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The Departed: Was Delahunt a Cop?

post #1 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:11pm
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Slim? Anyone?
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post #2 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:12pm
No he was a snow sled.
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post #3 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:12pm
is this another joke thread
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post #4 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:20pm
yes, he was. the news report says so.

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Slim? Anyone?
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post #5 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:25pm
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yes, he was. the news report says so.

Ambiguous, though. Costello brushes that off. It's never confirmed by a real cop.

Also:

1) Why did Delahunt give Costigan the wrong address? On purpose, or was it an accident?

2) Once Delahunt saw Costigan at the right address and realized he must be the cop/mole, why didn't he tell?
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post #6 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:28pm
1)fucked up
2)was trying to preserve cover
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post #7 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:53pm
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1)fucked up
2)was trying to preserve cover

was also being shot at by the other cops, later on was dying on the sofa and probably didn't have the strength to yell out, "he's a cop!". Also, it was a movie and Leo couldn't have been caught at that moment, it would not have made sense.
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post #8 of 34
12/8/09 at 12:54pm
yeah, suspension of disbelief I guess.
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post #9 of 34
12/8/09 at 1:22pm
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was also being shot at by the other cops, later on was dying on the sofa and probably didn't have the strength to yell out, "he's a cop!". Also, it was a movie and Leo couldn't have been caught at that moment, it would not have made sense.

I get that, but that whole little plot thread seems like a strange thing to throw in there. It doesn't have to be there. It's like they purposefully wrote themselves into a corner and didn't know how to get out of it. But the whole idea could easily have been dropped.

Or maybe it was a David Chase/Sopranos thing. Chase liked to say that not all loose ends should be tied up. In real life, sometimes you never figure out what happened, and the audience needs to deal with that. Maybe Scorcese was going for that kind of unresolvable uncertainty.
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post #10 of 34
12/8/09 at 1:30pm
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I get that, but that whole little plot thread seems like a strange thing to throw in there. It doesn't have to be there. It's like they purposefully wrote themselves into a corner and didn't know how to get out of it. But the whole idea could easily have been dropped.

Or maybe it was a David Chase/Sopranos thing. Chase liked to say that not all loose ends should be tied up. In real life, sometimes you never figure out what happened, and the audience needs to deal with that. Maybe Scorcese was going for that kind of unresolvable uncertainty.

well, you had his protector (sheen) just killed protecting him and now one of the bad guys knew who he was so his world began unravelling, ending in his murder. The worse plot thread was were he asked to meet with Jason Bourne on the rooftop and then was going to arrest him and take him in Just arrest the bastard or shoot him where he stands.
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post #11 of 34
12/8/09 at 1:38pm
I hated that movie. I think I pulled the muscle that rolls my eyes by the end of it.
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post #12 of 34
12/8/09 at 1:39pm
yeah you don't meet people who have everything to lose on rooftops.
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post #13 of 34
12/8/09 at 1:53pm
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I hated that movie. I think I pulled the muscle that rolls my eyes by the end of it.

I wasn't a fan either, not in the least. The ONLY character I cared about at all was DiCaprio's...I was utterly apathetic about every other character.
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post #14 of 34
12/8/09 at 2:26pm
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I wasn't a fan either, not in the least. The ONLY character I cared about at all was DiCaprio's...I was utterly apathetic about every other character.

Baldwin was midly amusing but the "hero", Marky Mark, he is on screen for 2 minutes in the beginning and 30 seconds at the end, where the phuck was the character development
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post #15 of 34
12/8/09 at 2:30pm
The cops put the story out that he was a cop to try to throw Nicholson off the scent.
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