THE DEPARTED (2006)

sus

Well-known member
The idea of getting erased from the database, two people on Earth know who you are, and you're at the mercy of this massive bureaucratic machine which can only run on procedure—terrifying
> Facts, Latour said, were “networked”; they stood or fell not on the strength of their inherent veracity but on the strength of the institutions and practices that produced them and made them intelligible. If this network broke down, the facts would go with them.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
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This is actually closer to how a real wall street bro looks than Leonardo DiCaprio

A corpulent asymmetrical faced yob
 

luka

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dont understand how you made your stomach protrude in that way. it's extraordinary. but theres something about how you display it with no hang ups at all thats really inspirational.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
He was really good as handsome rogue Fred west in that TV show

That was fucking ace. I had never seen The Wire at that point so had no idea who he was, I just assumed that they had simply scoured the actors guild for the man who looked most like Fred West and he was the lucky winner, catapulted to instant smallish-stardom. I read that the real "appropriate adult" whose role gave the show its title found him so convincing that she was scared to be around him or some such nonsense.

But if you haven't seen it then you should certainly check out Appropriate Adult - I would say it's possibly THE best dramatised serial-killer true story thing I've ever seen. And you might reply with a slightly sceptical voice and possibly even a raised eyebrow "Yeah but how many of those have you seen?" and I would then reply with a totally unjustified kind of triumphant smugness that I've seen fucking loads cos Liza has this weird obsession with serial killers and she watches stuff about them all the time, making me her unfortunate accomplice. We were in the UK for a couple of weeks over Christmas and there is a channel with a load of serial killer stuff on it and we watched that almost all of it.

There was this bit when we were watching a doc about Graham Young (the guy who inspired the book and then film The Young Poisoner's Handbook) and, when they finally did arrest and convict him, he ended up in a prison on the Isle of Wight and the voice over said something like...

"In the gaol most of the other inmates avoided any contact with him as they were worried that his chemical knowledge and ability to synthesise poisons from raw materials combined with his addiction to poisoning people still made him dangerous. However, he did build up a relationship with moors murderer Liam Brady... " at which point Liza interjected "Yeah, that makes perfect sense, I bet they bonded over their shared love of Nazi literature!".... and it continued "... as they had a mutual interest in Nazi literature".

She should be presenting these programmes not watching them.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
That was fucking ace. I had never seen The Wire at that point so had no idea who he was, I just assumed that they had simply scoured the actors guild for the man who looked most like Fred West and he was the lucky winner, catapulted to instant smallish-stardom.

This is my understanding of how casting and other decisions work - this guy who looks a bit like Fred West is desperately crossing his fingers for a biopic on the guy, the guys from Ultravox are always praying that the Olympics is in Vienna and so on.

Who is that guy, think maybe a scouser or brummie or something (I dunno his natural accent in fact, he's been in loads of things such as Silent Witness or Shetland or Layer Cake etc) and he looks so much like Charlie Manson - he's even the right height - and it's just a disgraceful travesty that (to the best of my knowledge) that guy has never played Manson, it doesn't make sense, every time I think about that it feels as though the world has gone wrong somehow.

Turns out his name is Stephen Walters.

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