The Departed
Medium: film
Publication date: 6 Oct. 2006
Publisher:
8 characters in this story:
| Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
Religious Affiliation |
Team(s) [Notes] |
Pub. | # app. |
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[undercover cop infiltrating Frank Costello's mob crew] | , etc. |
1 | |||||||
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Mafia [infiltrates police on behalf of the mob] |
, etc. |
1 | ||||||
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[crime syndicate] |   |
118 | |||||||
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[police department] | |
1 | |||||||
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Mafia [loosely based on gangster Whitey Bulger] |
, etc. |
1 | ||||||
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Asian; The Triads [Triad member who infiltrates Hong Kong police] |
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3 | |||||||
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Asian; The Triads [triad boss that Lau Kin-ming secretly works for] |
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3 | |||||||
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Asian; The Triads [undercover cop; infiltrates Triads] |
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3 |
This film is an adaptation of: Infernal Affairs (2002) - film 1 in Infernal Affairs series.
The Departed is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong feature film Infernal Affairs, the but this remake is set in the United States. With new settings, nationalities and names and various plot changes, the characters in The Departed can be said to appear first in this film, although many of them have antecedents in Infernal Affairs.
