Penguin wrote:Hugh: About the Departed...Its actually not an American script. Its adapted from a Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs. The American version (including the rooftop scenes) is almost identical in all major respects to the original. Only the ending is "happier" in the US version - the bad guy does NOT get killed in the original, but only his wife finds out that hes the mole. And he has to live with his wife knowing it.
I thought the original was better, and its plot was a lil more convoluted - but the adaptation was better than usual. But in US version, of course, the cops were in the end portrayed as more moral - the bad guy got shot extralegally.
Well, er, they weren't exactly moral either, though. IIRC, Wahlberg had been suspended/fired by the movie's final scene, so he was kind of sort "non-cop" or "anti-cop" at that moment. Baldwin and Wahlberg were that entire movie for me, I didn't really care for the rest of the movie. Especially the handful of mock snuff scenes. I'm finding I simply cannot bear those scenes anymore, like what is shown on The Wire. I think I'm going to edit that movie down to just the scenes featuring Baldwin & Wahlberg, for my own enjoyment.
Let's talk about the Departed more. Could probably lump in the other 7 or 8 "Southie movies" from the last decade, with plots usually involving cops-and-robbers or at least a subtext of class-perception-management.
