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Gangs of New York is a vengeful story based in 19th Century Manhattan. In 1860, Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young man who sets out to avenge the death of his father by killing his murderer, William Cutting a.k.a. “Bill the Butcher” (Day-Lewis). The story is raised out of the conflicts between the American born “Natives,” and the unwelcome Irish immigrants coming into the area, all being set in the Five Points District of New York, a seemingly barren and extremely violent neighborhood. Amsterdam’s father was killed in a gang war between the natives and the Irish at the hands of rival gang leader Bill the Butcher, a sadistic and remorseless thug who maintains the Native gang in order to “protect” their country from the hundreds of immigrants who came off the boats into America everyday. Ultimately, Amsterdam avenges his father’s death, and the movie ends after the historical “draft riots,” and in the middle of the Civil War.
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