Cinelinx takes a swing at the new Woochi: The Demon Slayer Blu-ray!
The Set-up
A childish Korean wizard is trapped in a magic scroll for hundreds of years, only to be released into modern-day Korea to hunt down evil creatures that threaten the city.
The Delivery
Korean cinema can be a hit-or-miss proposition for American audiences. Sure, their horror films are quite good, even if they are obsessed with long black hair being scary for some reason. Their wire-fu films, however, don't always work. Woochi, which was a hit in 2009 for Korean audiences, takes an original approach on the wire-fu formula by mixing in fantasy elements and a modern day setting. It isn't a great film by any means, but it is a goofy, entertaining adventure that is far better than the usual summer fare we have to muddle through.
Gang Dong-Won plays Woochi with plenty of character and charisma that transcends the language barrier.
The Set-up
A childish Korean wizard is trapped in a magic scroll for hundreds of years, only to be released into modern-day Korea to hunt down evil creatures that threaten the city.
The Delivery
Korean cinema can be a hit-or-miss proposition for American audiences. Sure, their horror films are quite good, even if they are obsessed with long black hair being scary for some reason. Their wire-fu films, however, don't always work. Woochi, which was a hit in 2009 for Korean audiences, takes an original approach on the wire-fu formula by mixing in fantasy elements and a modern day setting. It isn't a great film by any means, but it is a goofy, entertaining adventure that is far better than the usual summer fare we have to muddle through.
Gang Dong-Won plays Woochi with plenty of character and charisma that transcends the language barrier.
- 4/8/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
Can you talk about the difference between this and the first film?
Lorenzo: I think tone is probably the biggest difference. Paramount came to me with John as the way to do it and looking at his past work I wasn’t sure what that meant in terms of what he’s done and how that would apply to what this was. And so we really talked a great deal initially about, one, he grew up with Joe and he really understood it and so I knew immediately that he had an internal grounding in it that was really good. It wasn’t a fantasy to him. It was part of his childhood. So there was this innate understanding and we talked a lot about tone and what he liked and what he liked about Joe growing up and what he would try and apply to it today – versus what we had done originally.
Lorenzo: I think tone is probably the biggest difference. Paramount came to me with John as the way to do it and looking at his past work I wasn’t sure what that meant in terms of what he’s done and how that would apply to what this was. And so we really talked a great deal initially about, one, he grew up with Joe and he really understood it and so I knew immediately that he had an internal grounding in it that was really good. It wasn’t a fantasy to him. It was part of his childhood. So there was this innate understanding and we talked a lot about tone and what he liked and what he liked about Joe growing up and what he would try and apply to it today – versus what we had done originally.
- 3/14/2013
- by El Mayimbe
- LRMonline.com
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- 8/17/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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