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Park Chan Wook’s “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance In my personal continuing quest to see all films by Park Chan Wook (Oldboy), I recently saw “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”. It’s particularly interesting to see the contrast between this film and Park’s earlier film “J.S.A. Joint Security Area”. Stylistically as a director he clearly grew a lot from “J.S.A.”. In…
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Tony Gilroy Switching Gears For “Duplicity”
Tony Gilroy has made a career out of being…well, relatively humorless. The Bourne series, which he wrote on, was known for its nearly emotionless protagonist. And Michael Clayton (directed and written by Gilroy) was marked with the same serious, somewhat somber, weary intellectual vibe. So when “Duplicity” was announced, about two rival corporations feuding, it…