How would you jazz it up for the squid game? My best guess is they all wear suits with various sensors and if a ball hits the sensor they get electrocuted to death. There won't be any sensors on their hands allowing them to catch the ball, but there'd also have to be a way from preventing people from just palming the ball away from them without worrying abut catching it.
How would you jazz it up for the squid game? My best guess is they all wear suits with various sensors and if a ball hits the sensor they get electrocuted to death. There won't be any sensors on their hands allowing them to catch the ball, but there'd also have to be a way from preventing people from just palming the ball away from them without worrying abut catching it.
The first three episodes were better than anything Squid Game had, but it took a sharp fricking downhill turn after that.
I actually don't know which had a worse finale.
I gave it a try because you shills convinced me, turns out is the usual jap crap aimed at teenagers. Squid Game is no Shakespeare but at least feels more like something made for adults.
It is absolutely not better, it's standard Jap live action trash that had a good first two episodes. Acting is bad, plot is stupid, writing is bad, everything after the first game in the apartment complex is just fricking stupid.
SG is better but they're both great and seem ultimately very different in the way their plots unfold. I liked AiB very much too, S02 is apparently being released in December.
The games in AiB do seem more less clear narratively and their resolution sometimes seems like a stretch.
I tried watching this really hard, but it was way too anime tropey for young teenagers. That stupid know it all teenager did me in. I couldn't continue.
The games themselves and even the concept might be way better, but the live action anime trope nature of it made it unwatchable.
“I thought about this intuitively,” the director said, “thinking about how Gi Hun should change his hair in a hair salon.I imagined being him and thought to myself, ‘what is the color that you would never choose to dye your hair?’ ThenI came to the conclusion that Gi Hun would never dye his hair red. It would be the craziest thing for him to do. So I chose the color and I thought it really showed his inner anger.”
“I thought about this intuitively,” the director said, “thinking about how Gi Hun should change his hair in a hair salon.I imagined being him and thought to myself, ‘what is the color that you would never choose to dye your hair?’ ThenI came to the conclusion that Gi Hun would never dye his hair red. It would be the craziest thing for him to do. So I chose the color and I thought it really showed his inner anger.”
At the salon he also sees a pic of a girl w/ red hair or something.
The color itself is similar to the guard's uniforms and places him in a position of power
This is gonna be like Stranger Things season 2 where it releases like a wet fart and then years later, after more seasons drop, people slowly realize it should have just been one season alone.
I hope they don't do the "lol just beat the shit out of eachother and whoever is still standing in 10 minutes wins"
I prefer my death game media to actually be about the games and not just punching people
It nosedived in its already unexceptional quality like 6 or 7 episodes into the first season. Characters stopped behaving in any way that made sense even by tv logic, whole plot threads were left only like 50 percent complete and not developed enough to have any weight(investigating detective and the host being his brother was never explored so meant nothing-that's something that needs to actually go somewhere and be explained within season 1).
Just a truly dogshit, thoughtless, unprofessional last few episodes. There's no way it even worked in the writer''s mind, no way they thought the events they were writing were logically and psychologically coherent, much less that it was actively good writing. I'm not being contrarian just cause it's popular. I'll defend the first 6 episodes as quite good and I think they're unfairly shat on as a backlash to the popularity.
Why do asians emote so little when they talk? If you mute the show it's literally impossible to know what they're talking about because they never change their facial expressions. They might be talking about the weather or about going on a killing spree, they'll keep the same intonation and look. That other asian netflix show about deadly games, where it was mostly teens, there was some big reveal or shocking scene at the end and they cut to some homosexual looking on and he looks 100% braindead, completely unfazed
I think it's their sense of humour. Whenever I watch korean film #1321 the moon face wholesome lead will always pull a serious face while delivering dialogue that is a tongue in cheek frustration at something
Seems really unnecessary. All the sequel bait stuff really felt tacked on. The police officer investigating the event, the VIPs, etc.. all detracted from the story. Had it just been the personal struggles of those involved in the game, with very little information regarding the organization of the event, I feel it would have been a stronger story. An example of less-is-more.
I like how in Kaiji for example, the organizers of their rich death-games seem like an unstoppable force. I'm a secondary who didn't get far into that series, but that was my impression at least.
>season 2 is now a comedy detailing the creation of the "Squid Games" and the interactions between crazy old man and a hard working middle manager
They stole everything else from Fukumoto, might as well steal the next iteration of the series as well.
The existing cliff hangar was so dumb they should just do a prequel instead.
He acknowledges the influence of Kaiji, Liar Game and Battle Royale. All of those represent an entire subgenre of death game stories, there are others, there are movies made in the US with a similar theme etc, and Squid Game is clearly its own thing while using these tropes.
No, plagiarism is very different. One day perhaps you'll understand the different, who knows.
Here's an initial, much-needed remedial lesson for you: when the author cites and highlights the influence of specific previous works, that is a good indication it's not "plagiarism". It's also a good idea to watch/read the other stuff so that you will be able to tell the similarities and differences between all of them apart.
No, that's a dumbing down of what both him and I said.
Acknowledging influences is done very often by several directors, and allow people who are not as dim as you to 1)watch the other sources 2)compare and identify similarities and differences.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Ok, im going to make a comedy show about 4 israelites in new york city that do nothing and list Seinfeld as an "inspiration" for it so its not considered plagiarism when it gets real famous.
That's what it is: if you were more educated in the history of film/series you'd see that same type of borrowing happening all the time.
>tomodachi game
isn't it just a rip off of kaiji?
It is similar to different manga and movies/series without being a mere remake of any of them, it goes into a very specific narrative path.
Again, the death game trope goes back to stuff that predates Kaiji. Liars Game etc etc
it's not borrowing when something takes entire aspects of something else down to its details--that's ripping off.
and I am more educated on it than you are shitbreath
Sure it is. Stanley Kubrick, the greatest movie director of all time, did it in one of the most famous scenes of one of his most famous movies, and it doesn't mean his own movie is simply a retread of the previous one.
You're not well educated in the subject at all-- otherwise you'd be aware of dozens of similar examples.
2 years ago
Anonymous
u sound like a homosexual.
immediately rushing to kubrick like the pseud you are. you wouldn't know cinema if it whacked you in the face.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're just projecting since you're a shitty gay nobody who clearly knows nothing about movies/series/manga etc and has terrible taste in general. Go be an ignorant mediocrity somewhere else, reddit perhaps
>tomodachi game
Haven't read it or seen the movie/series. It sounds interesting but not necessarily the same experience Squid Game offers.
It seems to have been published after As the Gods Will, so it isn't the first or last in this subgenre either.
Yeah while some stuff is different like the shows tone just stealing death traps from other shows is just shitty. Warhammer did the same thing with moorwiener.
Already confirmed days after S01 was released. It'll be released late next year or later, Hwang is still working on ideas according to a recent article, and will release another movie first.
Needless to say, Squid Game is a masterpiece, it works on several levels and he also said in the abovementioned article that he scattered several clues on the previous season for a possible sequel.
I assume one of them is the police guy falling after being shot in the shoulder-- perhaps he didn't die.
I was hoping Ho-Yeon would return but she also did a recent interview with Sandra Oh where she describes 067 as really dying in the series.
No, there were a lot of them but I understand some people haven't noticed. Here are some:
-the series establishes some narrative precedents:
-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
-some characters are taken in the coffins while they're still alive
-067's number is never announced in the loudspeakers
-some characters are spared (the annoying woman who doesn't find a playing partner). This is particularly important because it would be in the interest of the organizers to keep 067 alive in case one of the 2 remaining players killed the other bc they needed a stand-in to play the final game, in which the VIPs were betting.
>-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
okay did you really not watch the series because her dead body was shown on screen not breathing with her throat slit
yeah i checked before writing my reply, she was dying in that scene but her previous injuries didn't cause her death, her throat was slit in that scene, she was absolutely dead, no breathing or blinking or anything
2 years ago
Anonymous
Dying isn't dead-- she isn't pronounced dead.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>lifeless body >fatal wound
but sure i guess she could come back from that, idk why anyone would ever assume anyone dies in any movie
2 years ago
Anonymous
She could-- and while improbable it would be warranted by the narrative elements set by the series in previous episodes. It would be consistent w what happened rather than an entirely forced, never-used before narrative choice.
2 years ago
Anonymous
how would she not die
2 years ago
Anonymous
By being treated immediately. Would it be something out of the blue in the series' universe? No as per these points
No, there were a lot of them but I understand some people haven't noticed. Here are some:
-the series establishes some narrative precedents:
-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
-some characters are taken in the coffins while they're still alive
-067's number is never announced in the loudspeakers
-some characters are spared (the annoying woman who doesn't find a playing partner). This is particularly important because it would be in the interest of the organizers to keep 067 alive in case one of the 2 remaining players killed the other bc they needed a stand-in to play the final game, in which the VIPs were betting.
2 years ago
Anonymous
there's no medical treatment to having your throat slashed open. you're either baiting, moronic; or both.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Sure there is, not least because it isn't a deep wound and they don't show her carotid arteries spurting blood. Consider the fact that you're not a doctor but a random person on the internet.
2 years ago
Anonymous
are you a doctor
2 years ago
Anonymous
No but I understand otherwise commonsensical factors you clearly seemed to ignore.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i don't think it's really common sense to assume that a person dying of blood loss can have their throat slit and survive
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're mistaken. They were clearly prepared to operate on players, make blood transfusions as needed etc.
2 years ago
Anonymous
that's not the point i don't think it's common sense to assume that it would even be possible to save her regardless of preparation
leaving aside of course that she was pretty clearly dead already
2 years ago
Anonymous
It is because to play the final game they needed players and a stand-in makes perfect sense.The attentive viewer doesn't see her last breath. Pay more attention next time
2 years ago
Anonymous
just because you have a need to perform a miracle doesn't mean you just can >The attentive viewer doesn't see her last breath.
that might be true idk when exactly she stopped breathing but i think the fact that she stopped is more significant than the fact that she breathed before
2 years ago
Anonymous
In the real world, it's doable. In the series, it would be narratively congruent to what happened before and what would happen next. Sure, the implication is that she died, but they made it as vague as possible and as I mentioned her number is never announced on the loudspeakers.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>In the real world, it's doable.
see that's the part i'm having trouble with, even if you're right and that exact situation would possibly be salvageable no sane person would assume that it's at all likely even with unlimited resources and the best surgeons in the world >as vague as possible
the cop guy's death was as vague as possible, hotpants' death wasn't vague at all
2 years ago
Anonymous
It doesn't have to be likely-- it has to be POSSIBLE and make sense for the plot. If it comes as a surprise to most viewers, that's even better-- but the narrative has been paved in a way that it wouldn't contradict but rather make sense considering facts and decisions from
previous episodes. >the cop guy's
That was even more blatant since shots to the shoulder/trapezius have become a trope for shots who look fatal but on second thought aren't, they're survivable. There's also the fall, but that could be explained too.
2 years ago
Anonymous
well it's also POSSIBLE that a meteorite obliterates korea but if that happened in the story you'd call bullshit because it's ludicrously unlikely
2 years ago
Anonymous
But on a scale of possibilities that would more narratively distant than 067 surviving her wounds. It would autistic and naive to compare the two
2 years ago
Anonymous
it's a good example to illustrate my point, there are tons of other contrivances that are more likely, like a character spontaneously having a stroke or aneurysm or something
2 years ago
Anonymous
No it's not-- it's rhetorical but not really congruent with the story. A meteor? Nah. 067 surviving? Hmm. OK, that would make some sense.
Sherlock Holmes fell from a waterfall and was revived by Conan Doyle.
2 years ago
Anonymous
forget the meteor, as i said it illustrates the point, it's the point itself
the point is that having stuff happen contrary to reason merely because it's technically possible is contrived
and btw as far as emotional content goes it really is a piss poor idea that she survived, no real reason to fight if they knew that
2 years ago
Anonymous
That is not contrary to reason. Recapping:
No, there were a lot of them but I understand some people haven't noticed. Here are some:
-the series establishes some narrative precedents:
-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
-some characters are taken in the coffins while they're still alive
-067's number is never announced in the loudspeakers
-some characters are spared (the annoying woman who doesn't find a playing partner). This is particularly important because it would be in the interest of the organizers to keep 067 alive in case one of the 2 remaining players killed the other bc they needed a stand-in to play the final game, in which the VIPs were betting.
That would be contrary to the implied medical expectations and scene tone-- but that's what twists are for, to throw curveballs. >no real reason to fight if they knew that
Keeping her alive would be in the interest of the games' organizers to have someone ready to replace one of the final contestants.
She expressed "relief" about shooting 067's final scene as a type of deliverance for the character and herself.
She's also now better-known and acknowledged by the audience and her peers as a great actress so perhaps she wants to do other stuff such as the miniseries w/ Cate Blanchett and a movie she's currently shooting or something.
yeah, and she's also made some jokes about coming back as a twin.
But for real, I do expect her to at least cameo for a flashback or something, just because the attention she'll bring to it.
Yes. Hwang could bring her back as per these factors
No, there were a lot of them but I understand some people haven't noticed. Here are some:
-the series establishes some narrative precedents:
-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
-some characters are taken in the coffins while they're still alive
-067's number is never announced in the loudspeakers
-some characters are spared (the annoying woman who doesn't find a playing partner). This is particularly important because it would be in the interest of the organizers to keep 067 alive in case one of the 2 remaining players killed the other bc they needed a stand-in to play the final game, in which the VIPs were betting.
or maybe a flashback/cameo since she became so iconic to the series.
She reminds me of 80's korean/chinese women, damn they were so cool, now all of them are so amerimuttinized its pathetic. When I hear a korean/chinese with yank accent I wanna throw up.
It's also amazing how different her real life persona is from the character. She's very bubbly, emotional, talkative and the fact that the character is just the opposite goes to show how good she is. It was her very first role btw, acting with major actors and doing a great job.
There are people like you and me that like the games and the story. and there are people that just want to see the cool games and don't care for the story progression. so how can the director please both sides?
There's a fake gi hun that dies at the beginning, the cop gets his brother killed and takes over as lead masked man, and the twist is that there is no winner, and the game was just a ploy to lure Gi Hun back so they can take him out
You'd be better off basing your opinion on your individual experience. It is a very middlebrow affectation to assume something isn't good because it happens to be popular, particularly something that ostensibly goes against the current tide of storebought, predictable entertainment (so to speak).
>uses the word "intellectual" without any irony, while posting a gif of a furgay kid's game
These are the people showering this show with praise, folks.
>copies a bunch of survival japanese movies again >wow koreans are so original and trendy!!! looks like bts!!! saranghae oppa!!! >what's this? another survival show? eh... OH ITS KOREAN I MUST WATCH AND MAKE TIKTOKS ABOUT IT
Oh boy, another Netflix series with a decent premise that lost steam by the end of season 1 is getting a new season forced out of it's butthole because it caught on for a few weeks. Remember how well Tiger King 2 did? Honestly I'm surprised it took them this long.
Yet another show that was a perfectly enjoyable self-contained story that will be milked into oblivion and stretched into an abomination that never needed to exist.
It will be garbage 100%. Every modern new show that does well will have a season 2 and 3 that now gets meddled with and forces more political and diversity shit in it.
Discussed above already. Writer/director acknoweledges certain influences (Kaiji, Liar Game, Battle Royale) but he started showing his initial version of Squid Game to producers in 2009. Also, before Kaiji there were As the Gods Will and other manga/series before and since with a similar theme.
>Squid Game to producers in 2009
the manga came out in 1995
and the anime came out in 2007
Meh, Kaiji is just pure nostalgia kino to me, I remember binging on the episodes.
I hope they play dodgeball this time
How would you jazz it up for the squid game? My best guess is they all wear suits with various sensors and if a ball hits the sensor they get electrocuted to death. There won't be any sensors on their hands allowing them to catch the ball, but there'd also have to be a way from preventing people from just palming the ball away from them without worrying abut catching it.
i hope they play picrel
Dodgeball with explosives
boring, how can you tag back in
If they hadn't intentionally fricked up the last 5 minutes there would have been zero reason to ever do a sequel
>zero reason
Millions of dollars is a reason.
thomas the tank engine
Alice in Borderlands is better.
The first three episodes were better than anything Squid Game had, but it took a sharp fricking downhill turn after that.
I actually don't know which had a worse finale.
I gave it a try because you shills convinced me, turns out is the usual jap crap aimed at teenagers. Squid Game is no Shakespeare but at least feels more like something made for adults.
moron contrarian
they made a live action show of this?
It is absolutely not better, it's standard Jap live action trash that had a good first two episodes. Acting is bad, plot is stupid, writing is bad, everything after the first game in the apartment complex is just fricking stupid.
SG is better but they're both great and seem ultimately very different in the way their plots unfold. I liked AiB very much too, S02 is apparently being released in December.
The games in AiB do seem more less clear narratively and their resolution sometimes seems like a stretch.
I stopped after episode 3 not in any rush to watch it again.
I tried watching this really hard, but it was way too anime tropey for young teenagers. That stupid know it all teenager did me in. I couldn't continue.
The games themselves and even the concept might be way better, but the live action anime trope nature of it made it unwatchable.
hopefully we get an explanation WHY THE FRICK DID HE DYE HIS HAIR RED
markiplier reference
Maybe it was the most expensive thing he could get
red = angry
he was angry that the squid games were still going
He turned into a troony
filtered
In asian stories, changing a characters hair means that their personality has changed
>Asians have to tell you a characters personality has changed with their hair colour instead of just writing them with a different personality.
“I thought about this intuitively,” the director said, “thinking about how Gi Hun should change his hair in a hair salon.I imagined being him and thought to myself, ‘what is the color that you would never choose to dye your hair?’ ThenI came to the conclusion that Gi Hun would never dye his hair red. It would be the craziest thing for him to do. So I chose the color and I thought it really showed his inner anger.”
that's pretty autistic, ngl
even by asian standards
it was a red herring
he became trans
He became redpilled
At the salon he also sees a pic of a girl w/ red hair or something.
The color itself is similar to the guard's uniforms and places him in a position of power
He became a 50yo east Europe woman, to show his support for Ukraine
it's for the anime adaptation
For all the blood that was spilled in order for him to win
he is a fan of sora the troll
Milking the cow
the ending of season 2 didn't make any sense. the dude is like
>I'm coming back to play again!
How? Why would they take him back?
>Why would they take him back?
The rich people bankrolling it wanna see a champion run through the game again?
How did you watch it if it is not out yet
This is gonna be like Stranger Things season 2 where it releases like a wet fart and then years later, after more seasons drop, people slowly realize it should have just been one season alone.
>people slowly realize it should have just been one season alone
People realize this now, it's the prevailing opinion. Show was a quality one season idea.
I wonder which death game manga they'll life game ideas from this season
Mr Beast
I hope they don't do the "lol just beat the shit out of eachother and whoever is still standing in 10 minutes wins"
I prefer my death game media to actually be about the games and not just punching people
It nosedived in its already unexceptional quality like 6 or 7 episodes into the first season. Characters stopped behaving in any way that made sense even by tv logic, whole plot threads were left only like 50 percent complete and not developed enough to have any weight(investigating detective and the host being his brother was never explored so meant nothing-that's something that needs to actually go somewhere and be explained within season 1).
Just a truly dogshit, thoughtless, unprofessional last few episodes. There's no way it even worked in the writer''s mind, no way they thought the events they were writing were logically and psychologically coherent, much less that it was actively good writing. I'm not being contrarian just cause it's popular. I'll defend the first 6 episodes as quite good and I think they're unfairly shat on as a backlash to the popularity.
>behaving in any way that made sense even by tv logic
Pray do tell - what is tv logic?
not even going to bother pirating season 2. nobody is going to give a shit about it.
First season was super overrated, I do not care at all. I will not watch this.
Squid Game is better than anything Japan tv has made
>lets just do the same thing!
Why do asians emote so little when they talk? If you mute the show it's literally impossible to know what they're talking about because they never change their facial expressions. They might be talking about the weather or about going on a killing spree, they'll keep the same intonation and look. That other asian netflix show about deadly games, where it was mostly teens, there was some big reveal or shocking scene at the end and they cut to some homosexual looking on and he looks 100% braindead, completely unfazed
I think it's their sense of humour. Whenever I watch korean film #1321 the moon face wholesome lead will always pull a serious face while delivering dialogue that is a tongue in cheek frustration at something
As opposed to what, The Sopranos? Would you really prefer watching people who look like they're moronic monkeys playing charades when they talk?
Cultural differences, facial expressions and body language aren't universal. Also Asians have weird faces
to filter autists like you
Settle it in smash!
>red light...green light
Robot girl has a boyfriend
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1536016779037749248
>12 years
...
What about girls? This show would be nothing without HoYeon Jung and that "crazy b***h".
>took 12 years to make the most cringe zoomer show
Their bringing her back?
It's gonna flop since she's not in it. She was a majority of the hype
PROBABLY not. But...
Body of a 10 year old boy. Disgusting.
Pedo detected
Probably in a flashback sequence
Never watched the first one.
She's actually pretty cute for a Korean.
Why don't bugposters spam her instead of those ugly, surgically-modified insects?
koreans are actual npcs and are unable to like anything but those plastic dolls they drool over
built for BWC
Best character in the entire series
You fricking idiots, the theme of squid game is children's games
Seems really unnecessary. All the sequel bait stuff really felt tacked on. The police officer investigating the event, the VIPs, etc.. all detracted from the story. Had it just been the personal struggles of those involved in the game, with very little information regarding the organization of the event, I feel it would have been a stronger story. An example of less-is-more.
I like how in Kaiji for example, the organizers of their rich death-games seem like an unstoppable force. I'm a secondary who didn't get far into that series, but that was my impression at least.
Pathetic how overrated this shit was.
It's very typical these days though.
>It Asian so it gud!
Fricking disgusting.
>season 2 is now a comedy detailing the creation of the "Squid Games" and the interactions between crazy old man and a hard working middle manager
They stole everything else from Fukumoto, might as well steal the next iteration of the series as well.
The existing cliff hangar was so dumb they should just do a prequel instead.
That anime was pure kino
He acknowledges the influence of Kaiji, Liar Game and Battle Royale. All of those represent an entire subgenre of death game stories, there are others, there are movies made in the US with a similar theme etc, and Squid Game is clearly its own thing while using these tropes.
> He acknowledges the influence of Kaiji, Liar Game and Battle Royale
Is that what they call it now?
Back in my day they called it plagiarism.
No, plagiarism is very different. One day perhaps you'll understand the different, who knows.
Here's an initial, much-needed remedial lesson for you: when the author cites and highlights the influence of specific previous works, that is a good indication it's not "plagiarism". It's also a good idea to watch/read the other stuff so that you will be able to tell the similarities and differences between all of them apart.
> i list the works i stole all my ideas from so that means its not plagiarism
Lol, ok dood.
No, that's a dumbing down of what both him and I said.
Acknowledging influences is done very often by several directors, and allow people who are not as dim as you to 1)watch the other sources 2)compare and identify similarities and differences.
Ok, im going to make a comedy show about 4 israelites in new york city that do nothing and list Seinfeld as an "inspiration" for it so its not considered plagiarism when it gets real famous.
it is VERY much Kaiji.
"influence"? they literally ripped off the tightrope game and made it gayer.
also, tomodachi game is superior to squid game in every way. best anime on right now.
>tomodachi game
isn't it just a rip off of kaiji?
tomodachi game's premise is kaiji-esque but in practice it feels more like akaji or death note, it's very cerebral.
That's what it is: if you were more educated in the history of film/series you'd see that same type of borrowing happening all the time.
It is similar to different manga and movies/series without being a mere remake of any of them, it goes into a very specific narrative path.
Again, the death game trope goes back to stuff that predates Kaiji. Liars Game etc etc
it's not borrowing when something takes entire aspects of something else down to its details--that's ripping off.
and I am more educated on it than you are shitbreath
Sure it is. Stanley Kubrick, the greatest movie director of all time, did it in one of the most famous scenes of one of his most famous movies, and it doesn't mean his own movie is simply a retread of the previous one.
You're not well educated in the subject at all-- otherwise you'd be aware of dozens of similar examples.
u sound like a homosexual.
immediately rushing to kubrick like the pseud you are. you wouldn't know cinema if it whacked you in the face.
You're just projecting since you're a shitty gay nobody who clearly knows nothing about movies/series/manga etc and has terrible taste in general. Go be an ignorant mediocrity somewhere else, reddit perhaps
>tomodachi game
Haven't read it or seen the movie/series. It sounds interesting but not necessarily the same experience Squid Game offers.
It seems to have been published after As the Gods Will, so it isn't the first or last in this subgenre either.
Keep in mind Hwang first circulated his initial Squid Game script in 2009 and developed it further in the following years.
Yeah while some stuff is different like the shows tone just stealing death traps from other shows is just shitty. Warhammer did the same thing with moorwiener.
This is very minor, but I appreciate they didn't make kaiji's mother a sick old lady, then kill her off for cheap drama.
I moved on to Tomodachi Game
KINO
I'm not sure where they can go with season 2, the premise had run it's course, and was getting stale by the end.
The premise they are going for is “more money”
Nice. I never watched that gay asiaticshit, but I definitely wanted to frick that singing doll girl
It's going to be ass because the author only copied mango. I bet he ran out of ideas to steal and can't make a long term story.
Already confirmed days after S01 was released. It'll be released late next year or later, Hwang is still working on ideas according to a recent article, and will release another movie first.
Needless to say, Squid Game is a masterpiece, it works on several levels and he also said in the abovementioned article that he scattered several clues on the previous season for a possible sequel.
I assume one of them is the police guy falling after being shot in the shoulder-- perhaps he didn't die.
I was hoping Ho-Yeon would return but she also did a recent interview with Sandra Oh where she describes 067 as really dying in the series.
>I was hoping Ho-Yeon would return
idk if you watched the series but there was no ambiguity about her character being dead
No, there were a lot of them but I understand some people haven't noticed. Here are some:
-the series establishes some narrative precedents:
-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
-some characters are taken in the coffins while they're still alive
-067's number is never announced in the loudspeakers
-some characters are spared (the annoying woman who doesn't find a playing partner). This is particularly important because it would be in the interest of the organizers to keep 067 alive in case one of the 2 remaining players killed the other bc they needed a stand-in to play the final game, in which the VIPs were betting.
>-a character who isn't seen as literally dying, stopping breathing, could come back
okay did you really not watch the series because her dead body was shown on screen not breathing with her throat slit
No, it was never shown as confirmed dead-- dying, perhaps, but that is not dead. Go back to the scene if you must, paying more attention this time
yeah i checked before writing my reply, she was dying in that scene but her previous injuries didn't cause her death, her throat was slit in that scene, she was absolutely dead, no breathing or blinking or anything
Dying isn't dead-- she isn't pronounced dead.
>lifeless body
>fatal wound
but sure i guess she could come back from that, idk why anyone would ever assume anyone dies in any movie
She could-- and while improbable it would be warranted by the narrative elements set by the series in previous episodes. It would be consistent w what happened rather than an entirely forced, never-used before narrative choice.
how would she not die
By being treated immediately. Would it be something out of the blue in the series' universe? No as per these points
there's no medical treatment to having your throat slashed open. you're either baiting, moronic; or both.
Sure there is, not least because it isn't a deep wound and they don't show her carotid arteries spurting blood. Consider the fact that you're not a doctor but a random person on the internet.
are you a doctor
No but I understand otherwise commonsensical factors you clearly seemed to ignore.
i don't think it's really common sense to assume that a person dying of blood loss can have their throat slit and survive
You're mistaken. They were clearly prepared to operate on players, make blood transfusions as needed etc.
that's not the point i don't think it's common sense to assume that it would even be possible to save her regardless of preparation
leaving aside of course that she was pretty clearly dead already
It is because to play the final game they needed players and a stand-in makes perfect sense.The attentive viewer doesn't see her last breath. Pay more attention next time
just because you have a need to perform a miracle doesn't mean you just can
>The attentive viewer doesn't see her last breath.
that might be true idk when exactly she stopped breathing but i think the fact that she stopped is more significant than the fact that she breathed before
In the real world, it's doable. In the series, it would be narratively congruent to what happened before and what would happen next. Sure, the implication is that she died, but they made it as vague as possible and as I mentioned her number is never announced on the loudspeakers.
>In the real world, it's doable.
see that's the part i'm having trouble with, even if you're right and that exact situation would possibly be salvageable no sane person would assume that it's at all likely even with unlimited resources and the best surgeons in the world
>as vague as possible
the cop guy's death was as vague as possible, hotpants' death wasn't vague at all
It doesn't have to be likely-- it has to be POSSIBLE and make sense for the plot. If it comes as a surprise to most viewers, that's even better-- but the narrative has been paved in a way that it wouldn't contradict but rather make sense considering facts and decisions from
previous episodes.
>the cop guy's
That was even more blatant since shots to the shoulder/trapezius have become a trope for shots who look fatal but on second thought aren't, they're survivable. There's also the fall, but that could be explained too.
well it's also POSSIBLE that a meteorite obliterates korea but if that happened in the story you'd call bullshit because it's ludicrously unlikely
But on a scale of possibilities that would more narratively distant than 067 surviving her wounds. It would autistic and naive to compare the two
it's a good example to illustrate my point, there are tons of other contrivances that are more likely, like a character spontaneously having a stroke or aneurysm or something
No it's not-- it's rhetorical but not really congruent with the story. A meteor? Nah. 067 surviving? Hmm. OK, that would make some sense.
Sherlock Holmes fell from a waterfall and was revived by Conan Doyle.
forget the meteor, as i said it illustrates the point, it's the point itself
the point is that having stuff happen contrary to reason merely because it's technically possible is contrived
and btw as far as emotional content goes it really is a piss poor idea that she survived, no real reason to fight if they knew that
That is not contrary to reason. Recapping:
That would be contrary to the implied medical expectations and scene tone-- but that's what twists are for, to throw curveballs.
>no real reason to fight if they knew that
Keeping her alive would be in the interest of the games' organizers to have someone ready to replace one of the final contestants.
looking forward to another month of shilling followed by deafening silence
She expressed "relief" about shooting 067's final scene as a type of deliverance for the character and herself.
She's also now better-known and acknowledged by the audience and her peers as a great actress so perhaps she wants to do other stuff such as the miniseries w/ Cate Blanchett and a movie she's currently shooting or something.
yeah, and she's also made some jokes about coming back as a twin.
But for real, I do expect her to at least cameo for a flashback or something, just because the attention she'll bring to it.
Yes. Hwang could bring her back as per these factors
or maybe a flashback/cameo since she became so iconic to the series.
why does she look so ugly here
because you hate her and so you think she's ugly and you post it all the time thinking that it's a clever thing to do and we don't see through it?
Meds
it doesn't work like that, you can't just say meds to any reply
Only the schizo ones (which on this board is almost any reply)
she gets mogged by actual koreans
holy frick, the neckbeard who made this doesn't realise that korean women use skin whitening products lmfao
the one on the right looks pretty ugly. I came from kpg to say that
she's the most beloved girl on kpg
she's objectively beautiful
u chose a damn ugly actual korean to represent the country tbh
Not only did you pick one that had a lot of plastic surgery but you couldn't even prove your point
glad this netflix korean wouldn't be in season 2, she is very ugly!
She reminds me of 80's korean/chinese women, damn they were so cool, now all of them are so amerimuttinized its pathetic. When I hear a korean/chinese with yank accent I wanna throw up.
It's also amazing how different her real life persona is from the character. She's very bubbly, emotional, talkative and the fact that the character is just the opposite goes to show how good she is. It was her very first role btw, acting with major actors and doing a great job.
She is cute
I hope they dub the next season better than the first.
>watching dubbed versions of movies and series
I like to focus on the visuals rather than adverting my eyes to read text.
it'll probably try to capture the magic of the first season and fail horribly like most sequels do
I would lose the squid game
It's gonna suck, should've only been 1 season
pink hair
There are people like you and me that like the games and the story. and there are people that just want to see the cool games and don't care for the story progression. so how can the director please both sides?
not to mention the hard task of pleasing the Asian audience and the Americans / rest of the world
for example the Americans want more English dialogue if that happens , will it make the show go down hill?
Oh look!
South-Koreans shills working overtime today!
What the frick is it gonna even be about? Just more games?
There's a fake gi hun that dies at the beginning, the cop gets his brother killed and takes over as lead masked man, and the twist is that there is no winner, and the game was just a ploy to lure Gi Hun back so they can take him out
If normies are going bananas over this series, then I know it's complete dogshit, therefore I shan't be watching it.
That's a normie contrarian misperception though
I myself, as an intellectual contrarian, will be watching every episode thrice
You'd be better off basing your opinion on your individual experience. It is a very middlebrow affectation to assume something isn't good because it happens to be popular, particularly something that ostensibly goes against the current tide of storebought, predictable entertainment (so to speak).
>uses the word "intellectual" without any irony, while posting a gif of a furgay kid's game
These are the people showering this show with praise, folks.
i thought your comment was funny 🙂
One time paying attention suffices for the averagely smart person
>he says while consuming normie loved music, videogames, etc
>copies a bunch of survival japanese movies again
>wow koreans are so original and trendy!!! looks like bts!!! saranghae oppa!!!
>what's this? another survival show? eh... OH ITS KOREAN I MUST WATCH AND MAKE TIKTOKS ABOUT IT
Why would the organization and people behind the games be remotely worried about Gi-hun?
If the show followed its own rules they'd just kill him in the street, probably by a homeless person they paid 100 quid, and be done with it.
>They paid 100 quid
100 squids
FTFY
I hate bug people so much.
Look at all the normies ITT who just can't wait for the next shitty ass netflix product
Normie comment-- you lack self-awareness.
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Don't care.
Oh boy, another Netflix series with a decent premise that lost steam by the end of season 1 is getting a new season forced out of it's butthole because it caught on for a few weeks. Remember how well Tiger King 2 did? Honestly I'm surprised it took them this long.
Yet another show that was a perfectly enjoyable self-contained story that will be milked into oblivion and stretched into an abomination that never needed to exist.
Haha what if season 2 is just squids playing human games
season 2 setting is japan
I just want Kingdom season 3
it'll be another meme season taylor-made for reddit
It will be garbage 100%. Every modern new show that does well will have a season 2 and 3 that now gets meddled with and forces more political and diversity shit in it.
Season 1 = trash
Season 2 = will be even worse
The only thing worse than the writers for this is the fans.
Korean shows don’t need a second season.
GIMME THE GREENLIGHT
CUS IM READY TO GO
>the protagonist dies in the first few episodes
How kino would be?
DO I NEED TO WATCH THE FIRST SEASON TO WATCH THIS?
I WANNA WATCH IT WITH Cinemaphile BUT I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO WATCH OLD SHIT
is this based on Kaiji or just a Rip off?
and if it is why are koreans the main characters?
Discussed above already. Writer/director acknoweledges certain influences (Kaiji, Liar Game, Battle Royale) but he started showing his initial version of Squid Game to producers in 2009. Also, before Kaiji there were As the Gods Will and other manga/series before and since with a similar theme.
>Squid Game to producers in 2009
the manga came out in 1995
and the anime came out in 2007
Meh, Kaiji is just pure nostalgia kino to me, I remember binging on the episodes.