HONG KONG DIRECTOR PRAISES, CRITICIZES SCORSESE'S ADAPTATION
Tuesday, October 10 2006
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Andrew Lau, the Hong Kong director whose Infernal Affairs served as the basis for The Departed, has given Martin Scorsese a thumbs-up for the adaptation, according it an eight on a scale of ten. "Of course I think the version I made is better, but the Hollywood version is pretty good too," Lau said in a telephone interview with the Hong Kong English-language tabloid, the Apple Daily. "I have to admit that Martin Scorsese is very smart. He made the Hollywood version more attuned to American culture," he added. The Departed closely follows the plot of Infernal Affairs, which won a best actor award for Tony Leung Chiu-wai in 2003, although it moves the setting from Hong Kong to Boston. Lau also criticized the amount of profanity in the Scorsese film.
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