Gangs of New York movie

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

Gangs of New York is a 2002 film set in the middle 19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. The film is loosely inspired by Herbert Asburys 1928 book The Gangs of New York. It was distributed by Miramax Films.Gangs of New York is about the conflict between the "native" criminal underworld associated with the Know-Nothings and the immigrant gangs aligned with Tammany Hall.

Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) is a young Irish-American who gains the trust of William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Day-Lewis), leader of the Nativist gangs. The character of Cutting is based on Bill The Butcher Poole, a real-life leader of the Bowery Boys gang who is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.The film opens in 1846, but most of the action takes place in the early 1860s, when the two principal controversies in New York were the great wave of Irish immigration to the city and the federal governments prosecution of the American Civil War. The story follows the careers of Amsterdam and Cutting as they rise from crime bosses to political kingmakers during the reign of Boss Tweed (Broadbent), and culminates with a confrontation between them that coincides with the New York Draft Riots of 1863.Plot synopsisThe film opens in 1846 in Lower Manhattan, specifically the "Five Points" district (now the area near Two Bridges). A territorial war has been raging for years between the gangs of the "Nativist" faction (comprising those born in America) and the predominantly Irish immigrants.The Nativists are led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, a WASP, who possesses an open hatred of immigrants. The leader of the immigrant Irish, the "Dead Rabbits," is Priest Vallon, a Catholic, who has a young son, Amsterdam. Cutting and Vallon confront each other in a formal challenge of war in Paradise Square, and the resulting battle is horrific and bloody.

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Gangs of New York Cast

• Alec McCowen
• Brendan Gleeson
• Cameron Diaz
• Cara Seymour
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• David Hemmings
• Eddie Marsan
• Gary Lewis
• Henry Thomas
• Jim Broadbent
• John C. Reilly
• Larry Gilliard Jr.
• Liam Neeson
• Stephen Graham