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A 2002 historical crime-drama by Martin Scorsese, based on a 1928 nonfiction book of the same name, and the first to star Leonardo DiCaprio as the lead.It's 1846, and rival gangs are fighting over the Five Points district. Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) leads the "Dead Rabbits", the gang of Irish-Catholic immigrants. Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis) leads the anti-immigrant "Natives". During a bloody battle, Bill kills Priest and declares the Dead Rabbits outlawed as Priest's young son Amsterdam watches.15 years later, Amsterdam (DiCaprio) returns to the Five Points and infiltrates Bill's gang with his childhood friend Johnny's help, working his way into Bill's inner circle. Bill, who never recognizes Amsterdam as the son of his old rival, takes him in as a favorite and mentors him. Amsterdam secretly plots his revenge, but doubts his motivation after saving Bill from an assassin. Amsterdam and Johnny's shared attraction for Jenny, a pretty pickpocket and con artist, further complicates matters.All of this is set against the backdrop of The American Civil War and political corruption of the 19th century. The feel of the era is firmly established through small touches, such as Bill's gang mocking a theatre performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the rampant racism of Civil War America is prevalent throughout the film. Bill maintains most of his power through an uneasy alliance with the Tammany Hall political machine; a critical turning point occurs when Amsterdam wins Tammany to his side by promising him the Irish vote. The film's climax occurs as the New York Draft Riots break out and the U.S. government resorts to violence to stop the insurrection.Ends in a famous Time-Passes Montage featuring the changing skyline of New York over the years, which caused Scorsese no end of hassle in the wake of 9/11. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: By the end of the movie Happy Jack, Johnny, Monk, Jimmy Spoils, McGloin, Shang, Hellcat Maggie and Bill are all dead. | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-Universe, Bill is downright proud Amsterdam and his gang made the front pages, even though the articles were of disgust over selling a nightwatchman's body to a back alley anatomist. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Bill is well-aware that his beliefs are incompatible with the future, and doesn't really mind change - and it's hinted he welcomes it - but not in his lifetime. | |
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Dragon-in-Chief: Cutting to Boss Tweed. | |
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Officer O'Hara: Mulroney. | |
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Darker and Edgier: Find any movie or TV show set in the 19th United States that's darker and more unflinching in its portrayal of the problems of the culture. | |
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All Are Equal in Death | |
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All Are Equal in Death: In the end, all of the victims from the Draft Riots get the same barebones burial, despite their race, nationality, social class, or gang alliance. | |
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Some have interpreted Bill's "fear" speech to Amsterdam as his way of telling Amsterdam he knew who he was - specifically, he points out Amsterdam's "murderous rage" when he is insulted, then brings up Priest (and reminding his son of his death) despite there being not much of a reason to do so. He also calls the assassin who tried to sneak attack him earlier a "coward", which some have interpreted as Bill's warning to Amsterdam to not try a similar tactic if he does take revenge on him. Unfortunately, Amsterdam seems to have missed the message. | |
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It May Help You on Your Quest | |
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It May Help You on Your Quest: Monk gives Vallon his father's rusty shaving razor. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Director Scorsese is the head of an upper-class household that Jennie robs while pretending to be a housemaid. He also voices one of the telegraphers during the draft riot scene. He is the voice that says "Find the military and send them..." and "18: The mob is very wild". | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age: The gangs live by a rough code of personal bravery and hand-to-hand violence that is decisively swept away at the end of the Draft Riots by the disciplined riflework and long-distance cannon of the military, symbolizing the transition from tribal loyalties to centralized, standardized law. Bill himself appears aware that his way of life is passing away, as shown in a conversation with Tweed: | |
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Welcome Back, Traitor | |
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Welcome Back, Traitor: Averted. At first, Amsterdam does welcome Johnny into the ranks of revived Dead Rabbits gang. However, when he learns of his betrayal, he threatens to kill him, before settling for telling him to get out of his sight and never come back. This leads to Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves moment. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: The actions of the army are depicted in this way when their general orders them to take no prisoners. Part of the reason is that the regiment depicted in Real Life had just been fighting in the War and were exhausted: | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Johnny betrays Amsterdam out of jealousy and reveals his plans and true identity to the Butcher. Some time later, after Johnny is expelled from newly revived Dead Rabbits gang, Bill repays him by having him impaled on an iron fence to die a slow, agonizing death. | |
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In the Back | |
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In the Back: Bill the Butcher throws a meat cleaver into Monk's back after he is elected sheriff, before finishing him off with his own shillelagh. | |
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The Quisling | |
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The Quisling: Mulraney and McGloin have thrown their lot in with the Natives after the end of the Dead Rabbits. It comes back to bite them both later. McGloin may be a Native, but he's still a Catholic and refuses to give that up, hence the reason he prays in the (Catholic) church, a Dead Rabbit haven. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: Bill Cutting, if there ever was one. | |
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In the Name of the Moon | |
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In the Name of the Moon: The street warriors all call out their gang names before battle. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: New York City of the 1860's is not a fun place, much less the Five Points. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Monk. Not that he doesn't know better, the poor bastard. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Has its share — for instance, Bill casually chatting up a friend as he walks to the gallows and buying his mother's locket from him. | |
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Magnificent Bastard | |
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Boss Tweed, too. He tries to be a Magnificent Bastard. In the latter half of the film, he stokes the flames of conflict between Bill Cutting and Amsterdam until the two are driven into a gang war which leaves all his rivals decimated. As a result, he is able to emerge as the uncontested master of New York politics until his downfall in 1871. However, a lot of his constituency is dead by the movie's end. "We're burying a lot of votes tonight..." | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The book was a sociological study. It had no plot, and certainly no Amsterdam or Jenny. To be fair, the book was also sensationalizing and half of the stories were either exaggerated or flat out fiction. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Happy Jack hangs his watch on a lamp post, to demonstrate no one will touch it. Jack's corpse is hung from a lamp post after Amsterdam kills him. The ending confrontation between Amsterdam and Bill's gangs is played like a repeat of the battle between the Confederation of American Natives and the Dead Rabbits at the beginning. Except the second time, the battle doesn't even get started before the US Navy, mistaking them for mobs participating in the Draft Riots, decides to intervene by shelling them. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The Union army delivers one to the rioters (including both gangs) as soon as they're sent in to deal with the unrest. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: While Scorsese definitely did the research, he noted that the film is intended to be more of an "operatic" myth than a documentary; as a result, he felt free to mix and match cooler-sounding elements of various historical accounts that didn't coexist in real life. The bulk of the movie's set from 1862-1863 and rolls a decade's worth of history into that time period. The huge battle sequence "to decide for good and all who holds sway over the five points" that opens the film is fictional. It seems loosely inspired by the Dead Rabbits Riot (which was likewise a huge battle between Natives and Dead Rabbits which the Natives won and assured their control), but that took place in 1857, while the opening of the film explicitly takes place in 1846. The Old Brewery closed in 1852, a decade before the film's depiction. John Schermerhorn died in 1851 of natural causes, rather than being murdered in the Draft Riots. Bill the Butcher is loosely based on William Poole, a real-life Five Points gang leader and nativist political organizer in antebellum New York. While the movie's Bill does utilize some of Poole's background and personality, it turns his violent tendencies up to eleven (Poole was an ex-boxer known for a Hair-Trigger Temper, but there's little evidence beyond rumor that he ever personally killed anyone). Further, Poole died eight years prior to the movie's events under markedly different circumstances (he was murdered in a bar by a political rival rather than dying in a street brawl). Boss Tweed didn't have any sort of power until 1863, where he had himself appointed as Sheriff (sorry, Monk!) and started extortion to increase his income. It wasn't till after the Civil War that Tweed and the Tammany machine truly started humming. The nativist movement was already in decline by 1856, when the "Know-Nothings" split over slavery. The scene of the Irish under Bishop Hughes facing down the nativists actually is drawn from the anti-Catholic riots of 1844, when Hughes threatened to "turn New York into Moscow" if any churches there were attacked. Similarly, in the election scene Bill supports a Know-Nothing candidate for Sheriff in 1863, well after the Know-Nothing/American Party had ceased to exist. It's also unlikely that Bill and Tweed, even if their historical counterparts had known each other, would have forged any kind of political alliance considering one was a Know-Nothing and the other a Tammany Democrat - in the context of that time, bitter enemies. This makes more sense if, as suggested below, Bill is a Composite Character between Bill Poole and Isaiah Rynders, since Rynders did switch between the Democratic and Nativist Parties at different points in his career. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The Union engagement of the mob reveals the ultimate pointlessness of Bill and the Irish gangs' ancient code of ethnic vendettas and street combat, which has been rendered obsolete by the advent of the modern era. | |
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Covered with Scars | |
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Covered with Scars: Amsterdam has scars on his chest when revealed in a shirtless scene, which he got while in reform school. Bill the Butcher later gives him one on his cheek. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: "You should have shaved closer this morning." | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: The film contains lots of unsubtitled Irish in the background dialogue. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Bill "The Butcher" Cutting actively cultivates this impression of him in everyone in order to maintain his power and even just to survive. To a slightly lesser extent are his gang, The Confederation of American Natives, who ritually torment, bully, and downright assault newly arriving immigrants, blacks, or anyone else who doesn't pay them the proper tribute. They're so dangerous that they managed to keep a rule over all of New York City that dictated no one would speak of the "Dead Rabbits" under penalty of execution by their hands. "Happy" Jack demonstrates his power over the Five Points in one scene to a bunch of friends of Boss Tweed that came to gawk at the unwashed masses of the district by hanging his gold pocket watch from a light pole where anybody could snatch it (and considering that it's the Five Points, it's more of a "will") and walks off without a care. When a girl in the group asks if he's afraid of someone taking the watch, Jack says that he doesn't because everybody in the Five Points knows that it's his watch and also what he'll do to whoever takes it. | |
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Death of the Hypotenuse | |
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Death of the Hypotenuse: Johnny in a case of death by Butcher. | |
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The Big Rotten Apple | |
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The Big Rotten Apple: 19th century New York at its most squalid. | |
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Mortal Wound Reveal | |
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Mortal Wound Reveal: During the final battle, after the duel is interrupted by cannon fire and the smoke clears, Bill the Butcher and Amsterdam sit up. It's revealed that Bill the Butcher has a shrapnel wound in his gut. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Bill's speaking style: "From which part of that excrementitious isle were your forbears spawned?". Ironically, he couldn't never read too good. Bill is also very worldly and stylish. When he kisses the hand of a young Schermerhorn lady, Bill smiles and comments on her perfume, "Mm, Orange Blossom, delicious." And then he goes on to deliver a Stealth Insult to the girl's father within her hearing; he calls her a peach and says she should have a fine career on the stage, which is apparently a compliment of her looks, but when you consider that actresses were for a long time equated with prostitutes... | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: It's strongly hinted Bill knows that his way of thinking is dying, and even accepts it. He simply refuses to live in the "modern world" that is coming. | |
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Worldbuilding | |
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Worldbuilding: The recreation of the streets and slums of New York in the mid 19th century is quite impressive. | |
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Sleazy Politician | |
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Sleazy Politician: Boss Tweed, natch. | |
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The City Narrows | |
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The City Narrows: The Five Points in Real Life! | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Bill absolutely despises liars, cheats, backstabbers and dishonorable behavior in general. Hypocritically, he has committed all the behaviors he despises. McGloin does not look kindly upon selling corpses for cash due to his religious scruples and is thoroughly disgusted Amsterdam immediately sold off a dead man who his gang killed in a botched heist. Happy Jack seems very conflicted when Bill orders him to go after the resurrected Dead Rabbits (his old gang), to the point Bill has to brownbeat him into it. Bill is genuinely sad at Happy Jack being hung and displayed for all to see. While Tammany just views it as a middle finger to authority (read as: his), Bill just says he could afford ten Tammanys to one Happy Jack. | |
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Dastardly Whiplash | |
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Dastardly Whiplash: The moustachio-twirling, top-hatted Bill the Butcher could be Snidely Whiplash's uncle. His very, very scary uncle. | |
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Not Worth Killing | |
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Not Worth Killing: Amsterdam gets off with a nasty scar, though. Foreshadowed by Bill's speech about the Priest doing the same thing to him. Jenny also qualifies during the Knife-Throwing Act. | |
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Clique Tour | |
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Clique Tour: The film has Amsterdam Vallon return after a fifteen-year exile to the neighborhood called Little Five Points. His old friend Johnny acquaints him with the factions that control it now, including the Natives that slew Amsterdam's father; the Tonies, a mostly Italian band destined to become The Mafia; the Gussies, mostly hookers and pimps; and a brief glance at perhaps the most famous of the gangs, the Bowery Boys, complete with their iconic stovepipe hats. While the gangs aren't at each others throats, they are fiercely territorial and viciously vindictive. | |
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Sword Cane | |
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Sword Cane: Priest Vallon has a sword cross. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Bill hurling a meat cleaver In the Back of Monk Also his bloody head-beating of Amsterdam was probably going too far. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Cameron Diaz is the most guilty of this, but she's only the most guilty. Meanwhile you have English method actor Daniel Day-Lewis, who listened to ancient recordings of William Jennings Bryan to get a better approximation of a New York accent that doesn't even exist anymore. Justified for Amsterdam, who "lost his language" after living for sixteen years in an orphanage run by Americans, so a slip-up could be expected. | |
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Alas, Poor Scrappy | |
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Alas, Poor Scrappy: In-universe, after spending all the movie treating him like crap, Bill finally says something nice about Happy Jack to Boss Tweed when he finds his corpse strung on a lamp post. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Johnny betrays Amsterdam when he realizes Jenny has eyes for Amsterdam and not him. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Both Amsterdam's father and Bill serenely accept their defeats, even honored to be killed by a Worthy Opponent. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Bill sleeps with one eye open - and he's only got one eye, which is why he says he never sleeps much. | |
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Femme Fatalons | |
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Femme Fatalons: Hellcat Maggie not only sharpens wears sharpened claws but also files her teeth down to sharp points as well. This is not an invention of the film, by the way, though she is a composite character. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Angry rioters and gangsters armed with whatever was lying around against trained infantry with rifles backed by artillery? The army takes at most one onscreen casualty vs. the dozens if not hundreds of people buried in unmarked graves. A lot of these soldiers had just returned from the gruelling Battle of Gettysburg, and they had precisely no patience or sympathy for perceived traitors, in the North or South. | |
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Reminiscing About Your Victims | |
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Reminiscing About Your Victims: Bill is always fond of remembering Priest Vallon. | |
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Time-Passes Montage | |
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Time-Passes Montage: One of the most famous things about the film is the very end. Miramax had a lot of problems with it in the wake of 9/11, causing it to be delayed a whole year, sadly. | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn: The upper class are only in it for twenty minutes, yet the lower class clothes and all their pretty colors are on full display for most of the time. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Bill to Amsterdam for a short while. Even after their schism, when Bill dies, he holds on to Amsterdam's hand tightly, and refuses to let go even in death. | |
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Secret Test of Character | |
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Secret Test of Character: Bill suggests pistols to Amsterdam for the Final Battle, prompting Amsterdam to refuse them. Bill approves. | |
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Public Domain Character | |
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Public Domain Character: Boss Tweed, head of New York City's Tammany Hall Democratic machine and (therefore) more or less boss of working-class New York (rich people were, increasingly, Republicans). Bill is also based on a real person, but many more liberties are taken with him (including the name of the character) in order to make a compelling story. Likewise, Mr. Schermerhorn and Mr. Greeley. | |
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The Irish Mob | |
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The Irish Mob: Depicted in their early days as a street-gang mostly concerned with protecting the Irish Catholic immigrant community from hostile Protestants. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Johnny tries to claim that he let Jenny steal his pocket watch when he and Amsterdam first meet her. Amsterdam isn't fooled for a second. | |
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Wretched Hive | |
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Wretched Hive: Amsterdam refers to the Five Points as "the forge of Hell." Later he gets a guided tour of all the various criminal subcultures hanging out in Paradise Square. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Amsterdam finally gets his revenge and kills Bill, but it's a hollow victory since Bill was fatally wounded by shrapnel beforehand and Amsterdam essentially gives him a Mercy Kill. Amsterdam leaves New York with Jenny and they'll hopefully be able to make a better life elsewhere, but the city was devastated by the draft riots and many on both sides have perished, doomed to be all but forgotten by history. Despite this, New York will be rebuilt and eventually become one of the most important and powerful cities in the world. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: See What You Are in the Dark. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: This is pretty much Johnny's undoing. He tips Bill off that Amsterdam plans to murder him, and Amsterdam is generous enough to prove Johnny right that same evening. After the assassination attempt failed, Johnny ought to have been sitting pretty favorably in Bill's eye. But then Johnny's guilty conscience impels him to rejoin Amsterdam's crew and, further, to confess his betrayal. Amsterdam turns him out on his ear, and when Bill's men seize Johnny, the Butcher evidently decides his loyalty isn't worth too much. If Johnny had just stuck with Bill after ratting Amsterdam out, he might've been a lot less sympathetic, but he'd also have been a lot less dead. | |
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies | |
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: The climactic gang fight is interrupted by the U.S. Navy bombarding New York with cannon fire. | |
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Dead Animal Warning | |
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Dead Animal Warning: Subverted. When Amsterdam hangs a dead rabbit on a fence in Paradise Square, it's the symbol of his father's old gang, the Dead Rabbits, and both a call to arms for the immigrant community and a message to Bill the Butcher that he's not going to give up. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Of all the men Bill has killed, he only remembers Amsterdam's father. Right after he kills Priest, Bill solemnly places a dagger on Priest's chest and whispers reverently, "You're gonna need this to cross the River", then lets his men know ears and noses of their victims will be the trophies of the day but Vallon will be untouched to cross over into the afterlife whole. His last moments with the dying man are kind of touching in their own way as well. Emphasized when Amsterdam finally makes his move and Bill displays him for the crowd — he seems less angry about Amsterdam trying to kill him and more angry about Amsterdam playing as The Mole and trying to kill him sneakily, rather than facing him like a man as his father had. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: McGloin is this to Bill, who says, "Don't mind him, he used to be an Irishman." Mulraney is this even more so. When Mulraney escorts a group of aristocrats through the Points, Bill goes out of his way to undermine Mulraney's credibility and make him look like a total putz. | |
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The Resenter | |
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The Resenter: Johnny. It doesn't end well. | |
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Draft Dodging | |
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Draft Dodging: Rich people could pay their way out of being drafted (often by paying someone else to become a soldier in their stead). The poor could not. The Draft Riots occurred because they could not take that anymore, and made it clear by trashing everything they could before being gunned down by the Army. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
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Scenery Gorn: New York, the Five Points especially, circa the American Civil War ain't exactly all that pretty. Some would argue that the naval bombing at the end of the film actually improved the property value. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Bill caving in Monk's head with his own shillelagh. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Bill might be big on honour and the sanctity of the battlefield, but he's not above fighting dirty. | |
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Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
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Good Scars, Evil Scars: Bill has a glass eye; later, he brands Amsterdam's face with a hot knife. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: "Happy" Jack Mulraney is a totally loathsome little sod, who will quite complacently use his position as a policeman to beat up and extort bribes from the petty criminals of the Five Points, but is totally dominated by Bill. Boss Tweed, too. He tries to be a Magnificent Bastard. In the latter half of the film, he stokes the flames of conflict between Bill Cutting and Amsterdam until the two are driven into a gang war which leaves all his rivals decimated. As a result, he is able to emerge as the uncontested master of New York politics until his downfall in 1871. However, a lot of his constituency is dead by the movie's end. "We're burying a lot of votes tonight..." | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: Gangs Of New York did this for the Draft Riot scene, which was a pity if you think about it, they don't often make such detailed and elaborate sets for movies these days. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: When the rioters attack his manor, Schermerhorn attacks them with two pistols. It ends up being Awesome, but Impractical as the rioters attack him before he can reload either gun.note John Schermerhorn died in 1851, however. During the opening melee, Bill charges into the fray with a cleaver in one hand and a machete-sized butcher's knife in the other, using both to kill dozens of Dead Rabbits. Opposite him, Priest Vallon wields a sword in one hand and a Celtic cross-shaped mace in the other. | |
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Kill the Poor | |
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Kill the Poor: As tensions come closer to exploding, Schermerhorn casually states his belief that you can always hire half the poor to kill the other half. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: "That, my friends, is the minority vote." | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs: Amsterdam's fight with McGloin. Justified as the usual way of resolving disputes between men that doesn't involve knives or guns. | |
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Yellow Peril | |
Gangs of New York / int_52fbbe7 | comment |
Yellow Peril: The Chinese community is portrayed quite sympathetically, however in-story they're viewed this way by the white majority, and the costumes recall this to some degree. Complaints on historical accuracy claim that New York's Chinese population in those days was so miniscule as to be irrelevant to the time period or anyone's interest. | |
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Book Dumb | |
Gangs of New York / int_53136954 | comment |
Book Dumb: Bill is fantastically well-spoken and eloquent, but one scene where he struggles to read a pamphlet suggests that he is only semi-literate. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Gangs of New York / int_5313c266 | comment |
There's also a character-specific Book Ends with Bill the Butcher. He's introduced with a extreme close-up shot of his eagle-adorned glass eye. His last shot in the film is another extreme-close up of the glass eye, but this time shutting closed for the final time. | |
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Affably Evil | |
Gangs of New York / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Provided you're not an immigrant, Bill the Butcher seems like he'd be a pretty fun guy to hang around. Even if you are, he'll let you hang with him if you're useful enough. But don't ever enter his presence without some offering of tribute. You gotta pay for his company. | |
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The Dragon | |
Gangs of New York / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: "Happy Jack" Mulraney to Bill. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_55180ce | type |
Snow Means Death | |
Gangs of New York / int_55180ce | comment |
Snow Means Death: The opening battle takes place in the winter with snow covering everything, which in turn is quickly covered in massive amounts of blood from the resulting massacre. By the time the battle ends, the camera slowly zooms out to show that the main battle area is now covered in dirty pink mush. | |
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I Work Alone | |
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I Work Alone: Said verbatim by Jenny when Amsterdam offers to team up with her in the rich district. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Gangs of New York / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: The New York City Draft Riot scene takes a few liberties with the events that actually transpired. The film exaggerates the extent of the riot and the sort of events that took place. It is not known whether or not the US Navy actually fired artillery on Paradise Square, but it's probable that it didn't actually happen, though some historical evidence suggests artillery was used, albeit on land. | |
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Vote Early, Vote Often | |
Gangs of New York / int_585db628 | comment |
Vote Early, Vote Often: Monk might very well have won the election fair and square but Boss Tweed made sure he had several times more votes than there were voters. | |
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Escaped Animal Rampage | |
Gangs of New York / int_58cb5c33 | comment |
Escaped Animal Rampage: During the climax of Gangs of New York an elephant escapes the Barnum and Bailey circus during the Draft Riots, though the city is so overcome by chaos the elephant rampaging down the street is only another small part of the madness the city has descended into. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
Gangs of New York / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: Nativists and Dead Rabbits can be seen fighting together when the Army attacks New York. McGloin's death at the hands of the soldiers enrages a Dead Rabbit into attacking them, despite the fact that he was with the Nativists. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
Gangs of New York / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: Though not for the expected reasons. Many of them are bought are bought off by Boss Tweed to look the other way when it comes to crimes, while the Metropolitan police is too busy with gang violence. | |
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Instant Sedation | |
Gangs of New York / int_5bdf025f | comment |
Instant Sedation: Jenny uses chloroform to put Amsterdam to sleep so she can treat his wounds. He goes from screaming in agony to unconscious in three seconds. | |
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Gang of Hats | |
Gangs of New York / int_5bf69547 | comment |
Gang of Hats: Every prominent gang has a dress code, often including hats. Bill's Bowery Boys for example have top hats and blue ribbons on their clothes while the Dead Rabbits adorn themselves with dead rabbits and have red strands on their clothes. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_5c300c3b | type |
The Berserker | |
Gangs of New York / int_5c300c3b | comment |
The Berserker/Unflinching Walk: Monk's style of combat during the first battle between Priest Vallon and Bill the Butcher. He walks around, ignoring any danger to himself, and just gets his clubs in. | |
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Eyepatch of Power | |
Gangs of New York / int_5c5d0032 | comment |
Eyepatch of Power: Bill's glass eye has an American Eagle instead of a pupil. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
Gangs of New York / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Pragmatic Villainy: Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall cronies are appalled by Bill's actions, only because it's bad for their appearances. | |
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I Kiss Your Hand | |
Gangs of New York / int_5f173ee4 | comment |
I Kiss Your Hand: Bill the Butcher kisses the hand of an uptown girl visiting the sleazy Five Points, complimenting her perfume. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_5f70322e | type |
Public Domain Soundtrack | |
Gangs of New York / int_5f70322e | comment |
Public Domain Soundtrack: A few period songs, such as "Paddy's Lamentation". | |
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Gangs of New York / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Gangs of New York / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Bill's last name is "Cutting." And everyone refers to him as "The Butcher." | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
Gangs of New York / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: When a young Johnny first approaches Amsterdam before the '46 battle, he curiously fingers the latter's medallion before having his hand slapped away. It's quick and casual enough to escape notice, but explains Johnny's ability to recognize Amsterdam by it, thus gaining him a vital friend and ally. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_6306ceb6 | type |
Hat of Authority | |
Gangs of New York / int_6306ceb6 | comment |
Hat of Authority: One can easily tell the person's standing in a gang by the size of their top hat. Bill "the Butcher" has the tallest stovepipe hat of all. | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
Gangs of New York / int_63b02752 | comment |
Bill the Butcher is loosely based on William Poole, a real-life Five Points gang leader and nativist political organizer in antebellum New York. While the movie's Bill does utilize some of Poole's background and personality, it turns his violent tendencies up to eleven (Poole was an ex-boxer known for a Hair-Trigger Temper, but there's little evidence beyond rumor that he ever personally killed anyone). Further, Poole died eight years prior to the movie's events under markedly different circumstances (he was murdered in a bar by a political rival rather than dying in a street brawl). | |
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Gangs of New York / int_64a5e4f | type |
Black Vikings | |
Gangs of New York / int_64a5e4f | comment |
Black Vikings: A substantial number of Chinese people in 1863 New York; while there definitely were some Chinese people living and working in the city at that point in time, there were nowhere near enough of them to have their own community or run a Friendly Local Chinatown. Censuses show that during the 1850s there were about 70-150 Chinese men living in the city, which had risen to about 200 by 1870. | |
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Manly Tears | |
Gangs of New York / int_64e975cf | comment |
Manly Tears: Amsterdam sobs when he realizes he's starting to love Bill, being "under the wing of a dragon." | |
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Gangs of New York / int_64e975cf | |
Gangs of New York / int_68718fae | type |
TakeNoPrisoners | |
Gangs of New York / int_68718fae | comment |
Take No Prisoners: The U.S. Army soldiers deployed to deal with the Riots have this exact order — they become The Plot Reaper as the result. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_69fb91e8 | type |
Chewing the Scenery | |
Gangs of New York / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Chewing the Scenery: Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_6a4c6ec0 | type |
The Promised Land | |
Gangs of New York / int_6a4c6ec0 | comment |
The Promised Land: America is a portrayed as a hard Cynical type II of the Crappy at best and No Promised Land at worse. Irish immigrants escaping poverty, famine, and disease come to America only to be relentlessly brutalized and forced into job discrimination and poor shanty towns where they are attacked by gangs like the Natives who strongly hate foreigners and want Occupiers Out of Our Country or corrupt politicians who force them to enlist in the Army for benefits only to die in war. Lampshaded as the song "Paddy's Lamentation" plays as new Irish immigrants come to port while others are shipped off in coffins. | |
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The Reveal | |
Gangs of New York / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: The title card letting us know we're in New York 1846, after the introduction that seemed to have been lifted from the Dark Ages. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Gangs of New York / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Amsterdam Vallon. New Amsterdam, of course, was the original name of New York. The irony doesn't escape Bill's notice. Last but certainly not least, is Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. Meaningful on multiple levels; while Bill is, indeed, a murderer, he is also a literal butcher. Both lines of work feature a lot of cutting. It's highlighted when Bill shows Amsterdam his knowledge as a butcher on where to cut a man in a fight. | |
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Carry a Big Stick | |
Gangs of New York / int_6c07693b | comment |
Carry a Big Stick: Monk, whose weapon of choice is a shillelagh, with a notch for every person he's killed. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_6e37c196 | type |
Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
Gangs of New York / int_6e37c196 | comment |
Once Done, Never Forgotten: Bill will never let McGloin forget he was "fish hooked by a scrat." | |
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Gangs of New York / int_70ade2c4 | type |
Culture Clash | |
Gangs of New York / int_70ade2c4 | comment |
Culture Clash: Particularly between "natives" and immigrants, mixed with racism, Urban Segregation, and poverty. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
Gangs of New York / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: Monk was carrying it when he turned his back on Bill the Butcher while the latter was clearly in a killing mood. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
Gangs of New York / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Of course, it is the 1860's, but still. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_7360a6b6 | type |
Noble Demon | |
Gangs of New York / int_7360a6b6 | comment |
Noble Demon: Bill does live by some code of honor, no matter how alien, and pets the dog approximately twice. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
Gangs of New York / int_76d6c3df | comment |
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Hell Gate Reformatory in the Bronx. | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
Gangs of New York / int_77063cd7 | comment |
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Jenny, though "the heart of gold" part is mainly later on. | |
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Action Prologue | |
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Action Prologue: The fight between Bill's gang and the Dead Rabbits at the beginning. | |
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Gangs of New York / int_77dd4ff0 | type |
Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty | |
Gangs of New York / int_77dd4ff0 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: Like Oliver! 's cleaned-up version of Victorian England, Scorsese's 1864 is surprisingly bright (the real New York of the 1860's, particularly the lowly Five Points district, would have had far more manure on the streets and pigs running around). Although there's a good deal of gritty in the characters. | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
Gangs of New York / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Running Gag with McGloin | |
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Gangs of New York / int_7919a45b | type |
Duel to the Death | |
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Duel to the Death: Bill vs. Priest; later, Bill vs. Amsterdam. | |
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Brooklyn Rage | |
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Brooklyn Rage: Lower East Side Rage, actually. Brooklyn was mostly farmland at the time. | |
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Boomerang Bigot | |
Gangs of New York / int_7cf2f728 | comment |
Boomerang Bigot: The Irish-Catholic McGloin, who joins up with the Protestant "Natives" to acquire more power on the streets. His alliance with Bill is also heavily influenced by his hatred of blacks. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
Gangs of New York / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Monk drives home the fact to Amsterdam that he's nothing like his father because at least his father fought for a reason: Irish rights. | |
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Politically Correct History | |
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Politically Correct History: Averted. Amsterdam's gang includes a black member, who is taunted, scorned, and ultimately lynched. | |
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Symbolism | |
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Somewhat late in the game, Monk returns Priest Vallon's straight razor to Amsterdam. In replacing Bill's blade, it marks Amsterdam's shift out from under Bill's shadow (and living for petty, selfish revenge) in favor of reclaiming his father's legacy (and fighting for a greater good in the wellfare of his downtrodden people). | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Some have interpreted Bill's "fear" speech to Amsterdam as his way of telling Amsterdam he knew who he was - specifically, he points out Amsterdam's "murderous rage" when he is insulted, then brings up Priest (and reminding his son of his death) despite there being not much of a reason to do so. He also calls the assassin who tried to sneak attack him earlier a "coward", which some have interpreted as Bill's warning to Amsterdam to not try a similar tactic if he does take revenge on him. Unfortunately, Amsterdam seems to have missed the message. While Bill has a dramatic entrance earlier in the film, the exchange between Tweed and Bill shows more about both characters than any of Bill's ranting or Tweed's grandstanding. | |
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"Open!" Says Me | |
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"Open!" Says Me: After Monk agrees to Priest's payment, the former kicks open the door to reveal the snowy battlefield. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking/False Confession: Boss Tweed needs four hangings to keep crime down, and Bill obliges by getting him four (willing?) petty criminals (?) to hang. One takes pride in being hung in front of his family, since they will be paid for his execution. | |
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Informed Deformity | |
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Informed Deformity: When Bill has Amsterdam at his mercy, he describes the hellish ways in which he will disfigure him with his knife. When we next see him, he is walking down the street with his face obscured but several onlookers stare in horror, implying Bill stuck to his word. When the camera pans around, there doesn't seem to be much of a difference aside from a slight scar on his cheek that is hardly noticeable. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Daniel Day-Lewis must have been enjoying himself. McGloin does his share of scenery chewing. | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Johnny betrays Amsterdam out of jealousy and reveals his plans and true identity to the Butcher. Some time later, after Johnny is expelled from newly revived Dead Rabbits gang, Bill repays him by having him impaled on an iron fence to die a slow, agonizing death. Happy Jack, a former Dead Rabbit, is murdered and hung for all to see by Amsterdam and his gang. | |
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Percussive Pickpocket | |
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The St. Michael medallion given to him by his father. It gains him his first friend and ally in Johnny, who recognizes him by it, as well as acquaintanceship with Jenny after she makes off with it. | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: Lampshaded and subverted. Just as Bill and Amsterdam are finally about to throw down, suddenly loud thunder sounds off in the distance as everyone stands around trying to figure out what that noise was, followed by explosions. Then the army comes in and starts massacring everyone. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: The fight scenes contain no ramping, slow motion or elaborate choreography and look brutal and bloody. People are punched, stabbed and hacked down, falling over realistically, in probably one of the most accurate depictions of a massive brawl in recent cinema. This may make the fights look ridiculous or overly crude and disgusting compared to the fight choreography and special effects in contemporary films. Hell-Cat Maggie may seem like a ridiculous caricature, but she was a real person and exactly as depicted in the film. | |
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Reset Button Ending | |
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Reset Button Ending (sort of): | |
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Irish Priest | |
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Irish Priest: Priest Vallon of course, although he's not actually ordained. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Just read the top of the page. Especially badass because he's saying this to a powerful politician, the (in)famous Boss Tweed, while on Tweed's home turf. That takes balls. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: The fight between the two groups of firefighters. Fights like that were one of the reasons why city run fire departments (such as FDNY) had all but replaced the system of multiple volunteer units by the turn of the century. It wasn't uncommon for units to A. try to snag fires outside their designated area and B. sabotage if not outright attack other departments operating at the scene. The reason was that the first volunteer department at the scene would get paid a larger amount than subsequent crews. In fact, hiding a plug under a barrel was commonplace for "early responders", who would sit on it until his crew arrived; they became known as "plug uglies". This obvious recipe for corruption soon led to significant reforms in insurance laws (and abolition of the bounty payments), as well as independent volunteer companies giving way to modern professional and sworn volunteer fire departments. The New York City Fire Department was established following the Draft Riots of 1864. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: All over the place, but particularly during the Draft Riots sequence. All black people lynched by the mob are killed in horribly cruel way. However, a special mention goes to a poor guy who gets beaten nearly to death, then stabbed in the chest, then hanged on a lamp post, and then set on fire. And even then, some crazed rioters keep beating his dead, hanging and burning body! McGloin charges head-on at a squad of U.S. Army riflemen. He gets literally shredded by bullets when all soldiers fire at him. The officer shoots him one more time in the head with his pistol when McGloin lies dead or dying on the ground, which counts as a Mercy Kill. Shortly after the above, Shang furiously attacks the same squad of soldiers in retaliation. He gets knocked to the ground, and then kicked and pummeled to death for his trouble. Even after he's dead already, the troopers keep beating his body with stocks of their rifles. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Specifically McGloin, during the draft riots. In general most of the rioters could count, it's hard to feel sympathy for them after they start murdering black men and burning down random buildings, mugging people on the street, and invading homes and businesses. | |
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Knife-Throwing Act | |
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Knife-Throwing Act: Bill stages an impromptu one with Jenny as the target. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: An entire Union flank turns it's attention to resident Jerkass, McGloin. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: McGloin's death at the hands of the Union Army - he was both a Dead Rabbit and a Nativist. While the army using artillery strikes on Paradise Square likely didn't happen in real life, it symbolizes the power and 'honour' of the gangs being swept away by modern order and authority. Especially cutting when a piece of shrapnel fatally wounds Bill, and instead of an epic fight to the death Amsterdam has to give him a Mercy Kill. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: Amsterdam wants to kill Bill for killing his father. | |
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The "The" Title Confusion | |
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The "The" Title Confusion: It's Gangs of New York, not The Gangs of New York | |
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Fighting Irish | |
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Fighting Irish: Irish immigrants are more than ready to fight the nativists for their slice of the pie. | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket: Priest Vallon's shaving razor. It turns out Monk went rifling through Vallon's effects to retrieve it for the orphaned Vallon years later. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Bill the Butcher is our primary antagonist | |
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Tragic Keepsake | |
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Tragic Keepsake: Amsterdam hides two away before being dragged off to an orphanage, and his first priority upon his return is to retrieve them: The St. Michael medallion given to him by his father. It gains him his first friend and ally in Johnny, who recognizes him by it, as well as acquaintanceship with Jenny after she makes off with it. The knife used by Bill to kill Priest Vallon, and by which Amsterdam intends to avenge his father. Ironically, as Amsterdam begins to gravitate towards genuine admiration and loyalty towards Bill, this means both keepsakes end up tied to one of Amsterdam's two father figures. . Somewhat late in the game, Monk returns Priest Vallon's straight razor to Amsterdam. In replacing Bill's blade, it marks Amsterdam's shift out from under Bill's shadow (and living for petty, selfish revenge) in favor of reclaiming his father's legacy (and fighting for a greater good in the wellfare of his downtrodden people). | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Bill on the Priest. Monk corroborates this by referring to the Priest as a "thick, ignorant, barbarous Irish whelp" just like Amsterdam would soon be. Amsterdam dismisses the rich families like the Schermerhorns and Greeleys in the north of Manhattan as "rich gang members". Amsterdam and Bill. Compare Bill's backstory and Amsterdam's arc post-beatdown. Heck, when Bill is watching Monk's funeral procession, he's not there to intimidate anyone or mock the procession. He's waiting for Amsterdam, and he gets exactly what he expected/hoped: Amsterdam to tell him "Challenge". Bill smiles genuinely and replies warmly "Challenge accepted." He's pleased that Amsterdam is learning "the laws of ancient combat". | |
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Wall Bang Her | |
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Ends with a wafer-thin mint of Wall Bang Her. | |
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You | |
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Played straight — Bill the Butcher and Vallon. Lampshaded when their climactic battle is rudely interrupted by a naval bombardment of the city. Bill discusses it on several occasions as being part of his "ancient laws of combat". | |
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Dead Guy on Display | |
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Dead Guy on Display: The fate of 'Happy' Jack Mulraney | |
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Conflict Killer | |
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Conflict Killer: The B-Plot of the build-up to the New York Draft Riots erupts with full force in the final act and the Final Battle that the A-Plot was building up to never happens because it's interrupted by the Union military blowing everything up with an artillery barrage and then sending in soldiers with orders to Take No Prisoners. Amsterdam manages to kill Bill, but it's a Mercy Kill that leaves him even more bitter in the aftermath. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Subtle, but when Bill is explaining his love of butchering pigs because they are the closest to human, he mentions after cutting the midsection "this is a wound, the stomach will bleed and bleed" guess how Bill eventually ends up?. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
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Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Bill and Vallon both give one of these before the rumble between the natives and the Irish immigrants starts. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Despite being shown as an utterly deplorable bigot, McGloin deeply cares about his deceased mother, being seen making a prayer for her to rest in peace before he was forced out of the church. | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The Draft Riots, especially when they start attacking people in rich clothes and lynching black people. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
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Left the Background Music On: While McGloin and Amsterdam fight, a man plays battle music on his autoharp. He stops playing when the fight is over. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Bill taps a knife against his glass eye, an effect that was actually improvised by Daniel Day-Lewis with the help of an extra-thick contact lens. Not to mention that Bill says he plucked the eye out himself and mailed it to Priest Vallon because he wasn't able to look the Priest in the eye during his first defeat. | |
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Foe Cooties | |
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Foe Cooties: "I'm not interested in The Butcher's leavings." | |
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Vengeance Denied | |
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Vengeance Denied: Because of the U.S. Army's explosive role as a Conflict Killer thanks to the B-Plot of the New York Draft Riots, Amsterdam Vallon's desire to avenge his father in a climactic no-holds-barred gang fight against Bill "The Butcher" Cutting instead becomes having to give Bill a Mercy Kill when he ends up fatally wounded by random artillery shrapnel. The epilogue makes it clear that Amsterdam will lament this Anti-Climax for what may be the rest of his life. | |
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Dead Star Walking | |
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Dead Star Walking: Priest Vallon, played by Liam Neeson, is dead before the ten minute mark. | |
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Mob War | |
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Mob War: The Dead Rabbits (and later resurrected Dead Rabbits) vs. Bill's Nativists are a pretty hard-core, tribal version of this. Unusual for representations of this kind of conflict in film, it ends with the authorities barging in and massacring (almost) everybody. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The examples are legion. Chinese immigrants are physically (and violently) prevented from voting. Two rival city fire departments brawl in the street instead of actually putting out the fire. The welfare state is nonexistent, as the only people who give a damn about the sufferings of the slum inhabitants are church leaders and opportunistic "do-gooders" like Boss Tweed. And the only action taken against the threat of epidemic disease is squirting antibiotic gunk all over the streets from time to time. | |
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Doesn't Like Guns | |
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Doesn't Like Guns: Bill the Butcher doesn't like to use guns when he fights, preferring to stick to meat cleavers and butcher's knives, because he follows a strict code of honor. His arch-rival Priest Vallon held the same belief, so when Bill's Natives faced off against Vallon's Dead Rabbits the fight included just about every weapon but guns. This also goes for later in the movie when young Amsterdam Vallon and the resurrected Dead Rabbits negotiate a duel with Bill's gang, and when Bill suggests pistols, Amsterdam immediately refuses, to which Bill replies "Good boy." Then the Union infantry spoil everything with their rifles and artillery. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The music during the battle between Priest Vallon and Bill Cutting's gangs is a fairly modern synth dance beat. Also the music "Shimmy She Wobble" playing as the Rabbit's are readying for battle sounds like it may be an old Irish tune, but is really a fife and drum blues number from Mississippi recorded in the 1950's. From the first crack of line infantry rifle muskets firing on the mob, a rather melancholy yet upbeat drum and fife tune starts playing, even as the scene depicts the shock, surprise, terrifying confusion and brutal, bloody carnage of the Army firing on a mob made up of it's own citizens. All amidst screams of terror and pain, rapid camera angles and shocked/terrified faces, and bodies falling by the dozens full of bloody holes. Somehow, it fits perfectly. | |
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Character Filibuster | |
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Character Filibuster: Bill has a long one while talking to Amsterdam after their night at a brothel, discussing his life's story while draped in an American flag. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
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Avenging the Villain: A very minor one, but after the Army shows up to start executing rioters, Dead Rabbit Shang charges a firing squad in a rage after seeing them fill Nativist McGloin with about a dozen rounds of lead. He's presumably clubbed to death by the soldiers with their rifles. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: Amsterdam fears that he may have saved Bill out of genuine affection for the killer of his father. | |
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Fourth Wall Psych | |
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Fourth Wall Psych: After killing Monk, Bill looks into the camera to say, "That, my friends, is the minority vote." He's actually talking to the people inside the barber shop. | |
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Antagonist in Mourning | |
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Antagonist in Mourning: Literally. Bill keeps a shrine of Priest Vallon and celebrates his defeat respectfully and mournfully every year. | |
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High-Heel–Face Turn | |
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High-Heel–Face Turn: Jenny sleeps with Amsterdam and sides with him against Bill, who had previously rescued her from a life of prostitution and misery. Various snips of dialog (such as her saying she's been secretly saving up money) imply she'd been looking for a way out for a while now. | |
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Verbal Salt in the Wound | |
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Verbal Salt in the Wound: Johnny and Jimmy surprise Amsterdam while he's retrieving his father's possessions from the tunnels, resulting in a confrontation in which Jimmy gets sucker-punched in the nose. The two later meet again when the rest of Johnny's gang convene to welcome Amsterdam into their ranks; Amsterdam eyes Jimmy and snidely asks "how's the beak?" | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: Bill revels in combat, especially the kind involving knives and cleavers and other sharp blades in general. | |
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Wrong Insult Offence | |
Gangs of New York / int_b84491a3 | comment |
Wrong Insult Offence: McGloin at one point, looking to pick a fight with Amsterdam, calls him a "fidlam bens" (a thief who steals worthless crap because he doesn't have the skills or guts to go after worthwhile loot). Amsterdam just shrugs and says that, given that the entire haul from his last heist was the corpse of a dead nightwatchman he sold to the local medical school, he really can't argue with the description. However, if McGloin had called him a "chiseler" (a thief who screws his partners out of their cut of the loot) he might feel insulted enough to fight. McGloin doesn't understand the term, but, being a dedicated Jerkass, says Sure, Let's Go with That. | |
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Color-Coded Characters | |
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Color-Coded Characters: The Natives wear blue sashes while the Irish wear red sashes. Partly Truth in Television, only in real life it was just a stripe on their pants. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Heres da ting: I don't give a tuppeny fuck about your moral conundrum you meat-headed shit-sack. ...That's more or less da ting." "Mr. Tammany Fucking Hall..." | |
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So Proud of You | |
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So Proud of You: Bill on Amsterdam in the weirdest way, as he approves of him growing up to be Worthy Opponent. Specificaly he appoves when Amsterdam agrees to no guns during the gang duel. | |
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Jealous Romantic Witness | |
Gangs of New York / int_bc97f0c6 | comment |
Jealous Romantic Witness: Henry sees Amsterdam make out with Jenny, a woman he was interested in but who turned him down earlier in the film. He outs his identity to Bill Cutting out of jealousy. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Bill and throwing knives. | |
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Real Men Love Jesus | |
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Real Men Love Jesus: Priest Vallon, most of all. Bill is devout in his own way, and Amsterdam's rise to badassery is coupled with his reconnecting with his Catholic roots. Immediately before the final confrontation, we see Bill and Amsterdam praying. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: From the mid 19th century, so a lot of it looks like a farming community than an actual city. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Amsterdam is a hoodlum out for revenge, but he's a decent person at heart. | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy: Jenny's baby was cut out of her after she got pregnant from Bill the Butcher, leaving a big nasty scar on her body and her traumatized. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: Amsterdam, for someone with a "murderous rage" in him, is pretty bland. Maybe there's just no more heat to his anger? | |
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Stab the Picture | |
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Stab the Picture: On his way to a meeting with Boss Tweed, Bill the Butcher and his gang run into a parade celebrating the Emancipation Proclaimation. Bill (a virulent racist) responds by throwing a knife into a poster depicting President Lincoln, hitting him between the eyes. In a case of wonderful irony, years later Bill's actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) would play Lincoln himself. | |
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Girl with Psycho Weapon | |
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Girl with Psycho Weapon: Hell-cat Maggie has Wolverine Claws. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Bill spits when a Tammany representative tells him he will be rewarded for bringing Irishmen to the polls, and says he will not play a part in handing the country over to those who played no part in fighting for it; cut to newly arrived Irishmen being made to sign enlistment papers and given guns and uniforms along with their application for citizenship, and getting on a troopship while coffins are being offloaded. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Monk wins against a Nativist candidate for the position of sheriff in a fair election, but Bill kills him anyway. | |
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The Butcher | |
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Last but certainly not least, is Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. Meaningful on multiple levels; while Bill is, indeed, a murderer, he is also a literal butcher. Both lines of work feature a lot of cutting. It's highlighted when Bill shows Amsterdam his knowledge as a butcher on where to cut a man in a fight. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Also could be considered a small Shout-Out to one of Scorsese's earlier films. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Bill attributes his xenophobia to losing his father in the War of 1812 and believes in getting rid of anyone who he thinks dishonors his nation by not fighting, serving with distinction, or dying for it like his father did. | |
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much | |
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Monk seems to have this attitude towards the Irish in America, telling Amsterdam that his first impulse is to tear at him and destruct the world, which is why he didn't like to run with the Dead Rabbits or Priest Vallon unless they paid him. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: "It's got me lookin as sober as me own grandfather... a total drunken bastard." | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
Gangs of New York / int_ca7ec334 | comment |
Two Lines, No Waiting: Plot "A" is the whole bunch of Hamlet-esque shenanigans involving Amsterdam Vallon and William Cutting, and the path to them getting in a climactic gang fight for the power of the Five Points and revenge. Plot "B" are the increasing societal disturbances involving the Civil War, Union Army drafting, and the haves stepping on the have-nots. The climax is Plot "B" erupting in the Draft Riots and devastating a good chunk of New York while the gangs go to war finally... and the "B" Plot pretty much overtakes the "A" Plot because the Army starts massacring people to try to placate the riot, including the aforementioned gangs. Amsterdam manages to get his revenge, but it is by giving Bill a Mercy Kill, which leaves him feeling pretty empty. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Bill is always accompanied by three nameless thugs who don't utter a single line between the three through the whole movie. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Bill, at least in the theater scene and in a less comical fashion than is usually portrayed. After nearly being assassinated by a Gaelic-speaking radical, he screams in pain (reasonably enough), then sticks his finger into the bullet hole and tastes his own blood, lets loose a monumental Cluster F-Bomb and furiously demands that the captured assassin speak English or he will kill him. Then, when he realizes that both the other audience members and the actors on stage are staring at him, he immediately calms down and graciously says: "Tragedians, let us continue." (See also Sophisticated as Hell.) | |
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Spiritual Antithesis | |
Gangs of New York / int_ce2969d8 | comment |
Spiritual Antithesis: To The Age of Innocence, the other Old New York Scorsese-Daniel Day-Lewis movie, which is set 10 years later. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: Amsterdam has a period of flirting with Becoming the Mask when masquerading as Bill's protege. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: In his stovepipe hat and "duster" coat, Bill looks like the world's dirtiest circus ringmaster. Priest Vallon also sports a black cassock at the beginning of the movie. It stands out against the white snow on the ground. | |
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Floating Head Syndrome | |
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Floating Head Syndrome: The movie's poster, with jumbled names to boot. Who knew that Cameron Diaz had such a cool mustache? | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: More like Kick Scramble Sex for Jenny and Amsterdam. Ends with a wafer-thin mint of Wall Bang Her. | |
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Minor Insult Meltdown | |
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Minor Insult Meltdown: Bill the Butcher during the knife throwing act. "Whoopsie-daisy!" | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
Gangs of New York / int_d2e4289b | comment |
Calling Me a Logarithm: Subverted when a character asks Amsterdam and his friends if they take exception to being called "fidlam bens," someone who resorts to stealing pathetic stuff because he can't steal good stuff. He replies that he might if he knew what it meant. He reverses it by saying if McGloin called him a "chiseler" — someone who rips off his partners in crime — he would be offended. McGloin seems to never heard of the term before, but says Sure, Let's Go with That to provoke Amsterdam. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: For all of Bill's talk about honor and traditional laws of combat, his primary method of attack is sneaking up behind his enemy to stab them. Bill likes to refer to himself as a "Native American," but as a white man, he's obviously a descendant of immigrants at some point in his lineage. | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: Bill would never have recognized Amsterdam on his own. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: Technically, the infantry, but once the riot breaks out, there's a montage of violent scenes and telegraph reports about how the police are totally unable to contain the riot, the rioters have taken control of the city, all the police have been put out of action or are unaccounted for, there's no hope, and then, suddenly, "From 16th, the 7th regiment has arrived, foot of Canal Street. They are on their way to Broadway." There's still a lot of fighting before the mob is put down, but you know the tide has turned. | |
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Leave No Survivors | |
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Leave No Survivors: To a small degree. The Army commander notes the rioters aren't taking any hostages, so neither are they. It's treated as a Godzilla Threshold and they're not trying to kill. They just don't care if anyone gets killed, just so they're stopped. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Jenny is more than capable of taking care of herself. Hell-cat Maggie might be this or Dark Action Girl. Heck, there are several unnamed female Dead Rabbits in the opening battle scene. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Historical In-Joke: "Now that was bloody Shakespearean. Do you know who William Shakespeare was? He was the fellow who wrote the King James Bible." African beats mixed with the Irish jig ("A jig doing a jig", says Bill), and you get the origins of tap dancing. An Irishman could never be a sheriff. Sure, boy-o. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: Priest Vallon once beat Bill nearly to death and then spared him, intending him to live in shame. Bill later turns this around on Amsterdam after publicly humiliating and disfiguring him. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Given the film's cocktail "myth" of historical events, a lot of characters blend more than one figure. Bill the Butcher for example is primarily based on Bill "The Butcher" Poole, but his role as undisputed king of the five points acting as the mayor's enforcer resembles moreso Captain Isaiah Rynders. Hellcat Maggie was a real figure with sharp nails and teeth, but the specific habit of biting off people's ears in a bar comes from a character called Gallus Maggie. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Bill the Butcher was a real person. The real Bill was also much less dangerous than his fictional counterpart: he apparently never killed anyone. He also died in a shooting eight years before the Draft Riots took place. The New York Draft Riots actually did happen. Frighteningly enough, Hellcat Maggie was a real person too. Much of the film's dialogue is taken from contemporary accounts of the Draft Riots, albeit out of context. Tweed, Schermerhorn, Greeley and P.T. Barnum are historical characters. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: The New York Draft Riots are initially a protest over the Union drafts, but quickly devolves into a deadly lynch mob. | |
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The Mole | |
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Emphasized when Amsterdam finally makes his move and Bill displays him for the crowd — he seems less angry about Amsterdam trying to kill him and more angry about Amsterdam playing as The Mole and trying to kill him sneakily, rather than facing him like a man as his father had. | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown: Where you get to listen to endearingly bizarre "ching-chong" opera music and ogle strumpets imprisoned in birdcages. (It's a bit of Artistic Licence on the film's part, as New York's Chinatown wasn't established until the 1870s when Chinese immigrants began to arrive in the city in sizeable numbers.) | |
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Epic Movie | |
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Epic Movie: This was to be Scorsese's Epic Movie, and chef d'ouevre. Executive Meddling caused it to be cut down some, and the acting of the romantic leads has led to mixed critical reception. It's nevertheless every inch an epic film though. | |
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Never Learned to Read | |
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Never Learned to Read: An odd case with Bill. He's functionally illiterate, but he also has a large vocabulary and is prone to Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: The Empire State Building shouldn't be visible in the final shot from the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge. The actual Five Points cross-streets included Anthony, not Worth. The name was changed from Anthony to Worth after the Civil War. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Jenny uses this against Amsterdam. He doesn't go down for the count though. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: "Happy" Jack Mulraney. Given the place and time period, it's to be expected. | |
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Gangsterland | |
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Gangsterland: Everybody in the Five Points is either in one of the gangs or has been bribed into doing the gangs' bidding. Even priests, missionaries, politicians and rich people are involved with them. Even firefighter companies behave like gangs, fighting each other instead of putting out a fire and leaving the fire unattended to sack a house that ISN'T on fire. | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: As Bill's protege, Amsterdam gets to wear fine clothes and gets invited to a cotillion. | |
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Anti-Climax | |
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Anti-Climax: The battle between Bill's nativists and Amsterdam's revived Dead Rabbits is effectively canceled with the U.S. military starts shelling the city. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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McGloin charges head-on at a squad of U.S. Army riflemen. He gets literally shredded by bullets when all soldiers fire at him. The officer shoots him one more time in the head with his pistol when McGloin lies dead or dying on the ground, which counts as a Mercy Kill. | |
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You Will Be Spared | |
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You Will Be Spared: "God's only man spared by the Butcher!" Also could be considered a small Shout-Out to one of Scorsese's earlier films. | |
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Incredibly Conspicuous Drag | |
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Incredibly Conspicuous Drag: Played for Laughs when an incredibly obvious transvestite (stubble and all) shows up to a dance where males are paired with females. He, of course, goes to the "female" side. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Herod | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: Twice by Bill. Twice he had a chance to kill Amsterdam before he was a bigger nuisance, knowing perfectly well that he would be incensed by the murder of his father. Twice he does not. And in the end, he really didn't get to die fighting like he wanted to, but that wasn't Amsterdam's fault. | |
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Death Equals Redemption | |
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Death Equals Redemption: Amsterdam seems to forgive Johnny when he dies. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father/Not in This for Your Revolution: This is Amsterdam's motivation for stalking Bill when he first arrives in New York, but as time goes on his crusade becomes more and more bound up with the plight of the Irish immigrants. | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: When you've got Leonardo DiCaprio in your film... This is emphasized the most when Bill the Butcher captures him and claims that he will disfigure him with a hot knife. We cut to people gasping at Amsterdam (DiCaprio) in disgust... only to see that DiCaprio looks as handsome as ever with only the slightest cut on his cheek. To the film's credit however, it does showcase plenty of dirt and grime amongst the three leading actors. One such notable instance includes the scene in which Amsterdam finally kills Bill; his face is drenched in blood, as is the rest of him. Bill and Jenny don't fare too much better through the riots either. | |
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Badass Preacher | |
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Badass Preacher: Invoked with "Priest" Vallon who is not an actual priest or clergyman but still goes around carrying a Celtic cross and wearing an iron collar that resembles a priest's collar to protect his neck. But played straight with the Bishop. | |
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Bawdy Song | |
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Bawdy Song: "New York Girls" is sung in the saloon. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: "She ain't really my mother." To a lesser degree, Bill also talks to Arthur, one man about to be hanged, and offers him $1.50 for his late mother's locket. While this may seem petty and cruel, Bill then tells him "I'll miss you, Arthur. See you in the Hot Country, shamus." Keep in mind too that Bill is a Nativist who is giving a traditional Irish benediction. Bill is genuinely saddened by Happy Jack's death, muttering to Boss Tweed that he could more spare ten of him than he could of Jack. Bill choosing to take in an impoverished 12 year old Jenny who was living in a doorway after her mother died. Even if he did have sex with her which led to a Caesarian scar after the birth and death of her baby, she insisted Bill never laid a hand on her until she asked him to. | |
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