A Kickstarter campaign to digitally remove the rodent at the end of Martin Scorsese's The Departed sparked a tongue-in-cheek discussion. Some thought the rat ruined the movie, which won Best Picture, while others thought it was the perfect closing detail for a very unsubtle gangster remake.
Adam Sacks has offered just that. By starting a Kickstarter project, he has offered to digitally erase the stupid rat from the ending of the film and has explained this in 9 steps he will undertake to help achieve this.
Just as we thought, this got Twitter buzzing with many actually agreeing with Adam Sack and backing his project.
Kickstarter to digitally erase the rat from the end of The Departed. A noble cause. https://t.co/nKg5ozGXBH pic.twitter.com/W99UMvpYLv
— Andrew Ba Tran (@abtran) February 19, 2019
The rat symbolises Martin Scorsese, who was spreading disease and pestilence with his 2006 Oscar-winning picture: The Departed
— tony coca-cola (@keydemographics) February 20, 2019
i agree that the shot of the rat at the end of 'the departed' really undermines the movie's carefully cultivated subtlety
— Max Read (@max_read) February 20, 2019
Jack Nicholson should have won the Oscar for Subtlety for that one.
— haunted dog (@zandywithaz) February 20, 2019
the classic subtlety oscar, previously won by daniel day lewis for his gentle, understated performance in scorsese's quiet masterpiece 'gangs of new york'
— Max Read (@max_read) February 20, 2019
That's what Thelma Schoonmaker should have said when Scorsese wanted to do this in the first place.
— Erase the rat in The Departed (@RatErase) February 19, 2019
You know, putting the rat in the original Star Wars so that Greedo shoots first, but to kill a rat, not Han, would add some pathos to his character.
— Erase the rat in The Departed (@RatErase) February 19, 2019
Tired: The rat in the Departed is a cloyingly obvious metaphor that ends a Great Serious movie on a sour note
Wired: The rat in the Departed is a winkingly obvious metaphor that ends what is basically a Boston-mob-themed slapstick comedy on a totally appropriate note
— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) February 19, 2019
this isn’t sarcastic. i truly truly love that rat at the end of the departed. in the theater i had to resist cheering. hit me as a really audacious way to end a movie that no other filmmaker would dare do. scorsese knows better than all of us thank god!
— Paul Rust (@paulrust) February 19, 2019
you know what they always say: if you remove "the rat" from "The Departed," all you have left is Deped
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) February 19, 2019
At the end of The Departed, Martin Scorsese has an actual rat run across the screen as a reminder not to leave food behind in the cinema. More movies should do this!
— Nic Sampson (@NicSampson) February 2, 2019
