03-17-2010, 01:05 AM
<!--quoteo(post=83006:date=Mar 16 2010, 06:56 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 16 2010, 06:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83000:date=Mar 16 2010, 06:25 PM:name=funkster)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (funkster @ Mar 16 2010, 06:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I think Gangs of New York is seriously underrated. It was a travesty that DDL didn't win best actor. I loved how Scorsese created a weird parallel world in 19th century New York. It was just a really cool twist to the real world that he placed it in. A lot of people didn't like it, I thought it was great.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I liked it. A year or so before it came out I had been reading all kinds of stuff about the draft riots, The Five Points, Tammany Hall...all kinds of stuff about 19th century New York. All that stuff with the gangs, like something out of A Clockwork Orange or The Warriors is fairly accurate. The biggest groups of thugs were all the volunteer fire brigades. The nativist/Irish stuff really was that vicious.
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His use of colors and some of the things go on there give the history of it his own special twist...which I think is one of the coolest things about the movie.
I liked it. A year or so before it came out I had been reading all kinds of stuff about the draft riots, The Five Points, Tammany Hall...all kinds of stuff about 19th century New York. All that stuff with the gangs, like something out of A Clockwork Orange or The Warriors is fairly accurate. The biggest groups of thugs were all the volunteer fire brigades. The nativist/Irish stuff really was that vicious.
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His use of colors and some of the things go on there give the history of it his own special twist...which I think is one of the coolest things about the movie.