The gangs of new york film. Scorsese based his movie on herbert asburys 1927 book the gangs of new york. Reilly henry thomas brendon gleeson stephen graham and liam neeson in a special appearance. But the names of the legendary five points gangsthe bowery boys the dead rabbits the plug uglies the short tails.
Martin scorseses gangs of new york rips up the postcards of american history and reassembles them into a violent blood soaked story of our bare knuckled past. Under martin scorsese direction gangs of new york is able to handle its. A well made flawed film gangs of new york manages to be involving and director martin scorsese crates a vivid recreation of new york before the turn of the century with detailed recreations of teh hovels and mud strewn streets the film suffers because of a shortened running time and it runs around 2 hours and 40 minutes but could have easily run an additional 20 30 minutes giving us more background on the conflict between vallons father who led the dead rabbits and bill.
Bill the butcher is walking through a hallway of tammany hall to the office of boss tweed jim broadbent who is running for some sort of political office. Amsterdam narrates that during the civil war new york was a city full of tribes rival gangs competing for control of the five points and beyond. Gangs of new york was is an epic historical crime movie directed by martin scorsese and stars leonardo dicaprio daniel day lewis cameron diaz jim broadbent john c.
Leonardo dicaprio as amsterdam vallon daniel day lewis as william bill the butcher cutting based on william poole cameron diaz as jenny everdeane jim broadbent as william boss tweed john c.