History Film / ThePresidentsLastBang

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Calls up his family before he would [[RealityEnsues be eventually arrested for participating in the assassination.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Director Kim confidently assures the emergency Cabinet meeting that "the Soviet Union hid Brezhnev's death for a week", so they can keep Park's murder quiet for a coule of days. The assassination of Park happened three years before Brezhnev's death in 1982.

* {{Omniglot}}: Kim and Park speak Korean and Japanese. [[FridgeBrilliance Which makes sense as symbolism since he lived his early days under Japanese occupation.]]

* BasedOnATrueStory: A very faithful record of events. Ever since the assassination, debates have continued about whether or not it was planned or spur-of-the-moment. The film gives Director Kim dialogue indicating that he'd been thinking about assassinating Park ("We've put this off too long") while also showing that the immediate cause of the murder was Kim getting pissed off at dinner.

* ZergRush: The [=KCIA=] does this when they mobilize to take out President Park's [=PSS=] security detail.

* HeroAntagonist: Army chief Jeong Seung-hwa in the middle of the movie, when [=KCIA=] agents were arrested by the [=MPs=].

On the night of October 26, 1979, President Park goes to a KCIA safe house for a party. Two women are brought in to entertain the president and provide breast pillows for his head: pop singer Shim Soo-bong and random university student Shin Jae-soon. At the party, Cha and Park go a little too far with their insults and mockery of Kim Jae-kyu. So the KCIA director, who is already in a bad mood due to his poor health, his constipation, and his irritation at having to run whores for the president, decides on the spot to murder Park and Cha.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Well there's something waiting for him in the end.]]]]

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Korean title 그때 그사람들 (''Geudttae Geusaramdeul'') translates as "The People of Those Days", an allusion to Korean song "That Man of Those Days". Supposedly the real Shim Soo-bong sang that song at the fatal party.

* GenreSavvy:
** Ju orders all agents in the safehouse to get weapons from the armory when he sees [=PSS=] agents arriving.
** When Min realizes that the [=DSC=] was starting to apprehend every active [=KCIA=] agent, he gets away before the military can stop him.

On the night of October 26, 1979, President Park goes to a KCIA safe house for a party. Two women are brought in to entertain the president and provide breast pillows for his head: pop singer Shim Soo-bong and random university student Shin Jae-soon. At the party, Cha and Park go a little too far with their insults and mockery of Kim. So the KCIA director, who is already in a bad mood due to his poor health, his constipation, and his irritation at having to run whores for the president, decides on the spot to murder Park and Cha.

--> '''Shim''': Are you fucking kidding me? Come here and help us!\\

On the night of October 26, 1979, President Park goes to a KCIA safe house for a party. Two women are brought in to entertain the president and provide breast pillows for his head: pop singer Shim Soo-bong and random attractive hooker Shin Jae-soon. At the party, Cha and Park go a little too far with their insults and mockery of Kim. So the KCIA director, who is already in a bad mood due to his poor health, his constipation, and his irritation at having to run whores for the president, decides on the spot to murder Park and Cha.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Park said that the punishment he received from his Manchuaria days influenced him on his road as president.
* RageBreakingPoint: Kim flips out and decides to kill President Park and Chief Bodygard Cha pretty much on the spur of the moment after enduring one too many insults at dinner.

* YouShallNotPass: The [=KCIA=] mobilizes every available agent to hide while barricading the safehouse during a confrontation with the [=PSS=].

!!Tropes:

* ChekhovsGun: Or rather, Chekhov's lack of a gun. Chief Bodyguard Cha angrily rejects his underling's suggestion to carry a weapon, saying President Park doesn't like the sight of guns when he's drinking. This leaves both of them defenseless when Director Kim comes in shooting.

* DirtyOldMan: President Park, as lovingly detailed in the early scene where the madam describes how her hooker woke up to find the president fondling her naked body.

* HypocriticalHumor: Chief Agent Ju, who has just participated in the murder of the president, saying "It's not like we've committed a crime, for Christ's sake."
* IdiotBall: After the emergency cabinet meeting at Army HQ, with the situation very much in flux and power up for grabs, Director Kim ''takes a nap''. While Kim is getting some shuteye, Secretary Yang alerts the Army Chief of Staff to Kim's role in the murder.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Soo-bong and Jae-soon retreat to a side room after witnessing the murder of Park. They start pounding vodka shots.
* TheLancer: Director Kim's second-in-command, Chief Agent Ju, who helps him orchestrate the murder.

* TragicMistake: For Director Kim, agreeing to Army Chief of Staff Jeong Seung-hwa's suggestion that they drive to Army headquarters instead of KCIA headquarters in the immediate aftermath of the murder. This allows Jeong, after he finds out that Kim was the shooter, to arrest him and every other KCIA agent involved.

* YesMan: Chief Secretary Yang, Park's flunky, appointed to be his drinking buddy, much to Director Kim's disgust.

On the night of October 26, 1979, President Park goes to a KCIA safe house for a party. Two women are brought in to entertain the president and provide breast pillows for his head: pop singer Shim Soo-bong and random attractive college student Shin Jae-soon. At the party, Cha and Park go a little too far with their insults and mockery of Kim. So the KCIA director, who is already in a bad mood due to his poor health, his constipation, and his irritation at having to run whores for the president, decides on the spot to murder Park and Cha.

On the night of October 26, 1979, President Park goes to a KCIA safe house for a party. Two women are brought in to entertain the president and provide breast pillows for his head: pop singer Shin Soo-bong and random attractive college student Shin Jae-soon. At the party, Cha and Park go a little too far with their insults and mockery of Kim. So the KCIA director, who is already in a bad mood due to his poor health, his constipation, and his irritation at having to run whores for the president, decides on the spot to murder Park and Cha.

* DeletedScene: In-universe. Korean censors ordered newsreel clips (of 1979 protests at the beginning, and Park's funeral at the end) deleted. The film as released shows a black screen with titles noting that the scene was deleted due to orders from the government.

--> '''Shim''': Are you fucking kidding me? Come here and help us!

* GeniusBonus: For Western audiences, anyway. People who aren't familiar with Korean history might miss the significance of President Park occasionally talking in Japanese and enjoying Japanese pop songs. Japan ruled Korea as a colony from 1910 to 1945, and relations between Japan and both Koreas have been unfriendly ever since.