"Old Boy" Story Structure Archive

Mohammed 2022-01-02 08:02:26

Story structure:

(Publishing) Mike is rude and ostentatious, drinking dizzy all day; one day he was drunk when talking to a client about a project, and he went to Chinatown to buy a gift with Chinese characteristics for his daughter;

(Transition) It rained heavily in the sky, and Mike walked into the umbrella of a woman in Tang suit;

(Dispute) I woke up and found that I was locked up in a tin room. Dumplings were delivered on time every day. No one told him why he was imprisoned. He was desperate, angry, and sad, and he could only use alcohol to relieve his sorrow; After being stunned, he was taken fingerprints; two days later, Mike obtained it on the TV in the room, his wife was killed, and his three-year-old daughter was also adopted by others. The police wanted the man who was wanted by his own news. Mike cut his wrist and committed suicide. He was rescued inexplicably. Back

(Bringing to the second act) Five years later, he saw his daughter again on TV. For her daughter, he began to secretly borrow alcohol, exercise, and practice boxing; when he finally got through the toilet and was about to escape, he was stunned again; wake up; He came to find that he was put in a park box; 20 years later, he found his friend Charlie to help him again. He was too anxious and fainted;

(Story B) The story of Mike and her daughter Mary; Mary peeked at the letter Mike wrote to her daughter and decided to help Mike;

(Game time) Eat all the dumpling restaurants in Chinatown and find restaurants with the same taste; after discovering an order deliberately, follow and touch it in secretly; kill the kid, grab the boss, and the boss confessed to the recording; when Mike listened to the recording, he got mixed up Came here, the two sides fought; after all the gangsters, he was seriously injured and climbed out of the warehouse and fainted;

(Midpoint) Taken away by a mysterious man, still in front of friend Charlie's house;

(Bad guy approaching) was rescued by Mary again, and Mary began to have a good impression of Mike; Mike called the mysterious man, but the mysterious man was behind him; he stepped forward, not the opponent of the bodyguard, and used Mike’s daughter as a threat to force Mike to play. In a game, David asks Mike to find out who he is in a limited time? Success is rewarded, and failure will kill his daughter;

(Nothing) Mary found a school through Mike’s mobile phone recording, which was exactly where Mike went to school; Mike sent David’s photo to Charlie to help track down; Charlie was killed by David as soon as he got a little eyebrow;

(Enter the third act) Mike rushes directly to David's house;

(Great battle) David tells the truth: It turned out that Mike accidentally discovered the adultery of David’s sister, and said it out. The city was full of storms, and David committed suicide; David also admitted that he killed Mike’s wife, and Mike pressed his daughter. Whereabouts, David told her that the news she saw was forged by them, and took him to see the shooting scene; Mike's real daughter is Mary, Mary has always liked herself, Mike collapsed; David committed suicide after swallowing a gun;

(Ending) Mike wrote farewell to Mary, and then Mike returned to the cell;

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Oldboy quotes

  • Chaney: Shit, you might wanna think about what you're doing here!

    Joe Doucett: I've been thinking about it for the last 20 years.

  • Chaney: I swear, I don't know nothin'! I swear before God and eight motherfuckin' white people!