Ong-Bak is one of a kind movie. It has the best fight scene out of all the movies you see combined together. Ong-Bak is played by Tony Jaa, and the story goes that the head of a sacred statue is stolen, a young hero is sent out in the big city and takes on the underworld just to retrieve it. He encounters many friends and foes as every day is a struggle for life. What interest me in the movie is the symbolisms it carries, so i will be focusing on it.
So the movie starts off with all the dudes playing capture the flag on a tree (a tree represent life or growth) and, at the end of the game the winner was Ting (who's our hero). So heres where the issues start theres this man who wants to by a precious gem or necklace (i forgot what it was) and, to him money was no problem but, the Buddhist priest refused to sell. So at midnight he stole the head of the Buddhist statue that was sacred to the people of the land because it was considered luck and gave life to the land.
From then our hero is realised like a mad dog hunting his prey. He enters the capital of the country (Bangkok). He continues his search for ong-bak but, while doing that he has to find his friends son who is corrupt and, only cares about money. While he continues his search for the stolen head he encounters many enemies in the club risking his life where on the other side his friend George only cares about the money he wins. Money seems to be big in the movie because every one he encounters fights for money or kills for money, so basically the money represents the greed of a man as it controls them making them lose their morals.
Ong-Bak(name of the statues head) seems to have its own symbol not, just one but, many. It symbolizes power, trust, sacrifice, and bravery. All these traits that I listed are found in the hero Ting and George. Ong-Bak seems to change people as it changed George from a money addict to a great companion as he helped Ting in his adventure. At the end of the movie I noticed Ting is more than a hero with courage, determination, and humility. He doesn't seem to act like other heroes who call the people helping them their sidekick. He considers George a friend a companion and top of that one of his kind not, just a sidekick.By the way the tree in the beginning of the movie seemed to represent Ting as he grows in every situation and learn and adapts to the environment.
I you seem to catch a really important symbol that is found in other movies that can be related to this or if you can add on to a symbol I already know Please free to post.
Ong-Bak(name of the statues head) seems to have its own symbol not, just one but, many. It symbolizes power, trust, sacrifice, and bravery. All these traits that I listed are found in the hero Ting and George. Ong-Bak seems to change people as it changed George from a money addict to a great companion as he helped Ting in his adventure. At the end of the movie I noticed Ting is more than a hero with courage, determination, and humility. He doesn't seem to act like other heroes who call the people helping them their sidekick. He considers George a friend a companion and top of that one of his kind not, just a sidekick.By the way the tree in the beginning of the movie seemed to represent Ting as he grows in every situation and learn and adapts to the environment.
I you seem to catch a really important symbol that is found in other movies that can be related to this or if you can add on to a symbol I already know Please free to post.
