The film portrayed the appearance of the social environment to the extreme. The film provides a lot of nuanced details, such as the "welcome" of the locals throwing rotten tomatoes when the new immigrants disembark, and the fashionable beauties who steal for a living in public places. But these sporadic "life sketches" do not form an organic whole, and can only be appreciated as details. There are scenes of Peking Opera singing in Chinatown, but there are still some doubts: First, almost all Chinatowns in Chinatown back then were Cantonese immigrants, so it should be the singing of Cantonese opera. Second, the status of Chinese was very low back then, and celebrities were disdainful of patronizing Chinese entertainment. Place. In fact, the film has put a lot of effort into the authenticity of the dialogue accent. All characters speak their own "hometown dialect", and these hometown dialects are the predecessors of the New York accent in the future. "The Gangs of New York" is basically a directed film, and Scorsese should be responsible for the success or failure. In the eyes of the audience, this is a smashing work, but it is by no means a bad film. It exudes the breath of a master everywhere. It is an opera-like sublimation than the previous Scorsese masterpieces such as "Angry Bull", "Taxi Driver", and "Good Guy". If you carefully compare the pictures and texts of New York that year, you will find that the film does not No realism is the pursuit of realm. But unfortunately, this is a long and boring opera. It is a boring story with violence as the main scene, revenge as the main plot, and big stars as the main selling point, but it still does not allow people to enter the drama. It wants to convey a great truth, but it can't even do the simplest fascinating. Perhaps it was the original intention of the director to make the audience feel as if they were suffocated to breathe, and thus to hate the environment and the society. If that's the case, "The Gangs of New York" can be considered a success. (
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Gangs of New York evaluation action
2021-10-18 09:27
Extended Reading
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Killoran: Monk's already won by three thousand more votes than there are voters.
Boss Tweed: Only three? Make it twenty, thirty. We don't need a victory. We need a Roman triumph.
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[speaking of Bill the Butcher]
Jenny: When I was twelve years old, my mother was dead, and I was livin' in a doorway. He took me in. Took care of me, in his way. After they cut out the baby... well, he doesn't fancy girls that's scarred up. But you might as well know in your own mind that he never laid a hand on me until I asked him to.