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When is a remake a masterpiece?(The Departed)(Movie review)
JUST AS A DECENT PLOT or character wasn't safe near Shakespeare or his contemporaries, film-makers have been making and remaking each other's films L7 since the silent era. Sometimes it has been carefully concealed. Akira Kurosawa didn't let on until much later that the plot of his great samurai film Yojimbo, starring Toshiro Mifune, had been lifted from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest, where the American novelist's unnamed hero the Continental Op plays one criminal gang off against the other. In Kurosawa's hands there wasn't a trace of American idiom. The hero was a disillusioned wandering samurai, not a private eye, and the film was full of black humour, whereas ...
- Thriller sparked by Hong Kong's 'Infernal Affairs'.
- Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) October 6, 2006 700+ words
...years before The Departed, there was Infernal Affairs, a Hong Kong thriller that is the...on DVD (along with two sequels), Infernal Affairs has the basic shape of the American...and have often worked together -- Infernal Affairs does not have the celebrity oomph...
- HONG KONG'S 'INFERNAL AFFAIRS' WINS BEST FILM AWARD.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 15, 2003 700+ words
...15 Asia Pulse - Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs" was selected "The Best Picture...Horse Awards are: Best Picture - "Infernal Affairs" Best Director - Andrew Lau and Alan Mak ("Infernal Affairs") Best Actor - Tony Leung...
- The power of three: with the release if Infernal Affairs III this December,...
- Magazine article from: Asia Image Chung, Winnie November 1, 2003 700+ words
...surprising that much interest and hope lay with Infernal Affairs, the trilogy that began with last year...same name and will end this Christmas with Infernal Affairs III. Infernal Affairs, directed by Andrew Lau Wai Keung and Alan...
- Takings for Infernal Affairs II not expected to beat first film.(In Hong...
- Magazine article from: Asia Image October 1, 2003 700+ words
...Producers of Hong Kong box office hit Infernal Affairs, Media Asia, does not have high...screens in the first week of October. Infernal Affairs collected box office receipts of HK...for a remake. "We don't expect infernal Affairs II to (do better than the first movie...
- "Infernal Affairs" sequels on track despite SARS. (Production News).
- Magazine article from: Asia Image June 1, 2003 700+ words
...Production for the sequels of action blockbuster Infernal Affairs is on track despite SARS fears, said Fred...combined budget of HK$100 million to produce Infernal Affairs 2 and Infernal Affairs 3. The films will be shot primarily in Hong...
- Infernal complications can't spoil a fine affair; Also Showing - Infernal...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) August 8, 2004 700+ words
...same film so they don't count. Infernal Affairs II does. Although it's more of...and, arguably, improves on it. Infernal Affairs was an ultrastylish, blockbusting...and now played by Hong Kong teen Infernal Affairs Il (18) **** heartthrobs Edison...
- 'Infernal Affairs' director hopes for hit in China
- News wire article from: AP Online July 29, 2009 700+ words
"Infernal Affairs" co-director Alan Mak hopes...You Are the One." Mak, whose "Infernal Affairs" was remade by Martin Scorsese...directed "Overheard" with "Infernal Affairs" script writer Felix Chong, said...
- 'Hero,' 'Infernal Affairs' keep the action coming; 'De-Lovely' with...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 23, 2004 700+ words
...divergent new Chinese winners, Hero and Infernal Affairs ($29.99 each). They're our...ingenious and intense crime thriller "Infernal Affairs" (already tapped for a Hollywood...Kong's answer to Bob Hoskins), "Infernal Affairs" rates as the most satisfying policer...
