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The Departed
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
2006 Warner Bros All Movies
Maybe you've heard the Internet buzz about The Departed being an old-school cop flick, unburdened by profundity. Maybe you'll think so too if you don't pay a lick of attention to what's onscreen. Or maybe you'll recognize The Departed for what it is: a new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams. A title card sets the scene: boston. some years ago. And we're off, watching Leonardo DiCaprio as a cop pretending to be a hood and Matt Damon as his opposite. Both are trapped in circumstances where you can't tell the good from the bad.
All the actors bring their A games to this triumphant bruiser of a film, its darkly wanton wit the only defense against complete chaos. DiCaprio and Damon give explosive, emotionally complex performances, but it must be said that Jack Nicholson reaches undreamed-of heights of decadent devilment as Irish mob kingpin Frank Costello. Whether he's wielding a gun or a dildo, buying off cops, dissing Catholic priests as pederasts, seducing children into a life of crime, letting it snow cocaine on favored hookers or chatting while elbow-deep in blood, Nicholson is electrifying. Dispassionately executing a woman on a beach, Costello notes to his henchman Mr. French (a terrific Ray Winstone), "She fell funny." But Costello is no campy Joker. Channeling James Cagney in White Heat and Paul Muni in Scarface, Nicholson leeches out the glamour to create a landmark portrait of evil.
William Monahan's stinging script, a revelation after his murky meandering in last year's Kingdom of Heaven, transfers the plot of the terrific 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs to his native Boston so he can drill down to its depraved core. Those familiar with the gangs of Beantown will see Whitey Bulger -- the Irish thug still being pursued by the FBI -- in Nicholson's sick twist of a character. This is vital, visceral filmmaking, indebted to Michael Ballhaus' vibrant cinematography and Howard Shore's evocative score, boosted by Scorsese's typically astute soundtrack choices -- a unique uniting of the Stones, John Lennon, Nas, Van Morrison, the Beach Boys and Patsy Cline. And once again, Thelma Schoonmaker turns editing into an art form. She's the wizard at Scorsese's side, getting the action to jump off the screen while setting up psychological provocations that reverb hellishly in your head.
Ignore the irrelevant fan-boy questions: Will Scorsese finally win his Oscar? Is The Departed as brilliant as GoodFellas? Is it too gory to be a blockbuster? The Departed, flawed by a few underwritten characters and some overwrought imagery (the symbolic rat), pins you to your seat.
Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Damon), unknown to each other, are both trainees at the Massachusetts State Police Academy. For Billy, it's a goodbye to the Southies, the South Boston criminal element that formed him. For Colin, it's a chance to play mole for Costello, who trained him since boyhood. The drama intensifies when Billy is told that he will never wear the Statie uniform. His father figure, Capt. Queenan (Martin Sheen), wants Billy to go undercover and infiltrate Costello's crew. Billy's identity will be known only by Queenan and his flinty enforcer, Sgt. Dignam (a locked-and-loaded Mark Wahlberg gives a supporting role major dimensions). Colin, who thinks the Statie uniform makes you look "dressed to invade Poland," joins the suits led by Capt. Ellerby (the reliably superb Alec Baldwin) in the Special Investigations Unit. And so two rookies, assigned to rat out the people they work with, begin to unravel from the strain of maintaining identities antithetical to their true natures.
As in Infernal Affairs, there's a heap of coincidence. You might want to revoke the film's dramatic license when Billy and Colin both fall for Madolyn (Vera Farmiga), the shrink who treats Billy and moves in with Colin. Luckily, Farmiga (Down to the Bone) is a glorious actress, a combustible mix of smarts and sex appeal, who reveals that Madolyn is as lost and off-the-rails as the two men.
The violence? Most of it is saved for the film's final act, where it's enough to give you whiplash. Scorsese correctly refuses to go wussy on the corruption that extends from Costello's nest of vipers to the State House, whose gold dome Colin sees from the window of his chic apartment on Beacon Hill. Damon, building on his no-bull turns in Syriana and the two Bourne films, brings a coiled-spring intensity to Colin, whose double life is taking its toll (for one thing, he's often impotent). Scorsese allows telling glimpses of the child in these men. Colin dreads betrayal by Costello, the thug who filled his scrawny twelve-year-old arms with groceries and made him his slave. Billy uses drugs to numb his fear but can't find anything -- family, friend, lover, church, government -- to trust. DiCaprio does himself proud in a risky role that stabs at the heart as Billy's bravado loses the battle to his jangling nerves. Though DiCaprio and Damon share only one big scene, their climactic rooftop face-off reflects the film's bleak view of a world where nothing is held sacred.
Scorsese doesn't need gore to make his points. A scene with Billy and a vibrating cell phone matches Hitchcock for suspense. Another, deftly borrowed from The Third Man, simply involves Madolyn walking past Colin at a funeral, her impassive gaze deadlier than a speeding bullet. Issues of sin, redemption, identity and loyalty resonate in Scorsese's films, including the atypical Kundun, Age of Innocence and The Aviator. Each new film absorbs the others, creating a body of work that can stand with the greatest. Scorsese tops the list of American directors because, even when he fails, he strives passionately to make movies that matter. The Departed, a defiantly uncompromised vision of a society rotting from the inside, is one of his best. Act accordingly.
PETER TRAVERS
(Posted: Sep 28, 2006) |
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Oh Michael F*u*ck Me~
发表于 2006-10-6 01:00:32
10月4日，根据中国香港影片《无间道》翻拍的好莱坞影片《无间道风云》在香港举行电影首映礼，虽然主演莱昂纳多和马特·达蒙没有亲自来到现场与观众见面，但刘德华及林家栋、张耀扬等都出席了电影的首映礼 。当年《无间道》三部曲在香港乃至整个华语地区引发的轰动，至今仍然被许多影迷津津乐道。这是第一部好莱坞翻拍的港产片， 不久前在美国纽约举行的一场群星云集的首映式。该片将在10月6日全球上映。TUNGSTAR/文并图
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显身卡
楼主
从未染指奥斯卡金像奖的好莱坞大导马田史高西斯，其新作《无间道风云》未上映即大获好评，有望问鼎明年的奥斯卡。不过天意弄人，去年在奥斯卡惨败给伊斯特伍德的他，来年可能又要与宿敌硬碰硬了。
《无间道风云》今日于美国上映，当地影评人除大赞杰克尼科尔森、莱昂那多狄卡比奥和马克戴蒙等梦幻阵容外，还力捧史高西斯已回到《盗亦有道》时期的水平，将其招牌暴力美学变成艺术，绝对有资格角逐明年奥斯卡的重要奖项。
不过七度问鼎金像导演均告败北的史高西斯满以为前途一片美好时，却突然杀出程咬金，去年凭《击情》勇夺金像奖最佳电影及导演奖的伊斯特伍德，其以二次世界大战为背景的《Flags of Our Fathers》亦在本月上映，同样被视为奥斯卡大热，两位冤家斗票房之余，亦肯定要在年尾的各颁奖礼上硬碰。在报章《USA Today》预测的十部热门奥斯卡入围电影中，《Flags》更暂时被看高一线。
此外，健康尼科尔森亦被视为影帝热门，马克戴蒙盛赞他令其黑帮大佬角色更具层次，更猥亵。莱昂那多在《铁达尼号》中的拍档琦温斯莉的新片《Little Children》刚于纽约电影节首映，被赞抢戏的她亦有望与海伦美云和梅丽尔斯特里普等争夺影后殊荣。俐俐/文
由马丁·斯科塞斯执导，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥、马特·达蒙、杰克·尼克尔森主演的“美版无间道”《无间道风云》将于本月6日正式在全球范围内上映。出品电影《无间道》的寰亚电影公司获得《无间道风云》中国内地和香港的发行权，香港观众将在10月6日和北美观众同步观看该片，而内地的引进工作仍在进行之中。
故事情节和人物关系保留了原版的框架，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥扮演的“卧底比利”，就是《无间道》中的“梁朝伟”；马特·达蒙是“刘德华”；杰克·尼克尔森则是“曾志伟”。发生地点虽然已从香港搬到波士顿，可是从已公布的剧照和片花来看，其中不少场景是似曾相识。比如马特·达蒙在警校里受训、马特·达蒙和杰克·尼克尔森在电影院里接头、迪卡普里奥在天台与上司交换情报等，都可在《无间道》里找到影子。
导演马丁·斯科塞斯是美国的传奇导演，拍出过《的士司机》、《狂牛》、《基督最后的诱惑》、《纽约黑帮》等经典之作，可惜他本人却从未获得过一次奥斯卡大奖。《无间道风云》在小范围内进行了试映后，有影评人兴奋地表示，这部电影“十分完美”，将可一圆大导演马丁·斯科塞斯的“奥斯卡”梦。斯科塞斯则谦逊地说：“我只想拍摄一部能给人以享受的电影，希望在观众中赢得良好的口碑，其他的并没有想太多。”
不过，香港原版《无间道》的导演刘伟强、麦兆辉，却曾放出话来，表示不太看好《无间道风云》，认为该片经过改动后已失去了原版的精髓。杜可风曾被邀请担任《无间道风云》的摄影指导，但是他中途因为与剧组发生矛盾而退出，还直言《无间道风云》是斯科塞斯为了拿奥斯卡而拍的妥协作品，“如《娱乐大亨》般垃圾”。
导演阐述
马丁·斯科西斯说：“《无间道》是那种令我喜欢的香港电影佳作，但《无间道风云》并不是它的翻版。无疑我是深受《无间道》里正邪难辨的故事启发，但编剧默拿罕的改编故事跟原著很不一样。我一边读剧本的时候，一边已开始想象如何将它电影化。新版剧本最突出之处，在于它描写的角色都很生动，有力地刻画出他们面对逆境而不屈不挠的态度。我觉得这个故事并不‘香港’，香港电影是无法复制的，比如说，我无法拍出吴宇森的《喋血双雄》。作为一个电影人，我的特长无法与他相比。我喜欢的是故事的潜在内容———生活的态度和思考的方式、对一个封闭的社会文化的观察。原来的那部电影很棒，我现在这部电影保留了之前的部分元素，但是变成了另一部片子。”
幕后花絮
“黑帮老大”取自真实案例
杰克·尼克尔森扮演的“法兰克·高斯特罗”是以真人为蓝本———美国著名在逃通缉犯詹姆士·保渣。此人是波士顿臭名昭著的犯罪组织首脑，涉嫌18宗谋杀案，目前被联邦调查局通缉，最后一次被目击是在四年前的伦敦。
尼克尔森要求加“床戏”
杰克·尼克尔森最开始曾拒绝出演黑帮老大这一角色，理由是“戏份太少”，不合其奥斯卡影帝身份。直到马丁·斯科西斯答应给他加重戏份后，他才答应。近来演惯喜剧的尼克尔森决定改变形象，一坏到底，有影评人评价，“尼克尔森把该角色演绎成一个彻底现实主义的、冷血的怪物。病态的幽默感结合令人作呕的暴力行为缔造出了一个经典的怪胎”。尼克尔森还以很少有电影描述黑帮老大的性生活为由，让斯科西斯给他加了一段床戏，按他自己的话来说，“效果非常好”。
迪卡普里奥受“死亡威胁”
相对于杰克·尼克尔森，帅哥迪卡普里奥还嫩得很，在片场不时受到尼克尔森的批评。有一场两人的对手戏，因为迪卡普里奥的反应总是不到位，结果尼克尔森大发雷霆，还威胁说要在他身上浇满威士忌烧死他，吓得迪卡普里奥战战兢兢。
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