The Departed is a remake of a 2002 film Hong Kong action movie Infernal Affairs. The movies are both based on a real-life Irish American Gangster Whitey Bulger, who was captured on June 22, 2011. In January 2003 the film studio Warner Brother’s producer Brad Grey, and actor and producer Brad Pitt bought the rights to remake the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002) from Media Asia for $1.75 million. The movie a drama, crime, thriller was produced by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. The production companies that help fund the movie were Warner Brothers, Initial Entertainment Group, Plan B Entertainment, Vertigo Films and Media Asia Films. The Departed had a budget of 90 million dollars and was released October 6, 2006. There
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The movie, which is classic Noir, has the main characters as undercover agents and gang members. It was filmed in a city and much of the scenes were taken at night and plenty of dark silhouettes of Costello walking through a warehouse to an exciting chase through Chinatown to the dark movie theater where Costello has a key meeting. Then, the film, moves forward with constant action and finds all sorts of complications and action. It also understands this violence is conducted so no one else can hear it or see it, providing every victim with the kind of shocking, cold and lonely ending they should expect. The film's mise-en-scene establishes the inner-city environment with images of old abandoned warehouses, graffiti walls and trashed-up alleyways, and the working class Irish values with settings in grungy neighborhood bars, pictures of Catholic iconography, and men drinking beer from cans. The movie was low key lighting used on the main character and a lot of close-ups. These are used to show emotions, provoke mood and develop character. The cinematography in the movie has a rough, edgy, and gritty feel. (Waffles, …show more content…
Camera movement often signifies the beginning or the conclusion of scene. This occurs often with quick camera movements directly before a cut to the next scene. Camera movement is also often used in place of wide-angle shots to show the setting. Dolly movement is also common in the film. This is when a smooth horizontal movement. When a scene calls for an overload on dialogue and stationary camera, the film will interlace shots with dolly movement in them to keep the action moving. Other time dolly movements are utilized to move in close on a subject to get a reaction or to move a conversation back in forth. The chaotic movement of the camera increases the intensity of the scenes. Another movement that he uses not so sparingly is the 180-degree movement. The camera will move really rapidly from one side of the frame to the other to catch everything in frame. This portrays a sense of hurry or sometimes even sets the scene. Sometimes the camera takes its time getting from one side of frame to the other, ensuing a contrasting mood of tedium, slowing the pace of the film. (World Press, 2013).
Sound and music is another aspect in The Departed. The most diegetic sound used in this film was dialogue. The speaking of the characters is the main sound in the movie. The sound effects and music, which are the non-diegetic sound, are also heard throughout the film. From the explosions of cars and building to the rain drops these create the sense
The movie, which is classic Noir, has the main characters as undercover agents and gang members. It was filmed in a city and much of the scenes were taken at night and plenty of dark silhouettes of Costello walking through a warehouse to an exciting chase through Chinatown to the dark movie theater where Costello has a key meeting. Then, the film, moves forward with constant action and finds all sorts of complications and action. It also understands this violence is conducted so no one else can hear it or see it, providing every victim with the kind of shocking, cold and lonely ending they should expect. The film's mise-en-scene establishes the inner-city environment with images of old abandoned warehouses, graffiti walls and trashed-up alleyways, and the working class Irish values with settings in grungy neighborhood bars, pictures of Catholic iconography, and men drinking beer from cans. The movie was low key lighting used on the main character and a lot of close-ups. These are used to show emotions, provoke mood and develop character. The cinematography in the movie has a rough, edgy, and gritty feel. (Waffles, …show more content…
Camera movement often signifies the beginning or the conclusion of scene. This occurs often with quick camera movements directly before a cut to the next scene. Camera movement is also often used in place of wide-angle shots to show the setting. Dolly movement is also common in the film. This is when a smooth horizontal movement. When a scene calls for an overload on dialogue and stationary camera, the film will interlace shots with dolly movement in them to keep the action moving. Other time dolly movements are utilized to move in close on a subject to get a reaction or to move a conversation back in forth. The chaotic movement of the camera increases the intensity of the scenes. Another movement that he uses not so sparingly is the 180-degree movement. The camera will move really rapidly from one side of the frame to the other to catch everything in frame. This portrays a sense of hurry or sometimes even sets the scene. Sometimes the camera takes its time getting from one side of frame to the other, ensuing a contrasting mood of tedium, slowing the pace of the film. (World Press, 2013).
Sound and music is another aspect in The Departed. The most diegetic sound used in this film was dialogue. The speaking of the characters is the main sound in the movie. The sound effects and music, which are the non-diegetic sound, are also heard throughout the film. From the explosions of cars and building to the rain drops these create the sense