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''Oldboy'' is a 2013 American remake of Park Chan-wook's 2003 South Korean cult film, which is based on the Japanese manga with the same name, published 1996–98. Directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich, the film stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley. The film was released on November 27, 2013. It was the last film to be distributed by FilmDistrict, before Focus Features absorbed the company in October 2013. It received a mixed reception from both critics and audiences, with praise towards the acting and visual style, but criticism for the comparisons to the original and adding nothing new to the film. The film was a box office bomb, being one of Lee's worst-performing films of his directing career. ==Plot== In 1993, Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) is an alcoholic advertising executive for his company. His constant drinking has gotten him into frequent trouble at work, and one day his ex-wife Donna berates him for missing his daughter Mia's 3rd birthday, which he brushes off. Later that night, he ruins a meeting with a highly potential client, Daniel Newcombe (Lance Reddick), by hitting on his girlfriend. Knowing that he will likely be fired for his failure, Joe gets drunk, and goes to a bar owned by his friend Chucky (Michael Imperioli), who refuses him entry. While stuck outside, he spots a woman with a yellow umbrella, before passing out. He awakens in an isolated, locked hotel room, and finds that he is being held prisoner. His captors provide him with basic hygiene items and meager portions of processed food and vitamin pills, along with a pint of vodka with every meal to prevent withdrawal, but do not provide reason for his imprisonment. Through a news bulletin on the TV in the room, Joe learns that Donna has been brutally raped and murdered, and he is the prime suspect. He also learns that Mia has been adopted. After being prevented from committing suicide, Joe starts writing Mia letters, gives up drinking, and spends the next 20 years planning his revenge. He gets in shape, becomes a skilled boxer by watching televised matches, and compiles a list of everyone who might be responsible for his imprisonment, with Newcombe being the prime suspect. In 2013, Joe watches an adult Mia being interviewed by a TV show called ''Mysteries of Crime'', and claiming she could try to forgive him if he returns. Suddenly, he is drugged and awakes in a box in a field, with money and a cell phone. He spots the woman with the yellow umbrella, whom he chases to a nearby clinic; there he meets Marie Sebastian (Elizabeth Olsen), a nurse who offers to help him. Joe refuses help but takes her card. He later visits Chucky and tells him what happened. He receives a mocking phone call from the mastermind behind his imprisonment, The Stranger (Sharlto Copley). After learning Newcombe died in a plane crash, Joe investigates the other names on his list, and learns they are all innocent. He eventually passes out from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie, who gives Joe medical treatment. Marie reads the letters Joe has written for Mia and offers to help him. With her, Joe is able to locate the Chinese restaurant that provided the food he was given in captivity and follows a man who arrives to take a large order to an abandoned factory, which is where he was held captive. Joe confronts the owner, Chaney (Samuel L. Jackson), and tortures him into giving him a taped conversation in which he discusses the terms of Joe's imprisonment with The Stranger. Joe is then forced to fight off all of Chaney's men, one of whom stabs him in the back. Joe is then returned to Chucky's bar, where he meets The Stranger himself and his bodyguard Haeng-Bok, the woman with the yellow umbrella, who has kidnapped Mia. The Stranger offers Joe a proposition: if Joe is able to discover his real identity and his motives for imprisoning Joe in 48 hours, he will not only release Mia but also give Joe proof of his innocence along with $20 million in diamonds. He also promises to shoot himself in the head while allowing Joe to watch. After The Stranger leaves, Joe rushes to Marie's house and saves her from Chaney and his men. Marie digitally identifies The Stranger's ringtone as being the theme song of Evergreen Academy, a prep school Joe attended. They visit the former Chancellor's house, where Marie distracts her while Joe enters through the back to look through the yearbook from the year he graduated. Looking through the names, Joe recognizes one, Adrian Doyle Pryce, and recalls tormenting his sister, Amanda, for her promiscuity. Joe sends the name to Chucky, who investigates the name on the internet. While visiting the school late at night, Joe remembers seeing Amanda having sex with an older man in the outside greenhouse, and spread the news throughout campus. The man was later revealed to be Adrian and Amanda's father, Arthur, who was having incestuous relationships with them both. To escape the humiliation, Arthur moved the family to Luxembourg, but could not live it down. Arthur then murdered his wife and Amanda, attempted to murder Adrian, and then committed suicide. Joe deduces that Adrian, the sole survivor, blamed him and swore revenge against him for humiliating and destroying the family. Chucky confirms that The Stranger is indeed Adrian Pryce and tries to call Joe, but Adrian, having cloned Joe's phone and hearing Chucky refer to his deceased sister as a whore, finds him and strangles him to death in a rage. Joe hides Marie in a motel, where they have sex, while Adrian watches on a camera. Joe later goes to Adrian's penthouse, kills Haeng-Bok, and answers his questions. Adrian congratulates Joe on discovering the truth. He keeps his word, giving him the diamonds and starts taking him to see Mia. Along the way, Adrian tells Joe he is surprised that he hasn't asked another crucial question: "Why did I let you go?" He shows Joe a studio, in which the crime show Joe watched in prison was shot, revealing that it was all fake. Joe then happily sees Mia playing her cello in another room. Adrian then reveals to Joe that "Mia" is actually an actress on his payroll and, while playing a slideshow full of pictures and videos, Joe's real daughter is actually Marie, having changed her name and background through 20 years. Horrified by what Adrian has engineered him to do, Joe begs for death, but Adrian refuses, saying that he needs to experience this moment so Joe could truly understand what he had lost. His revenge exacted, Adrian keeps his last promise, and shoots himself in the head in front of a visibly shaken Joe. Joe writes Marie a letter, stating they can never meet again and that he loves her, and leaves her all but a few of the diamonds, which he gives to Chaney in exchange for returning him to captivity—supposedly for the rest of his life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oldboy (2013 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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