Anyways, now that the I've stereotyped the actors, I can get into the actual movie. "Gangs of New York" is set in Civil War era New York where the Irish Immigrants and the "Nativists" are dueling over some ghetto called The Five Points. Now you may be asking yourself "This is a Leonardo DiCaprio movie right? So what happens early in the film that establishes his character's angst-filled existence for the rest of film?" The answer is of course Daniel Day Lewis kills Leo's father by pointing out the obvious superiority of his moustache (that and stabbing him with knives).
Little Leo (being about five at the time) runs away only to return after a brief cut to darkness which lets us know 16 years has passed. Leo than insinuates himself into Daniel Day's now dominant gang and establishes himself as the son figure Daniel never had (That's such a good setup I think I'll remake it in Boston. Except replace Daniel Day Lewis with Jack Nicholson, and daddy issues with existential angst. AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THIS?!). Then Leo has lots of existential angst (holy crap. Seriously?) because he finds himself drawn to Daniel Day Lewis' incredibly awesome moustache, but is also torn because he wants to avenge his father.
In the end everyone dies but the two characters we were emotionally attached to, and the viewer is left with the empty feeling that usually accompanies watching a film that was trying to win an academy award.
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classical nathan, always the cyncic. leo is going to come find you and smite you. just you wait.
jake says Hi
Thank you! Finally someone else sees the obvious parallel with "The Departed"... My friends and I watched both movies (back-to-back, essentially) and I made the same comment, but everybody thought I was crazy.
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