If there's a movie crossover that exemplifies the difference between East and West, it's The Departed and Infernal Affairs. The contrast is brunt and surprisingly obvious, with Hollywood sticking with the all American way of cinema, never taking heed of sleek HK styles and subtlety. Yet much of the story is identical , word for word.
For more than 50 years, the East has shamefully copied the West in the ways of movie making, but no longer. With the release of this movie, the West is now guilty of copying the East.
novel author. She also put out more.
The common theme in these 2 films is the "spy vs spy" intelligence/counter-intelligence interplay. The plot is intimately complex, which may be confusing at first, but clears up as the story approaches the end. It confounded me for well over an hour because I couldn't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Daemon (their facial expressions were nearly identical and I thought the differential facial hair was just a shaving quirk).
Other Major Differences:
- More violence (plus a torture bonus)
- Higher body count
- More fat people
- Projectile blood
- More drugs and sex
- Larger firearms
- More brutality
- No celebrating(unlike HK, buying birthday presents for undercover cops isn't koser in America)
Rating: 80%
You gotta see it, but then you don't anymore.
1 comment:
Lots of good scenes, but none very original or creative. This movie played to every male's gangster fantasy, but lacked class and finesse. C-
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