Mr. French, the character, wasn't from Boston. With that rich of an accent, atleast I'd hope not.
Wahlberg was about as credible a cop, muchless a Bostonian as Charlton Heston was a Mexican in "Touch of Evil".
There's some irony to be accounted for in such a longwinded film winning "best editing". The pacing of "The Departed" was terrible, IMO. "Best Screenplay" I don't think it should have won because it's merely someone taking someone elses movie and changing Hong Kong to Boston.
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Well, regardless of it being a remake and all that, The Departed was the best film I've seen in a long time. I've watched it three times and have never gotten bored. I think it deserved all the Oscars it got.
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I'm wondering how different a film it is when compared to Infernal Affairs. I can't imagine the two films being all that similar. Also, Jack Nickolson's character was based on a real guy, and in the special features the screenwriter explains how the story of this real mob boss just fit nicely into the paradigm of Infernal Affairs. The filmmakers of The Departed don't actually say that the film is based on this real guy, so I think they had to claim the film a "remake" for legal reasons.
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Uh-kay, this is the film in which Leo is a smuggler and his wife is shot. Then he have problems with communicating with others because he doesn't speak the language, and Brad Pitt is in too?...right?
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Isn't that the one in which a family travel on yellow VW and a little girl makes this act in which two Magicians try to compete for each other? Then the little girl appears in a Labyrinth fill with magical creatures?
have we had the news that Wahlberg in this months Empire says he up for the sequel and De Niro is a possibility as playing a corrupt senator?
and hes after a prequel too
If I remember correctly, the original Infernal Affairs trilogy included 2 prequels; they were good, but each was inferior to its predecessor.
Seeing as The Departed was nowhere near as good as the original, I don't hold out much hope for the quality of these new movies if they come into being.
__________________ Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Where was he from then? Of course, many of the gang members have there irish accents coming through a bit, but not cockney. I'll take it as face value, because I'm not given any hint of where else he could be from.
As for Wahlberg, that accent sounded American enough for me, telling me that his Boston accent wasn't spot on is like me telling any given yankee that so and so's cornish accent was'nt totally on the ball.
Fair enough if he had a different response to the film, but not even Winstone's poor accent bothered me greatly.
The Departed drew me into it's story both times I have watched it, and I pride myself on being able to remain objective when usually watching all but the most engrossing stories.
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