First of all, did you know they were making a sequel to the American version of The Grudge: The Grudge 2. It’s not like the 1st movie didn’t suck enough (compared to the original the Ju-on). Interesting enough is the fact that both the Japanese version and the American version are by the same director (Takashi Shimizu). I guess he thought if someone was going to leech off his movie and make big bucks off his idea, it should be him.
Any way, this posts was meant for another movie that’s copying an Asian film: The Departed. After rewatching the trailer, it’s a complete rip off of Infernal Affairs (無間道). I highly recommended this movie if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s actually a trilogy, but part 2 and 3 aren’t really worth watching. When this movie came out in Hong Kong, this was like the Matrix of HK film industry. Every movie that came after it was compared to this. They tried to bring this movie to the states, but the marketing was done pretty poorly and it didn’t really get popular. In fact, the DVD cover features a woman I don’t even remember being part of the movie. I guess it’s sole reason to have that chick there is to attract eyes.
Watching the trailer, there were some obvious things they reused:
- The cast on the arm to listen onto the conversation
- The police academy which both main characters attended
- The conversation between the boss villain and the police leak in the movie theater
- Several roof top scenes – including conversations between the mole and his supervisor (and also I’m guessing the final scene)
You can watch the trailer of Infernal Affairs trailer here.
I do want to make a correction, the working title of this move was indeed called “Infernal Affairs”, however I guess whoever’s directing decided “The Departed” was a better title.
//krunk (^_^x)