Squid Game Season 2: This brilliant anecdote behind the scenes of Russian Roulette

Warning, spoilers. Before continuing reading this article, it is recommended to watch “Squid Game” season 2.

The South Korean phenomenon series is back with much fanfare. Already No. 1 on Netflix’s Top Views, Squid Game returns for a second season, three years after the global success of its first episodes.

It’s too early to know if these new episodes will meet with the same success, but they’re already causing a lot of chatter on social media, with certain sequences in particular that have already received a lot of feedback.

One of the most surprising scenes of “Squid Game” season 2 has already been widely commented

This is a scene from the first episode “Bread and Games of Chance”. Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), player 456 who won the Squid Game three years ago, wants to do everything he can to stop the game. To do this, he first looks for a recruiter who forced him to participate in the game.

Except the latter, played by Gong Yoo, finds his former hideout by kidnapping two men who help Gi-hoo find him. The employer forces them to engage in a deadly game of Russian roulette and rock, paper, scissors.

This gruesome and bloody high-tension sequence is already one of the highlights of Squid Game Season 2 for the acting of the cast (especially Gong Yoo), but also for the stress it creates.

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Where does the music played during Russian Roulette come from?

The icing on the cake comes from the music that accompanies this scene and the anecdote behind it. This is the aria “Nessun Dorma” from the third act of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. The song was popularized by Luciano Pavarotti during the 1990 FIFA World Cup, but as Deadline reports, it’s a very special version that’s being played on this stage.

Here comes Paul Potts, a British tenor who used to sell mobile phones at a shop called Carphone Warehouse before winning the first season of Britain’s Got Talent (translated here as ‘France’s Got Talent’) with this tune. that she sang during the first audition and during the finals.

After his win, which went viral, Paul Potts became extremely popular in Korea, to the point of appearing in many shows and TV shows, including the Korean version of Mask Singer. That’s partly why Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of Squid Game, chose this version, as he explained. term :

“I thought if the Recruiter was playing these games, I wanted that character to have a regular playlist that he would listen to all the time. As for Nessun Dorma, it was sung by Paul Potts when he won Britain’s Got Talent and later became very popular in Korea. The last word is “Vitoria” which means “victory”. I thought it was very appropriate for the game we were playing.”

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The sense of victory is further felt a few minutes later when the recruiter finds Gi-hoon and offers him a game of Russian roulette. But this time, it’s Gi-hoon who gains the upper hand over the recruiter through a spirit of competition, but also a clash of values, as indicated by the creator. Diversity :

“Ji-hoon is a character who has a sense of justice and is fair. But he’s also a guy who likes to play a good game. I see him as addicted to the game, to winning.

So rather than taking the more sensible route and running the gun and being done there, I see him as someone who wants to subdue the recruiter by winning fair and square.

I also saw this cycle as almost a game, a clash or competition between the personal values ​​and principles of both – wanting to prove to the other person that you’re right and they’re wrong, wanting to prove to the recruiter that they’re a better person.”

“Squid Game” season 2 is available on Netflix.