One of the best from Martin Scorsese!!. Review on Gangs Of New York Movie

<b><i>Starters:- </i></b>

I happened to see this in a theatre with a friend of mine, after a skiing trip to Breckenridge. This movie was an excellent one, in spite of being lengthy in a sense. The movie had quite a few occasions when it was slow moving and fully dramatic in certain places. It was told that the original cut came to 210 minutes. Scorcese had to cut it to 166 minutes at the request of the producer. This was conceived by him in 1978 itself. This movie is gonna be spoken about for sometime in the filmschools. Martin has given his best and I wouldn’t be surprised, if he wins the Oscar for best director.

For historical drama lovers, this is a catch. You may wish to read the book too. <b><i>Bono of U2</i></b> has sung an excellent song <b><i> “The Hands that built America”, </i></b> for which they may win Oscar this year too!

<b><i>Martin Scorcese</i></b> amazes the film-goers like he always does by making this larger than life picture and preserving the virtuoso directing an epic film.

<b><i>Cast & Technicians</i></b>

<b><i>Acting</i></b>

Leonardo DiCaprio as Amsterdam Vallon

Daniel Day-Lewis as William Cutting, a.k.a 'Bill 'The Butcher'

Cameron Diaz as Jenny Everdeane

Jim Broadbent as William 'Boss' Tweed

John C. Reilly as Happy Jack

Henry Thomas as Johnny Sirocco

Liam Neeson as 'Priest' Vallon

<b><i>Directed by</i></b>

Martin Scorsese

<b><i>Story </i></b>

Jay Cocks

<b><i>Screenplay</i></b>

Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian (Oscar Winner and Spielberg Confidante), Kenneth Lonergan

<b><i>Music</i></b>

Howard Shore

<b><i>Cinematography</i></b>

Michael Ballhaus

<b><i>Film Editing</i></b>

Thelma Schoonmaker

<b><i>The Plot</i></b>

The background is New York City. The year is 1846. A group of Irish settlers led by a priest named <b><i> “Priest Vallon” (Liam Neeson) </i></b>, try to make a living in the deadliest places called “Five Corners”, where they battle with a ferocious, ruthless mad-man named <b><i>William Cutting, (a.k.a) Bill the Butcher (A master performance by Daniel Day-Lewis after his epic “My Left Foot”) </i></b>, in the process he gets killed. The hero of the movie, <b><i> “Amsterdam” (Leo DiCaprio) </i></b>, is sent to an orphanage. He returns to the city in 1862 to retribute and revenge the guy who killed his dad (Wow!, haven’t we seen it in some zillion Indian movies??). He sees that Bill runs the city now. He tries to make his way up the gang run by Bill Cutting. He befriends a pickpocket named <b><i>Jenny(Cameron Diaz) </i></b>, to make his way up the ladder in Bill’s Group. Rest of the story, I shall preserve for the sake of your viewing pleasure.

<b><i>Performances</i></b>

<b><i>Daniel Day-Lewis</i></b> eats everyone else. He is a class-act. He is going to have a very tough time against <b><i>Adrien Brody of “The Pianist” </i></b>. He is all game to win the Oscar this year. His has been a mammoth comeback after years of hibernation. He lives as the Bill the Butcher. Every minute of the movie, he just lives the role.

Leo is learning and is coming up the acting curve. He has done his part excellently well, thanks to the master task-master Martin.

I didn’t think Cameron Diaz can act so exceedingly well, till I saw her in this movie. All credits to the director.

<b><i>John.C.Reilly and Jim Broadbent</i></b> have also done some excellent job.

One of the unsung heroes are the screenplay writers. As we missed out 44 minutes at the editing table, we really don’t know what we missed out. In spite of the case, the screenplay is excellent.

<b><i>Bottomline. </i></b>

This is going to be one of the classic masterpieces by <b><i>Martin Scorcese</i></b>. We don’t know yet, if this is his best. <b><i>Hollywood is grand so are the grandeur film-makers. </i></b>

Don’t miss it out, if you can put-up with some violent and risqué scenes in this long epic-drama wonderfully filmed by a master film-maker.

Hope y’all liked it.

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