The Departed

• remake of the Hong Kong action movie "internal investigation" (2001). Its action is moved from Hong Kong to Boston, . and Chinese gangs are replaced by the American mafia. The script by William Monegena (after joining the project of Jack Nicholson's screenplay was reworked pretty - so, . Nicholson argued, . that bed scene to "priperchit" and gave some advice about the scenes involving his character). The cast of the film were drawn on the principle of "Who will be the next star?",
. First, the two performers on the main characters were taken DiCaprio and Damon. Then, the film attracted Mark Wahlberg, then (in the role of Mafia boss) - Jack Nicholson. On the role of the police chief claimed Robert De Niro, . but because of employment in his directorial project "The Good Shepherd was forced to give up (curiously, . that Leonardo DiCaprio made a reverse move - away from the "Good Shepherd", . to play in "The Departed"),
. In the role of Madeleine, inherited Vera Farmiga, Scorsese wanted to see Kate Winslet or Hilary Swank. For vzhivaniya in the role Matt Damon a couple of weeks he worked for the Boston Police: participated in patrols, arrest criminals, surveillance and exposure of the drug gangs. Manufacturing companies - Initial Entertainment Group, Plan B, Vertigo Entertainment. Budget - 90 million. Filming - April-September 2005 (Boston, New York - Martin Scorsese had to move here most of the shootings, although the action takes place in Boston: New York authorities give filmmakers 15 percent tax credit). Tagline: "Cops or criminals - what's the difference if the person you look loaded weapons?". Distributor - Warner Bros. Release - October 6, 2006. Martin Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942. He was educated in a strict Catholic family and was preparing to become a priest. However, he soon escaped from this employment and went to the University of New York to study art cinema. In 1963 took his first 9-minute film <What makes this such a wonderful girl, how are you?>. In 1967 comes a short film and finally in 1969 - the debut full-length movie <Who's Knocking at My Door?>. Soon, Scorsese had left New York and went to Hollywood. There he worked as an editor and got the nickname <Butcher> for the ruthless manner of mounting. Then he returned to New York to create his first masterpiece - the autobiographical drama <Mean Streets> (1973). That this film Scorsese has put forward in the front ranks of American cinematic talent. The next milestone was <Taxi Driver> (1976) - the film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 1976. In 1979 he took sports drama <Raging Bull> on the boxer Jake La Motta, who was considered one of the best films of 1980 and brought the director to the first of his six nominations <Oscar>. The first real box-office hit of Scorsese's film is <Color of Money> (1986). The success of the picture made it possible to begin shooting <Last Temptation of Christ>, which came out in 1988. Partial filmography: <Alice Does not Live Here Anymore> (1974, . prize for best director of the British Academy), . <King of Comedy> (1982), . <After Hours> (1985, . Cannes Palme d'Or for Best Director), . <New York Stories> (1989, . one of the episodes), . <Good guys> (1990, . Nomination for <Oscar> and the British Film Academy Award), . <Cape Fear> (1991), . <The Age of Innocence> (1993, . Nomination for <Oscar>), . <Casino> (1995), . <Kundun> (1997), . <Bringing Out the Dead> (1999), . <Gangs of New York> (2002, . <Golden Globe> and nomination of <Oscar>), . <Aviator> (2004)., .