| "DIE BAD isn't just an ordinary omnibus-style film. The 1st part Rumble has action, and the horror convention dominates the 2nd part 'Nightmare.' The 3rd part Our Contemporarie is a mock-documentary, and the gangster genre is applied on the 4th part, 'Die Bad.' All these stories are connected with one another even with changes in genre and characters. This is possible because I'm from the post-Tarantino generation. And this film contains all my favorite genre except for the comedy."
As in the words of director Ryoo Seung-Wan, four individual shorts are interwoven to make up one feature length film. Such organization results in a unique low-budget feature with distinctive disproportionate style. B&W and color scenes are jumbled up together, as well as the elements of action and horror genres. Ryoo's film draws frequent comparisons to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs; the director himself confesses of being influenced by Tarantino's works, as much as John Woo's or Jackie Chan's, if not more. From Tarantino's films, Ryoo found it possible to fill the film sequences with outrageous dialogues. And the result is a cinema of "do as one pleases," with the film's angry and violent motives providing its coherent nature.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR (Ryoo Seung-Wan):
Born in Onyang, South Choongchung Province in 1973, Ryoo began making 8mm films as a middle school student. He made his first short Transmutated Head in 1996 and participated in PARK Chan-Wook's Three Members as an assistant. He received an Outstanding Award from Pusan Short Film Festival with Rumble and Best Film Award at Korea Independent Short Film Festival with Our Contemporarie the following year. Die Bad is his first feature, consisting of above two short films plus two other episodes. |
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