{"id":241,"date":"2006-10-13T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-10-13T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T05:15:00","slug":"the-departed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/13\/the-departed","title":{"rendered":"The Departed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll keep it short but sweet &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/departed\/\">&#8220;The Departed&#8221;<\/a> is no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/goodfellas\/\">&#8220;GoodFellas&#8221;<\/a> (nor was I expecting it to be), but this is one helluva movie.  Great performances all around from Leo and Matt (neither of whom I was ever a fan of), to Martin Sheen and of course the always excellent Jack Nicholson.  Even Mark Wahlberg had a great, albeit short role, as the second-in-command of &#8220;The Staties&#8221; (Boston slang for state cops).  <\/p>\n<p>This is not a gangster movie.  Rather, it shows how two moles infiltrate different sides of the law.  I&#8217;ve read that it&#8217;s based on the Chinese movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0338564\/\">&#8220;Internal Affairs&#8221;<\/a>.  which I haven&#8217;t seen yet.  I&#8217;m not sure how much of the script is a direct translation, but one thing &#8220;The Departed&#8221; has as an advantage over its Asian counterpart is Mr. Nicholson.  There is simply nobody else that can deliver those lines of dialogue quite the way he does.<\/p>\n<p>This is another career milestone for director Martin Scorsese.  Maybe this time the academy will finally give him the Oscar for Best Director.  Well worth your time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll keep it short but sweet &#8211; &#8220;The Departed&#8221; is no &#8220;GoodFellas&#8221; (nor was I expecting it to be), but this is one helluva movie. Great performances all around from Leo and Matt (neither of whom I was ever a fan of), to Martin Sheen and of course the always excellent Jack Nicholson. Even Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}