In my life, I have never seen a real bullet. Because of that, bullets are not really easily as distributed as they are maybe here, so there's a very low, low possibility of any safety issues happening on set.
Speaking to Variety while in the US, he said: "We of course have a prop master, but also in Korea, we're not really a gun-owning country, so only the police can have or own a gun. In the wake of the shooting tragedy on the set of Rust in the US, Hwang Dong-hyuk has spoken about the safety measures taken when filming Squid Game. Writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk told Indian news service IANS: "There are many works that depict survival games or death matches but most of those survival game-themed artworks depict how complex the games are and how dangerous… Squid Game is different… It features childhood games that are quite childish and simple."Ĭhildhood games that end in a gruesome fashion, of course, but that were all filmed with the utmost care for the cast and crew. The games are also much simpler than those of other death-arena tales. Even after they find out what horrors await, they are all in a desperate enough situation (through debt, mostly) that they want to come back.
If they survive long enough to win, they're awarded an obscene amount of money, but what sets this show apart from the rest is that each one of these participants actually volunteers to play of their own free will. Then there was Lizzo's performance at Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco, where she dressed up as the creepy doll and did Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' dance, because… Halloween, we guess?Īs you probably know by now, in a similar vein to The Hunger Games and Japanese stories like Battle Royale, As the Gods Will and Alice In Borderland, Squid Game forces strangers to fight to the death in a twisted and deadly competition. "We do not provide deadly consequences apparently!" say the game's developers, that not-very-reassuring 'apparently' tacked on a the end, there. Speculation on the in-game currency has already driven its value from 1 cent to $4.39 – that's a 43900% rise – before the game has even launched. It's even reached the world of technofinance, which is ironic for such a scathing critique of the capitalist system: you can buy a Squid Game cryptocurrency called Squid (as in "I owe you six squid") to participate in an online version of the game. If you went to a Halloween party this year, we guarantee you saw at least one person there in Squid Game regalia, probably with an old sieve painted black with a white circle on it for a face mask. The distinctive pink guard uniforms and green competitor tracksuits became so popular around Halloween that New York's schools have officially banned them (yeah, that usually works, guys – the kids will definitely lose interest now). Shoppers as far afield as Sydney, Maastricht in the Netherlands and Westfield in Shepherd's Bush have had the life (but not the capitalism, presumably) scared out of them by giant-sized 'Red Light, Green Light' dolls in October. You can't have missed the enormous cultural impact it's made around the world since it first dropped in September 2021. But if you haven't done so already, you might want to start with Squid Game, a new thriller that may turn out to be Netflix's most popular Korean export yet. From Love Alarm and Itaewon Class to Kingdom and Crash Landing On You, there's a whole world of Korean content on there that demands to be explored. Anyone complaining that there's nothing good to watch on Netflix clearly hasn't been paying attention to all of the amazing Korean content that's available to subscribers worldwide.
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