The real Boston nightmare that scared Scorsese himself.
Authorities, journalists, and the cast & crew from "The Departed" (2006) talk about the film's influences. Among them is a real-life Boston gangster named Whitey Bulger, who is the mold for Jack Nicholson's character.
Direction
Scorsese geeking out about real-life monsters he barely fictionalized.
Writing
Monahan explaining how truth needed almost zero Hollywood buffing.
Director
Gidion Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bulger was still a fugitive when this documentary filmed; he was captured in 2011 living in Santa Monica with $800,000 cash hidden in walls.
Jack Nicholson refused to meet Bulger, unlike Matt Damon who researched real corrupt cops—Nicholson found the man 'too genuinely evil to study.'
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