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gangs of new york
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"Gangs of New York" Mike Lisitsa Extra Credit "Gangs of New York" was set in New York City during1840-1863.A young man named Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) seeks vengeance against Bill "The Butcher" Poole (Daniel Day-Lewis), the man who killed his father Amsterdam realizes that his father was murdered as a result of gang warfare between the viscous Manhattan gangs. He has to fight against the cops and politicians of the Five Points. The politician Bill Poole is only one criminal in Five Points' lower Manhattan area in the 1860s. Over all "Gangs of New york was a very accurate movie.The director was extremely accurate in terms of the visual images of the period. The ghettos of Five Points were very nineteenth cenutry like. The scenes in the movie were the poor people would risk lives stealing from burning buildings was very real. The firemen would actually allow this to happen back in those days. There were also a couple of riots very much like that ones shown in the movie between native born Americans, Protestants and Catholics in the neighborhood. The director also does a nice job of recreating the persecution of the Irish immigrants when they came to the United States in the nineteenth century. They were discriminated against because they were taking away jobs and "crowding the streets".
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