'Squid Game' stars mentioned the inspiration for the creepy woman doll in the Red Light, Green Light recreation. Details inside!
If there's something to take away from the hit Netflix survival drama Squid Game, it is the symbol of the outsized and oh-so-creepy doll in the Red Light, Green Light sport. It's the first festival in a sequence of fatal children's games for adults who are intent on profitable a multi-billion buck prize.
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In the recreation, an enormous animatronic lady with pigtails calls out "red light" or "green light." When she turns her head to peer if any of the players are transferring after listening to "red light," her eyes scan over the avid gamers quickly.
Players who are still moving are shot lifeless on the spot. It's a wild spin on what many children round the global are aware of playing.
But who's the robot girl according to? The cast printed the origins of the doll.
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Who is the Red Light, Green Light girl in 'Squid Game' in response to?
Some of the Squid Game solid appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and shared who the Red Light, Green Light doll is based on. Jung Ho-yeon, who plays Sae-byeok in Squid Game, stated the doll is in fact supposed to be a real-life version of a female persona featured in many Korean textbooks.
"When we were at school, there were characters. One is a boy, and one is a girl. The boy's name was Chulsoo, and the girl's name was Younghee," she explained. "And she's the one."
In the similar interview, Wi Ha-jun, who performs Joon-ho, shared why he believes Squid Game skyrocketed in recognition so quickly.
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"I definitely think part of the appeal is the Korean children's games," he mentioned. "That can be very original, refreshing, and also shocking at the same time to the global viewers."
The games, which come with Red Light, Green Light and tug-of-war, also display players trying to etch away at shapes pressed into traditional Korean honeycomb candy. Then there may be the ultimate competition, called Squid Game, which is otherwise unfamiliar to most American viewers.
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In this game, one participant has to stay the different from getting inside a court shaped like a squid. If a participant will get to the head, they win. In Squid Game, issues are different and, as with the different competitions in line with kids's games, its consequences are fatal.
Chulsoo and Younghee are giant in Korean pop culture.
The Red Light, Green Light doll, Younghee, is steadily featured along her male counterpart, Chulsoo, in Korean textbooks, type of like a version of Dick and Jane, who had been once used as generic children's characters for American children.
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The characters also have their own movie, Chulsoo & Younghee. In it, Chulsoo tries to make Younghee fall in love with him, however it doesn't finish well. And in the Okay-pop band Seventeen's song, "Mansae," there's a line that claims, "I feel like Chulsoo without Younghee."
Like Younghee, Chulsoo is a large part of Korean culture. But not like Younghee, Chulsoo is not now additionally related to a horrific tackle an in a different way blameless kid's recreation.
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