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What on earth is Gangs of New York about? I don't understand a thing of the plot from the French-dubbed previews. From what I can tell, it recounts the famous Battle Of The People In Comical Hats. As Daniel Day-Lewis' side is wearing top hats and Leonardo diCaprio seems to be wearing something resembling an ancestor of the modern baseball cap, I have to assume that the battle was really over which was to be the Hat Of The Future and Leo is the triumphant one in the end.
I think that the movie and the divisions between the gangs might be slightly easier to understand in VO because I bet they've all got comical ethnic accents as befits the time period. I think Leonardo is supposed to be an Irishman with the very Irish name of Amsterdam, but I don't know if it's the battle of old vs. new immigrants or between two groups of new ones. Or possibly it really is all about the hats.
srah - Sunday, 1 December 2002 - 4:54 AM
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