October 09, 2006, 21:22
What becomes of the The Departed
A saw The Departed with my wife on Saturday.
They didn't really promote this movie at all even though it was a Scorsese movie with a big cast.
I did see a short trailer for it on the television but just thought it was another gangster movie. But then my wife told me it was THE remake of the Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs. All I knew long ago was that Brad Pitt had bought the rights to the movie but I didn't know it had already been made.
It's a really good movie. Violent, which I like. Lots of blam blam. Blam. Blam Blam Blam.
Having seen the Hong Kong version, I pretty much knew the outcome to the set pieces but there's much more character development. The original is a lot more subtle in the way the 'gangsterisms' and double talk are played out.
There's a part in the original where a criminal 'phones home' to warn his homies which went over my head at the time but made more sense having watched The Departed.
