"The Departed" Ripped Off a Chinese Movie

"The Departed" Ripped Off a Chinese Movie-"Infernal Affairs" which was made 2 years before.

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[ranma763]

Ripped off? It's openly based on it as a remake, cunt

[DarkProphet94]

"waaa, the Departed sucks!"

"waaa, Infernal Affairs sucks!"

shut the fuck up. both movies are great. even though i prefer The Departed cause it had more character development than IA and im a Scorsese fan , the original is still a fantastic film. its like the Ledger vs Nicholson debate: its a matter of preference, so there's no need for all the bitching from either side.

[toomanycrabapples]

No, it's not still a ripoff. It's an adaptation of the Chinese movie, and it isn't trying to pretend that the story is its own.

[Cathexis256]

in the end its a ripoff still

[Mainstream05]

@javie2 That's ridiculous. IMO one of The Departed's strengths was that it took its time developing the characters more - which is why it's about an hour longer. I also liked how he changed Lau's motivation for turning on Tsang from frankly a bland desire to "become the good guy" to Colin's more nuanced reason. As for knowing what was going to happen after every scene - of course; it's a remake. But more to the point, The Departed does add new things.

[javie2]

@Mainstream05 A good remake is when the people working behind the movie were able to add some value to the original. i.e. In the movies you mentioned, you can see that people working in those remakes put their creativity and added their own styles to the original. The Departed does not fall in that category because every scene is an identical and grotesque copy of the original film (Not added value). There was nothing new. Watching the Departed, I knew what was going to happen after every scene.

[Mainstream05]

@javie2 Calling The Departed "merely a remake of a film" implies that it itself is not a film, which is just a ridiculous comment. The classic Judy Garland "Wizard of Oz" is a remake. The Al Pacino "Scarface" is a remake. The Kurt Russell "The Thing" is a remake. They are all still great films that stand on their own.

[Mainstream05]

@EGarrett01 It won an Oscar for "Best ADAPTED Screenplay" and the original writers (Felix Chong & Alan Mak) received a "Story by" credit in the film itself. There is both no attempt to hide that "The Departed" is a remake nor is there a "Best Story" Oscar. The remake's writer, William Monahan, fully deserved recognition for adapting a Chinese crime drama and resetting it in Boston. The fact that Infernal Affairs did not make as much money isn't The Departed's fault either.

[Einsteinbomb]

Hey people Frank Costello was based on Whitey Bulger. He was the one who made the film spectacular. To those of you who say it's merely based on the Internal Affairs look up the the John Connolly F.B.I. scandal involving the Winter Hills Gang.

[EGarrett01]

The thing that bothers me about the Departed is that it won 5 Oscars and grossed 100 million dollars while the original director, writers and actors grossed 100 thousand and received no Academy Awards. All the best sequences in the Departed are taken DIRECTLY from Infernal Affairs, but the people who originally sweated to figure them out have precisely nothing to show for it. If they had least shared the script Oscar (Departed script = Infernal Affairs script + 200 "Fucks") I'd be okay.