Comments on: Infernal Affairs vs. The Departed

By: AJB

AJB — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:30:36 +0000

Good interesting take on it. I don’t think Scorsese will remake the sequels, he pulled parts of them into The Departed.

I wrote a comparison of the films on my new blog too. Different conclusion, but thats opinion for you. Hope you have a chance to check it out:

http://cinematheque.leithermagazine.com/2010/03/06/red-cornerblue-corner-%e2%80%93-infernal-affairs-v-the-departed/

By: Hank Pai

Hank Pai — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:46:44 +0000

I was trying to get the RSS Feed for your blog but it is not properly displaying in Google Chrome. Does anyone have any suggestions?

By: watchman

watchman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:00:56 +0000

i watched both movies and IA is much better than the departed. The departed is good movie but not that good especially the acting….. really can’t compare to IA . They got into a real gangster life and u can obviously understand their feeling…………………..too far too compare

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:42:05 +0000

@Neko_Guy: Bit slow to the punch there. This is more than a year old.

But yeah, I guess Fist Full of Dollars does suck. Of course, I’d be lying.

Sounds like you had your mind made up way before watching it.

By: neko_guy

neko_guy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:29:56 +0000

dont be fucking daft -_- i watched the remake of IA and oh my god i wanted to put a bullet in my head . i watched all the american remakes of the hk and jap movies . they all suck

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:53:43 +0000

Ryan,
I have listend to some of your songs. They are very fresh. If there were the words for them, it could be much better.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:01:09 +0000

@Inst: The ending is good. You’re right that he doesn’t suffer as much. As for the conflict, I certainly felt it, but I’d seen the original, so I knew what to look for – it might cause a bit of a bias.

By: Inst

Inst — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:35:37 +0000

Where is the spoiler tag?

I haven’t watched The Departed yet, but from what I hear about the ending, it’s not as good as IA. Compared to IA1, the ending leaves Matt Damon / Andy Lau in a much better state than it does in the original, where Andy Lau is condemned to a lifetime of suffering.

And does it carry the same sense of conflict between one’s loyalty to men and one’s loyalty to absolutes? I enjoyed the internal conflict for Leung Chiu Wai between his growing affection towards his colleagues and his remaining loyalty towards law and society, but I suppose the treatment sucked; he was tilting towards an unconvincing betrayal until “that man” got killed out of the blue.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:22:19 +0000

@Terry: It’s definitely worth giving a look.
@CLB: That’s a tall order, but why not. Of course, I thought Daniel Day Lewis was fantastic in Gangs of New York – but the movie and his roll fell away to the annals of time quite quick.

@All: Continuing my comparison of the two films; I find that the biggest difference between Asian films and their American counterparts are that in general Hollywood spells things out much more in their films, where as Hong Kong (and Mainland) movies tend to leave things hanging a lot more – letting the viewer to think how they will.

That said, I think a lot of films that come out of the US have (and I’m going to get crucified for this) much more depth, they just tend to spell it out too obviously in under-estimating their audience’s ability to piece it together.

It often seems to me that Chinese directors leave things wide open because they’re not entirely sure what they’re saying, but are hoping everyone will just go, “wow, he’s such a visionary and an artist”… which is utter bullocks. Do you here me Wong Kar Wai?? Do you!!??

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:50:38 +0000

I completely agree with your assessment of The Departed, and raise you one. I think that 50 years from now it will be on every top 100 list, maybe every top 50 list. It (and Nicholson) are THAT good!