Agreed. Scorsese definitely adapted to the story. Like it or not, this movie DOES have the Bulger background that makes people think Whitey Bulger when they watch the movie. It is one of my favorites even though it's not true to the Bulger story of course.motorfab wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 9:19 amAbsolutely but Scorsese has adapted a bit of the scenario so that Nicholson looks like Bulger. In Internal Affairs the character of Eric Tsang does not collaborate at all in secret with the cops for example.JeremyTheJew wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 8:29 am Departed is a re make of the Chinese Triad movies called, Infernal Affairs.
It was not written by Scorsese at all.
And Costello changed his name bc he thought it'd be easier having a Irish last name.
Motorfab, I have French on my Yankee side as well. I know some of y'all don't know but my Grandfather was a country hick that grew up 20 miles East of where I live today and my Grandmother was a true Yank from Camden New Jersey so I have ties to the North & South even though I never stepped foot up North until Hurricane Sandy hit. My old man was even born up there but my Grandfather didn't quite like living in the "big city". Where he grew up, the WHOLE county only has like 18,000 people today
But saying that I'll get to my French side, it was DuBois. Me and one of my cousins both research our ancestry and he said it's pronounced "Do-Bose" instead of "Do-Bois" but I'm not sure if that's totally true or not. Looking the other day I finally found the tie to General Patton, he is distant but an actual cousin of mine as we share a set of DuBois Grandparents. They have said it was some kind of French royalty but I don't know, I do know they ended up in Belgium before coming to America and setting up shop basically in Philly and the surrounding areas.