Just watched it as a historical movie

Creola 2022-03-20 09:01:09

Before I saw it, I thought it was a process of how a person establishes his own position in the gang. It is similar to a Hollywood standard heroic movie. After watching it, I found that the director wanted to make this movie like gone with the wind. The stories of a few people are unfolded under the background of the entire Civil War and the period of social turmoil and change. The final conclusion is also the change of this big background.

I also learned a lot purely as a study of history. It turned out that New York was established at that time. Today's Fifth Avenue and so on looked like that back then. In 1862, Chinese drama had become so popular in New York. It turns out that the gangs in New York are so rampant. It seems that the situation of opposition and cooperation between the white gangs and the gangs in every country and era is similar. It turns out that most of the people who died in the Civil War were Irish or other countries who had just obtained green cards. It turns out that except for a certain celestial dynasty that would brutally suppress some "small number of students who don't know the truth" when they rioted, the US empire would treat its own people so cruelly, and so on.
Speaking of the plot, the transition between the first half and the second half is indeed a bit big. Suddenly, when the election starts, everything seems to be thriving. Personal enmity is immediately put aside to fight for the election, and then the final fleet bombarding the city seems a bit too unexpected. How could no one go to the underground passage where LDC used to hide? There should be no secrets in this kind of place. How could there be such a big place that no one noticed? The heroine is a bit redundant in this movie. And her past and this transformation didn't explain much. What happened to her mother's grave in the end?
Acting skills, LDC is really mediocre, compared to the later revolutionary road, this time it is indeed very young. Some places are a bit tricky. But lewis is indeed very good. Has he starred in other movies? A very handsome and tasteful actor. . .

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Gangs of New York quotes

  • 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.

  • [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.