The Departed
Ini film seru banget…. adaptasi dari film Hong Kong yang udah kita tonton sebelumnya *sorry kalo ada yang belum nonton* Infernal Affairs*….. moga-moga gak telat tayangnya di Indonesia.
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Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
In an act of multicultural hop-scotch, Martin Scorsese takes a 200-mile trip northeast from his native Little Italy to adapt the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, setting it in the Irish underworld of South Boston. “A gangster is a gangster,” says producer Graham King. “It’s a genre he knows like the back of his hand.” The original story line intact, The Departed is about gangland chief Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), who has an operative (Matt Damon) in the police force working for him. But when it becomes clear that the cops have their own mole (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Costello’s organization, the two men have to hunt each other out. For Scorsese, the biggest difference between depicting Irish and Italian criminals wasn’t so much their mind-set as it was the physical settings—gritty pubs rather than family restaurants. Authenticity came both from Massachusetts locals Damon and Wahlberg and technical adviser Tom Duffy, a retired Boston detective who spent 30 years fighting organized crime, particularly the Southie gangster Whitey Bulger, who is one source of inspiration for Nicholson’s Costello. Though this is Scorsese’s third film in a row with DiCaprio, it’s the first time the director has worked with Nicholson. “When Marty talks, everyone listens,” King says of the momentous collaboration. “And when Jack talks, everyone listens.”
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