Martin Scorsese has finally got his damn hardware, the one he most hopes for since 1973 (Mean Streets, Robert De Niro) to complete his collection. Yet, he wants to fuck with it no more. Once you have it, you had it. He shall have nothing to do with "IT" from now on. He felt sick and tired of "IT" the other day after the presentation at Kodar Theatre. That was the work of the endocrine system and musculine hormone that influences him, even at his age.

This morning Marty called his departed gang for a trivial meeting at a cafe on Sunset Strip. William Monahan and Matt Damon are the two he most wanted. Leonardo DiCaprio too, whom he sees as his adopted son after the making of Gangs of New York and The Aviator.

INTERIOR. BEVERLY HILLS. CAFE. DAY.

MARTIN SCORSESE
Matt, you look awful.

MATT DAMON
Who wouldn't be? They don't even know I exist last year. Well, I'll be fine.

JACK NICHOLSON
If you want to make it in life, you have to be like me, Harvard boy.

MATT
I have to develop a comical-looking smile and do successively worse impressions of myself in every movie, Jack?

MATT'S EYES MEET MARTIN'S

JACK SHOWS HIS TYPICAL COMIC SMILE AT LEONARDO DICAPRIO.

LEONARDO
You're doing good, Matt. We've won Best Acting Ensemble twice, not an Oscar though.

MATT
Yes, not well in a group. I wanna be myself like you, and all others. I think I'm done with acting. I better go writing scripts again.

WILLIAM MONAHAN CRINKLES

WILLIAM
That's not a bad idea.

LEONADOR
Do we have to win an Oscar in our lifetime?

MARK WAHLBERG
Don't tell me you don't want one.

MARK EYES ON MARTIN. MARTIN LOOKS ELSEWHERE.

JACK
You played better a smuggler in Blood Diamond than a cop, Leo.

MATT EYES ON JACK

MATT
You play a psycho better than yourself.

JACK SHOWS AGAIN HIS COMIC SMILE AT MATT.

MARTIN
Let's do it again, boys. Jack, are there Oscar-winning Pictures or Directors in a sequence for a movie series? I guess no.

JACK
Not to my knowledge. You probably remember I presented Oscar's Best Picture to Sylvester Stallone's first Rocky at the 49th Academy Awards 30 years ago.

JACK CHECKS EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION.

WILLIAM
Not even for Best Adapted Screenplay.

MATT
If you put me in, maybe.

MARTIN
You're in. Right, Billy?

WILLIAM (UNWILLINGLY)
You're the boss.

JACK
Feel a little balanced now, Matt? Don't let your privileged upbringing spoils you.

LEONARDO
I'm too good to be a good guy, like in Titanic. I wanna play badguy this time, really bad.

MATT
Let's all play good badguys.

MARK
Or bad goodguys.

JACK
And, more killing. Red is good. Let's play violence aesthetics to the extreme. We maybe able to win the Chinese market this time. They like it.

LEONARDO, MATT, MARK
Violence plus Sex!?

WILLIAM
({Good/Bad} + {Bad/Good}) x (Violence + Sex) x (Kungfu + CGI) = (Cop + Mob) x (Mop + Cop)

JACK
Last but not least, Marty then throws a little bit of his mummy dust in...

MARTIN
Done.


THE DEPARTED

Winner of four Acadamy Awards at the 2007 Oscars: Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Director for Martin Scorsese.

A remake of a 2002 Hong Kong film called "Infernal Affairs" (Wu Jian Dao or Mou Gaan Dou), "The Departed" tells the story of two men from opposite sides of the law who are undercover within the Boston State Police Department and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.

Written by William Monahan, based on an earlier screenplay by Felix Chong and Mak Siu Fai.

BOX OFFICE
The Departed
US Gross: $131,438,000
Worldwide Gross: $278,200,000