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Film Trivia
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19th century New York was recreated
on the lot of Cinecittą studios in Rome. When George Lucas visited
the massive set, he reportedly turned to Scorsese and said that sets
like that can be done with computers now.
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Film & DVD - Gangs of New York (2002)
 
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Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York introduces today's world
to the Five Points, a dark corner of the city known to New
Yorkers of long ago as the centre of vice and chaos.
Into this frontier of extreme lawlessness arrives the young
Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon
(Liam Neeson) - once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits gang that
rallied the Irish immigrants of the Five Points.
Amsterdam has returned to the Five Points to hunt down his
father's killer. His target is William Cutting AKA "Bill the
Butcher" (Daniel Day-Lewis), who has since become the merciless
new leader of the neighbourhood, a Nativist who detests the
newly arrived immigrants and is determined to fend off all
so-called "foreign invaders".
Amsterdam works his way deep into the Butcher's inner circle,
a world of alternating honour and cruelty from which he can only
hope to escape.
Cast
- Amsterdam Vallon - Leonardo DiCaprio
- William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting - Daniel Day-Lewis
- Jenny Everdeane - Cameron Diaz
- William "Boss" Tweed - Jim Broadbent
- Johnny Sirocco - Henry Thomas
- Priest Vallon - Liam Neeson
- Walter "Monk" McGinn - Brendan Gleeson
- "Happy" Jack Mulraney - John C. Reilly
- McGloin - Gary Lewis
- Shang - Stephen Graham
- Killoran - Eddie Marsan
- Rev. Raleigh - Alec McCowan
- Jimmy Spoils - Larry Gilliard Jr
- Hell-Cat Maggie - Cara Seymour
- Mr. Schermerhorn - David Hemmings
- P.T. Barnum - Roger Ashton-Griffiths
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