GANGS OF NEW YORK Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING* | Is Daniel Day Lewis The GREATEST Actor?!
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INTRO | 0:00 - 1:56
GANGS OF NEW YORK MOVIE REACTION | 1:57 - 34:14
GANGS OF NEW YORK MOVIE REVIEW | 34:15 - 36:02
Gangs Of New York Movie Description:
Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young Irish immigrant released from prison. He returns to the Five Points seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Amsterdam's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people in 1860's New York.
Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book The Gangs of New York.[3] The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, with Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, and Brendan Gleeson in supporting roles.
In 1863, a long-running Catholic-Protestant feud erupts into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting the low wages caused by an influx of freed slaves as well as the threat of conscription. Scorsese spent 20 years developing the project until Harvey Weinstein and his production company Miramax Films acquired it in 1999.
Made in Cinecittà, Rome and Long Island City, New York City, Gangs of New York was completed by 2001, but its release was delayed due to the September 11 attacks. The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 20, 2002 and grossed over $193 million worldwide. It was met with critical acclaim and received ten nominations at the 75th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese, and Best Actor for Day-Lewis.
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My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city. But for those of us what lived and died in them furious days, it was like everything we knew was mightily swept away. And no matter what they did to build this city up again... for the rest of time... it would be like no one ever knew we was even here.”
My fave Marty film will always be Raging Bull. Check it out 😄
Hello Amsterdam I am New York
Awesome movie
Man, please do a classic movies sometimes. For example "Rebel without a cause".
"Just get a horse and go straight there." There was a reason a lot of people preferred to take a boat around South America. The middle of North America was wild, uncharted, had few resources, and was full of Native Americans who weren't happy about the ongoing invasion. If you drive 8 hours a day, that's a week long trip by car. Back then it would have been a couple months. And you had to time the crossing right so that you didn't end up crossing the Rocky Mountains in the winter.
Usually passenger ships would go to Panama and then they’d disembark and get on another ship on the pacific side, then go up to California
Also, as this takes place in 1862/1863, about half of America is the Confederate States and there is war raging everywhere. By that point, the Confederacy was reaching as north as Virginia which is right along the Pennsylvania border. And after you crosses the Mississippi, if you could, you'd be basically on your own once you were past Kansas until you reached California. And as the person above me said, you had to time it right so that you didn't cross the Rockies in winter. It may seem counterintuitive at first,but that boat was probably a little more safe to get to San Francisco.
@@Toast960 Virginia was the homeland of the confederacy, and Richmond was the capitol.
Exactly. Take the long way around and at least you could be around people, and mostly ones that didn't want to kill you.
@@bracejuice7955 no no no, that makes too much sense. You have to go around S. America.
"It's messed up that he's killing people while carrying a cross"
Laughs in History
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Deus Vult?
Homie needs to listen to Holy wars…. The punishment due by Megadeth
In our city square, we have a tall viking holding the cross and orb in one hand, a sword in the other - and a decapitated head by his feet. He's the city founder.
Still messed up considering what kind of man.Jesus was.
“I’m going to teach you English with this knife!” Daniels threats in this movie are so on point and intimidating. Epic performance.
Yeah, people today just don't talk shit like they used to.
@@wfly81 He wasnt talking shit, "talking shit" isn't telling someone something you could actually do
@@SStupendous Well that's just not true. Talking shit is any type of aggressive, threatening speech directed at a specific person or group.
@@wfly81 Joke sure did *fly* over your head, I was implying that Bill was not saying anything he couldn't do... while talking shit is usually people trying to look for trouble, the "shit" part being there because it's not true, it's SHIT, you're acting big and tough. I'm also a William, and both of us are talking about yet a third person named William.
Regarding the anticlimactic ending: I felt the same as you the first time I saw it
... but it actually makes sense and it's consistent with the theme of the movie. At the beginning of the movie, the gangs are in charge and they settled their own disputes ... but as the city began to "moderenize", the gangs started to lose their power. And in the end, they weren't even allow to settle their own disputes.
It also shows just which gangs actually have the most power -- the government army laying waste to everyone without discretion or remorse, and the politicians standing tall in the end over the graves of the fallen people, ready to carry on and do what they always do like nothing happened.
@@kristopherheenk2710 Pretty much this. Not to get overly political in the CZcams comment section, but more people need to realize that all governments on Earth were born out of what were essentially gangs. That's the root of all power structures, is just whatever hegemony gets big and bad enough to take out the rest by force and plant themselves in the land. Gangs of New York is about the "old way", tribes of like minded individuals taking what's theirs to take with no particular tribe having any kind of objective legitimacy over the rest, being supplanted by the "new way", which is what happens when a gang becomes a government, and now all of a sudden there are rules in place to keep them at the top.
Yeah, it's a pretty hard bait and switch. The movie builds up a lot of expectation towards Bill and Amsterdam fighting but then that gets swept away as the actual problems of the city erupt in a full scale war. The first time you see it feels wrong because traditional narrative demands that everything should be about the characters resolving their conflict no matter how petty it was. Second time - and this a movie that gets better with rewatchings - you can see the parallel build up, the racial and class tensions rising, etc and it fits. Also, while not based in actual characters (I think) the gangs existed and had those names and the thing the riots and the army laying waste everyone is actual history.
it's true, the first time, i hated the ending, we were gearing up the whole movie for revenge and finally settling the score... it was so frustrating, it does make sense and it is a hell of a way to end this story, this era and this history
some grudges, some ways have to be left behind and forgotten
@@HmStH111 Bill the Butcher was real just his real last name was Poole not Cutting. Hellcat Maggie was also real
Leo, Martin Scorsese and DDL all went out to dinner one night... and DDL being a method actor meant he was still behaving like the Butcher. The waitress was so terrified she refused to continue serving the table lol
Lol Liam Neeson says DDL stayed in character the entire time
I dont blame her in the least. I hope she didn’t need therapy and got the gratuity
Love these stories.... Joe Pasi was waitor at Bobs table one night in NY, oh like early 80's, he said, I like you you should try acting and there you go...
That story isnt cool at all, DDL sounds like a sociopath 😂
You need to see Daniel Day-Lewis's entire body of work to see why he is arguably the greatest actor ever. He is a highly versatile actor and has incredible range. I highly recommend "My Left Foot"(1989), "The Last of the Mohicans"(1992), "In the Name of the Father"(1993) and "There Will Be Blood"(2007)
"In the Name of the Father" is definitely one of his best performances. Of course, picking his best is impossible since they're all brilliant. 😊
I'm pretty certain Daniel Day Lewis doesn't break character until he does the dvd commentary
I hear he once had a pigmentation alteration surgery to play a man with darker skin tone.
@@soulance8342 I saw that movie he went all in for that role
OMG, my first thought!
He’ll probably won’t break character even on commentary
What is wrong with 'You people'?
I feel like the ending is kinda sad. Where the Graves are gone is Like as time goes on, that part of event/history that people live through are forgotten.
They say every person dies twice. Once when they die and once when the last person to remember them dies.
@@tremorsfan damn. That's deep.
That shit was messed up, some parts of history are good to move on from, all of them actually.
@@sfodd1979 I mean we moved on, instead of knives it is now hand guns.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 They had handguns back then and used them, genius. How long ago do you think the Civil War was, lol?
Regarding the fire brigades: back then, they were privatized, so they fought to be the ones who got to put out the fire and therefore get paid. The less scrupulous ones would SET fires so they'd be sure to be the first ones there. This is what happens when necessary services go private with little to no oversight and rampant corruption.
Yep, thank God for socialized public safety services. Hard to believe people want to go back to the dark old days of private services
I wonder if fire insurence was a thing back then that played into their motives
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It was.
And they were allowed to fight thanks to the necessary service of the police accepting bribes to ignore fighting and unscrupulous behavior
I remember seeing this interview with Liam Neason where he talks about DDL always being in character during the filming of this movie and saying how everyday DDL would walk onto the set and in his Bill the Butcher voice say "Morning Priest" LOL
D Day Lewis has played two of the best villains in film history, Bill the Butcher and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
There will be blood soundtrack is amazing.
And in the eyes of Europeans, he was a vilian in Last of the Mohicans
@@Cubs-Fan.10 you neeed to rennt Last of the Mohicanss he was no villian in it
I drink your milkshake!
He didn’t play Antoine Shiguur
If you liked Daniel Day Lewis in this you HAVE to watch There Will Be Blood!
Trash, boring ass movie
One of his best performances gem of a movie and storytelling. Captivating shots and soundtrack loved There Will be Blood.
Nah, if you liked Daniel Day Lewis in this.......you need to watch My Left Foot. It was his first Oscar win and by far his best
Sure I’ll check it out. But I still love that film sooo 😂
Best movie. I've been recommending it to all the reactors I watch for over a year. So far no takers
This is the first collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio! DDL steals the show whatever film he is in! The only actor btw to win best actor three times! John C. Reilly is surprisingly so good at dramatic roles just check out his work with Paul Thomas Anderson such as Hard Eight, Boogie Nights and Magnolia!
I have abandoned my child 🤬
Magnolia is great. 👍
Don't leave out "We need to talk about kevin." Ezra Miller is fucking cold in that
Movie.
Boogie nights is underrated
Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan (supporting) also won three best actor oscars.
That ending was depressing as hell!
It doesn't matter how much stuff you do to stand out, in a 100 years no one will know or care who you were.
"100 yrs and ur grave is not ur own."
when you really think about it, it isnt depressing at all. its a simple reality and quite motivational. it always reminds me not to overreact to the small inconveniences in life and to make the most of the limited time we all have.
"It doesn't matter how much stuff you do to stand out, in a 100 years no one will know or care who you were."
Ya remind me of that movie Troy "That's why no one will remember your name." Thousands of years later...
sounds like a justification to be a Nazi - how many of their names are still remembered?
This movie is great, a lot in there inspired Assassin's Creed Syndicate
His performance in My Left Foot is absolutely amazing.
His mother in that movie was the great Brenda Fricker better know as the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York...
@@thumpyloudfoot864 She's the soul of My Left Foot, wonderful performance.
Didn't see this movie but I love this conversation.
@@thumpyloudfoot864 yes she is a wonderful actress.
Here in the UK she was on a medical soap opera ( casualty) before her role in my left foot and she was very popular on that show.
I think that her subsequent success in movies in her 40s must have been quite unexpected for her.
So are any other performances he’s ever made
i love how bills scream after he gets shot, is devoid of pain, just pure raging hellfire in his voice.
wild performance.
That theme at the beginning was played by the last great blues fife player, Othar Turner. An icon in black musical history in the US. RIP.
That's good to know, I like music and will look into this, thanks!!
The reason that their fight was anticlimactic was to underscore that their fight was exceptionally small and inconsequential compared to what was going on around them. Bills death was a testament to his era ending.
They targeted black folk because they were viewed as the reason for the Civil War, and thus the reason people were getting drafted.
It was a unique, and overlooked time in our history.
I think its often skipped over in favor of trying to portray the ppl on the union side as unified in the moral quest to quench slavery in the south...which was hardly as cut and dry as such. History is always messier and more blood stained than what is taught in grade school
People don't realize that there were a lot of people in the north that just didn't care about slavery during the Civil War. And with the war turning so deadly I'm sure they'd rather keep the family together then send their send men off to die.
Also they really did draft immigrants right off the boat. In fact the first casualty of the entire war was an Irish immigrant.
@@kateflanagan9355 The North supported abolition as a way to undermine the south's economic base. They also had an entirely different economic model; utilizing the steady-stream of Irish immigrants as a disposable workforce. In the South, a slave was to be housed, fed, and cared for medically - while the North didn't much care one whit what happened to one Irish immigrant or another - as there were always more coming off the boat every week.
This can be more readily seen in Tom Cruises' "Far and Away."
This time period in history was fascinating and so much deeper than pop culture/pop history would have you think.
Note: Before any screeching from revisionists that I am in somehow in support of slavery - save it. I'm simply denoting that the North wasn't all sunshine, roses, and progressive as grade school would have us believe.
I always find the scene of bill telling happy jack to arrest the person responsible for killing the rabbit hilarious 🤣
“Is Daniel Day Lewis the greatest actor?”
Many people would say he is
The ending always makes me feel so emotional
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That's what really happened though lol. There wasn't a state fire department. Fire departments fought each other for jobs (literally fought) since only one of them could get the insurance money
Yes the first fire brigades were in Ancient Rome and they would turn up to a fire and then negotiate a few with the owner to put it out. Was pretty similar until quite recently.
He was nominated for an Oscar for his last movie, ‘Phantom Thread’, in 2017. I wonder if he’ll come back to us. He’s just magical in everything. ❤️
Leo is no slouch, but Daniel Day-Lewis owns his own universe when it comes to acting.
He even became an apprentice butcher to prepare for this role.
John C. Reilly is another one of those character actors who's in everything and I love it. Just like William H. Macy in, among other things, Mystery Men
RIP William H Macy
@@jeffridgeway7474 ... He's still alive...
Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher is one of the best performances of all time! Great reaction pick!
"Is Daniel Day-Lewis the greatest actor?!"
Yes. Yes, he is.
Yep. He 100% is. He is a true method actor who has only been in a limited number of films because he is so particular about his craft.
As Patrice O’Neal said “The guy makes a movie every 10 years and wins an Oscar”
Not the best, but definitely in the top 5.
@@CrackerJack06 haha "and he only play characters from 1905 to 1910!" haha Love Patrice
Oldman is up there
Fun fact: Scorsese Originally wanted to make this in the 1970s with Robert de Niro as Bill the Butcher
Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most intense method actors of the modern era, after the filming for gangs of new york wrapped up he had to seek counselling because he walked around challenging people to a fight as a result of immersing himself in his role for the movie
Daniel Day Lewis murdered this role. He stole every scene he was in. So freaking good.
Daniel Day-Lewis' whole monologue about getting to power and how he keeps power shows his Shakespearian chops. The dialogue and his very subtle performance shows a man tired from age and trying to keep himself on top. It even alludes to if the effort is even worth it since there hasn't been any honor in it since his last honorable foe, the immigrant mirror image of him. The way he talks about him is like someone losing a dear friend or a brother. This performance put me on notice about him and its my favorite of his roles...Daniel Plainview from There will be Blood on the other hand is a once in a generation performance.
Daniel Day Lewis' greatest Oscar winning performance is EASILY for the movie My Left Foot. The movie was robbed of the best picture award that year too. It's based on the life of an Irish writer and painter and Day Lewis puts in a truly inspiring performance. I promise, the movie will not disappoint and will give you a proper insight to REAL Irish mentality and our ability to make light of even the worst situations
You know, D Day Lewis was actually amazing in Lincoln. I highly recommend checking that out. It was also, as far as accuracy. Staggeringly accurate. Great film even without historical context
My favorite line in cinema history, “ears and noses will be the trophies of the day…”.
Maybe they were all stocked up on fingers and toes
I prefer "prepare to receive the true Lord!" 😅
Great reaction to one of my favorite movies for sentimental reasons. As it came out shortly after 9/11 and I’m a survivor of that horrible day, every time I see the Twin Towers with the graves in their shadow, I cry as I remember new victims created in the shadow of ones already at rest.
I think the reason you might have found the final battle of the gangs anticlimactic was because it was overtaken by real history. The Civil War /Draft riots shown were a real event. A shameful event in NY’s history. They were worse than what was shown in the film. They were only broken up by Union soldiers called to NY from the battlefield at Gettysburg.
Great job on this reaction. Please watch more DDL films and add The Last of the Mohicans to your bucket list. You won’t regret it!
I've researched it. Congratulations! You're the first one to do a movie reaction to Gangs Of New York. You're also the first to react to Knocked Up. Next up, you being the first to react to Munich (2005).
Man Danial Day Lewis just absolutely captures every seen he’s in. He’s really the only actor I can think of that totally disappear into his characters well maintaining a destructive feel
finaly a reaction of this masterpeace, tanks bruh just tanks
One key thing to remember about the draft riots is that they occurred about 10 days after the Battle of Gettysburg. The Army troops that arrived in NYC were in no mood to deal with people who were rioting to NOT join the Union Army.
Crucially, they WERE union troops FRESH from the battle of Gettysburg. They had no patience for traitors in the south OR the north and shot away.
"never leave an enemy alive or he will rise up one day and fly at your throat" - Shaka Zulu
Which is a terrible, short sighted policy. You have to be ready to go to the DEATH, over any dispute, because no one will trust you enough to make peace. Typical small brain "hold power for a blip of time" mentality.
The documentary on the dvd was interesting. Crazy how it was actually really like this back in the day
D-Day Lewis take of William Cutting is low-key my favorite movie antagonist ever.
@@Tateorsomething Hannibal is definetly a "good guy"
There isn't much to like about Bill The Butcher. He grooms young, unfortunate, Irish kids to do his dirty work. Fake honor. If he truly respected Priest Valon he would have gave a softer stance on the immigrants and slaves and respected what he fought for. He's a total sociopath. Which is why I love the character. Lol
@@hydradominatus3641 you know bill the butcher was a real person?
@@MrGrifter123 yeah he's nothing like how Lewis/Scorcese portrayed him
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That monologue is why this DDL performance is my favorite.
This is the length Daniel Day Lewis took to stay in character while filming Gangs: he came down with Pneumonia, but refused to wear a warmer coat or seek medical attention because he was sticking with he time period of the film. He was eventually persuaded to go to the hospital. He also kept up with the New York accent of his character even outside of filming.
I just watched Brandon Likes Movies reaction to ET just before watching this. Yup, you gotta do it, it's a classic that's always as good as the first time no matter how many times you see it.
You HAVE to see “Last of the Mohicans” and “Legends of the Fall.”
Gotta see DDL in "Lincoln" (2012). The guy is supernatural.
I was literally about to go do something but this popped up in my feed I said eh I'll do it later haha. Had to watch this reaction.
Certainly the most talented and dedicated to the craft of acting actor that is alive. A shame that he is retired now. The first one I watched him in was The Last of the Mohicans.
I love the questions you ask at the beginning this is actually quite historically accurate to how NY was back then.
My favorite actor. Simply amazing how he gets into character.
In The Name Of The Father is a good underrated DDL film that doesn't get much love. Worth checking out even on your own time. He's definitely one of the greats, in any generation.
That's one of my favorite Daniel Day Lewis films.
The scene with the fire departments fighting each other. Happened in damned near every city in the US. Because at the time firefighting could be a for profit venture.
Insurance companies paid out a reward to the fire company that put out the fire for their customers. So these for profit operations would rush to a fire, if the competition also shows up they do everything they can to prevent the competition from putting out the fire and collecting the reward money. A number of times the companies were so busy fighting each other that not only was the first house burned to the ground so we're the neighboring houses. The companies were also notorious for looting any of the buildings that they "save".
This continued for years until fire departments were deemed necessary for the public good and local governments took them over.
What I love about this movie is it takes the time to show you that it is not full of itself and goes over the top in some scenes for a more flashy reveal, even the subtle hints of comedy throughout brings a special attitude not seen in other flicks based around a historic time. Love your reactions. Keep it up.
If you like John C. Riley you should definitely react to “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” it’s legendary
Absolutely one of my all time favorites. It’s so good.
Man Daniel day Lewis is in a class of his own acting wise
Hell yeah man! I've been trying to get people to react to this forever! I'm excited to see your reaction!
Still patiently waiting for There will be Blood, Daniel Day Lewis in that film gave arguably the greatest performance of all time! I hope you react to it before October!
yes DDL is the goat lol best to ever do it imo
I absolutely love how they ended this by having the whole thing swept up in the absolute cataclysm of the draft riots.
Loved the film, hated the accuracy, and absolutely LOVED the ending.
I recommend Demolition Man; starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. Despite being a 90s action flick, it is actually more relevant today than when it released.
I bought this a few weeks back. Still need to watch it so I’ll watch your vid once I have 😁👌🏽
Settle in the movie is long
Love you for this. I need the distraction today.
The riot that happened at the end of the movie is a real event that occurred. many people were enraged by the draft and how only the very richest people could pay their way out of being in the army. they also blamed the war slavery and that's why they were so quick to do what they did to the African Americans.
The ending gets me every time 😭. Thank god I die a true American was the real last words of bill
Gotta watch Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day, classic.
An often forgotten gem
Indian territory. That’s why you go the long way round, or one of the reasons anyway…
Also the Civil War was kind of in the way. But even then, it could have been quicker to sail as the first transcontinental rail was a few years away still.
And there was no transcontinental railway yet.
THis is top 3 Scorsese movies for me, its a damn near perfect movie.
Yessssss i have been waiting for this!!!
Got me thinking old Chris Jericho was bout to come out with that opening LOL
I was doing my Daniel Day Lewis from there will be blood impression this morning for my dog while making coffee. I drink your milkshake!
Leo and the bald dude is my favorite fistfight from anything put on a screen ever. The term "fishhooked" made me laugh out loud.
That's what it was really called.
The Five Points in Lower Manhattan is Chinatown now. At the end of the Manhattan Bridge where the big fight took place where Bowery meets Canal Street a very busy intersection, 3 banks and a Buddhist Temple. The only building still standing at that location from the 1800s is the Leon Hotel.
I dont break character till the dvd commentary : P
So, what you're saying, is the El in your name stands for Lazarus?
;)
Boogie Nights I recommend, even Magnolia, Punch Drunk and There Will Be Blood.
Thanks for the shout out brother!!! Love the video and keep doing what you're doing.
Memories... I watched this more than once back when VHS was still the main source of videos- never forget that battle scene in the snow.
"Why you trying to take the long way around?"
Didn't play much Oregon Trail I see
NDNs‼️ NDNs‼️
The 'long way around' was faster. Many would say it was much safer too.
I just happened to watch this yesterday and here you are doing a reaction... nice!
Back then the fire crews were paid by the insurance companies but they had to be the first on e on scene. That is why they fought over "putting out" the fires.
You said it best: "This movie was....ok". 4:34 : "I don't know about the music..." Yeah, I know what you mean. Love Daniel Day in this movie, but Scorsese's best stuff is before this movie. Real excited to hear you're doing "There Will Be Blood". Wait until you see Daniel Day Lewis in THAT movie, holy smokes! That, and "Boogie Nights" (with John C. Reilly, Mark Wahlberg, Don Cheadle) are the two best Paul Thomas Anderson movies. The De Niro/Scorsese movies, those are the ones that are most legendary and classic, virtually all of them are masterpieces. "Raging Bull" Is the best boxing movie ever. "Cape Fear" is intense 90s suspense thriller. "The King Of Comedy" is crazy hilarious and, along with "Taxi Driver", is what "Joker" is paying tribute to. "Casino" is an amazing mob movie, "Goodfellas" in Vegas basically.
I'd love to see a Gangs of New York game or maybe a mod for San Andreas 😆
I just heard you say "horror October" is coming and I'm thrilled. I'm a horror nerd and this is my first October watching movie reactions. Im so exited to see what you come up with.
Loved the review 👏
That my friend is the minority vote.
Scorsese made some real…’interesting” choices for this film. Least of which was casting Cameron Diaz…
Gangs of New York is not a true story, but it is based on true history. Most of the main characters were fictional, but some were real people. Daniel Day Lewis's character, Bill the Butcher, was a combo of several real New York criminals. Of course, Boss Tweed was a real person who ran politics in NYC via party offices at a building called Tamany Hall. My favorite of the real people who actually existed is the woman you noticed in the opening battle scene who had her teeth filed to sharp points - that was Hellcat Maggie, a notorious female "ear cutter" and "mayhem artist" of her day. She was real, according to the NYPD historical archives.
Most of the gangs named in the movie were real criminal gangs, although they didn't all exist at the time this movie is set. Some were much older. But among the real ones were the Dead Rabbits, the Plug Uglies, the Daybreak Boys, the Bowery Boys, the Hudson Dusters, the Shirt Tails, and most of the ones named for counties in Ireland - the Chichesters, etc. In terms of who was a racist in the story - yeah, they were all racists. This was America in the 19th century - 127% racist. Bill the Butcher's gang, the Natives, were nativists, aka Know Nothings, who were extremely anti-immigrant as well as racist.
The location of the story, the Five Points, was a slum centered around an intersection of five roads, nicknamed Paradise Square. The Five Points was so full of crime, disease, and degradation - and had been a violent, crime-ridden cesspit since the American Revolution - that eventually the city gave up trying to reform it and simply erased it from existence by demolishing the buildings and reshaping the intersection to just 4 streets, near today's NY Chinatown area.
That bizarre part with the warring fire companies was historically accurate. These were all private "volunteer" brigades. There was no fire department in those days. And they would charge you money to put out a fire in your house - especially if they were the ones who started the fire. And they would fight each other for the right to pillage, loot, extort and, if they happened to think of it and could be bothered, throw some water on a fire. Yep, you get the picture. They were basically gangs, too.
The military battle at the end involved the Draft Riots of 1863. The Civil War had been going on for a long time, and most people did not want to fight in it. In that year, Congress included a loophole in the military draft that let you buy your way out of the draft by paying something like $300. That was more than a year's wage for most working people. So it was basically was a benefit for the rich, and it did not go over well with working class people who didn't give a crap about slavery, or the war, or the country. A general strike was called, which became marches, which quickly escalated to a riot, and then to a full-on insurrection. Murders of Black people were rampant. A mob attacked an orphanage for Black children, but the place had been warned and evacuated literally minutes before the attackers got there and burned it down. The homes and businesses of rich people were attacked. The city burned for three days. Finally, the Navy and Army were ordered to attack and quell the rioters - so that was the troops shooting people and the ships firing cannonballs into the buildings. Thousands of people were killed during the riots, on all sides. Historians say it got close to literally destroying the city of New York entirely.
The anti-climactic ending, I feel, really drives home the author's message of the movie - namely how petty and trivial all these conflicts were in the larger context of history. These people were scrabbling and fighting and killing each other over control of a slum. A tiny, cramped, garbage heap that doesn't even exist anymore. They were entirely absorbed in their own little bubbles of pride and viciousness that they didn't even realize the whole city was bursting into fire and war around them. So yeah, Scorsese built us up with all this operatic drama about revenge, only to literally blast it all away with the Draft Riots, which were so much bigger than anything that had happened before. It makes the story kind of bitter and cynical, I think.
The title of the movie, Gangs of New York, refers to a book, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, published in 1927, which was a gossipy collection of facts and legends about all these criminal gangs. Not very accurate. But if you're interested in true stories, I recommend Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, by Luc Sante, 1991. Luc Sante is a historian who decided to research the history of old NY neighborhoods and ended up uncovering the real stories of all these gangs and gangsters. He discovered that it is possible to build an unbroken "family tree" of New York crime by tracing the members of different gangs via their arrest records, preserved by the NYPD archives. He was able to trace gangs from the early 1800s gangs like the Hudson Dusters all the way to the modern-era Gambino crime family, and so forth. Along the way, he examines all the major social factors involved in crime, poverty, politics, immigration, and reform movements. It's really fascinating.
16:05 😂”I gotta scar in my heart”😂😂😂This nigha Breh‼️lmao
One of my least favorites of Martin Scorsese filmography, DDL performance is what saved the show for me, but i prefer his other colaboration with Scorsese, Age of Innocence, his perfomance in Gangs of New York is better, but as a film Age of Innocence is better for me
Gangs is one of Scorseses best, so you are wrong
I really need to rewatch this movie. It's been quite a while. But I remember that ending shot of how the graves disappear and the city grows in the background. 100 and some years of change in 5 seconds. That was striking. I realized the same thing will happen to us. Me, you, everyone who is alive now. In just 75 years or so, no one will be alive that knew you after your death. Do we, alive in this time, know (or care) what people went through 100 years ago? How they lived, struggled, and survived. It's insane to even think about, but this movie brought all that realization out, and more, in 5 seconds. One of the best endings to any movie.
This is the reason why being a historian is a noble undertaking. One dedicates oneself to seeking out surviving sources that can put voice back in a mouth that has been silenced with the dust of the centuries.
Did you ever read through any of the Biblical genealogies? Most people consider them a dreadful bore, but I find them enthralling. All that we know of so many people mentioned in the Bible is a name. Nothing is known about what they looked or sounded like, what their families were like, what their favorite foods or colors or times of year were, what they knew or imagined about their world, the crises that afflicted or ended their lives. Only their names, and not a thing else. (And such alien names! How many men of our acquaintance are named Uz, or Lud, or Hul, or Obal, or Joktan?)
And yet, at that, these people, though each one is a near-total blank to us, are supremely lucky. How many billions of humans lack even a name for posterity to savor and ponder over? Yet there they are, ciphers maybe, but ciphers with names, registered in the most widespread book on Earth. The ancient Egyptians were right - a name is a man's immortality, more even than his deeds. To know a name is to acknowledge among the shadows a single identity. To speak that name is to bring that person, however tenuously, back into the world of the living. 📜 👄
@@goldenager59 Yeah, you nailed it. 100% agreement.
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A learned man was once asked how a man may best act to make his name immortal. He replied, "Kill the man who has accomplished the greatest deeds. Then, whenever the great one is mentioned, you too will be remembered."
History is full of the sick, the deprived, the misinformed and misused, who are so desperate for recognition that they would commit some act that, however fouled their name will thereby be, assures they will not simply pass into Oblivion, unmarked and unregarded. Just as it is easier to destroy than to create, eternal infamy is easier to obtain than eternal renown. Many men in American history chose this path by seeking the lives of our great men; four succeeded in taking down the men in the highest office of the land. Now our nation lies under the terror of the next nonentity who, with machine gun in hand, shall go out in a blaze of ignominy and take who knows how many inoffensive fellow-citizens with him. Such a man may suddenly acquire a fierce belief in God and assign himself agency in His designs, for he knows that immortality awaits him whether he lives or dies in his attempt. He only fools himself, for it is a wretched - and, ultimately, short-lived - sort of immortality.
The genealogies in the Bible list name after name of people we know nothing else about, not even if one of them committed a murder in his lifetime. Those who truly trust in God and work to please Him - in the ways of love - need no recognition from their fellows, good or bad. Societies, cultures, civilizations are as mortal as the people that animate them. Languages fall out of use, writing becomes illegible. Existence is brief, time is relative. God alone endures - or, for the agnostic, truth.
A human working kindly in its little sphere who has a healthy regard for those around him need never concern himself with immortality, for God knows all, remembers all, and rewards justly. A person who acknowledges the existence of the Divine, appreciates Its power, and trusts It completely will be well prepared to live a life that will be worthy of remembrance, by men as well as the Deity.
And, history is thankfully as replete with such quiet heroes as it is with the well-publicized ones who fell prey to bleak cynicism and frustration.
And so, do seek to please God more than to please your fellow mortals, since - for all we know - no human is ever nameless to the Almighty. 💖 😇
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Daniel Day Lewis certainly should be in every Best Actor discussion. The guy is so versatile and goes to 11 in every role.
"Why you tryna take the long way around?" Like Cameron Diaz says, it's actually the fastest way to get there. Going the straight way by wagon means going through thousands of miles of uncharted country, with very few and unreliable means of restocking your supplies. It's a months long trip where you're as likely to drive into a ditch and die as you are to starve to death because you ran out of food and had to slaughter your horses. Likewise, going around the horn of South America means boarding a boat with guaranteed supplies, frequent stops at port cities, and a similar time of arrival if not faster most of the time.
Daniel Day Lewis made this film! He should have won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor!
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