Nochmal ein kleiner Nachschlag zu meinem “Oscar für The Departed” Grantler im Oscar Beitrag. Bei Butterboom gibt es Auszüge eines Interviews mit dem Drehbuchautor Alan Mak Siu-Fai, in dem sich der Infernal Affairs Co-Autor und Co-Regisseur zur Umsetzung sowie dem Oscargewinn von The Departed äußert:
Alan Mak Siu-fai, co-writer and co-director of 2002′s Infernal Affairs, on which The Departed is based, said the script adaptation by American William Monahan “has not gone far enough” in offering a vision distinct from the original. “It stuck so close to the original it looked like they are just making Infernal Affairs again – well in that case, I’m, of course, happy because it is like Infernal Affairs winning an Oscar,” he said in an interview with the South China Morning Post.
“Of course, I wouldn’t want my screenplay to be moved about when it was made into a film for the first time [by co-director Andrew Lau Wai-keung] – but when it was being used for the second time I would have hoped some new elements were being introduced to it,” Mak said.
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SPOILER Infernal Affairs: He also objected to the one significant twist in The Departed, in which both lead characters die. In Infernal Affairs, which Mak co-wrote with Felix Chong Man-keung and co-directed with Andrew Lau Wai-keung, Andy Lau’s villainous mole survives at the expense of Leung’s undercover cop.
SPOILER The Departed: “With the death of Matt Damon’s character, the symbolism in the film’s gone – it was designed so that the opportunist lives and has to face a life led on false pretences.”
Mak said he was sent only the first draft of Monahan’s work after Warner Brothers bought the remake rights to the film for US$1.75 million in 2003, and had not heard from the organisation since. “Somewhere along the way I heard they wanted to position The Departed as a film that was only ‘inspired’ by our story, rather than an adaptation,” Mak said, so that he had “expected them to sweep the traces [of the original] clean anyway”.
Nevertheless, in a media release later yesterday, Mak said he was “honoured” by The Departed’s win and pleased to have played a part in the triumph of Scorsese, who had been unsuccessfully nominated as best director five times.
Quelle: South China Morning Post
Diese Erfahrung hat ihn komischerweise nicht davon abgehalten, die Rechte seines neusten Films Confession of Pain [Hong Kong DVD]ebenfalls an das Produktionsteam von The Departed zu verscherbeln.
Die Hauptrolle im Remake wird wieder Leonardo DiCaprio spielen, das US Drehbuch wird vom frischen Oscar Gewinner William Monahan geschrieben. Produzieren wird das ganze mein allerbestester Superfreund Roy Lee (O-Ton Hannes: Dem “Antichrist der Asien-Remakes”), der Mann hat noch einiges im Kunststoffwok, um Remakefeinden wie mir den Tag zu versüßen. 
Mich würde eure Meinung zu dem Thema interessieren. Findet ihr es legitim, daß (vorwiegend) asiatische Filme für den “westlichen Geschmack” neu verfilmt werden, selbst wenn dabei vielleicht die Aussage des Originals verändert wird indem Charaktere umgestaltet oder komplette Handlungsstränge umgebogen werden?
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