Ella Caperton
Motion Designer
& Illustrator
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Currupting Vengeance
Oldboy is a movie about revenge, with the pursuit of it leading to the downfall of both protagonist and antagonist. The merging of natural and urban landscapes are meant to represent this corruption.
As the sequence progresses the natural and urban landscapes move closer together until they eventually combine, the frame itself functioning as the thematic framing device.
This project is influenced in no small part by Josef Koudelka’s panoramic wartime landscapes. The gritty and expansive quality of his photography reflect Dae-Su’s long and ultimately tragic journey in Oldboy.
Since this project was shot on location I planned a trip around the relevant locations and informed my timing with the weather to maximize the atmospheric perspective in certain shots.
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