Park Hoon-jung claims to have seen the Godfather trilogy hundreds of times, and I don't doubt him. I can't help but shake the vibe that he saw the Godfather movies, thought "wow that's cool", and tried to take all the superficially cool bits and chuck them into a badass gangsta movie. Sort of like how I imagine Troy Duffy saw "Pulp Fiction" one night and decided to make "The Boondock Saints" cause shooting people + saying religious stuff afterwards etc.…
