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''[[The Departed]]'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film and remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller ''[[Infernal Affairs]]''.
''The Departed'' was directed by [[Martin Scorsese]], written by William Monahan and stars [[Leonardo
This film takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, where notorious [[The Irish Mob|Irish Mob]] boss Francis "Frank" Costello plants Colin Sullivan as an informant within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover cop Billy Costigan, Jr. to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides of the law realize the situation, each man attempts to discover the
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* [[Age Cut]]: Colin Sullivan.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Madolyn Madden.
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The last shot features a rat scurrying across a balcony with the state house in the background.
* [[Anti
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The police's view on Miles Kennefik, killed by Costello. 'We're not here to solve the case of the missing scumbag.
**
** And at the end,
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Frank Costello embodies this trope.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Costigan to
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Anyone who can understand [[Chinese Dialects and Accents|Cantonese]] will get what the Chinese were ranting about, though their accents are off.
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'''Costello's Translator:''' The boss doesn't think it's wise to bring automatic weapons. Are you crazy? Put your weapons away! Quick! Come on!
'''Chinese Mob Boss:''' Put the guns down.... I'm ordering you, check the goods.
▲* [[Big Shut Up]]: Costigan to {{spoiler|Sullivan}}, [[Punctuated Pounding|punctuating each syllable with a punch to the face.]]
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]
* [[Blast Out]]: At one point a squad of cops follow Costello's men, with Sullivan ordering them to stay back and watch. Eventually they get fed up with this, ignore Sullivan's orders and charge in with guns blazing. The result is multiple casualties on both sides.
* [[California Doubling]]: [[Big Applesauce|New York]] stands in for Boston in some scenes.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The envelope}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]:
** {{spoiler|Barrigan}}, literally.
**
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: [[Jack Nicholson|"I smell a rat."]] Nicholson almost ''literally'' chews the scenery when doing his ''bizarre'' imitation of a "gnawing, ''cheese''-eating ''fucking'' rat
* [[Cluster F
* [[Country Matters]]: This gem:
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'''Billy Costigan:''' Sir, yes, sir. I have an idea...
'''Dignam:''' [interrupting] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's say you have no idea and leave it at that, okay? No idea. Zip. None. If you had an idea of what we do, we would not be good at what we do, now would we? We would be cunts. Are you calling us cunts?
'''Oliver Queenan:''' Staff Sergeant Dignam has a style of his own. I'm afraid we all have to get used to it.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: Once he sees the jig is up,
* [[Cut His Heart Out
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Sergeant Dignam in spades.
* [[Death Is Dramatic]]: Averted. One of the three leading actors is killed [[Boom! Headshot!|instantly]] with no warning whatsoever.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|[[Mark Wahlberg|Marky Mark]] kills [[Matt Damon]].}}▼
* [[Detective Mole]]: Sullivan.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Sullivan. Ironically, he's not very well liked within the department because everyone thinks that he's using his ''squeaky clean record'' ([[Professional Butt
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: One of the major themes of the film.
* [[The Dragon]]: Mr. French for Costello.▼
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: Reversed and played straight at two different points.
▲* [[The Dragon]]: Mr. French for Costello.
* [[Enhance Button]]: Subverted. Zooming all the way in on the security camera footage does not enable Sullivan to discern any more details about his pursuer.
* [[
* [[Evil
* [[Face Death
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Frank Costello.
** [[The Dragon]]
** [[Evil Genius]]: Colin Sullivan.
** [[Dark Chick]]: Fitzy and Delahunt.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: {{spoiler|Barrigan}}.
** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Billy Costigan.
* [[Foreign Remake]]: Of the Hong Kong film ''[[Infernal Affairs]]''.▼
* [[For the Evulz]]
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'''[[Complete Monster|Costello]]''': I haven't "needed the money" since I took Archie's milk money in the third grade. Tell you the truth, I don't need pussy any more either... but I like it.
▲* [[Foreign Remake]]: Of the Hong Kong film ''[[Infernal Affairs]]''
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Costigan is a love machine. Sullivan, meanwhile, seems to have issues with erectile dysfunction. Guess which one is the hero. Averted by Costello, however, who has an active sex life (even at his old age) despite being a far from exemplary individual.
* [[Had to Come
* [[Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah]]
* [[Hair
* [[Hired to Hunt Yourself]]: Sullivan.
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: {{spoiler|In the final scene}}.
* [[Hope Spot]]
* [[Hypocrite]]: Frank told Collin as a kid not to let anyone tell him what to do. {{spoiler|Frank's an FBI rat}}.
* [[I'll Kill You]]▼
* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]
▲* [[I'll Kill You!]]
* [[The Infiltration]]: Played straight and inverted.
* [[Invulnerable Knuckles]]: Averted. At one point, Costigan injures his hand punching out a goon and has to have it put in a cast.
* [[The Irish Mob]]: Costello (partially based on real-life [[The Irish Mob|Irish mobster]] Whitey Bulger) heads it.
* [[Jerkass]]: All the gangster characters, especially Sullivan, Costello and Mr. French, who fits the cake more so than everyone else.
** And to a lesser extent, the cop characters as well, Billy, Dignam and Ellerby. They ain't no better than the gangsters either.
* [[Jerk
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|At the end, it looks like Sullivan is going to get away scot-free. Then [[Reality Ensues|Dignam shoots him
* [[Kill
* [[Kudzu Plot]]: They stretch this out into a ''two-and-a-half hour movie''. Hell, the title card only comes in after 20 minutes!
* [[Large Ham]]: Jack Nicholson.
* [[MacGuffin]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded.]]
* [[Mexican Standoff]]
* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]
* [[The Mole]]: In both directions, even.
* [[Number Two]]: Dignam for Queenan.
* [[Obstructive Vigilantism]]: Dignam keeps mum about what he knows, and in the end, he {{spoiler|[[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|just shoots Sullivan]]}}.
* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Boston mob is composed by five members, twenty to forty percent of whom are
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]:
** [[Martin Sheen]], God bless him, and the therapist.
** [[Leonardo
** On a point of interest, Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon don't have this problem, because they're actually from the Boston area. Wahlberg specifically is even from a working class background who had a few run-ins with the cops as a teenager... making this [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Opening Monologue]]: Costello gives one.
* [[Overt Rendezvous]]: Whenever Queenan and Dignam need to chat with Costigan, they meet him in some park/riverbank area. This worries Costigan, because if anyone sees him with them, he's pretty much dead.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: In this case, a [[Justified Trope]].
* [[Politically
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted as most people in this movie die from getting shot in the head, and it's ''never'' pretty. It's also [[Defied Trope|defied]] in the opening montage at the academy, as the instructor details for his cadets the effects that their hollow point ammunition would have on a human skull.
* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: The credits don't appear until nearly 20 minutes after the start of the movie, by which time you've already seen a flashback scene, a [[Training Montage]], and the first plot twist.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Costello and Queenan are both correct in their assumptions that there's a mole in their
* [[Reality Ensues]]: At the end, {{spoiler|it looks like Sullivan is going to get away [[Karma Houdini|scot-free]]. Then Dignam unceremoniously shoots him dead
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Captain Queenan (who also has some overlap with [[Team Dad]]).
* [[Redemption Quest]]: Early in the film, Queenan and Dignam press Costigan on why he's trying to be a police officer and go over the numerous members of his family who were criminals. Costigan suggests that he is trying to improve the family name/history.
* [[Revised Ending]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Costello becomes more unhinged as the story progresses. Which is disturbing to see, since he's not terribly sane to start with.
* [[Self
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Sullivan's erectile dysfunction.
* [[Shout
* [[Shout
* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Staff Sergeant Dignam.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Sullivan grows increasingly more loathsome throughout the film, climaxing in his confrontation with Costigan on the roof and subsequent elevator ride.
* [[Southies]]
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]:
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** The echo of "What's the difference?" This is what Costello says in his opening monologue, then Billy to him in a bar later on.
** "School's Out."
* [[Surprisingly
* [[Television Geography]]: Boston's Government Center is portrayed as the Massachusetts State Police headquarters. In actuality, the MSP general headquarters is in Framingham.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: [[Averted Trope]]: Costigan must see a therapist as part of his "parole" and to maintain his cover.
* [[Title Drop]]: Thrice in English, once in Cantonese.
* [[Torture Always Works]]: In this case, it would be ultimately ''less'' painful to maintain the lie.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Costigan, to Madolyn.
* [[The Un
* [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: So how does {{spoiler|Sullivan}} thank the guy who saved him from his captor? By shooting his rescuer in the face, of course.
* [[Very Loosely Based
* [[Vigilante Execution]]:
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Both Costello and Sullivan are main characters.
▲* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Frank Costello, and later on, {{spoiler|Colin Sullivan.}}
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Costello is a fan of opera.
* [[Your Mom]]:
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'''Dignam:''' I'm tired from fucking your wife.
'''Ellerby:''' How is your mother?
'''Dignam:''' Good, she's tired from fucking my father.
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