Park Chan-wook

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q315484: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Oldboy (2003); Lady Vengeance (2005); I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006); Thirst (2009); Stoker (2013); The Handmaiden (2016); The Little Drummer Girl (2018); Decision to Leave (2022); The Brigands of Rattlecreek; Trio.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Brief Encounter (1945): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they directed: Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show). Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo.
    “He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Martin Beck novels (Swedish): 1 line

  1. lineage (source character) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they directed: Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so). The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist.
    “So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Mist (1967 Korean hit song): 1 line

  1. lineage (source song) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they directed: Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so). Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea.
    “A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Strangers on a Train (1951): 1 line

  1. craft (plot structure) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they directed: Strangers on a Train ⇒ Decision to Leave (the host's read). The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts.
    “I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (16) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (upcoming): Park Chan-wook → The Sympathizer. Park has the HBO series The Sympathizer coming, with Robert Downey Jr. in multiple roles.
    “He has an HBO series where Robert Downey Jr. plays multiple characters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:51:36 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Chris Evans → Park Chan-wook. Joke: Evans opened the door of this train and found Park Chan-wook inside, a bridge from Cap to Snowpiercer.
    “open the door and found Park Chan Wilk inside and was like, hang out here for like a couple months?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:31:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (same camera): Park Chan-wook → Zodiac. Park Chan-wook also used the Viper.
    “Park Chen will also use the Viper film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Stoker → Park Chan-wook. Stoker is Park Chan-wook's only English-language film, with Kidman in the lead.
    “I think this is his only English language film.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:32:25 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (writing partner): Park Chan-wook → Chung Seo-kyung. Chung is his frequent co-writer; she initially refused a melodrama about an abused woman and he talked her into it.
    “I said no, I didn't want to write a melodrama about an abused woman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:44:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Park Chan-wook: Two early Park movies nobody likes, including him: Trio and The Moon Is the Sun's Dream.
    “He made these 2 movies that nobody likes, including his wife.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:04:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Park Chan-wook: Griffin and David's Park rankings: Griffin puts Handmaiden first, Lady Vengeance and Thirst high and Oldboy eighth; the other list puts Thirst second and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance fifth.
    “Number eight, old boy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:05:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)