Rose's 5 Fan Fiction Links

Five Fan Fiction sites

Well I actually found it quite challenging to try and find some links related directly with the movie, Oldboy. Instead I opted to focus my research on the themes covered during the Fan Fiction. Which were violence, thriller and revenge. I did however found it easier to find links associated with my cross over character, Lisbeth, from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This allowed me to open my approach with the story line.

Here are some links for my Fan Fiction I've recovered

Cross over Fan fiction

This is a Fan Fiction on Lisbeth and the support Blomkvist. This fan fiction in particular deals with the two main characters from the Millennium Series, on a romantic level. It was actually quite interesting to read given that the writer describes Lisbeth in a normal way. It allowed me to do the same with my Fan Fiction, because then I didn't have to describe her in such an extreme anti-social manner, so much that her character wouldn't flow cohesively with the story line. I integrated her character into my Fan Fiction by giving her a purpose or reason so that her actions corelated with the theme. Which was revenge in a thriller setting.

Use of Oldboy plot in a Fan Fiction 

So this fan fiction was written with the theme of Oldboy in mind. The theme vengeance is actually incorporated into the fan fiction. So the scenes draw back to the past. In that way it gives a biography of the characters and how they came to together. I liked how the writer used revenge to draw the characters back into the present. This helped a lot because the scene I was writing on was based towards the end of the film. So in order to understand the characters a draw back to their past was needed. How this Fan Fiction was constructed helped me when referring in my Fan Fiction to Daesu's past.

Genre - Violence. Korean thriller, The Chaser 

This is actually a series of fan fiction based on The Chaser. A Korean Thriller which deals with a lot of grotesque violence. The violence is actually on par with what you see from the Vengeance trilogy and the Millennium Series. The twists within this story actually influenced my story line, so much that I continued with a lot of suspense through out my Fan Fiction. Suspense was vital in this movie and the story lines used in the movie The Chaser and my Fan Fiction.

Theme on the final twist

The Hostel deals with a lot of torture. Its great how the writer manages to base the fan fiction primarily on the characters and use the theme ‘torture’ as a tool of suspense. Rather than have the whole story build towards that one scene on torture. It helped me focus more on the twist rather than the violence. Through out the movie the actual torture wasn't the main aspect. It was the characters. I implied the same stance when writing my Fan Fiction. Yes there is violence and torture, but it didn't play a major part in my Fan Fiction.

Oldboy characterization

This site actually refers to the characters and gives a broad description on their characteristics. The themes are also mentioned. So its a helpful insight on the characterization. It's useful when you need to know the story in detail. It's especially helpful when understanding why the main character has come to be like that. So it allowed me to understand why Daesu acted in a violent manner. It also supports his behavior through out the story line. This has made it easier for me to write about the torture scene, because isn't doing it for fun, he's doing it because of revenge and his traumatizing past.