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Director Bong Joon Ho and His Team Built The Oscar-Winning Parasite House by James Parlou | Feb 10 2020 ART & DESIGN Share
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The Parks’ housekeeper in their home. O
All of the furniture in the Park house was custom-made for the film. O
Seung-mo Park’s cat art hangs on the second floor landing in the Park home. |
The Park family home is one of the most outstanding works in production design, adding another dimension to the Oscar-winning masterpiece, Parasite – a dark comedy which sees a poor family scheming their way into the wealthy Park home, and taking over their lives. Korean director Bong Joon Ho and his team – production designer Lee Ha Jun – built the house from Ground Zero, which is a modern architecture designed by a fictional architect named Namgoong Hyeonja. The house was built from a cinematic approach than from an architectural standpoint. The general concept that structures the film is verticality, as it descends from top to bottom. The Park house has the same structure. From the semi-basement, which is a room you enter when you descend from the ground floor. Bong had a strong belief that the house should not look like a set when designing it. And every effort was put into the details, in an attempt not to let the audience know that the house was in fact a set. That way, they would focus and immerse themselves in the film itself. Bong says: "We finally let the truth out after Cannes. I was very nervous that someone would find out that all these spaces were actually a set, that they would actually look like a set onscreen. In the end, no one figured it out." 
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