Enters season 2 of ”Octopus“Stunt Coordinator Park Young-Sick was less concrete with upting the ante of season 1’s action work (which Won an Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Performance) Than with Aligning The Fight Sequet Seques With The Characters’ More Desperate Motional States. As Blank Slas, Unaware of Just How Brutal A Fight To The Death They Were Enteries.
“I think everyone came into the games that already know what will happen – people will die. This is a great game they play,” Park said through a translator. “Gi-Hun comes in in a very solemn and decisive way, where he promises to save other people. He has had the years of training. So we wanted to portray how he was a little more skilled than he was in season 1.”
This is clear in section 7, where Gi-Hun leads a rebellion against the masked guards dressed in hot pink jumpsuits. When one of the guards approaches him as he plays dead on the floor, he jumps smoothly on his feet and over -aggravates his enemy. And he is not the only player with greater physical abilities this time. Park and his colleague Stunt Coordinator Jeong Seong-Ho also had to show the skill of new competitors that are ex-military or, in the case of In-Ho (Lee Byung-Hun), ex-police.
In a scene, in-ho, alias Fronta supervisor of the competition masked as a player, confronts the purple hair braggart Thanos . In a quick, seemingly simple move, in-ho Thanos throws to the ground and begins to stifle him with one hand while raising the other in a tight fist ready to beat.
“He has already killed and injured many people,” Park said. “So when he wants to attack someone, there is no doubt. Thanos and Nam-gyu, they are not big warriors. They are just bullies, the bad kids on the neighborhood. So we wanted to make sure there was that balance there. I had a lot of fun with it.”
A particularly brutal battle takes place in men’s bathrooms. Thanos, Thanos, abounds Myung-Gi, until his opponent suddenly shoots a fork in Thanos chin and kills him. After going through to block with the actors, the stunt coordinators worked closely with makeup and prosthetic types to determine the fork’s entrance point and degree of gore on Thano’s face, which the camera holds in a tight shot.
“One of the important points we had to deliver through that sequence was the clear death of Thanos,” Park said. “For some numbers you can go into this sequence with this person dying after an intense struggle – you would show a broad fighting scene and then you would find him dead. But we didn’t want to. We wanted to convey a sense of punishment for his evil – almost karma.”
Of course, this is “Squid Game”, the violence gets more violence. Moments after Thano’s bloody passing, the camera pulls back to reveal the whole group that strikes each other, pursues opponents in booths and throws bodies into mirrors. “We needed to show that people were in groups, that they came to each other from different pages, which is why we wanted to use some of the broader pictures,” Park said. Here, too, some players are more deep in the ring than others. “Just as much as the story of each character is extremely important, their physical abilities are very important for designing the action,” Park said. “It’s one of the most important things with my work.”
This story first ran in the drama issue of Thewrap’s Awards Magazine. Read more from the question here.
