OK yes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | OK yes |
| Original title | Okja ( 옥자 ) |
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| Country of production |
United States South Korea |
| original language |
English Korean |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bong Joon-ho |
| script | Bong Joon-ho Jon Ronson |
| production |
Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Lewis Taewan Kim Dooho Choi Woo-sik Seo Bong Joon-ho Ted Sarandos |
| music | Jeong Jae-il |
| camera | Darius Khondji |
| cut | Yang Jin-mo |
| occupation | |
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Okja is a 2017 American - South Korean adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho . The film premiered on May 19, 2017 in competition at the 70th Cannes International Film Festival . On June 28, 2017, the film was finally released on Netflix. The film was shown in cinemas in parallel in South Korea and the USA .
action
A young girl named Mija risks anything to stop a powerful multinational company called Mirando Corporation from kidnapping her best friend. This is an oversized genetically modified pig called Okja that was bred by the company. The aim was to revolutionize the production of meat using the hippopotamus-sized animals and to increase their own sales. The company tries to cover up the genetic manipulation and to present it as a classic breed.
In 2007, 10 years before the rest of the action, the company, under the management of Lucy Mirando, had passed on 26 piglets from the “super pig” to 26 farmers. The aim was to research the optimal husbandry and the best environmental conditions for this newly created pig breed. Okja is one of these pigs and grew up with a mountain farmer and his granddaughter Mija in South Korea . At the end of the observational study, Okja was named the winner in a final competition and separated from Mija, who had a close friendship with Okja.
Mija decides to get Okja back and storms a company's remote office in Seoul , where Okja is being loaded into a truck for transport to New York City . She chases the truck and jumps on its roof. During the drive to the airport, the truck is forced to stop by animal rights activists from the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and stormed, Okja is freed and meets Mija again. Okja escapes, however, and storms a mall. Mija and Okja later meet the activists again and manage to escape from the Miranda Corporation thugs in the ALF truck.
In order to be able to uncover the deeds of the company, the ALF activists exchange the biodata recorder in the pig's ear with a camera that can provide online images. However, this takes place against the will of Mijas, who would like to go back to the mountains with Okja. However, her consent was very important to Jay, the leader of the group, which is why K, who acts as Mija’s interpreter, erroneously says that she agrees. The group leaves the truck on a bridge and, apart from the driver and Mija, saves themselves from the chasing police by jumping into the water. Okja is being shipped to the United States.
In order to save the company's image and not be portrayed as inhuman, Lucy Mirando and the company's board of directors decide to allow Mija to see Okja again at the super pig parade in New York. After being flown into the United States as well, Mija tries in vain to get a previous reunion and finally gives in to the conditions.
At the parade she meets her pig again, but the pig has reddened eyes and is completely exhausted. Mija already suspects that Okja must have been mistreated. The activists intervened on the screen to see the recordings that they were able to make of the interim examination in the Mirando laboratory thanks to the camera bug. The parade participants are shocked and the situation has escalated. The "black hawks", a Mirando steward force, and the police intervene and arrest a number of activists and rampaging visitors. On the instructions of Nancy Mirando, Lucy's twin sister, Okja is brought to the slaughterhouse, where meat production from super pigs begins.
The remaining activists and Mija drive to the slaughterhouse and after a long search they can find Okja in the slaughter machine at the last minute before the killing. Mija faces a debate with Nancy Mirando and can finally buy Okja from her with a golden pig that she got from her grandfather. When leaving the area, Okja can hide a small piglet in its mouth and thus save the life of another conspecific. Okja, the piglet and Mija return to South Korea and live there without fear of Okja's slaughter.
In a scene after the credits , Jay is released after serving his prison sentence and the ALF, which has grown by many members, wants to do another "huge thing".
production
It is Bong Joon-ho's second film after Snowpiercer (2013), with mostly English-speaking actors. The main role in the film is played by the child actress Ahn Seo-hyeon with numerous Hollywood stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal , Paul Dano and Tilda Swinton in supporting roles. The film is set in New York City and Seoul . In November 2015, the film was picked up by Netflix and Plan B Entertainment for implementation with a budget of 50 million US dollars . Darius Khondji is in charge of the production.
According to Bong, a budget of over 50 million US dollars is difficult to cover for European and Asian film studios. So Bong was looking for an American film studio. Some told him the script was good, but they didn't like some scenes, like the one in the slaughterhouse. The smaller studios liked the script too, but the budget was too big. Netflix was the only studio that had both the capital and the will to invest. Bong welcomed the creative freedom he was given. The only drawback was the limited theatrical release.
Shooting began on April 22, 2016 in Seoul ( South Korea ). From July 31, 2016, the film continued in Vancouver ( Canada ).
Trivia
There is a translation error built into the subtitles in the middle of the film. K and Mija are talking in Korean. K intentionally translates incorrectly for the members of the animal liberation group. The subtitles are still correct here. But when K says goodbye to Mija, the subtitles read: “Mija, learn English (German). It opens up new possibilities. ”What K actually says in Korean is,“ Mija, my name is Koo Soon-bum by the way ”. A meta-level joke as K intentionally mistranslated beforehand. It is also a subversion of the predominance of the English language : Koreans are aware of the importance of English, but to understand K one has to understand Korean . Furthermore, the name Koo Soon-bum is like a joke, because according to Yeun it is a "stupid" name.
In the further course of the film, director Bong also plays with the subject of translation . If Jay learns that K intentionally mistranslated, he gets angry and says, "Never translate wrongly"! At the end of the film, K has a tattoo with the words “Translations are sacred”.
Web links
- Profile at festival-cannes.com (English)
- Okja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Okja on HanCinema
- Trailer on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The Screenings Guide - Festival de Cannes". Accessed May 12, 2017. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/actualites/articles/the-screenings-guide .
- ↑ First trailer of Bong Joon-ho's new Netflix movie 'Okja' unveiled. In: Yonhap . February 28, 2017, accessed February 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Lee Hyo-won: Netflix's 'Okja' Teaser Offers First Glimpse of Mystery Animal and Tilda Swinton in Character. In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 27, 2017, accessed February 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Dave Trumbore: 'Okja': Bong Joon-ho's Monster Movie Adds Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, and Bill Nighy. In: Collider.com. October 5, 2015, accessed February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Dave Trumbore: Netflix Backs Bong Joon-ho's 'Okja' with $ 50 million. In: Collider.com. November 10, 2015, accessed February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Locarno 2019 Excellence Award Conversation: Talk by Olivier Père with Song Kang-ho and Bong Joon-ho at the Locarno Film Festival 2019 (available on Youtube (1:09:51) ).
- ↑ Nick Romano: Bong Joon Ho's 'Okja' Starts Filming with Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal. In: Collider.com. April 22, 2016, accessed February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Dave Trumbore: 'The Predator,' 'Death Note' and 'Okja' Filming Dates and Locations Revealed. In: Collider.com. June 12, 2016, accessed February 11, 2017 .
- ^ A b E. Alex Jung: Did You Catch the Translation Joke in Okja? In: Vulture. June 29, 2017, accessed October 31, 2018 .