Talk:Audition (1999 film)

Untitled
Did I miss something or is this not a 1999 film?--Ajshm 18:15, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Apparently the premier (or some screening?) was in Canada in 99 as per imdb (which I don't trust), but, however, Tom Mes lists it as a 1999 in both his book and website, that's pretty authoritative as far as sources on miike movies in english go. Ajshm 21:34, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Hard Candy
Hard Candy is said to take inspiration from Audition. I haven't seen HC - is it true?--Shtove 01:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems a bit of a stretch. Aside from each featuring scene in which a woman subdues and tortures a man, they don't seem very similar to me at all.  If there were a quote from the screenwriter or director indicating an influence, I might believe it, but even then I don't see how it would be particularly relevent or useful to this article aside from trivia.--Vlad the Impaler (talk) 17:15, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Plot Query
Does Aoyama really reveal to the girl that the auditions were fake? I don't remember that happening. Shinji nishizono 20:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Now that you mention it, I don't recall him ever telling her the truth. I think that I would have remembered ... after all, if he does tell her, then her actions could be seen as revenge for a specific event, as opposed to the bleaker alternative. I'll have to watch again and see. -- Docether 21:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I always interpreted it as her taking revenge because he had loved people other than her and therefore lied to her (i.e. because he loved his son and his late wife)


 * I don't recall it being said either, the only explanation given to Asami that I remember was that the production had fallen through. --Darquefaerie 12:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Did Asami saw off (or rather... wire off) the feet of the pervert who abused her and put the burns on her body (the perv in the wheel chair who supposedly was her ballet instructor)? Ren 06:28, 9 September 2006 (UTC)Saurai
 * Unsurprisingly, the film is unclear on this point. This is a connection that a viewer might make after the fact (upon seeing the final scene with Aoyama, and the man in the bag), but it's never directly implied by the film. -- Docether 13:56, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

YouTube links
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Remake
Why is there a remake section with nothing in it? Re-add it when you got something. Jonmwang 06:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

it's being remade *by* Rob Zombie -- VH1 contracted with him. It's going to star Miley Cyrus and Flavor Flav, and be mostly filmed at the VH1 set used on Flavor of Love. In this version, Miley will kill Mo'Nique and a ferret, not a dog, but then she's going to feel remorse and turn herself in to a Goren and Eames-type team, where the Eames character is played by Shari Moon-Zombie and the Goren-type character will be played by Samuel L. jackson. They take her down to the station and Miley kills again -- this time she kills the police station psychic (played by Drew Barrymore) before Drew can tap into Miley's mind, and then Miley vanishes out of the station and Jackson & Moon have to try to lure her back with all kinds of psychological tricks, like more ads about auditions and trails of M&Ms that lead back to the station. None of this works. In the meantime, Miley brutally kills Ant and Gary Busey, and no one is upset by this at all. People *do* get upset when Miley kills Drew's lover, played by Sandra Bullock, who hunted her down cos she's all upset about that Miley killing her lover' thing. So Miley then starts killing people, most of them VH1 stock personalities, because the budget was low. But then Samuel L. Jackson and Shari Moon track Miley to a beach just feet away from an open casting call for a Spring Break -- an audition -- where she was going to kill more people, and just as they are about to cap Miley's ass, Miley says that if they kill her, she won't make the audition, and Shari Moon makes a wisecrack about how Miley didn't have enough talent anyway, then Samuel L. Jackson turns and blows Shari's head off, and it's revealed that Miley and Samuel are a couple, and he helped her escape. Then Samuel L. Jackson hands Miley a knife, and they walk to the audition as the screen fades out.

i am totally available for script-writing, by the way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.186.17 (talk) 03:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Injection
What is the name of the drug the girl injected into the guy that paralyzed him but made it so he could still feel pain? 71.3.218.205 (talk) 01:13, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I believe in the DVD "making of" documentary Miike admits the drug is the distillation of artistic license. 76.7.179.234 (talk) 00:15, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Plot Summary issue
It's not totally clear whether any of the torture etc. really happens but the plot summary assumes waking up in the hotel was the only part that wasn't real. I definitely think her waiting by the phone with the sack and every event after he sleeps with her in the hotel is a dream. If anything that's the more plausible scenario as several impossible/surreal things happen in the psycho-Asami scenarios. I'm not sure the value of writing the other interpretation instead of writing what the audience actually sees e.g. "Shigeharu appears to wake up in the hotel room..." and allowing readers to have their own interpretation 98.239.189.230 (talk) 03:34, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Although I've always been puzzled by the last third of the film, I just recently re-watched in a university course on horror films.  The professor suggested that all the apartment scenes and everything after Aoyama wakes up to find Asami missing is actually a nightmare with him projecting his misogyny/womanizing onto Asami, making her a monster, which would then make the next to last scene of him waking up back in the hotel room with Asami not a dream, but his actual waking life before he falls back asleep to the nightmare.  Obviously this is someone else's interpretation and I wouldn't want to make it the wikipedia version, but I think it just illustrates that the reality and non-reality parts of this film shouldn't be declared too rigid.--Vlad the Impaler (talk) 05:16, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
 * How cool would it be if we were both from Dana Och's class?98.239.189.230 (talk) 18:34, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, to give credit where credit is due, the interpretation of the "psycho-Asami" episodes as purely dream was articulated in Robert Hyland's article "A Politics of Excess: Violence and violation in Miike Takashi’s Audition," from the anthology Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema--Vlad the Impaler (talk) 17:20, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

It's completely obvious that none of the torture happened. As all plot descriptions on Wikipedia are spoilers, there's no point in purposely misleading the reader. As it exists right now, the plot content has the waking and dreaming episodes reversed. (It's too complicated to go into here but is explained at http://mubi.com/reviews/26849). There are clear clues as to why and when he's having the torture nightmares (jumpcuts, sudden set and wardrobe changes during dream sequences, obvious metaphors for mind poisoning, regurgitating what the other needs emotionally, etc). A start would be to change "He awakes from the dream to see his son still struggling with Asami" to "He returns to the dream....etc." . Tangverse (talk) 10:21, 12 January 2014 (UTC)