Talk:Taegukgi (film)

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Original Title[edit]

Don't know how much this matters, but the original title is listed as Taegeukgi Hwinallimyeo here, yet on iMdb it's listed as Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo - slight diff in spelling. Gram 13:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's interchangable. R's and L's are pretty much the same in Korean. Thus it can really go either way.

Presentation[edit]

It's interesting to note that no Americans or UN forces other then the SK are shown......They are only referenced through dialog.

It's possible that the role of the South Korean troops is aggrandized...I mean, didn't the NK invade and conquer South Korea in some 48 hours?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.234.112.50 (talk) 05:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Er no, Korean War. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.206.103 (talk) 10:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake[edit]

It seems that there had been an error in the sypnosis. Jin-tae didn't join the North Korean but was captured and was had already went crazy at the time. I've edited that portion. -- HistoryManiac

I think its is not very clear in the film weather he was captured or if he joined voluntarily. To me, it looks like he is wearing either POW clothes or a very dirty North Korean jacket that he must have been issued by the anti-communist officers when he was arrested. But you're right, he was going crazy at the time so it open to interpretation. --eelwerdna 6 July 2006

Even with the confused plotting, it is clear that Jin-tae really did join the North Koreans heart and broken soul. Until of course his brother is in trouble then he changes sides yet again. The movie from the point that Young-shin was taken as a "communist" a bunch of plot holes one could drive a whole war through. Early one in the movie I was engrossed, but the ending utterly broke my suspension of disbelief. MichaelSH 01:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plot or Synopsis?[edit]

What are we calling the plot section? Is it still called Plot, or have we moved on to using Synopsis? I seem to remember a discussion on the WP Film pages somewhere, but I can't find it and can't remember the consensus. Geoff B 22:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thnk it should be all plot not synopsis Geoff. Golum4ever

I've seen both plot and synopsis being used in movie articles. Both are fine, but it seems plot is preferred.enderminh 20:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup[edit]

I think we should leave some of the stuff where it is for now until someone can fix everything but whoever added some of the stuff is kind of contributing to the article. Golum4ever

I saw the clean-up request a while ago, and significantly cleaned up this article by copy-editing a lot. See this change. In that change, I also removed the clean-up request, because I thought that it's cleaned-up now, but HanzoHattori has put back the cleanup stub. Does this article need further clean-up? enderminh 20:57, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Long plot synopsis[edit]

I watched this film about a year ago. Reading the awfully long plot summary, I can remember many events in the movie. But I have to agree that the "plot summary is too long" tag is justified in this case. But I don't want to go to the extreme of chopping it down to something like:

Two brothers are drafted into the army. One has heart defect. Other promises to win medal in fight against North Koreans so brother can go home. But he then starts to like the adrenalin rush of fighting. They see some massacres. Brave brother earns medal but then switches to the North Korean side. Eventually the two brothers meet in battle and the one without the heart defect dies. His remains are found 50 years later.

Hopefully someone else who has seen the film more recently can do a better job of boiling this down to the essential details. たろ人 (talk) 21:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]