The Departed (2006)

Jack Nicholson stars in this new Scorsese as Genovese Don Frank Costello. Here's a description:

The Departed is set in South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello (Nicholson). While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan (Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there's a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover?
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Trailer

Looks good, I'm planning on seeing it opening weekend (if I'm able). It's expected to come out this Autumn.

Looks like a decent film,not Oscar material though

I don't think its about THE Frank Costello (the NYC "Prime Minister"). For one thing, Costello was Italian, not Irish, AND two, he was based in New York, not Boston.

There's already a Departed thread in the General Discussion area

I saw a Chinese film on filmfour a few weeks back with the exact same storyline , it was called Internal Affairs I think , it was quite good

Yes that what this movie is based off of

Yeah, the Boston Irish thing confused me. You're probably right.

Before I start a thread, I always search so I don't get responses like this. I couldn't find anything on it, so I started one. My bad.

This movie was awesome. I really enjoyed it.

Why would scorsese make an Irish mob boss named Frank Costello, I still dont get this.

Yeah, that seems a little weird.

I thought this was a very good movie, by far the best film Scorsese had made since Goodfellas. I never liked Casino, so some may not agree with that statement.

Better than Cape Fear?

Goodfellas is my favorite Martin Scorsese movie of all time. The Departed is my second favorite film of all time. I just really like The Departed. For such a big talent cast, I felt no one stole the movie and all gave wonderful performances in their roles. The cinematography was great, I suggest reading the latest issue of American Cinematographer, as it features an article of how the movie was shot and interviews with the director of photography. Story I felt was very interesting. I did like it more than Internal Affairs.

I still not seen this film yet,is it really that good that its at the top of people fav film list already

and this Frank Costello is gay, The Prime Minister wasn't

anyway I enjoyed the movie... Jack Nicholson's perfomance was AWESOME!

I believe that the character is loosely based on Whitey Bulger, who was once the boss of the Boston Mob.


Don Cardi

Yeah, I think it was better than Cape Fear, though I really thought that was good.

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Yes ok,we understand....

Good movie, lots of twists and turns

now remember he was the head of the winter hill gang, not so much the boston mob, which was run by his right hand man's good friend cadillac frank.

Costello is an Irish name.
Francesco Castiglia took the name when such a pseudonym
was common with Italian Gangsters. (See; Machine Gun Jack McGurn as well.)
I'm sure Scorsese gave Nicholson's character the name as kind of an inside joke.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS

On the special edition dvd, does Marty offer anything about Dignam's motive at the end of the movie ?

Personally, I don't think he had any motive other than wanting to see Sullivan pay for his actions, one way or the other.

Not that I can recall pizzaboy. And I believe you are correct. He just wanted to see him pay for what he did.

Dignam was my favorite character.

I'm glad Alan Arkin won the Academy Award, given the fact that he's been around a long time and all, but I really liked Wahlberg in this movie, and had he won, I would have been okay with it.

He's developed into a fine actor.

I thought the award should have went to either Eddie Murphy or Mark Wahlberg. No offense to Alan Arkin, and I haven't seen a lot of his work, but I don't believe he deserved the award (and yes, I did see Little Miss Sunshine)

I really want to see this film but as of yet am unable to.

Why are you unable to?

It really was a great movie. The more I watch it the more I come to believe that Marty really deserved the Oscar, that it wasn't just a lifetime achievment thing.

It is ironic though, all those classic Italian-American/New York movies, and he wins it for an Irish gangster flick set in Boston.

Hey, as long as he won, right ?

Im unable to because rent and bills have to come first and because im on wellfare i dont even have the spare $3 to go and hire it but i got a job interview so hopefully that will get me back on track.

Do you have a library card?

Oh my god!!!No shit!!Why didnt i think of that ages ago!!Dont they charge to hire films?

I agree, I enjoy it more and more everytime I watch it. And don't beat against the Irish. He should have made an Irish movie 20 years old, his Oscar would be dusty as sh*t now

This film could easily be placed near the top of my list, next to Casino and GoodFellas!

Have anyone heard about an interview on MTV with Mark Wahlberg where he said that they're making 2 parts! a sequel and a prequel to the departed?! any ideas?

Yes, our friend Don Pacino already started a topic about that in this thread.


THE DEPARTED SEQUEL & PREQUEL


Don Cardi

I still say it's a bad idea....but I'd see it anyway .

Finally saw this and one question I got is, why did he say he could only trust her when Dignam was still around and he knew the truth. Why not just give him the tapes. Still a great movie though.

Costigan didn't know where to reach Dignam because Dignam went "underground" after he quit.

I dunno, he went to Queenlands house and he might have knew that he Dignam was gone for two weeks. It's no big deal, like I said, great movie.

My theory is that Dignam went underground, doing his own little ruthless investigation into who capped his boss, and later his co-worker in Costigan...until Vera Farmiga gets him Billy's tapes....then he goes out for bloody revenge.

Yeah?

I agree Ronnie. After watching some idiots debate on whether or not Dignam was on the take, and a mob mole in his own right (Not here, on IMDB) I read the script online, to see if it mentioned Dignam's POV. It does, it reads that Dignam avenged the death of a cop that he "didn't even like", because it was the right thing to do. He just couldn't let him get away with it.

Dignam a mob mole? Interesting.

Of course, if that was ever intended, my only problem would be this: If the mob has Dignam the mole, why need to send another in Damon into the same HQ?

Maybe Dignam though is a mob mole of another crime outfit outside of Nicholson's.

Anyway, I still think the guy was a cop who got pissed that his boss/mentor and partner were killed, and he got his revenge.