The Departed
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sub_dividedDeleted the last entry, but here's the fic again: Nodame Cantabile.
If you've seen The Departed -- also known as Martin Scosese's remake of Infernal Affairs -- I have some questions for you.
1. If you've also seen Infernal Affairs: the scene, in Chinatown, when Damon leaves the theater with the incriminating envelope and DiCaprio follows trying to get a clear shot on his camera phone? Was this lifted directly from Infernal Affairs? Cause um, it seemed like it could have been.
2. This has really been bothering me. Okay, so throughout the movie, Scorsese cuts to a view of the dome of this Cathedral. What is the purpose of these cuts? Obviously the church has some kind of special meaning to Damon...thinking about this, I realized the following:
a) Damon was an altarboy headed into service with the priesthood, but Nicholson pulled him out and groomed him as a spy instead.
b) The priest of that parish is a pederast...and Nicholson knows this.
c) The real estate agent showing Damon his appartment asks if Damon is married: the appartment is a little too big for one person. Damon immediately becomes hostile and implies that he has a girlfriend.
e) The VERY NEXT DAY, Damon asks Vera Farmiga out to dinner.
f) After Vera moves in with him, the two have undisclosed relationship problems, leading Vera to sleep with DiCaprio.
The movie isn't blatant about any of this, but...this sequence of events is pretty suggestive, right? Or is it all in my head?
And some comments!
3. Saw this movie with Z. He said: "Matt Damon treats women like Jack Nicholson treats women." (I didn't notice this because I was too busy being charmed. -_-.) And: "He [Leonardo DiCaprio's character] got her to chase him down and give him a prescription he should never have gotten in the first place!" (We were talking about how you can tell that DiCaprio is really smart, even though he's good at keeping up this rough exterior and it isn't all an act.)
4. Z also said that Damon was chanelling Denzel Washington in Training Day...I said no, he was more about the hidden fear and less about the arrogance. Washington essentially created his own third-world serfdom in the projects, whereas Damon was constantly on the phone withDaddy Jack Nicholson, confirming every minor detail and chafing under the strain of his (extremely short) leash.
5. It's funny how neither Damon nor DiCaprio's superiors really expect that the games Damon and diCaprio are playing will effect them. Nicholson says, outright, that Damon will be the one to fall if he can't find the spy in time. And Queenan (the police chief) confronts the guys out to snuff DiCaprio at 344 with a similar level of arrogance. What's funny about this is that these two are the first to die.
6. When DiCaprio is shot. OMG. There are four more people killed in the next ten minutes just as suddenly, but not one of their deaths surprised me as much as DiCaprio's did. It really was already over for Damon when he died. It's not just that his death was unexpected, it's that it was pointless...it was pretty shocking.
7. Have I mentioned how much I love Mark Walburg (Dignam) in this movie? I really love Mark Walburg in this movie.
If you haven't seen The Departed, why not?! XD. It's really good. The acting is good, the script is good, and the plot (courtesy of Infernal Affairs) is really, really good. Basically, Leonardo diCaprio is a police officer pretending to be a criminal, and Matt Damon is a criminal pretending to be a police officer. Each must determine the identity of the other. Also, both are sleeping with Vera Farmiga XD.
If you've seen The Departed -- also known as Martin Scosese's remake of Infernal Affairs -- I have some questions for you.
1. If you've also seen Infernal Affairs: the scene, in Chinatown, when Damon leaves the theater with the incriminating envelope and DiCaprio follows trying to get a clear shot on his camera phone? Was this lifted directly from Infernal Affairs? Cause um, it seemed like it could have been.
2. This has really been bothering me. Okay, so throughout the movie, Scorsese cuts to a view of the dome of this Cathedral. What is the purpose of these cuts? Obviously the church has some kind of special meaning to Damon...thinking about this, I realized the following:
a) Damon was an altarboy headed into service with the priesthood, but Nicholson pulled him out and groomed him as a spy instead.
b) The priest of that parish is a pederast...and Nicholson knows this.
c) The real estate agent showing Damon his appartment asks if Damon is married: the appartment is a little too big for one person. Damon immediately becomes hostile and implies that he has a girlfriend.
e) The VERY NEXT DAY, Damon asks Vera Farmiga out to dinner.
f) After Vera moves in with him, the two have undisclosed relationship problems, leading Vera to sleep with DiCaprio.
The movie isn't blatant about any of this, but...this sequence of events is pretty suggestive, right? Or is it all in my head?
And some comments!
3. Saw this movie with Z. He said: "Matt Damon treats women like Jack Nicholson treats women." (I didn't notice this because I was too busy being charmed. -_-.) And: "He [Leonardo DiCaprio's character] got her to chase him down and give him a prescription he should never have gotten in the first place!" (We were talking about how you can tell that DiCaprio is really smart, even though he's good at keeping up this rough exterior and it isn't all an act.)
4. Z also said that Damon was chanelling Denzel Washington in Training Day...I said no, he was more about the hidden fear and less about the arrogance. Washington essentially created his own third-world serfdom in the projects, whereas Damon was constantly on the phone with
5. It's funny how neither Damon nor DiCaprio's superiors really expect that the games Damon and diCaprio are playing will effect them. Nicholson says, outright, that Damon will be the one to fall if he can't find the spy in time. And Queenan (the police chief) confronts the guys out to snuff DiCaprio at 344 with a similar level of arrogance. What's funny about this is that these two are the first to die.
6. When DiCaprio is shot. OMG. There are four more people killed in the next ten minutes just as suddenly, but not one of their deaths surprised me as much as DiCaprio's did. It really was already over for Damon when he died. It's not just that his death was unexpected, it's that it was pointless...it was pretty shocking.
7. Have I mentioned how much I love Mark Walburg (Dignam) in this movie? I really love Mark Walburg in this movie.
If you haven't seen The Departed, why not?! XD. It's really good. The acting is good, the script is good, and the plot (courtesy of Infernal Affairs) is really, really good. Basically, Leonardo diCaprio is a police officer pretending to be a criminal, and Matt Damon is a criminal pretending to be a police officer. Each must determine the identity of the other. Also, both are sleeping with Vera Farmiga XD.