Monday, April 17, 2023
Gangs of New York
- Commentary: Under construction.
Although Roger Ebert rated this movie a "mere" 3.5 stars, (his review is linked to the title of this post, above), being the Scorsese fan that he is, he was fascinated enough with this film to interview Scorsese about the making of this movie. It's an interesting, occasionally provocative interview in which Scorsese admits how he played with history in order to increase the tension in the movie. If you find this film at all worthy of attention, you should check out that interview.
By the way, you'll notice that the Actor/Role table (below) for this movie is stacked. This movie is full of historical personages that I wanted to list, I wanted to make sure the one named child actor was represented, as were as many of the female actors as possible and as many racially diverse actors as possible were included in the table.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Leonardo DiCaprio Amsterdam Vallon Cian McCormack Young Amsterdam Vallon Daniel Day-Lewis William "The Butcher" Cutting Cameron Diaz Jenny Everdeane Jim Broadbent William "Boss" Tweed John C. Reilly Happy Jack Mulraney Henry Thomas Johnny Sirocco Liam Neeson "Priest" Vallon Brendan Gleeson Walter "Monk" McGinn Gary Lewis McGloin Stephen Graham Shang Eddie Marsan Killoran Alec McCowen Reverend Raleigh David Hemmings John F. Schermerhorn Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Jimmy Spoils Cara Seymour Hell-Cat Maggie Roger Ashton-Griffiths P. T. Barnum Barbara Bouchet Mrs. Schermerhorn Michael Byrne Horace Greeley Giovanni Lombardo Radice Mr. Legree
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2002
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Labels: gang-movie, historical4, leonardo-dicaprio, martin-scorsese, period7, violence5, war3
