Comment on Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak - Internal Affairs (Mou Gaan Dou)
ricecooker@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
4/5 for me when I saw it in 2002. It was so good Scorsese made an English language version and won Oscars. I think I view it in the context of other HK gangster films, which are numerous. There are definitely some tropes I think I “fall” for (bad guys having morales, bad guys with personalities like good guys), but overall I found it very original.
gon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The Scorsese movie would be The Departed, right? I might give it a watch, just to see how it compares. Wikipedia says the script for Infernal Affairs was inspired by Face/Off, by John Woo. It’s funny how that goes, American film inspires HK film which inspires another American film.
The double infiltration scenario was really cool indeed! One-dimensional bad-guys can be rather predictable and boring, it really is great when the antagonist has some good-guy traits. :D
ricecooker@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Actually!!! I was trying to think about a cop and bad guy switching roles and though of Face-Off when I was writing my comment! what a coincidence