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TIL: Without Face/Off, Martin Scorsese wouldn’t have an Oscar. Andrew Lau was inspired by Face/Off, but wanted a more realistic approach, which led to him making Internal Affairs, the film that Scorsese remade as The Departed and won his first Oscar.

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