Memories of Murder (2003) - Ensemble Staging 

+bleh Whoa, is this the Korean DVD/Blu-ray? I've never actually watched those copies (no region-free Blu-Ray player) or listened to the audio commentary (which I imagine is in Korean). This trivia is fantastic, thank you!

+bleh I own the same Blu-ray. Unluckily I don't know Korean.

+bleh The poor chief... all of those 20 takes holding fake vomit in his mouth, face down not being able to move...

+Every Frame a Painting Really, you don't own a region free Blu-ray? I would think it would be a worthy investment especially with your library of films. Speaking of which, +Jan Pal could you tell me where you got that Blu-ray from, since I'm struggling to find anywhere that sells it.

+SHOPPINGTROLLY REBEL I think the Playstation 4 has a region-free blu-ray player built into it. It would make a good option, actually. I've found console built-in players to be more reliable than a lot of dedicated players I've used! Hell, even the (much cheaper) Playstation 3 has a pretty decent blu-ray player. As for the movie itself, I've never heard of it before this video. What is it, exactly? A comedy murder mystery? It looks interesting.

I watched the movie and 'brilliant' doesn't do it justice

and i believe the main detective from Memories also stars in Parasite

Boon Joong ho does not get enough love

Parasite was amazing. This director is the real deal.

Brilliant movie..probably that best of 2019.

year 2003 specifically :-)

korean cinema is still the best in the world..

LOL the ending of that scene when they both get smacked. love that movie.

Couldn't agree more. MOM is something else. Bong Joon Ho is insanely genius.

agree!! 3000%

It came as a surprise and I didn't expect it would ever get solved. Such a happy ending

Holy shit!

Sanish Sarasan they catch the golden state killer in 2018 with DNA also. I think those serial killers will eventually be captured in the few upcoming years

@@Ronin-bt1fj it still not solve 100. Which is only person has been caught. There are several cases. And there is copycat. Go watch Tunnel 2017, korean drama. To get more vision on it.

A few years ago another notorious Korean serial killer gave his opinion on the culprit of this case. He said either he's dead or serving time in prison already because serial killers just can't stop killing. Turned out he was spot on.

+Aaron Estes I'm with you man, especially when it comes to thriller/murder movie. It feels so gritty and often can be brutal, but the brutality is not just like being thrown out there to become a gore-fest, it often full with emotion and that's what makes it great. Yeah, I also start with Oldboy, and then just branching out, especially with Choi Min-Sik movies. He's very great in Oldboy and keeps doing a terrific job in other movies. Kinda upset when I see him in "Lucy" though, because it feels like he's being underused in that movie and he didn't shine as much like in his other movies. I know he's not a main character, but still...

Aaron Estes Have you watched the new film by the same director of oldboy its called handmaiden

Oldboy is amazing, and Park Chan-Wook is one of my top 3 directors (and I hesitate to call favorites) but Sympathy For Lady Vengeance has remained my #1 film ever since I first watched it. That, in my opinion, is his shining achievement. Directors like these are why I watch films!

I still haven't seen enough, but it does seem to me that in terms of live action movies, Korea as a country is really doing well. There will always be talented artists of all nationalities, but there are also always centers where many great artists come from, and I think South Korea is one of those places.

Even for "bad" Korean movies, the standard is so much higher than western shit in general

Fabio Bertolino I wouldn't say best, but it's at least top 5 for me

The ending scene is impressive.

How can you not say best cinematography? Btw, the movie is best in all aspects.

Ending Agreed

if you're a Korean or well aware of Korea's modern history, you can also savor underlying allegories of the movie :-)

Thanks this amazing channel

I watched this movie in 2003. I think this movie is the top legend of Korean films.

Tony joined the Bonghive before it was cool.

Was here long before Parasite 😎

@@kjk4400 Memories just wasn't a good movie lol

+Grman Rodriguez my sentiments exactly.

he likes to do the theoretical part. as far as i know he has not anything to do with filmmaking. he studied literature. thats why i like his point of view on movies. ive never seen somebody analysing movies as he does

Just because someone can accurately recognise and do a good job of explaining how something is made doesn't mean they can make something great themselves. Being a good critic does not mean you'll be a good film maker.

+Krombopulos Michael exactly

+Krombopulos Michael Well my friend that's why this channel is more interesting. Because Tony shows us beauty of cinema and since i watch his videos i truly can understand and enjoy framework

+Arun Regi Alex It is, but somehow it is still different. When I'm listening to Tony, it's not only interesting, but calming and relaxing. A bit like a trance I guess. I have never experienced such a thing on RU-vid before...

Arun Regi Alex Of course it is, I never intended to say something else. But your comment provides further proof for the difference between the two of them, whatever it may be.

+The_Scarf_Ace How is it simplistic? I think he goes into a lot of depth.

Adam Cox Simple doesn't mean easy; he probably meant something like minimalistic...

I think he meant concise. It takes a lot of refining. 'I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.'

where can you see it. It can't find it on any streaming service (in Canada anyway)

+DeathBlackWish I agree, the long take is definitely alot harder to master with all kinds of moving parts, but when that scenes comes together in one shot, my go its an incredible feeling, especially as a cinematographer.

46kvcs I wish both of these techniques were used more often. But also I kinda don't because then they'd lose their specialty I think. But nearly all my favorite movies and directors have used one or the other at least once. I always try and find a scene that I write that will work with those techniques. I can just see them in my mind and I hope someday I'll be able to turn my visions into reality.

+DeathBlackWish The thing is, Steven Spielberg does the one shot the way I think it should be done: practically invisible and is rarely noticed by the average movie watcher.

+DeathBlackWish Agreed brotha I love telling stories that aren't lazily shot. I love when the cinematography brings the audience into the film, makes the camera a character. It's incredible, and that's what I try to do with each project I work on

That's a great practice. I sometimes try to split scenes down to meds and close ups (very rarely), but whenever I write a conversation between three or more people, ensemble is how my mind registers it. Its weirdly easy to do that.

Katie Hough damn. I just re-watched it in the weekend. R.I.P

You don't have any content

People are sick

@Minjun Kim 스카웃되었다고 함.

@Minjun Kim 확인해보니 스카웃된건 2017년이고 2018년에 제작 중지한다고 공지 띄웠네요. medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

@Minjun Kim medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc will explain it

I think literally it is a memories of murder. Why did the detective remind me of my past memories and why not a magazine? Who is the culprit? I think I can tell you everything in one scene, such as why this happened. (Anger, sadness, memories, A fault)

+Popcorn might have to do with him being asian (chinese? judging by his surname), but nonetheless, great comparison indeed :)

+waldomarek A lot of student filmmakers do watch a lot of asian cinema, though. At least where I'm studying. Depends, I guess. But there are some gems in both markets, nonetheless.

***** Cool Beans, man!

To be fair this movie is pretty famous even in the west

+Popcorn Sometimes most Americans watch hollywood remake of asian movies, and they don't know the original movies, like for exemple the Infernal Affairs who became The Departed

Lewis C it's my favorite non english film

Well actually in Korea, its nothing less than a legend. So its quite respected as it is.

Not underrated but more of a unknown. Everyone who's seen it, Koreans or foreigners, love it.

This channel's first video was "Mother" from Bong Joon Ho also. After he won the best director I came back here just to find out how much I missed Tony's film essays.

+xingcat It's a great film. Closest "feel" that I can compare it to is like David Fincher's

+xingcat It´s great movie, one of those which linger with you for a long time.

Same!

+xingcat this film is so good!

+Andrew Rizzo Actually, this film is superior to David Fincher's Zodiac.

And ELEVEN people don't.

+Slim Charles Honestly I'd say it's more Lucas' writing than directing that's the problem. I mean, yes the prequels are comparatively worse (though I personally rate "Revenge" and "Return" at about the same level -- V>IV>VI/III>I>II) but Lucas also directed the original. While not exactly a cinematic masterpiece itself, largely due to cliche and IMO overly done homage to Kurisawa (not that he's a bad director to draw inspiration from, or that the kendo/samurai influence on Jedi/lightsabers isn't now legendary beyond the scope of the series), the original film is still well contained and a *good* enjoyable experience. "Empire" benefits greatly from the larger budget and Kirshner directing following the *unexpected* success of IV, which was made more independent because even Lucas didn't expect much of a reception (telling as well, IMO, that Lucas made a better movie when he expected it to "fail" than those he made twenty years later well into Star Wars fan-dom). Much of the imagery and even camera work in the prequels is quite good, it's just not shooting much acting worth having on camera. Naboo and Utapau are stunning and very different from the more realized Courascant and barren Tatooine (made more striking in contrast to the others), for instance, much of the space battle in "Revenge" is great *and* that film as a whole subtly nods a lot to the beats of "Empire," the best of the six at least cinematically. Even the political stuff in the prequels I feel was *okay* (as opposed to entirely bad as many people place it), and could have been quite good, but was written from a naive perspective on politics and progressed VERY slowly in the trilogy, considering only three films as opposed to even a single television season (referring to pacing of the sequences, rather than the stories' ~ 10 year timeline across the three films). I do have to agree many directors would likely have been able to do a better job from a purely cinematographic point, and perhaps improve the final story/progression somewhat by removing Lucas one step from the end product--which is to say, even Disney consult Lucas and his earlier works and ideas for their ongoing television and film series, he IS the creator after all, but he's not central to the whole cycle anymore. And Sam Jackson has been brilliant in everything I've seen him do, from "Do the Right Thing" to what little he *was* able to do as Master Windu. And finally, sorry for the short essay. This started much more concise in my head I swear. Like Tony I too quite enjoy and read a lot into film and film making, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. Gets out of hand sometimes.

+Slim Charles Star Wars = Bad Directing. But the new one is better.

+Frantachy thanks for this. There are too many people jumping on the "prequel hatetrain" than those that think for themselfs.

+Samuel Flores They are still pretty bad. Personally, I enjoyed them because I couldnt take them seriously.

Nigga wanted a purple lightsaber, that was his thinking ha

@Isaac Neri Rodriguez It's only been 3 years after Korean Police completed building culprits DNA database. So the owner of DNA was in the jail since that serial murder was stopped. The murderer was arrested for a different case. Pretty horrifying huh?

Seriously???

@@John-cl8yj yepp

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dPQQos19ZtI.html This is a ducomentary film of the facts that are recently revealed. the language is korean though..but at least you can see the face of the culprit

@@sara2923ify the link is broken. :(. any mirrors or alternative or at least the name of the doc?

+TulseLuper This shot is the subject of David Bordwell's essay "Hands and feet across the table," which I linked to in the video description, and which was a pretty big influence on the direction of this video. It's a great shot.

Every Frame a Painting Yes, that is an excellent essay. Cheers!

+TulseLuper I went straight to There Will Be Blood after this video cause a bunch of scenes popped into mind about ensemble shots. That was an excellent example of this. The first scene he's talking to people about drilling too - really cool.

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Pretty much every scene with the women walking alone scared the shit out of mr