Woo-jin Lee: Dae-su Oh talks too much.
Mr. Park: We put a hypnosis-inducing drug in your water.
Dae-su Oh: Sodium barbiturate?
Mr. Park: Ha! TV Man knows it all.
Dae-su Oh: How's life in a bigger prison, Dae-su?
Dae-su Oh: Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again.
Woo-jin Lee: And now... now, what joy will I have left to live for?
Woo-jin Lee: What I am isn't important. WHY is important.
Woo-jin Lee: My sister and I loved each other, despite everything. Can you do the same?
Dae-su Oh: I thought I'd lived a simple life. But I've sinned too much.
Woo-jin Lee: Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions.
Dae-su Oh: When the melody turns on, gas comes out. When the gas comes out, I fall asleep. I found out later it's the same Valium gas the Russians used on those Chechen terrorists.
Dae-su Oh: If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?
Dae-su Oh: You need not worry about the future, Imagine nothing.
Dae-su Oh: If by any chance Mido should find out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'm going to rip you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.
Woo-jin Lee: I'm going to kill every woman you love until you die. You're notorious for not protecting your women.
Woo-jin Lee: Mister. Are you all right? What happened to you? Saewoon Apartments, Eung-am building 8. Take care of him.
Dae-su Oh: Thank You.
Woo-jin Lee: Not at all. Well, then. Farewell, Oh Dae Su.
Dae-su Oh: Farewell, Oh Dae Su.
Dae-su Oh: Please. Don't tell Mido. What has she done wrong? You know it was all my fault... I have committed an unforgivable sin, against your sister. And I also... Did you wrong. But, please leave Mido alone... If by any chance Mido finds out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'll tear you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.
Dae-su Oh: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
Woo-jin Lee: You really are the very monster I created, aren't you? But you won't find out the "why" of this if you kill me. Fifteen years of being curious would go to waste.
Mr. Park: You see, they say that people shrivel up because they have an imagination. So, don't imagine anything, you'll become brave as hell.
Answer: Perhaps because in the movie/book "The Count of Monte Cristo" that's what happened to him. In the book/movie the hero Edmund Dantes is renamed "the Count" in order to disguise that fact that he is Dantes after having broken out of jail. This way he is free to seek revenge on the ones that put him in jail under false charges.
CCARNI ★