In short
- Hwang Dong-Hyuk, the maker of Netflix’s Squid game, says that the VIP characters now reflect visible billionaires such as Elon Musk, who ‘almost controls the world’.
- Musk has recently purchased from leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), a desk closed by the spending.
- Hwang said that both the plot of the show and real life show how the ultra-rich, from technical moguls to oligarchs, “deducting their masks” and openly shaping global events.
The maker of Squid game says that the rich villains of the show are increasingly reflecting Real-World billionaires, and in particular Elon Musk comes up in me.
“Elon Musk is nowadays everywhere, right? Everyone talks about him,” said Hwang Dong-Hyuk TIME Magazine on Friday. “He is not only the head of a huge technology company that almost controls the world, but he is also this showman. After writing [Season 3]Of course I thought, “Oh, some VIPs look like Elon Musk.” “
Musk’s companies, Tesla and SpaceX, were approached for comment.
Just like Squid Game Season 3, the last episode of the most viewed series of Netflix, the comments will premiere on 27 June, resulting in the global phenomenon to a bloody closure.
This time the billionaire spectators of the show, also called the ‘VIPs’, are more than watching; They leave their animal masks and dinner dresses to Don Pink Soldier -Uniforms and personally hunt participants with machine guns.
The evolving representation of the show of the ultra -rich reflects the frustration of Hwang about the growing visibility and influence of real oligarchs.
The timing is particularly remarkable given the current net value of Musk of $ 409.8 billion, which exceeds GDP from 24 countries, including Denmark, Iran and Malaysia.
“In the past, those who really checked the system and maintained the power, they were hidden behind the curtain,” Hwang said TIME. “However, it is no longer the case, especially in America.”
“We talk a lot about oligarchy nowadays … The people who really control the power and the system, they no longer hide behind a curtain,” he said. “They voluntarily dismiss their masks, almost as if they want to explain:” We are the ones who run everything. We are the ones who are in control. “
The richest man in the world recently kicked of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) of the Trump government, established to lower federal expenses, but entangled in controversy about its humanitarian impact and disputed savings claims.
Since leaving Doge has Musk publicly clashes With Trump more than an expenditure account of $ 2.4 trillion, and calls it a “disgusting horror” that undermines everything that Dog has reached.
In the meantime, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Lavish Venice -wedding, planned in the same weekend as the release of season 3, reportedly $ 46 million and Required 90 private jets for guest transport.
Apart from the wealth concentration, Hwang got inspiration from worldwide political polarization and the recent statement from South Korea van siege By former President Yoon Suk-Yeol.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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