Gangs of New York R
Martin Scorsese apparently thinks everyone in old (Irish boroughs) of New York talks just like him, like he's Italian and from the Bronx. The problem is, his actors are supposed to be Irish and from Manhattan. Daniel Day Lewis is Irish himself, playing the Butcher, and Leo Dicaprio, pretty boy mobster, (which is an oxymoron) playing the Preacher's boy. This movie had brackish love story written all over it, problem is it wasn't between Leo and Daniel, but with lavish sets and a revised on the fly script, lost in a mess of twists and turns, never to come together in a final cloudy mess, while canons drop bombs from the harbor to the pier. Love the campaign where they said "nominated" in small letters, "for Academy Awards" in large print. It was not supposed to be funny when Lewis said, "The five points are like my fist..." but it was. What happened to Scorsese? Man. His other stuff was cool. It gets kuods for great set design. That's it. Review by Adam Browne
The problem was the script which was being revised during shooting, eight different ways, and the acting coach was out to lunch, otherwise they wouldn't have made the Irish actors sound like ltalian mobsters from the 1970s.
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