The Departed is a 2006 thriller film thats produced by 8 time Oscar nominee and Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese. The stars of the film include Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Vera Farmiga. Martin Scorsese has made many popular thriller films including Shutter Island and Hugo. He likes to use the common gangster theme as well as using the same actors to play main characters in his films, for example, Leonardo DiCaprio has been in around 5 of Scorsese's films.The duel narrative of The Departed follows two separate people, one working for the police to get information about a gang and the other in a gang getting information about the police. The film focuses on many binary oppositions, the main one obviously being police versus the gang. Each side has a rat who is giving away information to the other side (the enemy).
Leonardo DiCaprio plays the undercover agent in the gang and Matt Damon plays the highly though of police officer who is actually working for the gangsters. DiCaprio wears dark clothes, even though he is the protagonist in the narrative, to fit in with the other gangsters dark clothing, where as Damon wears suits and lives in a posh apartment to show how trusted he is by the police when in actual truth he's the bad guy. The building of the police is always in high key lighting where as the buildings that the gangsters are in low key lighting to show the good and bad.
Camera shots include a variety of close ups, long shots and the occasional handheld shot to show the chaos portrayed in the film. The main gangster leader is shown from a low angle to show that he is the powerful character and everyone is intimidated by him.
Altogether, I thought that the film was brilliant and some elements could be taken forward intot he development and planning of my thriller film.
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