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Gangs of New York

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Gangs of New York	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Gangs of New York / int_1237828f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
Gangs of New York / int_12b1f5f3	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Gangs of New York / int_137f2d7	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Gangs of New York / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Cutting to Boss Tweed.
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Gangs of New York / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Gangs of New York / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: Mulroney.
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Gangs of New York / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Gangs of New York / int_14beeefd	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
Gangs of New York / int_15800db3	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Gangs of New York / int_15b2cab3	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
Gangs of New York / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: Monk gives Vallon his father's rusty shaving razor.
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Gangs of New York / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Gangs of New York / int_1b65dfad	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Gangs of New York / int_1bc2e445	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1c7cc36d	type	Welcome Back, Traitor
Gangs of New York / int_1c7cc36d	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Gangs of New York / int_1d18887f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Gangs of New York / int_1d2400e9	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Gangs of New York / int_1daa7fce	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
Gangs of New York / int_1e679bd0	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Gangs of New York / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Bill Cutting, if there ever was one.
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Gangs of New York / int_20b593e9	type	In the Name of the Moon
Gangs of New York / int_20b593e9	comment	In the Name of the Moon: The street warriors all call out their gang names before battle.
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Gangs of New York / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Gangs of New York / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: New York City of the 1860's is not a fun place, much less the Five Points.
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Gangs of New York / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Gangs of New York / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Monk. Not that he doesn't know better, the poor bastard.
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Gangs of New York / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Gangs of New York / int_222dc873	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
Gangs of New York / int_23015b1f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Gangs of New York / int_23473ae7	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Gangs of New York / int_237404cc	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Gangs of New York / int_259d5879	comment	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 other words, bitter enemies.
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Gangs of New York / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Gangs of New York / int_272abb98	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_27a036db	type	Covered with Scars
Gangs of New York / int_27a036db	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Gangs of New York / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: "You should have shaved closer this morning."
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Gangs of New York / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Gangs of New York / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The film contains lots of unsubtitled Irish in the background dialogue.
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Gangs of New York / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Gangs of New York / int_2ae29c0d	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
Gangs of New York / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Johnny in a case of death by Butcher.
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Gangs of New York / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
Gangs of New York / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: 19th century New York at its most squalid.
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Gangs of New York / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
Gangs of New York / int_2ccdff6c	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Gangs of New York / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Gangs of New York / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_30ab0aa1	type	Worldbuilding
Gangs of New York / int_30ab0aa1	comment	Worldbuilding: The recreation of the streets and slums of New York in the mid 19th century is quite impressive.
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Gangs of New York / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Gangs of New York / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Boss Tweed, natch.
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Gangs of New York / int_30ef2781	type	The City Narrows
Gangs of New York / int_30ef2781	comment	The City Narrows: The Five Points in Real Life!
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Gangs of New York / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Gangs of New York / int_319e4a2f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_32e69b5f	type	Dastardly Whiplash
Gangs of New York / int_32e69b5f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3346f944	type	Not Worth Killing
Gangs of New York / int_3346f944	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3429bf3e	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_348c7ded	type	Sword Cane
Gangs of New York / int_348c7ded	comment	Sword Cane: Priest Vallon has a sword cross.
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Gangs of New York / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Gangs of New York / int_34dcfc96	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Gangs of New York / int_35b241c0	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_369dcb6	type	Alas, Poor Scrappy
Gangs of New York / int_369dcb6	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Gangs of New York / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Johnny betrays Amsterdam when he realizes Jenny has eyes for Amsterdam and not him.
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Gangs of New York / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Gangs of New York / int_396e1c2a	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Gangs of New York / int_3aec9e5e	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
Gangs of New York / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3dec5d4e	type	Reminiscing About Your Victims
Gangs of New York / int_3dec5d4e	comment	Reminiscing About Your Victims: Bill is always fond of remembering Priest Vallon.
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Gangs of New York / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
Gangs of New York / int_3dfdc686	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Gangs of New York / int_3ec27f76	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Gangs of New York / int_3f11ef74	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Gangs of New York / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Bill suggests pistols to Amsterdam for the Final Battle, prompting Amsterdam to refuse them. Bill approves.
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Gangs of New York / int_3fe6a857	type	Public Domain Character
Gangs of New York / int_3fe6a857	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_40a94897	type	The Irish Mob
Gangs of New York / int_40a94897	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Gangs of New York / int_40bb59d0	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Gangs of New York / int_40cbee83	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Gangs of New York / int_40cc0c7e	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Gangs of New York / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: See What You Are in the Dark.
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Gangs of New York / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Gangs of New York / int_44fc28e8	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_454d9422	type	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
Gangs of New York / int_454d9422	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_45b850b7	type	Dead Animal Warning
Gangs of New York / int_45b850b7	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Gangs of New York / int_4604fd4d	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Gangs of New York / int_47fea76b	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Gangs of New York / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Johnny. It doesn't end well.
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Gangs of New York / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
Gangs of New York / int_486b0458	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Gangs of New York / int_49d18492	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Gangs of New York / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Bill caving in Monk's head with his own shillelagh.
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Gangs of New York / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Gangs of New York / int_49fb5ccb	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Gangs of New York / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Bill has a glass eye; later, he brands Amsterdam's face with a hot knife.
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Gangs of New York / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Gangs of New York / int_4f84cdef	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Gangs of New York / int_4ff6f484	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Gangs of New York / int_50d71a78	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
Gangs of New York / int_5111ff0	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Gangs of New York / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: "That, my friends, is the minority vote."
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Gangs of New York / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Gangs of New York / int_51beab21	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_52fbbe7	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_53136954	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_537dd8fe	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_53f5119f	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
Gangs of New York / int_5571b706	comment	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 â€“ History
Gangs of New York / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ 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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Gangs of New York / int_585db628	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_58cb5c33	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5989e3b6	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_59907e4f	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5bdf025f	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5bf69547	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5c5d0032	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5ca80293	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_5f173ee4	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_62f9d08e	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_63b02752	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_64e975cf	type	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_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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Gangs of New York / int_6b2b3b59	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_6c07693b	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_7286e96d	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_76d6c3df	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_77063cd7	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Gangs of New York / int_77414bc2	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_78c895c8	type	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
Gangs of New York / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Bill vs. Priest; later, Bill vs. Amsterdam.
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Gangs of New York / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
Gangs of New York / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: Lower East Side Rage, actually. Brooklyn was mostly farmland at the time.
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Gangs of New York / int_7cf2f728	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_7d89315b	type	"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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Gangs of New York / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Gangs of New York / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Averted. Amsterdam's gang includes a black member, who is taunted, scorned, and ultimately lynched.
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Gangs of New York / int_7fe29ba6	type	Symbolism
Gangs of New York / int_7fe29ba6	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Gangs of New York / int_7febc23b	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_80491c2f	type	"Open!" Says Me
Gangs of New York / int_80491c2f	comment	"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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Gangs of New York / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Gangs of New York / int_808cbaeb	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_80ae159c	type	Informed Deformity
Gangs of New York / int_80ae159c	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Gangs of New York / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Daniel Day-Lewis must have been enjoying himself. McGloin does his share of scenery chewing.
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Gangs of New York / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Gangs of New York / int_8288929a	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_82ab88c5	type	Percussive Pickpocket
Gangs of New York / int_82ab88c5	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Gangs of New York / int_830b0ac9	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Gangs of New York / int_85557b38	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_85fc8aa3	type	Reset Button Ending
Gangs of New York / int_85fc8aa3	comment	Reset Button Ending (sort of):
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Gangs of New York / int_86025d8f	type	Irish Priest
Gangs of New York / int_86025d8f	comment	Irish Priest: Priest Vallon of course, although he's not actually ordained.
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Gangs of New York / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Gangs of New York / int_86b21114	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Gangs of New York / int_875615dd	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Gangs of New York / int_8b606a51	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Gangs of New York / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
Gangs of New York / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: Bill stages an impromptu one with Jenny as the target.
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Gangs of New York / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Gangs of New York / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: An entire Union flank turns it's attention to resident Jerkass, McGloin.
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Gangs of New York / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Gangs of New York / int_916c72b3	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Gangs of New York / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Amsterdam wants to kill Bill for killing his father.
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Gangs of New York / int_93d99453	type	The "The" Title Confusion
Gangs of New York / int_93d99453	comment	The "The" Title Confusion: It's Gangs of New York, not The Gangs of New York
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Gangs of New York / int_94cce63e	type	Fighting Irish
Gangs of New York / int_94cce63e	comment	Fighting Irish: Irish immigrants are more than ready to fight the nativists for their slice of the pie.
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Gangs of New York / int_9673d7f0	type	Orphan's Plot Trinket
Gangs of New York / int_9673d7f0	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Gangs of New York / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Bill the Butcher is our primary antagonist
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Gangs of New York / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Gangs of New York / int_97d54bb0	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Gangs of New York / int_984ef9ef	comment	"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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Gangs of New York / int_99e4958e	type	Wall Bang Her
Gangs of New York / int_99e4958e	comment	Ends with a wafer-thin mint of Wall Bang Her.
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Gangs of New York / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Gangs of New York / int_9b73b497	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Gangs of New York / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The fate of 'Happy' Jack Mulraney
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Gangs of New York / int_9bff7822	type	Conflict Killer
Gangs of New York / int_9bff7822	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Gangs of New York / int_9d12bbc1	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Gangs of New York / int_9fde2eb1	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Gangs of New York / int_9fe35833	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Gangs of New York / int_a0c55654	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Gangs of New York / int_a18042f1	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Gangs of New York / int_a2b38d3b	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_a34e512f	type	Foe Cooties
Gangs of New York / int_a34e512f	comment	Foe Cooties: "I'm not interested in The Butcher's leavings."
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Gangs of New York / int_a88d99c2	type	Vengeance Denied
Gangs of New York / int_a88d99c2	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Gangs of New York / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Priest Vallon, played by Liam Neeson, is dead before the ten minute mark.
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Gangs of New York / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
Gangs of New York / int_aa245ded	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Gangs of New York / int_aabe2fb	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
Gangs of New York / int_aaf19fae	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Gangs of New York / int_abad35b4	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Gangs of New York / int_abc55125	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Gangs of New York / int_af5f2180	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Gangs of New York / int_afc6df04	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_b2a06892	type	Fourth Wall Psych
Gangs of New York / int_b2a06892	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Gangs of New York / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: Literally. Bill keeps a shrine of Priest Vallon and celebrates his defeat respectfully and mournfully every year.
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Gangs of New York / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Gangs of New York / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“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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Gangs of New York / int_b669e7ec	type	Verbal Salt in the Wound
Gangs of New York / int_b669e7ec	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Gangs of New York / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Bill revels in combat, especially the kind involving knives and cleavers and other sharp blades in general.
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Gangs of New York / int_b84491a3	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Gangs of New York / int_bb660963	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Gangs of New York / int_bc00493f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
Gangs of New York / int_bc37d80d	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_bc97f0c6	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Gangs of New York / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Bill and throwing knives.
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Gangs of New York / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
Gangs of New York / int_bdb5c651	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Gangs of New York / int_beb932ca	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Gangs of New York / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Amsterdam is a hoodlum out for revenge, but he's a decent person at heart.
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Gangs of New York / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Gangs of New York / int_c02a3bf2	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Gangs of New York / int_c1b2c63f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c1ee9854	type	Stab the Picture
Gangs of New York / int_c1ee9854	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c2619557	type	Girl with Psycho Weapon
Gangs of New York / int_c2619557	comment	Girl with Psycho Weapon: Hell-cat Maggie has Wolverine Claws.
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Gangs of New York / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Gangs of New York / int_c335b9ec	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Gangs of New York / int_c3c18143	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
Gangs of New York / int_c70907c7	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Gangs of New York / int_c75df49a	comment	Also could be considered a small Shout-Out to one of Scorsese's earlier films.
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Gangs of New York / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Gangs of New York / int_c868a42a	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Gangs of New York / int_c8bea4ec	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Gangs of New York / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: "It's got me lookin as sober as me own grandfather... a total drunken bastard."
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Gangs of New York / int_ca7ec334	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Gangs of New York / int_ca87e3ec	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Gangs of New York / int_caa28b82	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_ce2969d8	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Gangs of New York / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Amsterdam has a period of flirting with Becoming the Mask when masquerading as Bill's protege.
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Gangs of New York / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Gangs of New York / int_d01cffbc	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_d09eafbc	type	Floating Head Syndrome
Gangs of New York / int_d09eafbc	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Gangs of New York / int_d1cedb73	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_d23df201	type	Minor Insult Meltdown
Gangs of New York / int_d23df201	comment	Minor Insult Meltdown: Bill the Butcher during the knife throwing act. "Whoopsie-daisy!"
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Gangs of New York / int_d2e4289b	type	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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Gangs of New York / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Gangs of New York / int_d52d28b6	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_d777b649	type	No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me
Gangs of New York / int_d777b649	comment	No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: Bill would never have recognized Amsterdam on his own.
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Gangs of New York / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Gangs of New York / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Gangs of New York / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp 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.
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Gangs of New York / int_da19c62a	type	Leave No Survivors
Gangs of New York / int_da19c62a	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Gangs of New York / int_dae5c997	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Gangs of New York / int_dfe57573	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Gangs of New York / int_e19e68	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Gangs of New York / int_e4965307	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Gangs of New York / int_e4b69188	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Gangs of New York / int_e529d5c3	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Gangs of New York / int_e70127	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e75d1aee	type	Friendly Local Chinatown
Gangs of New York / int_e75d1aee	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
Gangs of New York / int_e9784ee6	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Gangs of New York / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Gangs of New York / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ 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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Gangs of New York / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Gangs of New York / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Jenny uses this against Amsterdam. He doesn't go down for the count though.
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Gangs of New York / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Gangs of New York / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: "Happy" Jack Mulraney. Given the place and time period, it's to be expected.
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Gangs of New York / int_eb502d31	type	Gangsterland
Gangs of New York / int_eb502d31	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_ecc8b108	type	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
Gangs of New York / int_ecc8b108	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Gangs of New York / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Gangs of New York / int_f3626b09	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_f39d7dbc	type	You Will Be Spared
Gangs of New York / int_f39d7dbc	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_f5a90567	type	Incredibly Conspicuous Drag
Gangs of New York / int_f5a90567	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_f77aa221	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod
Gangs of New York / int_f77aa221	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
Gangs of New York / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Amsterdam seems to forgive Johnny when he dies.
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Gangs of New York / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Gangs of New York / int_fb6b207f	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Gangs of New York / int_fe614133	comment	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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Gangs of New York / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Gangs of New York / int_fea42091	comment	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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