Word: cops
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...show “The Surreal Life,” and was successful enough there to land his own reality dating show, “Flavor of Love.” These days, even Ice T—notorious for his ever-so-slightly controversial song “Cop Killer”—plays a police officer on television’s “Law and Order.” In a more sordid twist, both T and Snoop Dogg have taken their pimpin’ personas all the way to the bank, with their...
...with the explosive “Departed,” Scorsese delivers a film nothing short of a masterpiece in modern storytelling.Irish-American crime lord Frank Costello, played by Jack Nicholson, plants a mole (Damon) in the police force at the same time that the police place an undercover cop (DiCaprio) in Costello’s close-knit crime syndicate. This ingenious premise is complicated further when the two insiders both fall for the same psychiatrist (Vera Farmiga, “Running Scared”) who is unaware of their secrets.The script by William Monahan was adapted from...
...this one dares to strain credulity. Once or twice, a skeptical viewer may ask, What are the odds? The odds that Billy would commit all manner of crimes, to prove his underworld bona fides, and never get so much as an interested glance, let alone a collar, from the cops who don't know he's one of them. The odds that Colin would rise so quickly in the force, and be deemed so trustworthy that he'd be assigned to sleuth out the rat on the team - himself. The Departed adds one coincidence even the Hong Kong film didn...
...third shot with Scorsese, after Gangs of New York and The Aviator, DiCaprio has become the director's new DeNiro - implosive instead of explosive, but just as crucial to each other's success and identity. I hope they make more films together, with DiCaprio as the tortured good cop in Scorsese's cinematic inferno...
...Departed -- A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-- cinema dirty-cop classic Infernal Affairs--marks the third collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio but the first between Scorsese and his friend of 30 years, Jack Nicholson. And Matt Damon takes the role of the bad guy--a rarity for him. During The Departed's New York City premiere, all four sat down for the most obscenity-redacted conversation in the history of TIME...