Just a day after its launch, a Kickstarter to painstakingly edit the infamous rat out of a 35mm cut of Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar-winning crime drama The Departed exceeded its crowdfunding goal of $4,000. But if you’d like to see what this might look like prior to the debut of the 35mm revision, Twitter has delivered.
Director Adam Sacks is the brains behind the Kickstarter effort to purge The Departed of its vermin, an undertaking he told Gizmodo he plans to make good on. He writes on Kickstarter that it had always bothered him “that a movie as good as The Departed has such a cheesy ending, and I recently realized it could be fixed by digitally erasing the rat from the last shot.” But on Wednesday, the Twitter account Eyes On Cinema shared a clip of the scene it said was edited by Mark LaCroix, sans rat.
“Fun fact: the view out the window was digitally inserted in the film, which made tracking the shot in order to remove the rat more difficult than you’d expect because the original motion matching... wasn’t quite perfect,” LaCroix tweeted. We’ve reached out to LaCroix about the clip and will update if we hear back.
Sacks, who says he does not know LaCroix, told Gizmodo by email that while the clip shared to Twitter “is a nice pre-visualization for what I’m setting out to do,” it doesn’t accomplish the end goal of printing the edited version onto 35mm film—true to the work of film evangelist Scorsese.
“It’s well documented that Martin Scorsese is a strong believer in shooting movies on film and preserving the art of making movies on film,” Sacks said. “Therefore, I think erasing the rat in his movie, and claiming that you’re done without also putting it onto 35mm film, is disrespectful to Mr. Scorsese’s legacy.”
Sacks meticulously outlined how his budget of $4,000 would be spent, a 9-part process that will include purchasing a Blu-ray player and ripper software, paying a visual effects artist to cut the rat, a lengthy process involving printing the movie onto 33mm film and then converting it back to digital, and hiring an intern to burn all of the copies of the remedied version of The Departed once Sacks is able to pull it all off (at a fair $15 an hour, no less).
Now that he’s reached his goal, it sounds like Sacks has his work cut out for him. The Kickstarter states an estimated delivery date of November for any Blu-ray copies of the final product, but Sacks says he’s “hoping to get it done well before then.”
Oliver Murphy
never seen this movie, redpill me on the rat and why its a big deal
Justin Wright
What the fuck is wrong with the rat in that scene? God I hate the western faggots with nothing better to do than get outraged over meaningless shit so damn much.
"Let's take any subtlety and throw it out the window" That is why
Jason Smith
"The rat" refers to Jack Nicholson, who runs by the camera at the very end of the movie. After his recent sexual harassment allegations, people would prefer not to have him in the film.
Hunter Hall
Sounds retarded. The rat is fine
John Murphy
>4,000 us dineros to fuck around in after affects to remove a rat This is a money laundering scheme.
Wyatt Young
Sounds about as autistic as removing female characters from Star Wars lmao
Zachary Ward
I always assumed the rat was in the apartment because Mark Wahlberg left it there as a mafia thing
Grayson Rivera
While he's at it, can he alter the film's color grading so the whole "gritty cop drama" doesn't look like an episode of law & order?
More importantly, why the fuck are the people only just now complaining about it, 15 years after the movie's release? Have people run out of things to be outraged about that they have to dig into old movies to find something?
Adrian Martinez
>those fucking INCELS and their.... >*picks card* >anti-rat symbolism!!
Samuel Cook
>incels >girlfriends You're dumber than him, somehow.
Asher Howard
the rat is perfect, a funny little joke, visual gag. It's playful. he always puts stuff like that in. but people are too puritan and pretentious
William Barnes
>implying the departed is even worth the effort
Fun flick but that’s all it is. Scorsese is one of the legends, but his films since Goodfellas have been rehashes or just entertainment.
Joseph Jones
This is an honest question. What subtlety? There is no ambiguity over who did what by the end of the movie. Perhaps the reason scorsese didn't see a problem with it is that he couldn't imagine a single person watching the movie and not understanding that the cop was a rat. The dumb bitch I watched it with understood. I'm sure a 10 year old would understand. The rat was just some lighthearted imagery, and I truly believe that if you saw it and thought wowwwwww all the subtlety just gone like that you might be vastly overestimating how smart you are.
Aaron Carter
This. I didn't even remember there was an actual rat at the end of the movie
Cooper Taylor
>The dumb bitch I watched it with understood. That's not a very nice thing to call your mother.
Gavin Hill
>implying there was any subtlety throughout the rest of the movie.
i mean, it's decent but it's like a tarintino flick in terms of seriousness. way over the top for no reason. people act like that rat ruined an otherwise perfect drama.
Wow this movie is so deep, how dare Scorsese put the rat in.
David Harris
What bothers me more is how much superior Infernal Affairs is to the Departed.
Jacob Lee
>“A lot of people don’t like the rat at the end,” says Monahan, 46, who was a successful novelist (“Light House: A Trifle”) and journalist (as an editor at Spy magazine) before dedicating himself to screenwriting. “In the Jacobean stage, you’d have this tremendous bloodbath at the end of a work, and then the next thing that would happen is the clown would come out. And everyone in the theater would laugh and it would take the edge off the intense experience. >“I tell ya, people would leave the theater feeling a lot different if it wasn’t for that rat.”
I DON'T UNDERSTAND what the fuck is everyone's ISSUE WITH THE RAT what does it spoil, it's obviously a play on words but what does that mean that it seems stupid is it because you think it's talking about Marky Mark like some kind of reveal or something? no you don't because that's FUCKING RETARDED and unnecessary so what does it mean IT'S CLEARLY JUST REFERENCING THAT THE MOVIE WAS ABOUT TWO SPYS otherwise called RATS OR SNITCHES and WE ALL KNEW THAT so what's the fucking issue is it just because it's there does it feel unneeded because we already knew THE MOVIE WAS ABOUT TWO RATS BECAUSE IT'S THE VERY END OF THE MOVIE AND ALREADY SAW THE WHOLE STORY YEAH NO SHIT YOU'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT FUCKING NOTHING why should it be there? why shouldn't it be there so what it's just that old fucking FUCKING AROUND WITH HIS MOVIE TO FIT HIS IMAGINED AESTHETIC it's FICTION BEING PRESENTED AS A STORY AND PERMITS ALLEGORICAL VISUAL CUES THAT DON'T NEED TO MEAN ANYTHING IMPORTANT THEY'RE JUST THERE BECAUSE THEY CAN BE so the only thing you could be complaining about is that the extra moments of screen time are wasting you're precious life but THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE EITHER BECAUSE YOU'RE ALREADY SITTING AND WATCHING SCORSESE'S WORST MOVIE IT'S NOT NEARLY AS GOOD AS PEOPLE THINK IT IS LEONARDO D'CRAPRIO AS I LIKE TO CALL HIM HAMMED IT UP LIKE A PIG IN FUCKING HEAT AND THE OLD ITALIAN FUCK COULDN'T SEE THROUGH HIS THICK FUCKING GLASSES THE WHINY FUCKING EXPRESSIONS ON THAT LITTLE REVERANT CUNT'S FACE AND SAID YEAH ROLL THE CLIP JOHNNY so just go watch Goodfellas like a normal person or CASINO IF YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE OR SILENCE IF YOU ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SEEING GROUNDBREAKING MOVIES BECAUSE IT DESERVED TO WIN BEST PICTURE EVEN THAT GILBERT GRAPE RETARD IN REAL LIFE D'CRAPRIO HAS ONE OF THOSE NOW THE ACADEMY IS A JOKE NIGGERS AND WOMEN RUINED IT
I don't even remember any rat. Also there is nothing ambiguous about the movie at all so i dont get it
Alexander White
I didnt even remember a rat being on it, and all this autism about it is pretty fucking retarded.
Christian Howard
*hits bong* Lmao like dudes like I don't even remember the rat loooooooooool
Jackson Williams
6 trillion iQ coming through
Gabriel Ross
If anything they should replace that cover of Comfortably Numb.
Hey, FAGGOTS, leave that rat alone.
Logan Jackson
Did Jack Nicholson get caught up with metoo or something?
Gavin Parker
Yeah, apparently he was sexually harassed by Matt Damon. He is bravely speaking out about it now.
Anthony Gomez
>After his recent sexual harassment allegations, people would prefer not to have him in the film. For God's sake, I hate this ridiculous political climate we're in, I want the people in these mindless snowflake mobs to die. Can we digitally erase the people behind this kickstarter out of existence?
Justin Ortiz
This is really accurate. The Departed is a good movie but it’s not complex or far-reaching. It’s impossible for such a film to be ‘ruined’ by a rat.
Alexander Peterson
this is severely autistic
Oliver Ward
Lol you are either good faking outrage or really fucking stupid.
Nolan Turner
it's boston there's fucking rats everywhere. anyway i could've done that edit for free in like 15 minutes. just pause the shot of the statehouse before the rat enters the frame
Henry Thomas
He's now going to google it, realise he's retarded, and pretend he was trolling
Thomas Cooper
The ending was ruined anyways by not letting the corrupt cop win, like in Infernal Affairs.
Joseph Scott
The whole movie is as corny as that rat, the departed is shit.
But king of comedy....now that is a film
Luis Fisher
Rat is inoffensive. What ruined the movie was the forced romance. Or better yet: Can you erase that tryhard, one-eyebrow-emotion diCaprio instead?
Matthew Powell
ok this is ep
Easton Smith
absolute retard but might not be in the future
Josiah Richardson
literally the most baffling decision marty ever made but since the flick sucks balls anyway who gives a fuck honestly
Jose Diaz
Filmschools were a mistake
Kayden Butler
>better direction and better themes.
Clearly not you fucking kike if Infernal Affairs had to be remade for dumb westerners in the first place
I watched the departed last year. I don't get the hype? it was shit compared to something like taxi driver or raging bull or even goodfellas
Aiden Bailey
I honestly thought they were talking about this
Noah Phillips
>DUDE I know better than an acclaimed director give me money to play around in After Effects
Daniel Powell
Does anyone know why this scene takes place next to the Dome of the Rock?
Ryder Peterson
>using a reddit/pol/ meme And the subject of his ire is that liking the movie makes them smarter, not that there's rat symbolism. Learn to reading comprehension.
Eli Baker
The Departed might be one of Scorsese's lesser works but Infernal Affairs was trash
Brandon White
with that music playing then I'd say it was pretty cheesy if you ask me
Never saw this movie, is there a clip of the edited and unedited scene?
Samuel Baker
do you mean the wall?
Jace Rivera
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE ISSUE WITH THE RAT? I've seen the movie like 2-3 times and I've never given a fuck about the fucking rat. It's so symbolically irrelevant.
Christopher Myers
Of course it's a pajeet spouting dumb crap
Aaron Brooks
I'd rather see the Snyder cut of The Departed.
Ayden Campbell
Brainlet here. Is the rat implying that Markie Mark is also an informant?
If we're on the topic of fixing shots anyway, can some competent CG artist fix this shot so Norris' head doesn't look like it's being dragged across the ground with a wire?
This. Retards have never even touched CC or any time of video editing software.
Gavin Johnson
I bet Adam Ballsacks has spent dozens of hours bitching about thr Star Wars Special Editions.
Alexander Hughes
man I hope basic shit like this become like dodgy auto repair shops
"yeah huh the radio isnt working because you got a issue with the engine and the battery. It's gonna cost you 10 thousand"
Jeremiah Ortiz
>you have to be a director and to have $4,000+ to erase shit from a few frames of a movie with Adobe Premier If scamming it's so easy, why am I not doing it?
Christopher Torres
>I KNOW WHAT YOU AH OK I KNOW WHAT YOU AH AND I KNOW WHAT YOURE NAHT
Benjamin Gray
Alright, I'm going to see how long it actually takes to remove the rat in Premier.
Jonathan Hill
>it doesn't have this because .... it's a remake REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Try using an argument next time retard.
Parker Howard
i dont remember if it's a pan shot or just still
if the camera is stationary it takes you about a minute
John Mitchell
Spending this kind of money on a 2/5 flick
BAKA senpai
James Rogers
Why did you start speaking in Japanese?
Alexander Phillips
There is a pan.
Andrew Garcia
A tilt.
Elijah Barnes
the final shot is cheesy even without the rat
Jeremiah Long
but is it while the rat is walking? If I remember right, it pans, stops and then the rat shows up. Then it's insanely easy
yeah that's harder to do. panning upwards while getting close it's slightly harder to track
Lincoln Green
>panning upwards pan is only left and right.
Lucas Barnes
people are complaining about this? lol
Jayden Gray
You need to fuck off m8. Everyone's nearly killed off by the end of the movie, yet the rat is still there. Because there will always be a rat (snitch), even when you kill it, another will take its place. Also the rat is shown in front of the palace of justice, symbolizing the corruption of the system.
Charles Ortiz
Wow a film maker used artistic imagry in a visual medium, let's CGI it out because it's not hyper realistic enough for me.
Meanwhile every act of violence is still as cartoonish as old west hold up arms and spin around
Hunter Gutierrez
>what does it spoil yeah exactly
it's stupid, but people pretending it's 'ruining' something brilliant is dumb
Tyler Clark
if you give me a pack of juul pods i'll replace the rat in the departed with the rat from desperate living
>people loosing their shit over George Lucas changing stuff after the fact cause everything should be set in stone >people changing shit the director wanted there
Pick a lane, fuckers. On the other hand never would've thought that The Departed had autistic fanbase, or a fanbase to begin with. Great movie, but hardly obssession inducing. Guess I was wrong.
My brother and I always reference this at Thanksgiving. We tell our firefighter brother in law "to go save a kitty, you fucking homo" and he laughs all the time.
Andrew Garcia
The movie should end in a abrupt cut
Damon: "...ok" Mark: shoots
damon takes the bullet, abrupt cut to black, Ramones' "JUDY IS A PUNK" plays in the dark
then the music plays with nicholson imitating a rat
yeah i know how to edit, not to obsessively do fan remakes of my nerd movies
Benjamin Parker
That would be terribly cliched.
Joseph Jackson
I fucking left the theater as soon as Marky Mark killed Meth Damon so jokes on you dude weed lmfao
Juan Nelson
I don't remember thinking much of The Departed. I'd seen Infernal Affairs (at least the first, possibly the second) prior in the past.
Bentley Ortiz
yeah i know, im joking, i dont want jack nicholson imitating a rat loops while ramones plays. It's a shitty ending lol
(still better than the original)
Samuel Bennett
No I mean the abrupt cut part would be cliched. Seen it in a million movies. Just saw some old Denzel movie where he was a British guy the other day and it ended exactly like that.
Adam Flores
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read online all day
Aaron Rodriguez
the rat is fine its a symbol
Nathaniel Nguyen
yeah it's the "college kid's first movie" cliche, cut to black during a gun fire
Elijah Cooper
The last shot/scene is one of the only good parts of the movie Rest is boston faggots swearing and acting like tough guys
Aiden Torres
Any movies with women/black characters whose removal would upset tumblrettes?
I bet you're one of those guys who smirks and brags about how much he likes "triggering" people yet within minutes you're shouting at them, you're sweating, and your heart is beating really fast.
The finale is wahlberg shooting damon. Does it pan to a rat after that?
Anthony Hill
>*gag* *choke* llltrggrd...lbbb *dies*
Benjamin Moore
Have you not seen it?
Gabriel Brown
lol yikes
Matthew Lopez
Marky Mark's intentions are left somewhat ambiguous. No one knows if the file DiCaprio gave the bimbo told her to go to Mark with all the evidence and he revenge killed because of it, or if he too was a double agent/rat
Why does this show have so many episodes about The Departed? Is one of the writers obsessed with this movie?
Grayson Scott
But that's just Boston
Grayson Powell
Marky Mark conveniently disappears off screen then back on again, a little to late but hey happy ending.
Ian Howard
>The last Tarantino movie is about these retards and their crusade to remove the rat from his film
Levi Foster
Jack Nicholson carried this film. Only reason it isn't just a flick
Bentley Campbell
The whole pan to the window is just to reveal the rat. Just cutting that part of the movie entirely out makes more sense.
Christian Hall
This is an attention stunt. Noone is this autistic.
Caleb Hernandez
>undercover reports a mole somewhere in IA >boss dies covering undercover agent after meeting for IA leak >knows for some reason boss was being tailed by IA >costello shot dead by IA guy >undercover dies after failing to make contact as well as two other officers with IA guy last man standing Mark connected the dots.
Connor White
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAH ITS TOO OBVIOUS FOR MY SMART BRAIN
Bet these are the same people that make fun of Lucas
Owen Gomez
he was talking about minors, user
Andrew Myers
>believing anyone who gives a shit about this has a girlfriend he truly is an optimistic
Kevin Ross
It's to remove it and put it on 35mm, which I imagine would cost a decent amount considering most people don't have the equipment necessary
Aiden Sullivan
Is this just an elaborate, surreal meme?
Henry Davis
>Dome of the Rock? All Muslim architecture borrows from Europeans, especially the Hagia Sophia. So it looks like a European dome you low IQ piece of garbage.
Aaron Morgan
The gold symbolizes wealth
Jordan Morales
they're going to find a original print and alter it too?
goddamn this is so retarded. It's a middle level scorcese flick
Nolan Powell
What's wrong with editing a bad shot out of a film
John Wright
I referenced The Wall, yes. But the cover of Comfortably Numb is in the movie and it's bad.
Jason Gutierrez
yeah thats definitely the point were the movie loses its subtlety, until then its real delicate piece that evades the common tropes of the genre and i liked it so dont @ me
Jackson Foster
Why can't people come to terms with the fact that this movie was simply above average crime drama but nothing great? Can I make a kickstarter to force The Departed fans to learn about cinematography and screen writing?
Lincoln Wood
because movies are so bad now something that would have been overlooked if it was made in the 80s is now one of the best movies of the decade and yeah its that good, name a better recent crime movie
Grayson Johnson
What a strange thing to dedicate your time and energy towards. The government should be allowed to confiscate kickstarter funds and give it to a womens shelter or something if the idea is retarded enough.
Isaac Sanchez
sneed
Luke Watson
4k is too small to bother laundering
Landon Phillips
Commie
Carson Campbell
Assets forfeiture is a thing, and this kickstarter is criminally moronic.
Faggiest post on Yea Forums right now. And there's a gay board, mind you.
Jack Davis
Silent Hill is far and away the best video game adaptation of all time. That doesn't make it a great movie.
Dominic Reed
I want it on record...I'm recommending the rat for the Medal of Merit
Michael Cruz
It was half that and half to remind everyone about the dead guy's obsession to get into city politics (he bought an apartment overlooking city hall).
Justin Collins
bullshit logic, crime films have been mainstays of the genre since its inception
Samuel Campbell
>there are actual people on this planet who think The Departed is one of Scorcese's best works
Kill us all.
Sebastian Jackson
Pointless Reddit griping like being anti-Comic Sans or complaining about Hawaiian pizza.
Nathaniel Wilson
I think you mean medium not genre, and that's only with plebs. Plebs conflated the critical acclaim of the godfather and heat with the idea that all crime movies are kino. Actual technical film making fans don't jizz over crime movies simply because they are crime movies.
Anthony Gomez
It's just zoomers and late millennials that don't know shit about film.
Julian Nelson
>muh godfather >muh heat check out the movie 'public enemy'
Ayden Baker
except for Silence you mean
Oliver Sullivan
>Liking pineapple on pizza
>>>/reddit/
Tyler James
Sir i covet neither of those films. Also I shall not fall for your public enemy bait. Easily one of Mann's worst films.
Nicholas Reed
>people were so pissed at this inconsequential thing they paid 4 thousand dollars to remove this
Joshua Miller
And do what with it? Limited theatrical run? Time travel? Hostage situation like in Airheads?
Jose Bailey
None of this makes any sense. Imagine raising thousands of dollars to digitally replace the gummy bears in the scoop at Sneed's Feed and Seed with sunflower seeds or something. Because why would a general store have a bulk candy jar next to actual crop seed? Just rip it and edit out the offending shot, then reupload it to the pirate bay. No investment required of anything but a couple hours of time. NOTHING ABOUT THE ISSUES THESE PEOPLE ARE HAVING MAKES ANY SENSE. WATCH INFERNAL AFFAIRS IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE DEPARTED.
agreed, which crime movie since has reached the heights of The Departed? the only ones that I can think of that somewhat miss the mark are The Town and In Bruges.
Aaron Moore
it's not even a good movie, the main actress is fucking terrible
Julian Adams
mark wahlberg had to be digitally removed from the film for south east asian releases
Christopher Wood
>...is disrespectful to Mr. Scorsese’s legacy Says the man fundraising to change the ending of Scorseses movie
Benjamin Perry
its not a big deal at all this is pure autism
Lucas Barnes
This. It's a borderline dumb and bad movie. The rat is a camp and cheesy joke which fits the tone of the movie
Hunter Reyes
/tveddit/ btfo
Carter Anderson
>hurrrr durrrr u didnt put the plural
Really. Learn to apply yourself.
Jeremiah Martin
I don't know what the fuck rat they're even talking about, who cares. They should edit out the stupid fucking pirate song that keeps playing.
Brandon Brooks
makes it more kino. scorsese doesnt care about the reddit rules of filmmaking. wolf of wall street was even more indulgent
Jacob Brooks
Was this some sort of meme that I missed? Some fake outrage over a dumb visual metaphor? Why choose now of all times to edit part of a 20 year old movie?
Josiah Torres
oh please hating pineapple on Pizza is one of the most r*ddit things you can do.
Well at quick look at Director Sacks IMDb page he doesn't seem that busy with success.
Who the fuck is this guy anyway and where does he come from to want to edit someones elses work?
Aiden Hill
If you're over the top about it sure, but that doesn't stop pineapple on pizza being legit trash and an astonishingly accurate pleb filter
Nolan Barnes
>an astonishingly accurate pleb filter
This. It's one of the biggest pleb filters out there. You put some pineapple on a pizza and the plebs filter themselves out of the meal leaving the patricians with a large portion.
Luis Sanchez
>I care about Scorsese's legacy >I know better than Scorsese and will fix his movie this is bait to scam people out of money, right?
Angel Bailey
All I knew about the movie before I watched it was the rat scene, purely from people bitching about it. Once I watched it, I couldn't believe it upset people so much. I want to understand what makes them so mad.
Nathaniel Anderson
they wanna think it's a deep crime drama and not just a good little fun thriller with funny parts and the cheap shitty symbolism at the ending ruins their fantasy that this is deep and thoughtful
Do you think the Hagia Sophia and Dome of the Rock are the same building?
William Kelly
I don't understand how or why this is even a thing.
Charles Carter
Couldn't he just turn the movie off before the rat shot at the end?
Jonathan Wood
There's quite a few gay boards, considering we have /lgbt/, /hm/, /cm/, /g/, /k/, and /fa/.
Henry Morales
How can anyone hear Marky Mark say "YOAH NO FAWKIN CAHP" and take the rest of the movie seriously?
Lincoln Wood
No. Silence was a rehash of an old movie from the 70s with the same title, which itself was an adaptation of an even older book. Same exact problem as The Departed which was a rehash of Infernal Affairs.
What's more absurd is that there are actually people willing to put money towards a Kickstarter of this. It really shows that people will still pay for anything. Some people thought the Kickstarter bubble was going to burst, but nope, still tons of people with tons of money to spare.
The real question is how it is legal to modify someone's film and redistribute it to people. There's no way he paid for the rights to the film so I'd like to know how he's getting away with this because it's becoming pretty high profile news.
Robert Sanchez
The Depahted threads are some of the most underrated on Yea Forums, prove me wrong.
Aaron Martin
>the palace of justice
Its the Massachusetts State House, you capeshit brained goonie
Oliver Lee
>remembers a pointless detail in a movie they saw years ago much euphoric
everything to the modern leftist is a power play. every possible fucking thing that happens is a ploy for some group to gain power over another. it's the only way these people can make sense of the world
>Let's take any subtlety and throw it out the window" >throw it out the window >subtlety Wow, nice pun OnionsDrinker
Bentley James
i would pay $4k for him to cut out the rat from departed and add the two fucking rats from bad boys 2 in its place youtube.com/watch?v=_RZYU3CwSjI
Daniel Lewis
Meanwhile the completely innocent rightists make entire movements like Gamergate and Comicsgate and drag politics into literally everything ever and claim anyone who disagrees with them is their political enemy and treats everything like it's high school debate class because everything is a battle they must win, even something as trivial as fucking video games or movies they must defeat their enemy, and this is the modern rightist, but please try and tell me how this is somehow not the same thing, please tell me with your Know Your Meme filenames.
Carter Foster
The rat isn't on screen simply as a cheap joke. Wait until Scorsese drops his translated commentary from the Korean DVD.
>Yfw the rat was a classy reference to reincarnation and the movie's Asian source material and roots.
Dumb fucks. Even this Jewish "critic" doesn't get it.
Jackson Foster
What the fuck? I said OnionsDrinker What's going on with my phone
Ian Ward
Hmm, looks like you got a virus on your phone. You should probably stay off 4channel for a while.
Dylan Gray
>drag politics into literally everything ever yeah it's them doing that, sure.
im so tired of the arguments for the ethno state in my movies
Lol it's a triggered Star Wars incel, of course. Watch a movie that isn't for children, maybe.
Luke Evans
W E W E W
James Martin
lol, would've been easier to just rerender the last shot in blender or even just use after effects and mask the rat out and then paint in the backdrop
Aaron Rivera
your kind is literally triggered by not enough niggers in a movie
Tyler Allen
>n-no you! Yikes.
Jack Powell
Why don’t you straighten the tower of Pisa too, you fucking phlegm bucket?
Lucas Thompson
So after rewatching said scene (youtube.com/watch?v=V3f9UJTmgd0) it's painfully clear that a 14 year old kid could remove the rat in after effects if he cared enough. That someone is claiming they need 9 grand for this is the funniest part
Robert Murphy
the pan won't make it nearly as hard as you think since the background is so far away
Jason Powell
>>there are actual people on this planet who think Raging Bull isn't overrated trash ftfy
Carter Evans
Also /fit/
Jose Williams
The Departed is a silly movie so the rat at the end was perfect for the tone.
Ryan Sanders
How is this legal? Even if he's not making a profit, he's still basically selling an unauthorized copy of the film.
Daniel Taylor
I think the intention is to throw subtlety out the window. Its supposed to have the audience smiling right before the credits hit.
Brandon Martinez
Which Jewish actor are they removing?
Parker Harris
>That someone is claiming they need 9 grand for this is the funniest part
I thought that. But then I thought
>I wonder what his ethnicity is
And then I thought
>Hmm, must be a coincidence
Adrian Hughes
According to Li'l King Trashmouth, If you read the Kickstarter, he’s going to buy 50 actual Departed Blu-Rays, make 50 edited copies, replace the originals with his and then send them out. So, basically, they’re gifts.
Furthermore, according to Executor Elassus, this is, in fact, exactly the sort of artistic license that fair-use clauses allow. The claim would be that, by removing the rat, he is both criticizing the original, and doing his own creative work. So long as he doesn’t claim this to be his own original movie, but rather a re-cut with creative editing, and maybe doesn’t sell the discs for (much) above cost, he should be fine. (of course, “legally sound” doesn’t count for much when you’re going up against a major studio and their fancy lawyers). Disclaimer: IANAL, but I work in a creative field where this shit comes up all the time.
Gavin Brooks
>every possible fucking thing that happens is a ploy for some group to gain power over another. it's the only way these people can make sense of the world
Funny, that sounds exactly like /pol/ to me.
I can't even tell if you're being serious or not.
Jace Watson
Having lived in Boston, I find the lack os rats crawling across apartments to be utterly unrealistic. Marty was right to include it. Taking it out is retahhhded.
>smug bluecheckmark complains about one ingroups vitrue signalling while virtue signaling to his own ingroup The irony.
Luke Ramirez
He said nothing to indicate what group he is a part of and yet you presumed to put him in one group just because you don't like what he's saying. You're worse than him.
Henry Diaz
Based on his responses it's unfortunately very likely that he is completely serious. These people have absolutely no self-awareness.
Jaxson Gonzalez
>ingroup one Group that feels superiority for liking the departed >ingroup two Group that feels superiority to, in their view, the pretentious ingroup that feels superiority for liking the departed
None of this is assumed. It's implicit.
Jordan Clark
who gives a shit LOL
Lucas Jenkins
>remove something that Scorsese deliberately put in the movie >we want to put it onto 35mm film as to not disrespect scorsese's legacy do people not have brains?
He sounds like an annoying cunt. The comment about being smarter than their girlfriends makes me think he's some hardcore SJW and a professional online petitioner.
Ayden Russell
which film do you think it is a rehash of
Joshua Morris
Are you retarded? Read the post again.
Jacob Turner
the Departed is a damn good movie but it's about as subtle as a brick to the face, the rat doesn't ruin anything
Joshua Robinson
lovely gunshot sound effect in this one
William Mitchell
The amount of autism that goes into re-editing the original star wars movies and polishing them is unparalleled. If these guys focused this effort on something profitable or beneficial to the world, they'd knock it out of the park. Instead, they argue with each other over artifacts and lines on a low-budget sci-fi film made almost half a century ago
Easton Parker
Even knowing to look for the rat I hardly even noticed it.
Parker Baker
or you could just cut to the credits right after Markey Mark did his thing
One of my friends watched this movie every single day when we did some out of town work in michigan and I watched it a bit every other day and I have never seen the ending of the movie.
I didn't even know there was a rat or anything, my last memory of the movie is marky mark in the scrubs in the apartment.
Camden Torres
All rats in the movie died. Only the real survived. As it should be.
Isaac Bennett
Well now I feel like a pleb for enjoying that ending...
Connor Hernandez
You shouldn't.
Cameron Bennett
That's pretty a pretty good joke. You write your material down?
Camden Myers
lol you probably shitpost on Yea Forums all day doing little else, what money or liberty do you even have to lose? nothing more ironic than a Yea Forums poster being any sort of libertarian.
Julian Gutierrez
That image seems pretty clearly intended to mock libertarians.
