{"id":175209,"date":"2025-12-09T04:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/175209\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:16:06","slug":"park-chan-wook-reacts-to-no-other-choices-3-golden-globe-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/175209\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook Reacts to No Other Choice\u2019s 3 Golden Globe Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNo Other Choice<\/a> scored three Golden Globe nominations Monday morning, including best picture, musical or comedy; best picture, non-English language; and best actor in a musical or comedy for Lee Byung-Hun\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tLegendary Korean director Park Chan-wook<\/a> helmed the project, which took him more than 20 years to make<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve always prioritized this project as a candidate for my next project in between my other films, and it only happened to become possible at this point in my career,\u201d he tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Monday morning Zoom call. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt specifically happened when I decided to change the project from an American film \u2014 which I had originally envisioned \u2014 to a Korean film, so I didn\u2019t necessarily choose to make it at this time specifically. But thanks to having developed it recently, I was able to include the commentary about AI in the movie,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m glad that it worked out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPark\u2019s lengthy and impressive career certainly speaks for itself. Shockingly, Monday\u2019s nomination marks his first major U.S. awards recognition. \u201cI feel especially great about having been nominated this time because a lot of my films in the past have been categorized as violent or dark or erotic with a lot of nudity, so it would usually fall into something like crime thriller,\u201d he explains. \u201cTo be nominated in the comedy, musical category this year, it was very fun for me because it felt as if I\u2019m being redefined as a director. The truth is I\u2019ve always felt that my movies all had a sense of dark humor.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe director humbly notes that the best part of Monday\u2019s nominations was not the film\u2019s but that of his lead actor. \u201cIf I had the choice to choose one nomination for the film, I would\u2019ve definitely chosen Byung-Hun over me getting nominated because he is very much qualified for that,\u201d Park says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s getting the recognition that\u2019s long been overdue because he\u2019s already been in so many great projects. Especially in this film, I think out of all my films and out of all of his films as well, he really takes up the majority of the screen time in this movie. [He] basically just carries the film on his back by himself,\u201d he says. \u201cIn moments where he\u2019s on the screen with other supporting actors, it all feels very harmonious. In those moments, the other actors feel like co-leads with [him]. I think the best kind of performance is one where you give and receive. That demonstrates that he has perfectly perfected the craft.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Park admits that the reason this movie ended up finally being made was when he switched from an American film to a Korean film, he says the state of the Korean films is cause for concern to him. \u201cRecently, I think the state of Korean films has been deeply concerning because audiences have not returned to the theater since the pandemic and because audiences aren\u2019t returning, there isn\u2019t enough investment going around in the industry,\u201d he explains. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe director says limited investment in projects leads to a green-lighting of similar projects that \u201crely on conventions,\u201d thus creating a cycle of viewers not wanting to return to theaters even more. \u201cAs grateful as I am for these Golden Globe nominations, when I think about the reality of the Korean film industry right now, it almost feels like a rock is pressing my heart,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a creative, however, Park suggests the way to combat is to push for originality. \u201cThis is actually the best time to be creating more unique and bold movies, and I think the industry needs to get rid of the idea that they have to make movies that necessarily appeal to everybody,\u201d the director explains. \u201cIf there\u2019s a movie that only targets a smaller piece of the audience market, I think if the film can clearly appeal to that audience and has a distinct taste, that would help our industry much more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdds Park of another way to draw Korean audiences to the theater: \u201cWe need to make movies that feel as if they need to be watched in a theater. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a big action piece movie. Including those genres, we need to create images and sound qualities that can\u2019t be enjoyed the same way at home and that need to be enjoyed in a theater.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Other Choice scored three Golden Globe nominations Monday morning, including best picture, musical or comedy; best picture,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,399,46,409,5115,5116],"class_list":{"0":"post-175209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-no-other-choice","14":"tag-park-chan-wook"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}