Oldboy "Eating Live Octopus" - Behind The Scenes

Choi Min Sik eats a live octopus in the movie, Oldboy.

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• oldboy
• choi
• min
• sik
• park
• chan
• wook
• eat
• octopus

[Galactic123]

The actor is a vegetarian buddhist. You actually can see him saying a prayer and apologizing to the octopus. Before anyone gets all judgmental on him, just know that he's probably harmed fewer animals in his life than you have.

[Jaxstaa92]

I think it's wonderful dedication to the role that, despite Choi Min being buddhist, (not just vegetarian) he still agreed to this. Paid of though, Oldboy is a right film!

[555doss]

Chinese gaddhafi??

[davidsusu]

@Bloodyidit

i let it, but you are unwise a bit

[xenohuh7]

i was wondering why he didnt liked it

now i know

[Bloodyidit]

that is a good trooper there if i ever saw one.

i couldent do that, i have a horribly weak stomach for that kind of food.

[Bloodyidit]

@davidsusu

don't give me that "true buddist" crap.

no one can be a "true" anything, everyone has deviations from paths set by others, the only true anything that anybody can become is true to themselves.

besides, that "true insert religion" shit starts wars, and good god, the Crusades started because of that damn thinking.

so sit down, shut up and let a guy eat a live octopus if he wants to.

[davidsusu]

I was hoping that this is cgi effect. But it is very sad.

A true buddhist does NOT make this.

[boyfriend06able]

모예여?

[hykos]

@Galactic123 Buddhist has nothing to do about being vegetarian, Buda only said not to kill animals for your own profit, but he in fact ate meat for his own neccesity. But eating alive an octopus I would say it's not a vital need. Cephalopods are kind of intelligent animals, they have kind of nociceptors feeling "pain" and kind of a brain processing it. I wonder what would people think if instead of an ugly octopus he ate a cute lamb alive.

[MadaEel2011]

0:34 was funny

[garrettjonesca]

...is smoking not at all to be avoided by a Buddhist? I can't imagine why it would be alright to purposefully harm yourself for a simple pleasure. Not that I care, I used to smoke, just curious about his Buddism.