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Copycat: Killer Re-Enacted Violent Film
Sky News ^ | April 19, 2007

Posted on 04/19/2007 11:02:17 AM PDT by george76

Police investigating the Virginia Tech killings are looking at whether Cho Seung-Hui was copying parts of a violent film when he murdered 32 people.

Officers believe he repeatedly watched Oldboy as part of his preparation for the killing spree.

The film, which won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes film festival, has been described as "an ultra-violent movie of obsession and revenge".

It contains stylised scenes of killings and an attempted suicide, and is filled with what one critic called "punishing emotional violence".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cho; choseunghui; oldboy; seunghui; vatech; virginiatech
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1 posted on 04/19/2007 11:02:19 AM PDT by george76
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The film, which won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes film festival

Maybe we can get the liberals to ban guns in their movies, what do you think?

2 posted on 04/19/2007 11:04:56 AM PDT by PeterFinn (The end of islam is the beginning of peace.)
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Old Boy is a South Korean film.


3 posted on 04/19/2007 11:05:16 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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Wow! SKYNews sure publishes some $h!tty headlines.


4 posted on 04/19/2007 11:05:30 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Never stop a moonbat from moonbattery.)
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Scene where Oh Dae-su single handedly takes on numerous opponents, the famous "corridor fight scene".

The Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui, struck a pose for a photo he submitted to NBC News; some believe this pose to be similar to one made by Oh Dae-su
5 posted on 04/19/2007 11:08:08 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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To: george76

similar article discussed here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820006/posts


6 posted on 04/19/2007 11:09:04 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/
7 posted on 04/19/2007 11:11:26 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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Let me be the first to call for tighter restrictions on Video control!

There should be a Video registration database, everyone should have a 5 to 86 day waiting period for purchasing/renting videos and all Video content must be approved for by the ‘its for the kids’ approval board!


8 posted on 04/19/2007 11:11:35 AM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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Libs make movies. They say that the movies don’t cause violence. They say that TV shows don’t encourage behavior.

YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT? Millions are spent on TV commercials which are made for the express purpose of changing behavior! Products are placed in movies for the express purpose of causing people to run out to buy them. It is obvious that movies and TV influence behavior.


9 posted on 04/19/2007 11:11:44 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: ribosomal soup


Hammer pose.
10 posted on 04/19/2007 11:12:17 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
>Copycat: Killer Re-Enacted Violent Film
>>similar article discussed here: 'We're Sorry You Saw The Video'

The poster was just
copycating a good thread--
A re-enactment . . .

11 posted on 04/19/2007 11:12:19 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: george76

So, we need movie control?


12 posted on 04/19/2007 11:13:11 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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“Libs make movies. They say that the movies don’t cause violence...”

Violent movies may or may not cause violence but they can desenythesize (sp?) a person to violence. Lots of kids watch that crap and instead of showing disgust or repugnance at real acts of violence they just utter "cool". I always hated and still hate violent movies. Maybe that's just me.

13 posted on 04/19/2007 11:43:19 AM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid.)
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That is funny, isn’t it. If a character smokes a cigarette in a movie, it automatically makes kids go out and buy cigarettes, so liberal activists want to forbid the depiction of smoking in films or force the film to be rated R or NC-17. But depictions of violence are OK. Sex is OK. Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world.


14 posted on 04/19/2007 11:51:42 AM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: AngieGOP; Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Libs say that sex and violence and profanity and drug use in films don’t increase such activity in society but they DO believe that smoking in movies contributes to a culture that believes smoking is “cool”.


15 posted on 04/19/2007 12:00:36 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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I just watched the video this lunatic made (after wiping off the drool from NBC)...Did he make this after shooting the first two people?

I ask, because I just can`t believe it. It just boggles the mind how this school could just be so incredibly non-chalant, so security free like this.

I mean we`re talking about a double homicide here and they just la di da around? Say WHAT? I tell you, it doesn`t suprise me in the least though considering what political slant most if not all colleges are today. “Two people were killed but make love not war man!”


16 posted on 04/19/2007 12:25:09 PM PDT by Screamname (The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
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Well, bully for him.

That’s “Killer Cho!”


17 posted on 04/19/2007 12:26:50 PM PDT by Silly (plasticpie.com)
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You are correct. Every dispicable act in the movies is okay, but heaven forbid someone lights up a cigarette. P.S. I am NOT a smoker.


18 posted on 04/19/2007 12:29:26 PM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid.)
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“The film, which won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes film festival”

Let’s do a Chris Dodd and tax the motion picture industry to provide protection for the rest of us.


19 posted on 04/19/2007 12:35:28 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: Screamname

“la- di- da”?

Within minutes they secured the crime scene and after interviewing the residents on the floor established the identity of the most likely sispect...dead girl’s boyfriend.

Within a short time later they had him stopped in his pickup on the 460 bypass...and were questioning him when the actual shooter showed up at Norris Hall.

I still have a problem with the campus not being totally informed but with 10,000 commuting off campus students en route as well as faculty onto a campus with multiple entry points thats a mighty difficult operation .
But I hardly think your “ la -di- da’ing “ description fits. Maybe you’ve been listening to Geraldo too much.

Va.Tech Class of ‘76


20 posted on 04/19/2007 12:46:34 PM PDT by Dixiekraut
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