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Both of them shivered in unison, showing terrified expressions.

Fortunately, the projection hall was already plunged into darkness at this time, which was a sign that the movie was about to start showing. Ebert and Leonardo focused their attention and stared at the screen intently.

The first three 10 minutes are often the essence of a movie. In this short period of time, experienced audiences and film critics can basically figure out the context of the movie, whether the quality of a movie is good or not, whether the plot is extravagant or not. The general framework has been formed at this time. Even if the subsequent plot is brilliant and reversed, the value of the first three 10 minutes cannot be replaced by other parts of the movie.

Among the several films that Ebert participated in, "White Night" and "Batman: The Mystery of Shadows" more or less have the problem of procrastination in the first half.Nolan's strengths lie in the second half of the movie, where the thoughts he tried to imbue, his unique directorial techniques and the dark lines buried in the script are all fully displayed in the second half. As expected, Nolan had no idea other than Nolan, because if it were other directors, the first half would be too lengthy, and they would only limitlessly compress the space in the second half. What should be a good movie ends up being relegated to the nondescript category of bad movies.

The performance of "The Departed" is undoubtedly qualified.In the short plot of the first three 10 minutes, the most eye-catching thing is by no means the domineering eyes of Jack Nicholson, nor the performance comparison between the two best actor nominees and friends, Ebert and Leonardo, but Mark Wahlberg is amazingly good.

In this performance, Officer Dignham, played by Mark Wahlberg, humiliates everything from his parents, his uncle and his family full of criminals to his opponents in order to force Billy to go undercover. He became suspicious of the police's motives and slandered his personality. Finally, under Dignum's aggressiveness, Billy finally agreed to become an undercover police officer.

In the play of this scene, Mark Wahlberg's performance even surpassed Leonardo's.

Although Wahlberg joined the crew of "The Departed" to gain some award recognition, compared to other actors in the crew, although Wahlberg has already played the leading role in some important commercial productions, before that he After all, he developed in the entertainment industry as a singer and model, and his acting skills have not received much recognition. But now, just through this scene, Mark Wahlberg's name has left an impression in the hearts of some film critics.

Mark Wahlberg himself is very happy with this.

For aspiring actors, they don't always want to be constrained in a specific field. If the commercial performance is too superior, they will naturally pursue performance recognition.Whether it is Jim Carrey or Will Smith, the diversification of the types of works that have been filmed in recent years has proved their ideas.

After Billy agreed to go undercover, Leonardo was given most of the movie.

While watching, Leonardo leaned into Ebert's ear and whispered, "My performance looks pretty good!"

In the movie, Billy is violent and hurts people frequently, and he utters a lot of dirty words at every turn. The scene soon comes to the scene where he and Jack Nicholson are playing alone.

"It feels so... so good! Oh, I'm watching this scene now, and I can't believe that one of the main characters is me. Jack looks so sinister, yes, he is indeed a sinister gangster, but I It's unimaginable, I think this is the best scene I've had in years, what do you think, Ebert?"

Ebert nodded: "Very realistic, Leo, you have made great progress."

Leonardo rolled his blue eyes and moved closer to Ebert: "I like this, how about...do it again?"

"I refuse." Ebert smiled and pushed Leonardo's arm aside, "Why don't you just watch the movie honestly?"

"I've always been serious." Leonardo retorted, "On the contrary, it's obvious that you have been distracted. Do you think I didn't see it or notice it?"

"Dear Leo, can you just shut up for a while?"

"Three seconds ago, I really thought about doing this, but you actually asked me to shut up. I suddenly had the urge to speak from beginning to end."

Ebert rolled his eyes silently, and sighed: "Why can't you be as calm and quiet as Billy in real life?"

"So he died." Leonardo tapped his fingers lightly on the back of Ebert's hand, "Good people die because they talk less, and bad people die because they talk too much."

Ebert had to admit that this sentence made sense.

While the two were chatting, the plot of the movie continued to advance.

In this movie, Leonardo's Billy has always been the kind of role he is very good at, silent, restrained, violent, but full of righteousness.In Ebert's opinion, he played the role of Billy really well. He is decisive and straightforward, and he is constantly striving for his ideal of becoming a policeman. Although many times the development of things makes him collapse, he has been silently enduring with.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of "Infernal Affairs" seems to Ebert to be sublimated.In Ebert's previous life, when many people compared the two works of "Infernal Affairs" and "The Departed", they often thought that Martin Scorsese's version made the film lose its original flavor, because Hong Kong police films have always been Hong Kong films. The never-fading classics in the series, John Woo's "The True Colors of a Hero", Jackie Chan's "Police Story", and Johnnie To's "Gunfire", these films are full of charm because they are full of Hong Kong's original flavor. There are many, but Hollywood is not Hong Kong, and American gangsters do not run through the history of this city like Hong Kong gangsters.

But in Ebert's view, Martin Scorsese's adaptation contains the director's thinking about American society.

For example, in the role of Billy, although he is an undercover agent, his life experience makes him surpass the identity of an undercover agent.

In the United States, although class solidification is not as serious as in the United Kingdom or other countries, it is difficult for the son of a robber to become a social elite, and it is difficult for the child of a rapist to engage in a government career. This is a consistent thinking, Oprah Win The reason why Fu Rui became a national idol is because she became a successful person after experiencing many tragedies, which is really very difficult for ordinary people.As for Billy, he was born in a family full of criminals, but he wanted to be a policeman and a decent person.

Would he have been an undercover agent if he had been born into a family of lawyers, doctors or even police officers?

Even if he wanted to, Frank Castro would not allow it, because for gangsters, they don't need an undercover agent with a clean net worth.Billy's arguably bad background made him an excellent candidate for an undercover job.

This is actually a hidden discrimination.

The point that Martin Scorsese is trying to express is that what the family, parents or loved ones do does not represent a child's future.Birth cannot be decided by individuals, and society should give such people some tolerance.

On the screen, Billy gained Castro's trust step by step, got in touch with the core secrets, and Colin also got along like a duck to water in the police station, but every time he leaked secrets and his hypocrisy after successful leaks made people feel like he was The urge to beat up.

Looking at himself on the screen, Ebert found it very interesting.

Colin was the only villain Ebert ever played.The feeling of playing a villain is very different from playing a decent protagonist. Although it takes a lot of thought to play a decent role, he spends more thought on playing a villain, and in the process of acting, there will be a difference between playing a villain and a decent role. The feeling of contrast is something Ebert has rarely experienced before.

Colin is not a profiling character either.

When the movie showed the scene where Ebert and Leonardo played against each other, Leonardo couldn't help pushing Ebert: "You look so miserable."

Ebert gave him a blank look: "Isn't it worse for you?"

He pointed to the screen, which had already shown the scene where Billy was shot in the head.

Leonardo said stubbornly: "You are no better than me, anyway, your ending is death."

"This movie just wants to tell us one truth - don't be an undercover agent casually."

"Indeed it is."

There is only a short scene between Ebert and Leonardo, and after this scene is over, the movie is drawing to a close.

When the film screening ended and the lights of the entire auditorium were turned on again, several audience members stood up collectively and gave the film the warmest applause.

Everyone present at this time knew that the movie "The Departed" had been a success.Of course, none of the works directed by Martin Scorsese is a masterpiece, but this film won the favor of the Oscars, fulfilling the shortcomings of Martin's directorial awards, or following in the footsteps of "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator" , everything is unknown.

But no one can deny the excellence of "The Departed".

As the protagonists of the film, Ebert and Leonardo were interviewed by the media after the premiere. This time, the media did not hold on to Ebert's remarks on "The Oprah Show", but After discussing the plot of the movie with them, Ebert and Leonardo naturally accepted the interview with all their heart and contributed to the final promotion of the movie.

On the second day after the premiere, the evaluation of the film "The Departed" was also fermented in major North American media.

It was chosen to be released in a month close to the awards season, from the end of September to October. There is no doubt that Martin Scorsese's new work is naturally aimed at the awards season.

Although many works competing for next year's Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Oscars have not yet been officially released, but in the minds of professional film critics, they already have a preliminary grasp of whether a film can win awards.

Not only the film director has high hopes for this film, Ebert and Leonardo also hope that this film can bring them success.