Issue 8
Vanishing Points

The Originality of The Departed Over Infernal Affairs.

  • Paula de Felipe Martínez
Paula de Felipe Martínez
Membrillo Proyectos Culturales
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/172

Published 2009-07-01

Keywords

  • autonomy,
  • remake,
  • complex and troubled male characters,
  • guilt,
  • sexual repression,
  • perversion of the American dream,
  • rewriting of the script,
  • storyboard,
  • cultural referents,
  • identities,
  • narrative structure,
  • parallel editing,
  • rootlessness,
  • misogyny
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How to Cite

de Felipe Martínez, P. (2009). The Originality of The Departed Over Infernal Affairs. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (8), 118–123. https://doi.org/10.63700/172
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Abstract

This article establishes a comparison between the film Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou, Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak, 2002) and its remake, The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). The author defends the originality of the latter over the former since, despite their plot and structure similarities, Scorsese was able to infuse it with his authorship and insert it in his particular style.

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ALTED, Ignacio. 2006. Scorsese & Stones. http://blogs.epi.es/lostiemposcambian/2006/12/13/scorsese-stones/.

CASSETI, Francesco y DI CHIO, Federico. 2007. Cómo analizar un film. Ed. Paidós Ibérica. Barcelona.

GONZALEZ FUENTES, Jose Antonio. 2006. http://www.ojosdepapel.com/Blogs/JuanAntonioGonzalezFuentes/Blog/Infiltrados-de-Scorsese.

MONTERDE, Jose Enrique. 2000. Martin Scorsese. Ed. Cátedra. Madrid.