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[Thursday, April 19, 2007]
VT killer's hammer pose resembles movie
NEW YORK - One of the photographs in the Virginia Tech killer's "multimedia manifesto" may have been inspired by a bloody South Korean movie.
"Oldboy," from the respected director Chan-woo Park, is about a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. After escaping, he goes on a rampage against his captor. In one scene, he dispatches more than a dozen henchmen with the aid of a hammer.
In the package of materials that Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News, one photo shows the killer brandishing a hammer in a pose similar to one from the film.
"Oldboy," the second film in Park's "Vengeance Trilogy," won the Gran Prix prize at the 2004
Cannes Film Festival.
The connection was spotted by Professor Paul Harris of Virginia Tech, who alerted authorities, according to London's Evening Standard. The similarities have prompted speculation, especially in online forums, that Cho's entire massacre may have been inspired by "Oldboy."
yet another example of supposedly senseless violence misattributed to the arts. it boggles the mind how on one hand, it is a fact that hobbies such as watching movies, listening to music, and playing video games relieve undue stress caused by routinary and distasteful tasks, but on the other, they somehow make high school students run amok.
here's an idea: maybe the rampage was "inspired" by his perception of how his peers were treating him? you know, just like every other school shooting?
just a thought.
sige ingat.ΓΌ
posted by stani at 11:07 PM
NEW YORK - One of the photographs in the Virginia Tech killer's "multimedia manifesto" may have been inspired by a bloody South Korean movie.
"Oldboy," from the respected director Chan-woo Park, is about a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. After escaping, he goes on a rampage against his captor. In one scene, he dispatches more than a dozen henchmen with the aid of a hammer.
In the package of materials that Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News, one photo shows the killer brandishing a hammer in a pose similar to one from the film.
"Oldboy," the second film in Park's "Vengeance Trilogy," won the Gran Prix prize at the 2004
Cannes Film Festival.
The connection was spotted by Professor Paul Harris of Virginia Tech, who alerted authorities, according to London's Evening Standard. The similarities have prompted speculation, especially in online forums, that Cho's entire massacre may have been inspired by "Oldboy."
yet another example of supposedly senseless violence misattributed to the arts. it boggles the mind how on one hand, it is a fact that hobbies such as watching movies, listening to music, and playing video games relieve undue stress caused by routinary and distasteful tasks, but on the other, they somehow make high school students run amok.
here's an idea: maybe the rampage was "inspired" by his perception of how his peers were treating him? you know, just like every other school shooting?
just a thought.
sige ingat.ΓΌ
posted by stani at 11:07 PM