-Caveat Lector- I thought deconstructionism was dead
You know this movie is based on real happenings in new york? The gang wars, the draft riots, etc were all real, and all far more violent than anything we have going on today, yes - even in new york. on 12/30/02 4:32 AM, Euphorian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > URL @ Bottom > > Politically Incorrect Movie Reviews > Gangs of New York > by RadioFree Rocky D > Published 12. 29. 02 at 19:15 Sierra Time > Cast: > > Leonardo DiCaprio (Amsterdam) – pouting, scowling, violent drunken Irishman. > > Daniel Day Lewis (Bill The Butcher) – knife-wielding violent drunken Irishman. > > Cameron Diaz (Jenny) – cleavage-wielding violent drunken Irishwoman. > > Liam Neeson (Priest) – cross-wielding violent drunken Irishman. > > Brendan Gleeson (McGinn) – cudgel-wielding drunken Irishman. > > Henry Thomas (Johnny) – tattletale drunken Irishman. > > Micheal Byrne (Horace Greeley) – Abe Lincoln’s buddy who publishes stories > about > drunken > Irishmen.. > > Jim Broadbent (Boss Tweed) – crooked politician drunken Irishmen. > > Roger Ashton Griffiths (P.T Barnum) – knows there’s a drunken Irishman born > every > minute. > > Charles Dickens meets Braveheart in 19th century New York City as the > biggest, bloodiest and bawdiest movie of the year, Gangs Of New York hits the > screen harder than a right uppercut from an irate Irishman. The year is 1863, > and in > New York City all the Irishmen are drunken clods who beat the stuffin’s out of > one > another, the streets are caked with blood and crowded with prostitutes, the > politicians > are corrupt, the cops are on the take and all the New Yorkers are racists. So > basically, what I’m saying here is that in 140 years not much changed. > > Old Irish saying #1: Fad saol agat, gob fliuch, agus bas in > Eirinn (Long life > to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland). > > Gangs O’NY is easily the bloodiest film to come out of Hollyweird’s > blame-it-on- > whitey-factory in a long time (not including slasher films, which are supposed > to be > that way). Don’t dare blink while watching Gangs O’NY or you may miss another > incensed Irishman whacking some other oafish Irishman upside his noggin or > slicing > him up like corned beef. These are the immigrants and the sons of immigrants > from > Northwest Europe, and we all know how evil those places are. Plus, they come > here > at a time when Big Brother Guv’mint Welfare is not there to rescue them from > immediate poverty, which we all know is an excuse for violent criminal > behavior. > > Poor people and new immigrants to this country are really peace-loving > pacifists, but they are forced into a life of violent crime by evil Capitalist > Americans > who seek only to take advantage of them. The answer to this is a more > socialist > America, where no one is allowed to have more stuff than another (Hollyweird > Capitalists excepted). I know this, because Hollyweird tells me so. > > Old Irish saying #2: Go maire sibh bhur saol nua (May you enjoy your > new life). > > It is odd, however, to see a Hollyweird movie touch on the fact that > not > everyone in the North in 1863 liked President Abe Lincoln. He was, in fact, > heartily > made fun of and often looked at as a fool for usurping the Constitution of the > United > States by not recognizing the Southern States’ right to secede. Newspapers of > the > day wrote articles scorning Lincoln’s famed Gettysburg Address for > inaccuracies and > political puffery. It was not for another 60 years – long after everyone who > actually > knew ol’ dishonest Abe was long since dead – that history-revisionists rewrote > Lincoln into hero status. People in the North and the South in 1863 knew that > the > War Between The States was unnecessary. For a great book that makes the case > for Southern secession, check out When In The Course Of Human Events, by > Charles Adams. He really rips into the Gettysburg Address in that one. > > The PC pops out of Gangs O’NY like a cork from an Irish whiskey bottle. > In this > story, there are good drunken Irishmen and bad drunken Irishmen. Only the bad > drunken Irishmen say scurrilous things about President Lincoln. One of them > even > throws a knife at Lincoln’s picture; lodging a meat cleaver smack dab in the > middle of > Abe’s bushy eyebrows. These are the same bad drunken Irishmen who do not want > anymore foreigners – Irish or otherwise – to land on the shores of the mighty > USA. > Bill The Butcher is the leader of these “Natives.” Natives as in the real > definition of > Native American; i.e., one who is born on American soil. I’m surprised that > the > Hollyweird PC thought-police let that one slip through. > > Old Irish saying #3: Fad saol agat, gob fliuch, agus bas in Eirinn > (Long life to > you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland). > > Additionally, the good-guy drunken Irishmen befriend a black man. The > bad- > guy drunken Irishmen hang them. Yeesh. I’m guessing Spike Lee wrote that part > in. > This, of course, entitles this lone minority the sacred minority status; > wherein he will > be endowed with angelic qualities. > > The drunken Irishmen who were born in the USA and who want to stop massive > immigration are portrayed as racist-bigot-sexist-homophobic-xenophobes. Even > the > wealthier of the “Natives” have abusive and exploitive plans for these new > American > wannabe’s. > > Bad immigrant-exploiting whitey’s! Bad bad bad! > > This is Hollyweird’s PC attempt at drawing a parallel to the > immigration > problems of today. > > Memo to Hollyweird: The European immigrants who came here in the last > two > centuries did not come here with their hand out looking for freebies (except > the > Bosnians in the 1990’s; but that’s another story). They came here because, at > the > time, America offered the freedom to succeed. There is no correlation between > them > and the border- jumpers of today. Come to think of it, where is the Hollyweird > movie > about illegal aliens pouring over the Mexican/American border and demanding a > handout? Hey Hollyweird, make sure you put in the fact that their major > contribution > to this country has been a rise in the crime rate. I’ll be waiting for that > movie. I won’t > hold my breath, amigo. > > Old Irish saying #4: Cha dèan ‘Tapadh leis an fhìdhlear’ am fìdhlear a > phàigheadh (A ‘thank you’ doesn’t pay the fiddler). > > More PC poppycock can be seen in Gangs O’NY when a politician informs a > drunken Irishman, “Ballots don’t make results; counters do.” This is an > obvious slam > at the number one man on the Hollyweird hit list, George W. Bush. The liberals > (a.k.a. socialists) will never get over the fact that the voters rejected > their boy, Al > Gore the 2x4. > > Al Gore really won the 2000 Presidential election; Dubya’s brother Jeb > cheated > his brother into the Oval Office. There was no cheating on the Democrat side > of the > fence, even in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia or Detroit. It’s normal and > acceptable > for inner city voting precincts to have more than 100% voter turnout. I know > this, > because Hollyweird (and the TV network elitists) tells me so (over and over > and over, > etc.). > > Believe it or not, the leftists actually think if they repeat that lie > often enough, > someone will believe it. Perhaps they’re forgetting that we, the working folks > out here > in the fly-over zone, do not sit around all day and watch Oprah. The liberals > are also > ignoring that fact that in the most recent election the voters soundly spurned > their > ideals. This is often played off as “… our message didn’t get out.” > > No, you whiney liberals, your message did get out; it got out loud and > clear. > People have gotten your message: a Liberal is a Socialist. And you wonder why > you > lost? > > Old Irish saying #5: Is fheàrr teicheadh math na droch fhuireach > (Better a good > retreat than a bad stand). > > Gangs O’NY wouldn’t be a Hollyweird spectacle if it didn’t engage in a > wee bit > o’ Christian bashing. This film damn near shouts out loud, “HEY! Lookit all > these > crazy violent Catholics and Protestants!” There’s even a scene where each gang > leader prays to God for the strength to smash the skull of his opponent who is > also a > Christian. Well isn’t that special. Only Horace Greeley (yep, that Horace > Greeley) > prays for peace. And it’s always wintertime in Gangs O’NY, but no one > remembers > Christmas. Well, humbug. > > Imagine the squealing from the liberals if you made a movie about > violent Jews > and Muslims smashing each other’s brains in – oh yeah, we already have that > film; > it’s called The Evening News. > > Suffice it to say Gangs O’NY is not an easy movie to watch. It’s very > well made, > but it’s dark, brooding and depressing. This flick will not put you in a happy > mood. > There is, however, lots of cool stuff to see in Gangs O’NY. There are lots of > strange > out-of-place accents (a drunken Irishman who is actually Italian with a > Haitian dialect > [?]) and beaucoup bodacious mustaches. Early on, you’ll notice that everyone > seems > to have gone shopping at Barnum & Bailey’s outlet store – and P.T. Barnum > himself > makes a cameo. What with all the mustaches, Madd Hatter hats and clown pants, > the gang fights look a bit like “attack of the violent vaudevillians”. This > brings me to > the Keystone Firefighter Brigades, complete with funny hats, sirens and > drunken > Irishmen running in circles. All that’s missing is the silly piano music. > Speaking of > silly, take a gander at the neat little bun Leonardo DiCaprio pulls his hair > into. Looks > like his life of skullduggerous debaucheries is only complete with a weekend > gig at > the Chinese restaurant. You put hair in bun … not drop hair in customer egg > roll! > > There is also a very well done montage at the end of the film showing time > moving > forward. It ends with the World Trade Center in the middle of the picture, > which is > kind of prophetic when you think that one of the major causes of the 9/11 > attack was > failure to control America’s borders. > > The line that got the most snickers was when Bill The Butcher laments, > “Doesn’t > anyone in New York Speak English anymore?” > > Best line in the film: “Aye don’ give a f*** ye meatheaded shitsack.” > > Also, drunken Irishmen seem to kick in doors a lot; they need sober up > sometimes > and find the doorknob. > > Old Irish saying #6: Saoilidh an duin’ air mhisg gum bi a h-uile duin’ air > mhisg ach e > fhèin. (The drunk man thinks himself the only one sober). > > Gangs O’NY has four of the five of the Bachelor B’s in it: Blood (‘tis > everywhere), > Bashes (top o’ the mornin’ to ye here’s an arse beatin for ye), Bombs (aye, > conflagrations o’plenty) and Breasts (lotsa lassie’s bosoms, laddie). No > Beasts; > unless ye count every last drunken Irishman ye see, and that’s a mighty lot of > countin’ me boyo. > > I give Gangs O’NY four Capitalist Dollar Signs (out of 5). $$$$ > > > > > > > © > > > > > Permission to reprint/republish granted, as long as you include the name of > our site, > the author, and our URL. www.SierraTimes.com All Sierra Times news reports, > and > all editorials are © 2002 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted) > > > > SierraTimes.com™ A Subsidiary of J.J. Johnson Enterprises, Inc. > > > > > > http://www.sierratimes.com/02/12/30/rockyd.htm > > A<:>E<:>R > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Forwarded as information only; everything sent has to stand on > its own merits, not on my recommendation. Dissenting ideas are > the health of the American system. 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