We can all agree that director and filmmaker Martin Scorsese is a genius. His films like “Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas,” and “Wolf of Wall Street” made him a household name, and he’s still going strong with his career. But it was 2006’s “The Departed” that won him four Academy Awards, including Best Director. It was a classic, a fan favorite except for one tiny, squeaky detail.
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- 2/21/2019
- by Margaret Kennedy
- The Playlist
Only on the internet in 2019 would a Kickstarter campaign to digitally remove the rat from the last scene of Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” not only go viral on social media but also earn over $2,300 and counting from 87 backers. The campaign’s total goal is to reach $4,000 by March 21, a number it should easily be able to hit with over a month left to go. Why $4,000? Campaign founder Adam Sacks of Brooklyn, New York has exhaustively (and hilariously) listed the steps needed to remove the rat from “The Departed” on the official Kickstarter page.
While the campaign’s Kickstarter page reads like a joke, it has nonetheless launched an online debate about Scorsese’s decision to end his Oscar-winning crime movie with shot of a rat crawling across the screen. The film’s plot centers around two rats: Leonardo DiCaprio plays a police officer who infiltrates the Boston mob and...
While the campaign’s Kickstarter page reads like a joke, it has nonetheless launched an online debate about Scorsese’s decision to end his Oscar-winning crime movie with shot of a rat crawling across the screen. The film’s plot centers around two rats: Leonardo DiCaprio plays a police officer who infiltrates the Boston mob and...
- 2/20/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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