‘Squid Game’ Creator reveals why the original end was deleted

Spoiler alert: This article contains important spoilers from the series “Squid Game” series, which now streams on Netflix.

The end of Netflix’s “Squid Game” is tragic and uplifting in one go, where our protagonist gives his life and the most important antagonist has a change in heart.

Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae) kills itself so that the newborn daughter of Jun-Hee/Player 222 (Jo Yu-Ri) and Myung-Gi/Player 333 (Yim Si-Wan) The (metaphorical) latter is in the deadly competition. Subsequently, In-Ho/de Frontman (Lee Byung-Hun) comes the child from the Arena and ensures that she is safe and won the full win of 45.6 billion at the end of the final.

Series maker and director Hwang Dong-Hyuk says that when he first plans the second and third seasons of the hit South Korean drama, which he originally meant to be only a one season show, he thought of another conclusion.

“When I had a vague idea about what kind of story I wanted to tell through seasons 2 and 3, I actually had another end in mind,” Hwang said. “And when I went through the writing process, while I went into my characters, while I put down the base and sketch of the story, and while I took out the card for Gi-Hun’s character arch, I realized, this should not be the way this story ends and this is a better end, or the right end, for this bow.” Writing. ”

To be more specific, Hwang said: “In the final, Gi-Hun makes a choice, and originally, when I just think about where the story would bring me, it was actually the exact opposite choice.”

The choices that Gi-Hun ultimately influenced the frontman in ways he did not expect in season 2, when he presented himself as a player in the matches and tried to prove that humanity was inherent selfish and bad.

“The confrontation between the frontman and Gi-Hun started in season 2, and it is about whose beliefs and whose values ​​are correct,” Hwang said. “It’s really a collision of their philosophies. And so in season 3 it becomes the ultimate confrontation, and also a story that investigates how these two characters have influenced and influenced each other.”

Partly, Gi-Hun’s ability to hold on to his morality in season 3 of “Squid Game”, beyond his promise to keep the baby of Jun-hee safe-that he eventually does when her own father tries to kill her to win a memory of his dear friend and colleague 1, Sae-Byeeok (Hoyon). She comes to him in a vision when he is confronted with the chance of killing other players in their sleep, after the frontman gives him a knife as his only chance to protect himself and the baby for the last deadly competition that both could kill them. When he sees Sae-byeok, she convinces him not to do it and say, “You are not that kind of person.”

“I think the line she delivers in that scene is one of the most important scenes in season 1,” said Hwang. “The moment when Gi-Hun is tempted to kill Sang-Woo in his sleep, Sae-byeok tells him:” You are not that kind of person, “and that line is what really wakes him up in his senses. It touches his conscience and his humanity. And they are the most accurate words that really was to come, it was really to come to his sineses, to come to come to come to come to come until his sineses, to come to come until his sines, To come, it is really to come to his sineses, it is to come to his sines.

While the story of Gi-Hun has passed by is and hwang that this is the end of his own story for “Squid Game” (for this time real)-he marks that the last moments of the series-final that contains a recruiter (played by Cate Blanchett) looking for participants in a France-based version of the Squid-game to be abandoned of the Squid-Spel-Spel-Spel-Spel-Spel-Spel-Spel-Spel-game-game-Respel.

“I think you could say that in a certain sense, because if you look at the final, while it has a real closure, I think you can still feel a feeling of a sort of desire or stagnant,” Hwang said. “So maybe I think, on a day, if the chance allows it and the timing is right, maybe there is room for other stories.”