The Host - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Host or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Host

[edgar]

Joon-ho Bong's 3rd feature film.

[wallace]

The film takes place in 2000, 2002, and 2006.

[clayton]

(at around 1h 7 mins) In the news montage that depicts public hysteria, the man following the shot of the Center for Disease Control is former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Manley.

[wallace]

Ko Asung was recommended by Doona Bae.

[nicholas]

Co-Writer and Director Bong Joon Ho and the designer of the creature nicknamed it Steve Buscemi, based on the actor's screen persona and the way he acted in Fargo (1996).

[michele]

Co-Writer and Director Bong Joon Ho designed all of the creature's movements. He compared it to directing an actor.

[tammy]

(at around 24 mins) The scene where Nam-il kicks Gang-du at the funeral ceremony was improvised.

[willard]

As of March 2009, this is the highest grossing film to date in South Korea, selling a total of 13,019,740 tickets. This means that over twenty percent of the South Korean population watched the movie (although there were also some who went to see it several times).

[norma]

Bong Joon Ho was impressed with Scott Wilson after having seen him in, among other films, Monster (2003). He approached the actor by sending him a copy of the script and a DVD of his previous film, Memories of Murder (2003). The actor later agreed to be in the film.

[sandra]

The event described in the beginning of the film is based on an actual event. In February 2000 at a U.S. Military facility located in the center of Seoul, a U.S. Military civilian employee named Mr. McFarland was ordered to dispose of formaldehyde by dumping it into the sewer system that led to the Han River, despite the objection of a South Korean subordinate. The government attempted to prosecute Mr. McFarland in court, but the U.S. Military refused to hand over the custody of Mr. McFarland to the South Korean legal system. Later, a South Korean judge convicted Mr. McFarland in absentia. The public was enraged at the government's inability to enforce its law on its own soil. In 2005, nearly five years after the original incident, Mr. McFarland was finally found guilty in a court in his presence. However, he never served the prison sentence, and there have been no sightings of a mutant creature in the Han River - yet.

[violet]

Doona Bae has acrophobia.

[charlie]

The designs of the creature were done by Weta Workshop.

[kristen]

Ko Asung and Kang-ho Song also starred as father and daughter in Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer (2013).

[jessie]

WILHELM SCREAM: (at around 13 mins) In the beast's first appearance, when its tail slaps a guy into the river.

[jim]

The computer graphics of the creature were done by Orphanage, Inc.

[edgar]

This movie is included in Quentin Tarantino's top twenty favorite films released between 1992 and 2009.

[terry]

The crew of the film used metal barrels to make the splash effects whenever the monster would dive into the water.