots of work for the dolly crew." "This was our first shot." "Jangchung-dong?" "Yes, across from the pork restaurant." "She has hardly any relatives, so she calls us." "Her Korean has got worse." "On the first day, I was worried about being fired." "So I worked really hard." "You journalists must know..." "I watched Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, and I thought there weren't going to be many handheld shots." "But we did handheld shots from the first day." "We did the storyboard together." "How could you not know?" "Before doing the storyboard." "Eva..." "Stockholm..." "There were some problems with this one." "The contrast between the outside and the inside was too big." "Another handheld shot." "We sprayed water on the street before shooting." "We waited for the sunset and shot the light reflected on the street." "No, first I have to kill that bastard." "We filmed this in Busan." "To get the red atmosphere of the Chinese restaurant we went to numerous Chinese restaurants in Busan." "We used a variety of lenses for this film." "But you can't really tell." "There is some green in this image." "The green color connects the spaces smoothly." "We went to many places for this montage sequence." "We filmed very short scenes in many places." "This is very short compared to the amount of film we shot." "...but I will never forget the food I tasted for 15 years." "We designed and made many signs for the Chinese restaurants." "It is nothing special, but we used the small shutter angle to shoot the beaded hanging screen." "We used many kinds of techniques in Oldboy." "But it doesn't really show." "I wanted them to be hidden." "I've already been talking to him..." "We shot the person in the monitor with a camcorder." "Then projected that onto the monitor for this scene." "There's no one by that name here." "I really liked the lighting design in this scene." "The lighting in this room has a warm feel to it." "Who are you?" "THE LONELY PRINCE IN THE HIGH TOWER." "The lighting director," "Park Hyun-won, made the place dark overall." "Then added some highlights." "He is good at making a contrast in a scene." "He is good at playing pranks, too." "It would be great to have him here, but he doesn't talk much." "And his responses are very slow." "He would talk about a scene that had already passed." "The framing in this shot is different from the usual shots." "I used the telephoto lens." "It combines the objects in the image." "It works well in Cinemascope format." "It puts objects into a corner, leaving space in the other corner." "You don't notice this if the size is not big enough." "We shot the hand and the face separately." "Then combined them on the computer for the camera to go through the chopsticks." "Did we make the dumpling on the computer?" "The dumpling is real but we retouched it a bit." "The running shot was filmed in Apgujeong-dong." "Where was this?" "This is the car park of a building in Gwanghwamun." "And this is a real set." "He is the director, Yong E." "The stainless steel wall of the lift is very dirty." "The surface is matte." "The lighting and the expression on Choi Min-sik's face." "I really love Choi Min-sik's lift scenes." "And the colors have a sense of unity." "The blue-green is apparent in this scene." "We took out the wall of the set for this shot." "The camera moved back to get the shot." "I was scolded because of this shot." "From the tip of the hammer to the eye, nose and mouth." "The director wanted an elaborate movement." "Did I hurt your feelings?" "You said you should have worked with someone else." "I still remember it clearly." "These things were easy for the cinematographer of" "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Kim Byoung-il." "It took some time to stack the monitors." "The assistant directors shot every one of them with mini DV camcorders." "Yes, we shot them separately and played them on the monitor." "We discussed the screen ratio in the beginning." "We talked about whether we should use Super 35 or not." "I realized the Super 35 format was much better for Oldboy as I was shooting it." "I always liked Cinemascope." "I love it." "But the use of Super 35 lowers the definition of the film." "That is the one shortcoming." "That was the only problem." "I always liked the screen ratio of Cinemascope." "Do you want to talk?" "The actor had a really hard time." "The pillars in this shot are movable." "The art team made them for us." "We could arrange the space for the screen format with the pillars." "DVD is much better than VHS." "The sides of the subtitle would be cut off if this was a videotape." "Videotape has some bad points." "DVD is really good." "We didn't use zoom for this." "We moved the dolly." "We didn't use zoom for this." "We moved the dolly." "These shots wouldn't have any movement if this was Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance." "There's a lot of movement in this film." "Before drawing the storyboard, we agreed to move the camera a little." "That's why we used the digital dolly." "The famous hammer action scene." "We did 17 takes to get this scene." "Really?" "There were lots of cuts in the storyboard for this scene." "It was divided into dozens of cuts and it felt totally different." "It was more like a cartoon." "It was very dynamic." "I think the green is weaker than on the cinema screen." "We did digital scanning for this shot." "The knife in the back." "Sometimes the punches didn't connect." " We corrected those things with CGI." " Yes, mistakes." "We corrected the image on the computer." "We use a lot of slang when we shoot." "And I am trying not to use the slang while I'm doing this commentary." "It's preventing me from talking fluently." "It doesn't matter, just use it." "If you think about the width of the corridor in the previous shot." "You can't have a corridor that big." " This scene is a total lie." " It is a total lie." "We tore down the wall on one side and shot the scene." "We thought we didn't have to follow reality in this scene." "It is hard to notice on the small screen." "But if you watch this in a cinema, the upper and lower side is darker than the middle part of the screen." "We did that to lessen the unnaturalness of this scene." "I asked to make the floor red." "The art director was shocked by my request." "I can still see her shocked face in my mind." "She did the art direction for Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance." "The style of that film was subdued and realistic." "Yes, the red floor surprised her." "She didn't know if that was right." "This is not a set." "This is a car park in Gwanghwamun." "I had a hard time when I shot this because I was sick." "This is another place." "A car park in Daebang-dong." "Yes, we used many places." "Tricking the viewers." "And this is Busan." "I am unhappy with this scene." "We used the RCU in this scene, too." "The speed of time becomes normal when Oh Dae-su stands in front of the crossing and the car passes by." "But you cut the shot before it went back to normal." "Are you saying my editing is wrong?" "No, not really." "You should have told me in the editing room." "I really liked the sun shining, his cheek in the darkness." "The sunlight was constantly changing when we were shooting this." "We also used additional lighting for this scene." "A very strong light, HMI Far Light, was used." "I forgot about that." "Farewell..." "We tried to avoid showing the unique color of Busan buses" "We tried to avoid showing the unique color of Busan buses in the heavy traffic." "But I can still spot some of the buses." "Viewers in Seoul and Busan argued about where the previous scene was taking place." "There are many tracking shots on a crane like this." "Choi Min-sik was supposed to move and grab the handkerchief quickly." "But that was impossible." "The hand appearing from the upper corner is the first cameraman's." "We tried to find the most similar-looking hand." "We tried to show the patterns on the handkerchief using the lamp." "The bastard you hate, but don't dare kill." "The bitch you detest, who deserves a fate worse than death." "There was an unexpected problem in this scene." "We were worried that the LED lights on the player and the voice on the tape wouldn't match." "Luckily, it turned out OK." "Some parts don't seem to match." "It is OK." "The tape in the player isn't playing that conversation." "To get the shots in the storyboard, we crammed the Jimmy Zip into this small space." "The operator was perplexed at the suggestion." "Joo-hwan's internet cafe." "We used the zoom lens for that." "I hate it." "The director likes it." "After this trial of the zooming technique," "I used the technique considerably more in my next film, Three, Monster." "This is on location." "Yes, it is." "I was in despair when I first saw this place." "It was very dark." "And we weren't going to shoot the whole scene in the dark." "I had a long discussion with the lighting director." "The artificial light outside the door gave the silhouette of Oh Dae-su." "Those 260 women you've had..." "I don't know the names of their husbands..." "If it was too hard, you should have said." "We could have used another place." "It was the day of the shooting when I was in real despair." " Who's Mido?" " A little girl who cries a lot." "The internet cafe was very dark in the scene where Woo-jin kills Joo-hwan." "We used the Kino Flo to light their faces." "It looks like the light is coming out of the monitor." "We used this kind of lighting many times in Oldboy." "I liked the effect." "SEARCH:" "EVERGREEN" "CHAT TO EVERGREEN?" "We used computer graphics to show the computer screen." "We didn't use CGI for the monitor earlier." "We used digital zooming for this scene." "This is the penthouse." "To get the flow of water, two guys from the shooting and lighting team made ripples with broomsticks." "They did it lying on their bellies." "There weren't many day scenes in the penthouse." "Anyway, the lighting was great." "Park Hyun-won, the lighting director, is an expert in backdrop lighting." "If I met anyone suspicious..." "I think he loves doing his job." "It takes a long time to set it up." "This is an indoors set using backdrop lighting on the outside." "We used photographs for the backdrops." "Lots of effort was put into this and it looks quite nice." "This is a rare case." "We didn't use green filters here." "The lighting has an amber tone." "It looks like a sunset." "It gave a strange impression when it was connected to the other scenes." "The lighting director loved setting up the lights with the window blind shadows." "He was ecstatic." "We filmed the mirror image of the photograph outside the blinded window and changed the focus." "It looks like we are looking at the other side." "I like this scene the most." "The camera movement and the performance of the actors." "I could feel everything was in sync when I was shooting the scene." "Lighting directors like the shadow of window blinds." "And cinematographers go crazy for camera movements." "It feels like I'm really working when I do that." "If the camera is fixed," "I sometimes nod off while I'm operating it." "Even at the storyboard stage, there was plenty of dialogue in this scene." "And not much action." "We decided to move the camera very subtly." "We moved it little by little." "The space is very small." "I couldn't decide if I had to use the Steadicam or not when we were doing the storyboard." "The space was too small for using the dolly." "The dolly's movement is more precise than the Steadicam's movement." "I like that precision and it's easier to use the telephoto lens." "But you will never..." "I am a little displeased about the grainy image in this scene on the DVD." "I guess it was my mistake when I was shooting the scene." "There was no light installed in the room." "The light was only coming from the outside." "As a result, the inside of the room is relatively dark." "Because there were no lights inside the room." "The image was grainy on the cinema screen as well." "I told this to the director when the film was released in cinemas." "He said I should have told him before, then we could have made a light for the room." "I felt depressed." "That was a joke." "Woo-jin and the bodyguard are spying on Mido's home in the dark." "It wasn't possible to light the room." "In our original plan, this scene was supposed to be much darker." "We brightened the image for the audience." "And made the image grainy." "...then you won't know why you were imprisoned." "You want to torture me, but I say I'll kill myself first." "I might have done a long take if I was doing the same thing in my past films." "I chopped up the scene and moved the camera." "The camera was moved around in a small space for the close-ups." "This scene was tricky to shoot." "It wasn't easy to match the shots." "Nevertheless, the editing work was fun." "The camera moves vertically and horizontally." "If we weren't careful, it could have been very boring." "Choi Min-sik can't say anything." "And Yu Ji-tae is talking incessantly." "The dullness is covered by the movement of the camera." "I realized why you wanted to shoot it like this when I was actually filming the scene." "I used the 10mm lens for this extreme shot." "You left her door open." "I thought there would be a big distortion in the image." "It wasn't as bad as I thought." "You can see the passage of time in the outside shot." "This scene feels contrary to the scenes with the green tone." "It is different." "The light is supposedly coming from the fallen down lamp." "We removed the green tone of Mido's home." "Instead we used yellow and amber." "The light from below." "I used a dolly in the previous scene." "This looks like I used it again, but I filmed this scene handheld." "It was handheld." "The gag was a problem for several people." "You thought we weren't going to use handheld shots." "Before the production began," "I heard from somewhere that you are good with handheld shots." "I decided to exploit your strength before the production began." "Other cinematographers don't like to do it." "But I did it for the money." "I must be getting old." "It was hard this time." "Be careful." "You could get ill." "I couldn't turn my neck after finishing Oldboy." "But I can't stop." "This is a violent scene." "The lighting, the music and the acting make the scene funny." "and the acting make the scene funny." "Sir, I'm glad you told me about this place..." "If you just look at the image, they look very cozy." "It looks like a warm celebration." "The DVD image looks warmer than in the cinema." "Let's go." "DVD doesn't have to look exactly the same as the cinema screen." "That is just conventional thinking." " Yes." " Right." "Transferring the cinema screen image wasn't the issue for Oldboy." "The film has a low saturation color." "We wanted the DVD to have a low saturation." "DVD doesn't have to look the same as the cinema release." "However, raising the saturation wasn't a desirable thing either." "When the media changes it is important to get the best image for the media." "There is no point in repeating something that was done before." "We tried many things on the coat hanger." "And those were what we came up with." "The handheld shots were mostly done with the telephoto lens." "This shot is the wide lens." "It looks hard to accomplish." "We shot this in the COEX building." "This is Woo-jin's building in the film." "We tried to get the right color for the Jaguar." "The penthouse is starting to get more screen time." "We used a towing car to film this." "The car was shaking a lot." "So we couldn't use the telephoto lens." "It makes you dizzy if there is a lot of shaking when using a telephoto lens." "Road conditions in South Korea are not that good." "Driving scenes are always a problem." "In this scene, the height of the car looks higher than it is supposed to be." "We used the towing car for the side view." "We used the same height of car for the rear and the front view." "We mainly used photographic backdrops for the view from the penthouse." "If we use that too much, it gets boring." "So we merged a video image with moving cars." "We wanted to give the impression it wasn't a set, tricking the eyes of the viewers." "We painted the set blue to merge the images." "This one looks simple, but it was a little tricky." "The light from above is turned off and Woo-jin starts to watch the video from the beam projector." "We actually shot this image from the beam projector." "The video is projected onto the ceiling and Woo-jin is watching it." "Do you really think..." "You can see the car is shaking." "That doesn't look that bad." "This is a transition technique used several times in Oldboy." "CGI was used." "I wanted to create tension with the passing of days." "We used a technical transition using computer graphics instead of ordinary transitions." "For the corridor in the motel, we covered the wall with new wallpaper and changed the color of the lamp to red." "People think sex scenes are fun to shoot." "Actually, it is a bit embarrassing." "We shot the outside view of the hotel near our own place." "The palm tree neon lights were so funny." "They were pure kitsch and real fun." "We inserted them spontaneously." "We decided to make the corridor and room color red." "I was on the bed with the handheld camera." "We were shaking together." "Together on the bed." "The springs in the mattress." "There wasn't much light, so the upper part of the screen looked dark." "It's OK since there are some highlights." "The pattern and colors of the bed and other things are similar, but different." "We matched the lighting and the props with these colors." "This was a set, too." "I asked the art team to find the cheap furniture we see when we stay in motels around the country for film-making trips." "It's that problematic smoke again." "It was hard to maintain the density of the smoke." "We wanted the smoke to dissipate slowly." "The rococo-style furniture in this room is actually extremely cheap and crude." "The sheet didn't slide off easily when we were shooting this scene." "Sometimes it slid off too easily." "We use lots of zooms later, but we are still using the dolly in this scene." "The landscape outside the window is a photograph." "The shooting and editing of this scene and the gas mask scene were done exactly the same as they were on the storyboard." "It is one of my favorite scenes." "It is distinctively your style." "The subtle humor." "Sharp and precise editing style." "Sharp editing style." "My style isn't Hollywood-style editing, which tries to be very natural." "I like to feel the separation between the shots." "It's more fun." "And he'll never tell you why..." "Where was this?" "Yongsan Electronics Market." " The place is used for adverts now." " You are right." "We placed the bugs so that the light gauge lit up as we wanted it to." "Evergreen Old Boys." " Was this the wide lens?" " Yes, it was the 10mm." "Because Hye-jung is in the middle of the screen, there isn't much distortion in her shape." "But Hye-jung's face looks distorted anyway, like she was distorted by the lens." "It feels like we used a fish-eye lens." "It is good that Hye-jung doesn't get angry easily." "Computer graphics were used for this one." "This was not in the storyboard." "We put it in after we tested it." "I should be locking up now." " Was this near Jinju?" " This is a school in Jinju." "It was more rural than Jinju." "We found an appropriate place." "My request was to find a school with lots of stairs." "I didn't know a school with that many stairs existed." "It was really hard finding that school." "We searched the whole nation." "Let me ask you something." "This may sound obsessive." "Even the color of the photo album was specified when we were shooting this film." "Small details weren't so important in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance." "I thought they were important for this film." "We tried to get small things right for the film." "Do you know Lee Soo-ah?" "She was in our year." "The wrapping." "The assistant directors made a mistake of presenting plain white wrapping." "I told them that was wrong." "And they made that wrapping." "Why is there no photo?" "She died." "That must be why." "The camera tracks the book and stops." "These movements were abundant in the storyboard." "We separated the layers of the photo and moved them around to give a three dimensional look." "There really are lots of movements." "This scene was supposed to have many movements." "Because the internet cafe was very dark, the details are lost." "If we hadn't used CGI for this, it wouldn't have mattered." "It is good to have more light for CGI." "Because it was dark, the image became rougher." "The darkness suits the situation." "It is dark and the monitors are shining." "It is good to film it bright and darken it later with computer graphics." "It was a problem because we had to brighten it from the dark source." "Yu Ji-tae was playing the character very seriously that day." "The other actor suffered." "I was so surprised the camera shook with me." "An intense scene." "Is that so?" "I thought you deliberately shook the camera to match the action." "I thought that was really great." "I guess that was a misunderstanding." "Can I record this again?" "I remember it now." "I deliberately shook the camera to match the action." "The cinematographer is really good at this." "You are making me blush." "I realized when I was shooting this scene." "This scene shows the advantage of the 2.35:1 screen ratio." "It divides the screen into halves." "Putting some darkness on the screen." "I loved the black empty space." "I understood why people use 2.35:1 ratio." "They say it is good for wide scenes." "A long line of people in a field." "It is also good when you have to hide a big chunk of the screen or do a close-up." "That is Yu Ji-tae's leg." "He said it looks like his arm." "This was a bit strange." "It was actually raining outside." "We splashed some water on their hair." "We wetted their hair to match the outside." "But we can't see the rain outside the window." "It looks like a fine day, and only they are wet." "It was all my fault." "The rotating camera connects the previous scene with this scene." "This was possible because of the space we had." "The camera rotated with the dolly 360 degrees." "We used an 'I' shape dolly to secure more space." "I felt good after shooting this scene." "The lights are mainly installed above." "It was comfortable to work, thanks to that." "The green tone is weaker than on the cinema screen." " The toilet?" " Yes, very weak." "It should be more green in the toilet." "I think that is a characteristic of the video media." "And it depends on the setting of the monitor we are watching." "If the viewers make the upper and lower masked area black, it will be closer to our vision." "It shouldn't have any other tint." "Completely black." "The orange door, the green eye patch." "Everything was decided after many long discussions." "We also filmed this in the early stages." "This place is near the clock shop." "We found it near that place." "The hair salon had a strange atmosphere." "When I was filming this shot" "I thought it was really fortunate that we used Cinemascope." "But she did go out with someone back then." "This scene has relatively fewer movements than the others." "We used more editing." "I like the green shower cap." "I wanted the bib to be pink." "But we didn't have the chance to change it." "We just shot it like that." "The bleach bypass made it whiter than it was." " Is that right?" " Yes." "I wanted to change it." "...because friendship means nothing to you." "This scene was more about cutting still images." "But now there is more movement." "It shows the change of emotion." " Oh Dae-su starts to remember." " That's right." "Yeah, I know him." "I always feel I could have done better once I've finished shooting a film." " Everyone says that." " Yes." "OK." "I'll call you back in a bit." "If we had the money, we could do it again." "Well..." "She said it was Joo-hwan who told her the rumors." "The composition in this scene is freer than the others." "There are more shots like that in this scene." " She has a double role." " Yes." "This is the only scene where we used digital color correction in Oldboy." "The red color in this scene." "We couldn't have got that color if we'd used analogue color correction." "We didn't use bleach bypass for this." "We used a special film developing technique called 'pulling'." "Can you explain more about that?" "You shoot it with one more step in the exposure." "Then you correct the exposure in the developing process." "So you overexpose it." "You get a special effect with this." "The contrast weakens." "The color saturation drops a little." "You can get those effects." "We used the process because we were applying digital correction." "To emphasize the colors, we needed the color data to manipulate the image." "We had to prevent the loss of color." "That's why we used that technique." "And we wanted a faded image that didn't look cheap." "So we pulled when we developed it." "With that film, we applied many layers at the digital manipulation stage to get the right colors." "We merged the color image and the black and white image in the digital process." " That wasn't done at the developers." " No." "The developer's job was just pulling." "Lowering the contrast gave this scene a dreamy atmosphere." "It looks a little stuffy and faded." "But it gives a dreamy feeling." "It looks OK." "That is the advantage of digital manipulation." "In the past, we could only use analogue techniques." "And the only technique we could use would be to make a sepia or monochrome image." "Every analogue technique is boring." "They're something you've already seen." "Only digital effects can give you subtle effects." "There is a big difference between the two processes." "The analogue process would be the same as using another filter over the lens." "The digital process can be applied to any part of the image you want." "The digital process can be applied to any part of the image you want." "That's the biggest advantage of the digital process." "That was a very important shot." "The location scouting really paid off." "We practiced the camera movement a lot for this scene." "Two Oh Dae-sus in one screen." "Both indoors and outdoors are shown in the same shot, so the exposure is tricky." "If we set the exposure for the room, outside was overexposed." "We put effort into correcting that." "Digital correction made this look good." "It looks better." "There was a shadow of the camera crane in the corner." "We digitally erased it." "Two Oh Dae-sus are repeatedly coming in and going out of the frame." "The present and past are meeting in the same place." "We had many discussions before deciding to do this." " Come on." " Wait." "In this scene the pulling technique wasn't the only thing we did." "We also filled the room with smoke." "It looks hazy." "And it emphasizes the fact that Oh Dae-su is watching them." "The smoke puts distance between them." "And you can also spot the purple colors in this scene." "It is the main color." "Did we use two cameras here?" " One was a wide one." " Yes, that had a fixed angle." "And the cinematographer did the handheld shooting with another camera." "I used the 135mm lens." "The storyboard wasn't essential." "We followed the performers' acting." "A problem arose when I was shooting." "The telephoto lens especially was a problem." "We have to calculate the distance between the camera and the characters more precisely if we use the telephoto lens." "Should the performers stay where they are?" "Or should the camera follow them?" "The depth of focus is shallow with telephoto lenses." "Oldboy was a very difficult job for the focus puller." "We decided to let the actor and the actress do whatever they want." "And the camera followed them." "That was how we did it." "The focus puller was so tired, he couldn't raise his spoon when it was time to eat." "I heard he cried when he was alone." "We were going to use the wide lens image as the master shot and insert some of the shots from the telephoto lens camera." "But we ended up with this in the editing room." "We placed the test tubes in front of the camera." "They are out of focus, so it feels like we are watching from a hidden place." "The actor he really resembles Yu Ji-tae." "That also helped this scene." "His profile is really similar." "We also filmed this in separate places." "Oh Dae-su outside the window is in a different place." " We shot this at night." " That's right." "This is another place in daytime." "We used the sunlight for this shot." "It was hard to control the mirror." "We had to do it several times." "We attached the mirror to a stand." "The assistant director controlled it." " I scolded him a lot." " The assistant director shot that." "Was it really Soo-ah?" "Are you sure?" "This shot shows what digital color correction and pulling do to the film." "The colors look stale." "The colors are there but the saturation level is not high." " Where are you going?" " I've got a date with Choon-shim." "I'll kill you if you blab to anyone." "It may not have been visible in cinemas." "The color of the center of the screen changes to blue." "The past becomes present with this change." ""Whether it be a grain of sand or a rock, in water they both sink alike. "" "The film is getting ready for the climax scene." "The close-ups in this film are much closer than I expected them to be." "And we used the wide lens much further from the objects than I thought." " That's right." " Yes." "As close as possible." "As far as possible." "We decided to avoid middle range shots if that was possible." "We discussed that a lot." "Because we used the Cinemascope ratio, if we didn't get close enough, many unnecessary things could be in the frame." "We lose the viewers' attention." "Cinemascope requires a much closer close-up than you expect." "We used the zoom lens here." "The idea came when we were location scouting." "This is a set." "Sixth floor." "Or the 64th floor?" "P?" "Penthousel" "Because we were showing a real lift..." " This place." " Yes." "We tried to match the lights on the set with the real lift." "What would you like me to pray for?" "Wrong entry." "Because the floor outside the lift was shown on screen, we looked for the same floor material." "We filmed it the next day." "We had to wait for the floor material to come." "Sometimes I feel sorry for the set team." "The green light is from the toilet." "This light is from the opposite side." "They are hugging each other but are giving different impressions." "The different lights for the toilet and the bedroom helped us in that scene." "The shots match very well, since the lights were very similar." "These movements are common in this film." "Characters do something but the actions are out of frame." "They are hidden." "Then the camera moves to show what is going on." "The director wanted me to shoot that way." "It is an unnatural way of moving the camera." "It doesn't follow the characters' actions naturally." "The movement of the camera is delayed." "That is the style of this film." "You slept with your sister." "This type of pose and humor are present in your other films, too." "Let's go upstairs and talk." "I had to be alert to move at the right time." "You didn't want to show the faces." "You didn't want to show the faces." "You just wanted the bodies." "The long penthouse scene has begun." "The editing and the shots match well." "The water was deeper, but we made it shallower for the filming." "We had many accidents." "The lighting director adjusted all the lights in the waterway." "The action seemed to continue, but it stops abruptly." "This is one of the best points in the film." "These are computer graphics." "We should have shown the bodyguard more in the frame." "We tried to not make it look like a computer generated image." "You slept with your sister." "So refreshing." "The mirror gave us a headache." "The camera is right next to Oh Dae-su." "Because of the bleach bypass process, the white sofa is overexposed." "I tried to persuade the director not to use the white sofa." "We had to use CGI for this shot." "We merged everything on the computer." "I won..." "We used CGI for deeper depth of focus and faster camera movement." "The zooming image looks very rough because we used a digital zoom." "You opposed using that." "On the contrary," "I wanted to see the grain of the film." "I liked that better." "We had many discussions." "Is that not exciting enough for you?" "Well, it's true, you just forgot." "Why?" "Because it wasn't important to you." "The light reflecting on Yu Ji-tae's body differs from the surrounding light." " The tone is different." " It was a mistake." "So her periods stopped and her belly began to swell." "Fascinating, isn't it?" "Imagine how a girl would feel to carry both her child and her nephew." "Do you understand now?" "The director wanted the deep focus you see in Orson Welles's films for this scene." "It has nothing to do with Orson Welles." "Sorry, that was my imagination, then." "I just wanted to focus on both" "Oh Dae-su in the mirror and Lee Woo-jin." "Past films used mirrors and other tricks to focus on multiple things." "We thought about what the best solution would be." "Obviously, computer graphics were the answer." "That is why CGI exists." "They said Soo-ah died alone at the dam, so who took this photo?" "It looks very different from when we watched it in the cinema." "Oh Dae-su at the back isn't the mirror image." "We shot them in the same direction." "This is an impossibly deep focus." "My story is really exciting." "Ever heard of post-hypnotic suggestion?" "You suggest something during hypnosis, then it's performed in your wakened state." "As a result, we ended up with a huge amount of CGI images." "Some people say this film used more CGI than any other Korean film." "The audience asked, "Where is CGI used?"" "If they asked that, we'd succeeded." "We hypnotized both of you." "Location scouting for this place was difficult." "We attached the image to the wall." "And we needed mirrors." " That's right." " Yes." "We used computer graphics for this." "And the result is very interesting." "The color of the face also was a concern." "The director wanted the color to be different in the flashback." "We mixed in lots of purple." "That could be connected to the hypnosis scene in the end." "Your first suggestion, of course, was to go to that restaurant straight after your release." "Next, to react to the mobile phone's ringtone." "I thought screen splitting was a fresh thing when I was making this film." "Lots of films use this technique now." "But as you can see, our screens merge together." "We filmed so the faces match." "They become both Oh Dae-su and Lee Woo-jin." "I think the technique was appropriate." "We couldn't do that if we only used analogue technology." "They really become one in the image." "You'll never find the right answer." "It's not, "Why did Woo-jin imprison me?"" "It's, "Why did he release me?"" "We shot these kind of images many times." "The dialogue is done separately." "Then we use these images together." "We wanted to show the process of putting on the clothes in detail." "We erased the image trail in this shot." "We actually pointed that at the lens." "It hurt my eyes." "I still remember it." "You didn't have to put your eye against the viewfinder." " The camera was fixed." " The camera moved a little." "It was difficult to find a green laser pointer." "It was expensive." "You can see the use of the zoom lens." "It zooms out like this." "Then it zooms in." "We used panning and zooming for this shot." "I didn't want to do this when I was shooting it." "Zoom lenses have a lower quality of image than other lenses." "The standard lenses are superb." "They are more evolved than the zoom lenses." "Another use of zoom." "It looks quite effective now." "I really hated it at the time." "You also didn't like that panning." "You thought it was no good." "It looks nice." "Why did you think that?" "We also used zoom for this." "We did many takes." "Yes, you are right." "Fortunately, everything was OK here." "The speed of the pages turning also had to match." "The position of the faces are also different." "I had to move the camera up and down according to that." "It was a long take." "I urged the director to use more zoom lenses in the next film." "This shot shows the beauty of Cinemascope." "This was the last shot we did for this film." "We took a photograph after that." "We used two cameras for this scene." "Yes, that's right." "This happened only once in reality." "With editing, they look like different occasions." "We even reversed the image." "The stuntman was actually injured when he hit the glass." "He quit after this film." "I'm not sure if it was because of this." "He was badly hurt." "He said he was OK." "Stuntmen usually say they're OK because they don't want to worry us." "I realized that just now." "Oh Dae-su's eyes look very evil in this scene." "The lighting director carefully adjusted the lights to get that effect." "The glass started to break after the stuntman was thrown." "That was computer graphics." "We crushed the glass into bits." "The images were stable before." "From now on, there are lots of handheld shots." "The ceiling was done with computer graphics." "We couldn't have the ceiling because of the lighting and the budget." "We couldn't cover the whole thing." "We used the lights for shooting." "And we covered the ceiling afterwards." "The light from the gun and the reflection on the wall are CG." "This is a very wide lens." "I was looking through the shooting log a while ago." "For example, you could say we used mostly 24mm for our film." "For Oldboy, we used a lot of 10mm, 135mm and 50mm lenses." "We used a wide range of lenses." "Then we used the money for the lenses very well." "Well, the rental charge doesn't go up even if we use them more." "They'd already charged us for the whole set." "I guess the lens has been worn out a little more." "How can you protect your woman with that brain?" "I've secretly been raising Mido since she was three." " Was this handheld?" " Yes, handheld." "It doesn't look like handheld, but it is." "You moron." "The second camera operator and I were standing back to back, like in a western." "It was better that way when we wanted to capture the characters' reactions." "The production team was worried." "The second camera was really useful in that scene." "I used this technique more frequently in Three, Monster." "The reflection from the purple box." "That was the director's most frequent request." "We implemented it very carefully." "No, Mido, don't." "I am glad that I can work with very talented actors and actresses." "Even if my camerawork isn't good enough, the good acting makes the images better." "That's a great thing." "It works both ways." "Can't you come now?" "I'm scared." "Little Mido, you can wait, can't you?" "Choi Min-sik, Gang Hye-jung and Yu Ji-tae understand the camera very well." "When the actor is immersed in his acting, he forgets about the camera." "Our performers followed the camera very well." "That helped a lot." "They are clever." "The camera is filming from the side." "And another camera is filming behind Lee Woo-jin." "The images are edited together." "The second cameraman was better than the cinematographer." "I'm trying to not work with him anymore." "You will probably get fired." "But if I don't work with him, there is nobody else." "If he works alone, he's going to steal your work." "It is safer to work with him." "We'll be together." "For this shot," "I wanted to concentrate on the hands and the face." "His camerawork was very good." "We used his takes more than we expected." "Friends think I shot this one." "They think the other one was done by the first cameraman." "The commentary is revealing the truth." "Woo-jinl" "The green light from the waterway shines on his face occasionally." "I love that." "We're Evergreen Old Boys, remember?" "Whenever I work with you," "I always pray that you miss the accidental small flickers in the camera rehearsal." "But you always say, "Mr. Chung, can you do that thing again?"" "Easy jobs became difficult." "Many times." "The cameraman and the performers may come up with something special in the camera rehearsal." "You have to remember those things and use them when shooting for real." "There's less tension, so we are freer in camera rehearsals." "A wide shot from above." "It feels strange." "Oh Dae-su looks more humiliated at that angle and size." "The problematic shot." "This is filmed on a Jimmy Zip." "We did many takes." "This is the only shot that was bad because the focus was wrong." "The director looked at it and thought this had the best acting." "I called the director every day and asked him not use this shot." "My answer was always, "Yes, this is it."" "I could lose my job for this." "If you don't tell it, people don't know it because they are concentrating on the story." "It looks fine after the editing." "To the operator, these things are always problems." "Do you try to spot the mistakes when you watch someone else's film?" "No, not really." "We tried to lessen the gory effect and heighten the viewer's imagination for the tongue shot." "Most people ask me, "Isn't the director cruel?"" "When the director checked the monitor after the tongue shot, he said it was too cruel." "Wrong focus." "You can also spot this error in Darius Khondji or Janusz Kaminski's films." "Nobody tries hard to find that mistake." "I was trying forget that." "Now you are bringing that up again." "We tried to make the tongue shot not really cruel." "We avoided showing it." " We actually made the tongue." " Yes, we made it." "Some people shut their eyes in the scene." "And they think we showed the whole thing." "I'm innocent." "The director also shut his eyes when we were making Oldboy." "He said, "Isn't this too cruel?"" "Then he came up with alternatives which were crueler." "This shot was also a problem because of the focusing issue." "The camera is moving with the telephoto lens." "The meaning of this shot could have changed drastically, depending on where we focused the image." "Focusing in this shot was very important." "It could have changed the whole film." "We have to move the camera so that it matches the character when the camera works as a viewpoint of a character." "We stayed up all night for many days to shoot this." "Both actors and crew were very tired." "But it is the most climactic scene in the film." "I didn't know if we were doing OK." "The red light is computer generated." "It is not a laser pointer, it is just a remote control." "We just added the effect." "We installed many green lights in this scene." "The penthouse and the lift are different spaces." "Lee Woo-jin changes when he enters the lift." "We were very careful setting up the lights for this scene." "My sister and I loved each other, despite everything." "This shot is a good example of framing in Cinemascope." "We pushed the lift doors to close it." "This scene reminds me of the secret." " Secret?" " Our secret." "Virtually everyone was sleeping." "A shot with Lee Woo-jin on the left and big space on the right." "An old and experienced cinematographer would have refused to do that kind of framing." "This is one of the advantages of working with young people." "We also had many discussions about this." "The connection to his memory." "We used a real hand." "We didn't 'pull' this time." "We developed this normally." "The sky was very cloudy." "The sun appeared and disappeared every five minutes." "The sun didn't help us." "I hated it." "The director, the lighting director, some other people and I all hated it." "Please remember me." "The railing was dangerous, so we shot it at a safer place." "We filmed this on the actual railing." "She was attached to wires." "We erased the wires later." "It was a scary thing." "Yun Jin-suh could have refused to do it." "She is brave." "To match the action perfectly, we should have used the motion control camera." "But we thought of this idea at the location." "This is the connection to the present." "I love the editing in this scene." "I didn't realize it was going to be this good when I was filming." "We used a camera flash and a blood splattering device to shoot this." "No CGI was involved." "Only the smoke from the head is CGI." "The smoke wasn't clearly visible in the cinemas." "It looks fine on the DVD." "The film crew would have been in the frame when the camera moved back," "so they had to roll away and hide." "This is another problematic scene." "We filmed this in New Zealand." "We didn't want it to look like New Zealand." "It resembles Gangwon-do in South Korea." "The color temperature of New Zealand and South Korea is different." "Color temperature is used to measure the distribution of the three primary colors of light;" "red, green and blue." "Blue was very strong in New Zealand." "They don't have much pollution so the sky is more blue." "The location was in shadow." "It was very difficult when I was shooting." "Anyway, the blue tone was appropriate for the film." "We were lucky." "This is the only winter scene." "The blue tone made it look colder." "We worked with a New Zealander film crew." "That was an interesting experience." "We heard stories about their previous work on" "Mission:" "lmpossible II and The Lord of the Rings series." "And now they are talking about Oldboy." "I visited New Zealand a while ago and I heard that." " We have to send this DVD to them." " Yes." "I'll have to give it to them." "We made the column here." "No, we made it in New Zealand." "And we placed it at the location." "It merges with the next shot." "The real column and the painting of the column merge together." "The director wanted the image to be monotone in purple when Oh Dae-su was standing there." "We put lots of effort into the color of that shot." "I guess it was the first time the lighting director used purple lights." "Yes, purple and red lights." "The lighting director had a very open mind on that matter." "That's right." "He is great." "This scene shows the contrast between green and purple." "The lighting separates the remaining Oh Dae-su and the disappearing Oh Dae-su." "The separation of the mind." "At first, we were going to show the mirror image and the real one moving differently, using computer graphics." "Into The Mirror already used this idea." "The CGI thing became too common." "We used the most primitive technique for the scene." "We just filmed the mirror without any special effects." "I liked the simplicity." "This is New Zealand again." "It didn't snow continuously." "The New Zealand crew prepared the snow for us." "But that snow had fluorescent material in it." "Also, the texture wasn't good." "We had to use the quick wit of the Koreans." "We filled baskets with real snow and poured them onto them." "It was a crazy thing to do." "They still talk about it." "I went to New Zealand for another film and they were still talking about it." "Koreans can do anything anywhere." "Even the director and the producer poured snow." "It was crazy." "This scene was developed normally." "The normal process doesn't change the blue tone of New Zealand and color of the red coat." "It is hard to see the footprints now." "The bleach bypass would have made the footprints completely invisible." "The footprints are important in this film." "We didn't use bleach bypass for that reason." "It was developed normally." "Because the dam scene was also done normally," "I don't think it really looks different from the other scenes." "We did many dangerous things on this film." "The footprints are less visible than in the cinema." "We even put some things in the footprints." "The snow in the long shot was real snow." "We couldn't possibly pour that much ourselves." "In this shot, we poured snow from above." "There was one shot that moves from Mido's face to Oh Dae-su." "And another separate shot." " We mixed both shots." " Yes, we did." "It was tricky for the camera crew." "It says in the script," "Oh Dae-su is smiling and crying at the same time." "Because of that one sentence, we thought about it and discussed it a lot." "The screen goes black as if it is completely over." "We took this shot to use it for the background image of the ending credits." "It doesn't relate to the story." "We went up to a very high place." "We rotated the camera to match the timing of the credits roll." " I was against the idea." " Yes." "I said it should end at the previous shot, and that this looked like a shot in a national anthem video." "Now, it has become one of my favorite shots." "Why should the mountain represent" "Mido and Dae-su's future?" "That was what I was thinking." "At the color correction stage, the director said, "The future shouldn't look too dark."" "Then I thought, we should never leave this out of the film." "So I changed my mind." "It was a simple decision." "It was nicer to have something in the background, not just a black screen." "You didn't say that at that time." "It looks much brighter than what we actually saw." "I have to go there again for my next film." "And I'm staying there for two months." "That will be great." "I'm already anxious." "Snow is a complex subject." "It was difficult for Oldboy."