Squid Game Synopsis Character Interview Summary Netflix
There are Netflix dramas that I would recommend to anyone interested in movies based on survival games such as The Hunger Games and Battle Royale. This is the Korean version of the Netflix original series 'Squid Game'.
Contents
1. What is a squid game?
2. Desperate life, last hope? Character introduction
3. Director, was it possible because it was Netflix?
4. Lee Jung-jae, are you proud that you did a good job in the role of squid?
1. What is a squid game?
The title comes from a game that many adults remember, where children drew circles, triangles, and squares on a playground or playground to determine the ultimate winner.
The squid game in this drama refers to a survival game in which 456 players compete at a bet of 45.6 billion.
▲ Managers and participants gathered. The managers' clothes are red, and the participants' clothes are turquoise.
The appearance of the managers is reminiscent of the Spanish drama 'House of Paper'. The faces of the managers are covered with a black mask, and the figures from the squid game are drawn on the mask.
▲ "All of you who are here now"
▲ "Everyone has a debt they can't afford"
▲ "These are the people who stand on the edge of life."
▲ "Oh, I..."
▲ "Approximately how much is the prize money?"
Total prize money of 45.6 billion. In the end, there is only one winner left.
▲ The steamy face of the main character Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae).
▲ Participants go through a maze-like passage. The color of this scene reminded me of the movie 'Budapest Hotel'.
▲ You must reach the finish line within 5 minutes, avoiding taggers to be eligible to continue the game.
▲ Another participant asks Ki-Hoon. "You mean what you did back then when you were little?"
▲ The giant doll's eyes move,
▲ When a participant caught by the tagger is found, the managers relentlessly shoot him to death...
▲ The game hall becomes a chaos with participants trying to run away soon.
▲ The dead are taken away, and the rest must continue playing. Until only one survives.
▲ The game participants literally play a tag-and-death game.
Wow... When I last played a tag game with my schoolmates when I was young... I suddenly realize the weight of the years.
▲ If you get 1st place, you have everything, but if you don't get 1st place, you have to sacrifice your life.
2. Desperate life, last hope? Character introduction
Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae) decides to participate in the squid game when he is in a desperate situation due to the company's restructuring. In addition, characters with their own circumstances will participate in this survival game.
Ki-hoon's younger brother Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) was born into a poor family and graduated from Seoul National University with hard work.
Deok-soo (Heo Seong-tae) will do anything to win the game, and the beautiful woman (Kim Joo-ryeong) is also willing to commit fouls and change teams to achieve victory.
Dawn (Jung Ho-yeon) is a defector who has to raise money for his family.
Jun-ho (Ha-jun Wi) is a detective who pretends to be a game participant and infiltrates to uncover secrets.
Actor Gong Yoo also makes a special appearance.
3. Director, was it possible because it was Netflix?
Many parts of this drama can be guessed from what Impressive Hwang Dong-hyeok, who directed the Netflix Squid Game, revealed at the 2021 Netflix content roadshow.
It was originally planned as a movie, but he said that it would have been difficult to express the story properly except through Netflix because there was a vast story that was difficult to fit in the movie.
It contains a lot of imagination, and there are parts that are cruel, so there were parts that were difficult to make anywhere other than Netflix.
Director Hwang Dong-hyeok is the director who directed the movie Suspicious Woman, The Crucible, etc.
The filming of Squid Game was stopped due to the corona crisis, but filming ended safely and was released in September.
4. Lee Jung-jae, are you proud that you did a good job in the role of squid?
It is said that the set was so large that it was surprising every time we shot it.
In addition, Lee Jung-jae said that he liked the novelty of the scenario idea, and for Park Hae-soo, the contrast effect of the adult's desires on a pure game was impressive.