To me it didn't stand out in any way, except for the awful cheesy music/flashback stuff when a character died.
I prefer Infernal Affairs 2. Privacy Policy (http://www.tasteofcinema.com/privacy-notice-and-cookies/) Theme by Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists6 Reasons Why “Infernal Affairs” Is Better Than “The Departed”“Infernal Affairs” is one of the most successful films in Asia, and it became internationally known when Martin Scorsese adapted it to shoot “The Departed”.Chen Wing Yan is an undercover agent who has been chosen since his days in the police academy to infiltrate the crime world, particularly the gang of the notorious Sam. Oral narratives would refer to cultures with their classical texts and myth and tradition transmitted orally. I thought this was about Internal Affairs the terribad Richard Gere movie.As much as I loved Vera Fermiga, her love triangle was so corny and out of place, lol.Both have their strengths. But since The Departed was released after IA 1 and 2, it was logical for The Departed's screenwriter to flesh out the characters' backgrounds within the single remake film. You can follow him on I'd like to challenge that.
Martin Scorsese's The Departed is an American remake of the Hong Kong original Infernal Affairs.The conscience on this subreddit is that The Departed is better. I've seen The Departed 3 times.
Although Departed has more character development, Infernal Affairs is still the better film. On the other hand, Sam has chosen Detective Lau Kin Ming to act accordingly inside the police force. Comparing to 'Infernal Affairs', 'The Departed', which is the remake of Infernal Affairs in the US, has grossed HK $1,039,728 in Hong Kong and USD $132,384,315 in North America. It just didn't work for me on any level.I can't versus them. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop. Just as that infamous DiCaprio headshot was perfectly suited to what The Departed had been to that point.Finally, to compare the character arcs.
The Departed's ending was too Hollywood. I think it's as simple as Scorsese could approach a fictionalized version of a contemporary American crime story that had a large number of parallels to an already-produced Chinese crime film while exploring ethnic groups he had only touched on before.The Boston setting has a lot to do with tying Nicholson's character to the real world Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. The bloat is evident in something like establishing a character is an orphan. I don't see what is special about Infernal Affairs.
All rights reserved. The Departed has almost an hour longer runtime than Infernal Affairs, but that fact is a credit to both films.
I saw them on Hong Kong DVD's, which had much better subtitles then the American releases did. Infernal Affairs is far more efficient at conveying the same premise (cop/gangster vs. gangster/cop) but it runs mostly on its own energy, hardly every stopping to take in even the lowly likes of atmosphere, much less social context, two things Scorsese knows enough to include in the very fiber of the best movies he makes. Scenes such as the one involving Sam’s first meeting with the Thais are among the greatest ever shot in the genre, both technically and artistically, with every minute soaring with anguish.Scorsese transferred the unrelenting struggle for survival and the permeating violence of the first film to Boston, maintaining the agony and the sense that the two characters are mirroring each other, since their conflicting paths were just a matter of luck.
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I'm surprised that Scorsese didn't veto the latter; in Infernal, Lau survives through the end of the film, and his existence becomes a "perpetual hell" of guilt and paranoia. It kinda killed my interest. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
I saw Internal Affairs first and thought it was pretty great. While Sam prepares for a large operation, the two moles come face to face, realizing each other’s role. And The Departed also made two major character-related changes that I thought detracted hugely from its potential and comparative effectiveness to Infernal.
This technique gave Scorsese the chance to focus more intently on his characters, but derived from its general aesthetics, since the movie occasionally moves too slowly.
The Departed is considerably funnier though.Saw Infernal Affairs before the Departed, so Infernal Affairs for me since I knew what was coming in the Departed so it loses it impact. Unavoidably, one of them has to die.Wai-Keung Lau directs a sublime urban noir thriller that retains the agony throughout its duration. Great story?" With Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Eric Tsang. Gets the points across and moves on. This is probably where the most glaring difference between these two movies is evident.
Scorsese generally kept his camera more stable and grounded, giving his film a much slower pace, which definitely shows in their respective runtimes.The use of score had a very "heart-on-its-sleeve" approach.