Warner Brothers wasn't happy with Scorsese's dark ending.
The Big Picture Even though his resume of all-time classics spans longer than most directors’ entire careers, Martin Scorsese had to wait until relatively recently to take home his first Academy Award wins for Best Director and Best Picture for the 2006 action crime thriller The Departed. It couldn’t have been a more deserving victory; with its genuine nastiness and dark sense of humor, The Departed did for Boston crime movies what Goodfellas did for New York mafia flicks.
The Departed examines a desperate attempt by the Boston Police Department to finally root out Costello’s organization and put him behind bars. As Captain George Ellerby closes in on Costello’s deal to ship foreign weaponry to Massachusetts, a secret unit of cops led by Captain Charlie Queenan and Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam decides to dispatch an undercover agent into Costello’s network.
Although Lau had appeared in two sequels to Infernal Affairs, Scorsese felt that killing off Sullivan was the right way to end the movie; the film opened with a scene featuring a young Colin receiving groceries from Costello, and it ended with him being shot as he took groceries home to his own apartment. His death signified that a debt had been paid.
Scorsese’s discouragement at the notion of a studio demanding sequels is understandable, as he has consistently pushed for originality in film. Often a vocal critic of comic book movies and Hollywood’s lack of originality, Scorsese has only occasionally flirted with established intellectual property in his work. To date, he has only directed one sequel: 1986’s The Color of Money, which was a continuation of the classic 1961 gambling drama The Hustler.
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