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Felix Chong
Alan Mak
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William Monahan[Matt DamonJack NicholsonMark Wahlberg Martin Sheen
Vera Farmiga
Ray WinstoneAlec Baldwin| editing = [Thelma Schoonmaker[Graham KingRoy LeeBrad Pitt (and worldwide with exceptions)
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The Departed is a [2006 in film crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (in his third movie with Scorsese), Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. It is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2007.

This film takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, where notorious Irish mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Nicholson) plants his protege, career criminal Colin Sullivan (Damon) as an Mole (espionage) within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover cop Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides of the law realize the situation, each man is ordered to discover the identity of the other informant before they are found out.

Plot The film begins in South Boston and Charlestown during the Boston riots featuring a montage of documentary footage with voice-over narration by Irish mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Jack Nicholson). In the late 1980s, Costello is in a local store to collect his pay-off money from the owner. A young boy is there, Colin Sullivan, eating at the counter, and Frank takes a liking to him. He has the owner give Colin two bags of groceries and tells him to come look for him, if he ever wants to make some extra money.

CUT TO: Many years later, an older Sullivan, now in his mid twenties, (Matt Damon) is finishing his training for the Massachusetts State Police with classmates, including fellow cadet Barrigan (James Badge Dale). In another class are cadet Brown (Anthony Anderson) and Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio). All four men graduate to become state troopers. Sullivan is a sergeant, and has just passed the state trooper detective test. He goes in to meet with the calm and collected Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen), and the aggressive and cynical Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) of the Special Investigations Unit. When Sullivan exits, Costigan goes in. The undercover division of the Special Investigations Unit wants to assign Costigan, whose family has long had ties with the Boston underworld, to infiltrate Costello's crew. For his service, he gets a "bonus", tax-free payment upon completion of his assignment. To make his assignment believable to everyone, especially Costello, they create a false conviction on Costigan for assault. He will get a four month jail sentence and afterwards probation with mandatory sessions with a psychiatrist. His police academy record and file are concealed from the public, and even the department itself, and the only ones who can access Costigan's file are Queenan and Dignam.

), Queenan (Martin Sheen), and Dignam (Mark Wahlberg).

Sullivan, along with Barrigan and Brown, is now in an elite task force of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) headed by the sardonically humorous Captain Ellerby (Alec Baldwin). They are after Costello and are coordinating with the FBI. Staff Sergeant Dignam introduces himself to the group but does not reveal whether or not they have a mole in Costello's gang. They briefly go over what it is that the department is targeting: Francis Costello and military micro-chips. They expect that Costello will sell them to China. A freelance thief had stolen the twenty mirco-processors but somehow ended up deceased in a dumpster.

Costigan is out of jail and uses his drug-dealing cousin as a back-handed way of attracting Costello's attention and fights a man in a bar. He then becomes a member of his crew, pairing up with his right-hand man Mr. French (Ray Winstone). Costello tells Costigan that he knew, respected, and feared his father and Uncle Jackie, both of whom were heavily involved in the criminal underworld. It is therefore these two family connections which really motivate Costello more than anything else to try and assist Costigan in his own questionable way.

Meanwhile, Sullivan begins a romantic relationship with criminal psychiatrist Madolyn (Vera Farmiga), who also happens to be the assigned psychiatrist for Costigan as a part of his probation for the fabricated assault conviction. Although she wants to keep their relationship strictly professional, a romantic triangle develops, but Costigan and Sullivan remain oblivious to each other's identity.

During one of his heists Costello, through Sullivan's information, discovers that there is a police informer in his organization. To catch the insider, he requires each member to fill in his particulars in a form, including social security numbers. Costigan knows that this envelope will end up in the hands of Costello's man at the police. He follows Costello (who has the envelope) into a pornography theater, where he witnesses Costello handing over the envelope to Sullivan, whose face is hidden in the darkened auditorium. Attempting to disclose the mole's identity, Costigan shadows Sullivan into the streets, only to eventually lose him in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Sullivan is assigned to uncover the mole in SIU (himself). This makes for some tension between Sullivan and Dignam, whose suspicion of Sullivan rises. Above suspicion, Sullivan focuses instead on finding the police snitch in Costello's crew. Sullivan orders the SIU to trail Queenan and eventually follows him to a meeting with Costigan on the rooftop of a run-down building on the harbor. Having become insomniac, dependant on Valium and suffering from panic attacks, Costigan explains he wants out, to which Queenan assures him that while it cannot be done overnight, he will get him out of it. Sullivan tells Costello's men that the snitch is most likely at the building. As the men approach, Costigan flees, but Queenan stays behind and is confronted by them and thrown off the building to his death. In the ensuing gunfire, between Costello's men and the police, the officer who tailed Queenan is wounded and Delahunt, one of Costello's men is critically wounded. Later on when the men return to their hideout, Timothy Delahunt (proved later to be yet another undercover officer) just before dying reveals to Costigan that he knows he's the mole.

Sullivan orders Dignam to hand over the information regarding his undercover, which Dignam refuses. Ellerby, who has taken over the department for Queenan, orders Dignam off duty with pay for two weeks. Guilt-ridden over having indirectly caused his senior officer's death, Sullivan finds Queenan's cell phone in his homicide file and calls Costigan, pretending to be the new agent assigned to replace Queenan. After Costigan hangs up, Sullivan finds information in Queenan's file indicating that Costello is an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and immediately begins to fear betrayal.

Costello and his crew are being tailed to an old warehouse where they are to pick up a shipment of cocaine. Sullivan disengages the tail at Costello's demand and sets up a police ambush at the scene instead. Costigan, wary that the police potentially know of the situation, manages to slip away unnoticed. Costello's entire crew is killed in the ensuing shoot-out, and a wounded Costello abandons the car in which Arnold French and him were driving and escapes to another part of the warehouse, only to end up in a tense confrontation with Sullivan. Costello admits to his informant status and denies telling anybody about Sullivan's connection to him as he feels Sullivan is like a son to him but Sullivan doesn't believe Costello and insults him before Costello attempts to shoot him. After an exchange of gunshots Costello is killed by Sullivan.

Later at the station Sullivan arrives to praise from his co-workers and meets Costigan, who asks to simply receive his payment and be allowed to leave. While Sullivan retrieves Costigan's information in another office, Costigan notices Costello's envelope on Sullivan's desk and quickly flees. Sullivan realizes that Costigan has discovered his true identity and erases Costigan's police file. Following his flight from the station, Costigan appears outside of Madolyn's old apartment. He gives her an envelope, telling her to open it if anything should happen to him, or if she doesn't hear from him within two weeks. On a subsequent morning, Madolyn is at Sullivan's apartment, and finds an envelope from Costigan in his mail. It contains recordings of Sullivan and Costello's conversations, along with a phone number. Madolyn reveals the recordings to Sullivan and immediately ends her relationship with him. Sullivan calls the phone number and speaks to Costigan, who reveals to Sullivan that Costello kept the recordings as insurance to use as a possible legal immunity if he was arrested. He also reports to Sullivan that Costello's lawyer came to Bill with the recordings, meaning that Costello trusted Costigan the most of all of his men. They arrange to meet where Queenan died.

) confronts CostiganOn the rooftop where Queenan was killed, Costigan confronts and handcuffs Sullivan, intending to arrest him regardless if the charges don't stick. Trooper Brown appears and tries to talk down Costigan, who, claiming that he has substantial proof that Sullivan is the rat, quickly flees into an elevator, holding his gun to Sullivan's head. The elevator reaches the bottom floor, and just as Costigan begins to exit, he is shot in the head by Barrigan. Barrigan starts to uncuff Sullivan but then Trooper Brown arrives and sees Costigan's body and begins lowering his gun. Barrigan shoots Brown in the head. Barrigan reveals to Sullivan that he is also a mole in the police force and aware of Costello's informant status. Being that they are the only ones remaining, Barrigan says they need to look out for one another. As the two begin to manipulate the crime scene, Sullivan asks for the gun to clean the fingerprints, and as Barrigan looks away, Sullivan shoots him in the head. To save himself, heblames everything on Barrigan and recommends Costigan for a posthumous Medal of Merit in a later testimony. At Costigan's funeral, Madolyn, now pregnant with Costigan's child, walks away from Sullivan in silence.

Following the funeral, Sullivan returns home to find Dignam waiting there, having been tipped off by Madolyn about his connection to Costello. As the staff sergeant is hesistant to kill him, Sullivan merely accepts his fate, Dignam shoots him in the head and quickly leaves. As Sullivan's corpse lies in the apartment doorway, the camera pans out and a lone rat crawls conspicuously across the balcony railing, silhouetted against the gold dome of the Massachusetts State House.

Cast {| class="wikitable" width="75%"|+Main|- bgcolor="#efefef"! Actor! Role! Designation|-| Leonardo DiCaprio ] || State Trooper/Undercover Officer|-| Matt Damon ] || Francis "Frank" Costello || Head of the Irish Mob|-| Mark Wahlberg ] || Capt. Oliver "Charlie" Queenan || Commander, Undercover Unit|-| Vera Farmiga ] || Mr. French || Costello's Second in Command|-| Alec Baldwin ] || Trooper Brown || Sullivan's Tac Team|-| Kristen Dalton ] || Trooper Barrigan || Sullivan's Tac Team/Another Mob Informant|-| Robert Wahlberg ] || Fitzy || Costello's Mobster|-| Mark Rolston ] and then Denis Leary, who turned it down because of his commitment to the TV series 'Rescue Me'. Robert de Niro was also offered the role of Queenan by Scorsese, but he turned it down due to filming The Good Shepherd.

Themes Film critic Stanley Kauffman describes a major theme of The Departed as one of the oldest in drama—the concept of identity—and how it "affects one's actions, emotions, self-assurance, and even dreams."Kauffmann, Stanley. (Oct 30, 2006). Themes and Schemes. The New Republic. Vol. 235, Issue 18.

The father-son relationship is a motif throughout the film. Costello acts as a father figure to both Sullivan and Costigan and Queenan acts as Costello's foil in the role of father-figure presenting both sides of the Irish-American father archetype.http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06279/727779-120.stm

The film also explores a variety of masculine crises; from impotence to the perceived emasculation of subjecting oneself to 'talk' therapy.

In Rolling Stone magazine, Scorsese linked the zero-sum feeling of the end of his movie to real-world feelings toward terrorism and the war on terrorism. The fate of the main characters and the desperate and limited life choices they have to choose from can be seen as analogous to young soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan for example.

Soundtrack music There were two albums released for The Departed, one presenting the original score composed for the movie by Howard Shore, and the other featuring earlier recordings, mostly pop/rock songs, which were used on the soundtrack.

Music from the Motion Picture album {{Infobox Album | Name = The Departed| Type = Soundtrack| Longtype =| Artist = Various Artists, [2006
[Film music
Country music
Pop music| Length =| Label = Warner Sunset| Producer = Jason Cienkus| Reviews = * All Music Guide link]" by The Rolling Stones and prominently plays "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys. "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" was also used in the CBS News radio brief the morning following the oscars, with the intro of "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" playing in the background as the awards were announced. It also features a live version of "Comfortably Numb" by Roger Waters and Van Morrison from the 1990 Berlin Wall Concert which was originally by Pink Floyd.

Although "Gimme Shelter" is featured in the film, the song does not appear on the album soundtrack. Also heard in the movie but not featured on the soundtrack is "Thief's Theme" by Nas, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" by John Lennon and the Act II Sextet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Tracklisting

"Comfortably Numb" (Roger Waters Feat. Van Morrison and The Band, version from The Wall Concert in Berlin) – 7:59

"Sail On, Sailor" (Beach Boys) – 3:18

"Let It Loose" (Rolling Stones) – 5:18

"Sweet Dreams" (Roy Buchanan) – 3:32

"One Way Out (song)" (Allman Brothers Band) – 4:57

"Baby Blue" (Badfinger) – 3:36

"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (Dropkick Murphys) – 2:34

"Nobody But Me" (Human Beinz) – 2:18

"Tweedle Dee" (LaVern Baker) – 3:10

"Sweet Dreams (Patsy Cline song)" (Patsy Cline) – 2:34

"The Departed Tango" (Howard Shore, Marc Ribot) – 3:32

"Beacon Hill" (Howard Shore, Sharon Isbin) – 2:33

Original Score album {{Infobox Album | Name = The Departed| Type = Soundtrack| Longtype =| Artist = Howard Shore, [2006[Film music| Producer = Jason Cienkus| Reviews = * [All Music Guide link] and performed by guitarists Sharon Isbin, G.E. Smith, Larry Saltzman and Marc Ribot. The score was recorded in Shore's own studio in New York State.

Tracklisting

"Cops or Criminals" – 2:01

"344 Wash" – 2:03

"Beacon Hill" – 2:36

"The Faithful Departed" – 3:01

"Colin" – 2:09

"Madolyn" – 2:14

"Billy's Theme" – 6:58

"Command" – 3:15

"Chinatown" – 3:16

"Boston Common" – 2:53

"Miss Thing" – 1:45

"The Baby" – 2:48

"The Last Rites" – 3:05

"The Departed Tango" – 3:38

Boston setting skyline into the gun reinforces the film's thematic use of Boston's heritage and culture Born to an Irish-American family in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, Massachusetts, William Monahan (who adapted the screenplay from Infernal Affairs) incorporates the culture and history of Boston heavily into the film. The first images are news clips from the Desegregation busing#Boston, Massachusetts of the 1970s, over which Costello muses about the city's troubled racial history. Several times, Dignam refers to Costigan as "lace curtain", a term used primarily in the Boston metropolitan area by working-class Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans to disparage upper-middle class Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans who have strayed from their roots. The majority of the characters have the non-Rhotic and non-rhotic accents Boston accent (a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Matt Damon also incorporated the accent into his character in his 1997 film Good Will Hunting). Despite the tendency of films to use 555 telephone number, Boston's 617 area code can be clearly seen on various characters' cell phones. The Massachusetts State House is also featured in the film as a symbol of Colin Sullivan's ambition. Boston Red Sox apparel is seen and worn, including the appearance of a now-out-of-print Curse of the bambino#Attempts to break the curse bumper sticker on the wall at SIU headquarters. Costello and his gang drive over the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in one scene. The building off which Queenan is thrown (and where Costigan and Sullivan later meet) is in the Fort Point, Boston section of South Boston with the downtown skyline as backdrop (the fictitious "344 Wash" is actually an alley between Farnsworth & Thompson Streets). The John Hancock Tower is referenced by Costello. The film includes the song "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys, an Irish-American punk rock band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts. Other references include state locations such as Route 128 (Massachusetts), regions such as the North Shore, there is a shot of the Park Street Station and South Station (Boston) MBTA Red Line stops, local towns such as Brockton, Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Somerville, Massachusetts while having turf wars with crew from nearby Providence, Rhode Island, a Cameo appearance by the Lynn, Massachusetts police, mention of the Dedham Mall (located in Dedham, Massachusetts just south of Boston), and state slang like "Staties", a local nickname for Massachusetts State Police troopers. Also, Deerfield Academy, a boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, is referenced when Dignam points out that Costigan was expelled from the school after assaulting the gym teacher. It should be noted however, that Deerfield Academy does not actually have gym teachers or gym class. Additionally, the label on Costigan's prescription bottle shows a Beverly, Massachusetts address. and Matt Damon on the set of The Departed.The character Frank Costello was largely based on James J. Bulger, a real life Irish-American mobster in Boston who was secretly an FBI informant for over three decades. The revelation that the FBI had long protected Whitey and his gang from prosecution caused a major scandal in Boston law enforcement. Whitey was believed to have been seen coming out of a theater showing the film in San Diego in November 2006. Was that Whitey departing the departed? California cop believes he saw Bulger flee flickhttp://www.kfmb.com/features/crimefighters/story.php?id=70214 Mob Boss James “Whitey” Bulger Spotted In San Diego Matt Damon's character is based on John Connolly (FBI), the FBI agent who tipped off Bulger for years, allowing him to evade arrest. In real life, Bulger went into hiding and is still presumed to be at large; Connolly is currently imprisoned for his role in Bulger's criminal activities. Costigan's undercover role as a former State trooper who joins the Irish mob parallels the story of Richard Marinick, a former State trooper who later joined Whitey Bulger's crime syndicate. Costigan also lives in Somerville, where Bulger's Winter Hill Gang began. Thomas Duffy, the film's technical advisor (he also plays the Governor at the State Police Academy graduation ceremony), is a former MSP major who was assigned to investigate the Irish mob upon making detective.

Reception The Departed was highly anticipated when it was released on October 6, 2006 in film to overwhelmingly positive reviews. The film is currently one of the highest-rated wide release films of 2006 on Rotten Tomatoes at 93%,http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/departed/ the sixth highest on Metacritic, and the twelfth highest on Yahoo! All-Time Top Movies (as determined by users).http://movies.yahoo.com/mvc/top10;_ylt=ArL0cuK.N6E1ht6eovYCdrhfVXcA As of May 14, 2007, The Departed is also the highest-rated film of 2006 on IMDb's Top 250, coming as high as #40 in the all-time rankings,http://www.imdb.com/chart/top and is among the highest-rated films of the decade on IMDb's "Best of the 2000s" List at #8.http://www.imdb.com/chart/2000s

Popular critic James Berardinelli awarded the film four stars out of four, praising it as "an American epic tragedy." He went on to compare the film favorably to the onslaught of banality offered by American studios in recent years. "The movies have been in the doldrums lately. The Departed is a much needed tonic," he wrote. He also went on to claim that the film deserves to be ranked alongside Scorsese's past successes, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas.http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/departed.html

Andrew Lau, the co-director of Infernal Affairs, who was interviewed by Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, said, "Of course I think the version I made is better, but the Hollywood version is pretty good too. made the Hollywood version more attuned to American culture." Andy Lau, one of the main actors in Infernal Affairs, when asked how the movie compares to the original, said, "The Departed was too long and it felt as if Hollywood had combined all three Infernal Affairs movies together." Lau pointed out that the remake featured some of the "golden quotes" of the original but did have much more swearing. He ultimately rated The Departed 8/10 and said that the Hollywood remake is worth a view, though "the effect of combining the two female characters in the original into one isn't as good as in the original", according to Lau's spokeswoman Alice Tam.

The film also evoked some controversy in Boston. Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of the Southie memoirs All Souls and Easter Rising, wrote an op-ed piece for The Boston Globehttp://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/10/11/revisiting_southies_culture_of_death/?p1=MEWell_Pos3 praising the film's ability to recreate the "strangulating" culture created by Boston gangsters, politicians, and law enforcement officials at all levels of local, state, and federal government - a culture of violent death and silence that led to years of young suicides and an epidemic of painkilling through heroin and Oxycontin. The op-ed piece caused a stir in Boston, eliciting a missive from a South Boston state senator as well as letters from South Boston real estate agents concerned about the "negative" depiction of the "trendy" neighborhood of South Boston.

The film grossed $26,887,467 in its opening weekend, becoming the third Scorsese film to debut at #1. The film saw small declines in later weeks, remaining in the list of top ten films for seven weeks. The film grossed $132,384,315 domestically and $289,835,021 worldwide. Budgeted at $90 million, the film is believed to be the most commercially successful of Scorsese's features and is his highest-grossing film to date, easily besting The Aviator's previous record of $102.6 million.

Also, film critic Richard Roeper named this film #1 on his list of the Best Films of 2006.

The film won four Academy Awards at the 79th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), and Best Adapted Screenplay (William Monahan). Mark Wahlberg was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance.

Awards and nominations {| class="wikitable"! Award! Category! Winner/Nominee! Won|-|rowspan="5"|79th Academy Awards|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|-|Best Screenplay - Adapted|[William Monahan|bgcolor="#FF0000"|No|-|[American Cinema Editors|Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic|Thelma Schoonmaker|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Yes|-|Art Directors Guild Awards 2006|colspan="2"|Excellence in Production Design - Contemporary Film|bgcolor="#FF0000"|No|-|rowspan="2"|Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2006|Best Actor|Leonardo DiCaprio|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#00FF00"|Yes|-|Best Supporting Actor|Jack Nicholson|-|rowspan="5"|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2006|colspan="2"|Best Cast|bgcolor="#FF0000"|No|-|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|rowspan="4" bgcolor="#00FF00"|Yes|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|-|Best Screenplay|William Monahan|-|Best Supporting Actor|Mark Wahlberg|-|rowspan="6"|BAFTA Film Awards 2006|Best Actor|Leonardo DiCaprio|-|rowspan="8"|[Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2006|colspan="3"|Top 10 Films of the Year (#3)|-|Best Actor|Leonardo Dicaprio|rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FF0000"|No|-|colspan="2"|Best Cast|-|Best Composer|Howard Shore|Best Actor|Leonardo DiCaprio|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FF0000"|No|-|Best Cinematography|[Michael Ballhaus|colspan="3"|Top 10 Films of the Year (#2)|-|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|[Directors Guild of America Awards 2006|Outstanding Directorial Achievement|Martin Scorsese|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|rowspan="4"|Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2006|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|rowspan="4" bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|-|Best Screenplay|William Monahan|-|Best Supporting Actor|Jack Nicholson|-|rowspan="6"|Golden Globe Awards]|Best Screenplay - Adapted|William Monahan|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|rowspan="3"|Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2006|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|rowspan="3" bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Best Editing|Thelma Schoonmaker|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|-|MTV Movie Awards|colspan="3"|Top 10 Films of the Year (#4)|-|colspan="2"|Best Cast|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|-|rowspan="3"|[New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2006|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#ff0000"|No|-|Best Screenplay|William Monahan|-|National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006|Best Supporting Actor|Mark Wahlberg|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|rowspan="7"|Online Film Critics Society Awards 2006|Best Actor|Leonardo DiCaprio|bgcolor="#ff0000"|No|-|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Best Editing|Thelma Schoonmaker|rowspan="5" bgcolor="#ff0000"|No|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|-|Best Screenplay - Adapted|William Monahan|-|Best Supporting Actor|Jack Nicholson|-|Best Supporting Actor|Mark Wahlberg|-|Producers Guild of America Awards 2006|Motion Picture Producer of the Year|Graham King|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|rowspan="4" bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Best Editing|Thelma Schoonmaker|-|Best Supporting Actor|Jack Nicholson|-|Best Screenplay - Adapted|William Monahan|-|rowspan="6"|[Satellite Awards 2006|colspan="2"|Best Cast|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|bgcolor="#ff0000"|No|-|colspan="2"|Best Film - Drama|rowspan="3" bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Best Screenplay - Adapted|William Monahan|-|Best Supporting Actor|Leonardo DiCaprio|-|Best Supporting Actor|Jack Nicholson|bgcolor="#ff0000"|No|-|rowspan="2"|Screen Actors Guild Awards 2006|colspan="2"|Best Cast|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#ff0000"|No|-|Best Supporting Actor|Leonardo DiCaprio|-|rowspan="3"|Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 2006|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|rowspan="3" bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|colspan="2"|Best Film|-|Best Screenplay - Adapted|William Monahan|-|Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2006|Best Director|Martin Scorsese|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|-|Writers Guild of America Awards 2006|Best Screenplay - Adapted|William Monahan|bgcolor="#00ff00"|Yes|}

London Film Critics Circle:

Nominated: Film of the Year
Nominated: British Producer (Graham King)
Nominated: Best Director (Martin Scorsese)

Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards:

Won: Best Gangstertainment

Toronto Film Critics Association:

Nominated: Best Picture
Nominated: Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Nominated: Best Supporting Male Performance (Mark Wahlberg)
Nominated: Best Screenplay (William Monahan)

DVD and HD release

The Departed was released by Warner Brothers on DVD on February 13, 2007 in Region 1 format and on February 19, 2007 in Region 2 format, and has also been released on March 14, 2007 in Region 4 format. The film is available in a single-disc full screen (1:33:1), single-disc widescreen (2:40:1) edition, and 2-disc special edition. The Region 1 version has three available audio tracks: English, Spanish, and French (all of which are in Dolby Digital 5.1), and also three subtitle tracks (English, Spanish, French). The film was also released on HD DVD and Blu-ray at the same time as the standard-definition DVD.

See also

Notes

Further reading

External links

Official website of The Departed
The script at Internet Movie Script Database

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Vera Farmiga
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The Departed is a [2006 in film crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (in his third movie with Scorsese), Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. It is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2007.

This film takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, where notorious Irish mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Nicholson) plants his protege, career criminal Colin Sullivan (Damon) as an Mole (espionage) within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover cop Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides of the law realize the situation, each man is ordered to discover the identity of the other informant before they are found out.

Plot The film begins in South Boston and Charlestown during the Boston riots featuring a montage of documentary footage with voice-over narration by Irish mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Jack Nicholson). In the late 1980s, Costello is in a local store to collect his pay-off money from the owner. A young boy is there, Colin Sullivan, eating at the counter, and Frank takes a liking to him. He has the owner give Colin two bags of groceries and tells him to come look for him, if he ever wants to make some extra money.

CUT TO: Many years later, an older Sullivan, now in his mid twenties, (Matt Damon) is finishing his training for the Massachusetts State Police with classmates, including fellow cadet Barrigan (James Badge Dale). In another class are cadet Brown (Anthony Anderson) and Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio). All four men graduate to become state troopers. Sullivan is a sergeant, and has just passed the state trooper detective test. He goes in to meet with the calm and collected Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen), and the aggressive and cynical Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) of the Special Investigations Unit. When Sullivan exits, Costigan goes in. The undercover division of the Special Investigations Unit wants to assign Costigan, whose family has long had ties with the Boston underworld, to infiltrate Costello's crew. For his service, he gets a "bonus", tax-free payment upon completion of his assignment. To make his assignment believable to everyone, especially Costello, they create a false conviction on Costigan for assault. He will get a four month jail sentence and afterwards probation with mandatory sessions with a psychiatrist. His police academy record and file are concealed from the public, and even the department itself, and the only ones who can access Costigan's file are Queenan and Dignam.

), Queenan (Martin Sheen), and Dignam (Mark Wahlberg).

Sullivan, along with Barrigan and Brown, is now in an elite task force of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) headed by the sardonically humorous Captain Ellerby (Alec Baldwin). They are after Costello and are coordinating with the FBI. Staff Sergeant Dignam introduces himself to the group but does not reveal whether or not they have a mole in Costello's gang. They briefly go over what it is that the department is targeting: Francis Costello and military micro-chips. They expect that Costello will sell them to China. A freelance thief had stolen the twenty mirco-processors but somehow ended up deceased in a dumpster.

Costigan is out of jail and uses his drug-dealing cousin as a back-handed way of attracting Costello's attention and fights a man in a bar. He then becomes a member of his crew, pairing up with his right-hand man Mr. French (Ray Winstone). Costello tells Costigan that he knew, respected, and feared his father and Uncle Jackie, both of whom were heavily involved in the criminal underworld. It is therefore these two family connections which really motivate Costello more than anything else to try and assist Costigan in his own questionable way.

Meanwhile, Sullivan begins a romantic relationship with criminal psychiatrist Madolyn (Vera Farmiga), who also happens to be the assigned psychiatrist for Costigan as a part of his probation for the fabricated assault conviction. Although she wants to keep their relationship strictly professional, a romantic triangle develops, but Costigan and Sullivan remain oblivious to each other's identity.

During one of his heists Costello, through Sullivan's information, discovers that there is a police informer in his organization. To catch the insider, he requires each member to fill in his particulars in a form, including social security numbers. Costigan knows that this envelope will end up in the hands of Costello's man at the police. He follows Costello (who has the envelope) into a pornography theater, where he witnesses Costello handing over the envelope to Sullivan, whose face is hidden in the darkened auditorium. Attempting to disclose the mole's identity, Costigan shadows Sullivan into the streets, only to eventually lose him in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Sullivan is assigned to uncover the mole in SIU (himself). This makes for some tension between Sullivan and Dignam, whose suspicion of Sullivan rises. Above suspicion, Sullivan focuses instead on finding the police snitch in Costello's crew. Sullivan orders the SIU to trail Queenan and eventually follows him to a meeting with Costigan on the rooftop of a run-down building on the harbor. Having become insomniac, dependant on Valium and suffering from panic attacks, Costigan explains he wants out, to which Queenan assures him that while it cannot be done overnight, he will get him out of it. Sullivan tells Costello's men that the snitch is most likely at the building. As the men approach, Costigan flees, but Queenan stays behind and is confronted by them and thrown off the building to his death. In the ensuing gunfire, between Costello's men and the police, the officer who tailed Queenan is wounded and Delahunt, one of Costello's men is critically wounded. Later on when the men return to their hideout, Timothy Delahunt (proved later to be yet another undercover officer) just before dying reveals to Costigan that he knows he's the mole.

Sullivan orders Dignam to hand over the information regarding his undercover, which Dignam refuses. Ellerby, who has taken over the department for Queenan, orders Dignam off duty with pay for two weeks. Guilt-ridden over having indirectly caused his senior officer's death, Sullivan finds Queenan's cell phone in his homicide file and calls Costigan, pretending to be the new agent assigned to replace Queenan. After Costigan hangs up, Sullivan finds information in Queenan's file indicating that Costello is an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and immediately begins to fear betrayal.

Costello and his crew are being tailed to an old warehouse where they are to pick up a shipment of cocaine. Sullivan disengages the tail at Costello's demand and sets up a police ambush at the scene instead. Costigan, wary that the police potentially know of the situation, manages to slip away unnoticed. Costello's entire crew is killed in the ensuing shoot-out, and a wounded Costello abandons the car in which Arnold French and him were driving and escapes to another part of the warehouse, only to end up in a tense confrontation with Sullivan. Costello admits to his informant status and denies telling anybody about Sullivan's connection to him as he feels Sullivan is like a son to him but Sullivan doesn't believe Costello and insults him before Costello attempts to shoot him. After an exchange of gunshots Costello is killed by Sullivan.

Later at the station Sullivan arrives to praise from his co-workers and meets Costigan, who asks to simply receive his payment and be allowed to leave. While Sullivan retrieves Costigan's information in another office, Costigan notices Costello's envelope on Sullivan's desk and quickly flees. Sullivan realizes that Costigan has discovered his true identity and erases Costigan's police file. Following his flight from the station, Costigan appears outside of Madolyn's old apartment. He gives her an envelope, telling her to open it if anything should happen to him, or if she doesn't hear from him within two weeks. On a subsequent morning, Madolyn is at Sullivan's apartment, and finds an envelope from Costigan in his mail. It contains recordings of Sullivan and Costello's conversations, along with a phone number. Madolyn reveals the recordings to Sullivan and immediately ends her relationship with him. Sullivan calls the phone number and speaks to Costigan, who reveals to Sullivan that Costello kept the recordings as insurance to use as a possible legal immunity if he was arrested. He also reports to Sullivan that Costello's lawyer came to Bill with the recordings, meaning that Costello trusted Costigan the most of all of his men. They arrange to meet where Queenan died.

) confronts CostiganOn the rooftop where Queenan was killed, Costigan confronts and handcuffs Sullivan, intending to arrest him regardless if the charges don't stick. Trooper Brown appears and tries to talk down Costigan, who, claiming that he has substantial proof that Sullivan is the rat, quickly flees into an elevator, holding his gun to Sullivan's head. The elevator reaches the bottom floor, and just as Costigan begins to exit, he is shot in the head by Barrigan. Barrigan starts to uncuff Sullivan but then Trooper Brown arrives and sees Costigan's body and begins lowering his gun. Barrigan shoots Brown in the head. Barrigan reveals to Sullivan that he is also a mole in the police force and aware of Costello's informant status. Being that they are the only ones remaining, Barrigan says they need to look out for one another. As the two begin to manipulate the crime scene, Sullivan asks for the gun to clean the fingerprints, and as Barrigan looks away, Sullivan shoots him in the head. To save himself, heblames everything on Barrigan and recommends Costigan for a posthumous Medal of Merit in a later testimony. At Costigan's funeral, Madolyn, now pregnant with Costigan's child, walks away from Sullivan in silence.

Following the funeral, Sullivan returns home to find Dignam waiting there, having been tipped off by Madolyn about his connection to Costello. As the staff sergeant is hesistant to kill him, Sullivan merely accepts his fate, Dignam shoots him in the head and quickly leaves. As Sullivan's corpse lies in the apartment doorway, the camera pans out and a lone rat crawls conspicuously across the balcony railing, silhouetted against the gold dome of the Massachusetts State House.

Cast {| class="wikitable" width="75%"|+Main|- bgcolor="#efefef"! Actor! Role! Designation|-| Leonardo DiCaprio ] || State Trooper/Undercover Officer|-| Matt Damon ] || Francis "Frank" Costello || Head of the Irish Mob|-| Mark Wahlberg ] || Capt. Oliver "Charlie" Queenan || Commander, Undercover Unit|-| Vera Farmiga ] || Mr. French || Costello's Second in Command|-| Alec Baldwin ] || Trooper Brown || Sullivan's Tac Team|-| Kristen Dalton ] || Trooper Barrigan || Sullivan's Tac Team/Another Mob Informant|-| Robert Wahlberg ] || Fitzy || Costello's Mobster|-| Mark Rolston ] and then Denis Leary, who turned it down because of his commitment to the TV series 'Rescue Me'. Robert de Niro was also offered the role of Queenan by Scorsese, but he turned it down due to filming The Good Shepherd.

Themes Film critic Stanley Kauffman describes a major theme of The Departed as one of the oldest in drama—the concept of identity—and how it "affects one's actions, emotions, self-assurance, and even dreams."Kauffmann, Stanley. (Oct 30, 2006). Themes and Schemes. The New Republic. Vol. 235, Issue 18.

The father-son relationship is a motif throughout the film. Costello acts as a father figure to both Sullivan and Costigan and Queenan acts as Costello's foil in the role of father-figure presenting both sides of the Irish-American father archetype.http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06279/727779-120.stm

The film also explores a variety of masculine crises; from impotence to the perceived emasculation of subjecting oneself to 'talk' therapy.

In Rolling Stone magazine, Scorsese linked the zero-sum feeling of the end of his movie to real-world feelings toward terrorism and the war on terrorism. The fate of the main characters and the desperate and limited life choices they have to choose from can be seen as analogous to young soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan for example.

Soundtrack music There were two albums released for The Departed, one presenting the original score composed for the movie by Howard Shore, and the other featuring earlier recordings, mostly pop/rock songs, which were used on the soundtrack.

Music from the Motion Picture album {{Infobox Album | Name = The Departed| Type = Soundtrack| Longtype =| Artist = Various Artists, [2006
[Film music
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Although "Gimme Shelter" is featured in the film, the song does not appear on the album soundtrack. Also heard in the movie but not featured on the soundtrack is "Thief's Theme" by Nas, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" by John Lennon and the Act II Sextet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Tracklisting

"Comfortably Numb" (Roger Waters Feat. Van Morrison and The Band, version from The Wall Concert in Berlin) – 7:59

"Sail On, Sailor" (Beach Boys) – 3:18

"Let It Loose" (Rolling Stones) – 5:18

"Sweet Dreams" (Roy Buchanan) – 3:32

"One Way Out (song)" (Allman Brothers Band) – 4:57

"Baby Blue" (Badfinger) – 3:36

"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (Dropkick Murphys) – 2:34

"Nobody But Me" (Human Beinz) – 2:18

"Tweedle Dee" (LaVern Baker) – 3:10

"Sweet Dreams (Patsy Cline song)" (Patsy Cline) – 2:34

"The Departed Tango" (Howard Shore, Marc Ribot) – 3:32

"Beacon Hill" (Howard Shore, Sharon Isbin) – 2:33

"Cops or Criminals" – 2:01

"344 Wash" – 2:03

"Beacon Hill" – 2:36

"The Faithful Departed" – 3:01

"Colin" – 2:09

"Madolyn" – 2:14

"Billy's Theme" – 6:58

"Command" – 3:15

"Chinatown" – 3:16

"Boston Common" – 2:53

"Miss Thing" – 1:45

"The Baby" – 2:48

"The Last Rites" – 3:05

"The Departed Tango" – 3:38

Nominated: Film of the Year
Nominated: British Producer (Graham King)
Nominated: Best Director (Martin Scorsese)

Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards:

Won: Best Gangstertainment

Toronto Film Critics Association:

Nominated: Best Picture
Nominated: Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Nominated: Best Supporting Male Performance (Mark Wahlberg)
Nominated: Best Screenplay (William Monahan)

Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs II
Infernal Affairs III
Irish American
Irish Mob
79th Academy Awards
Untitled The Departed sequel

Notes

Further reading

External links

Official website of The Departed
The script at Internet Movie Script Database

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