Speaking of liam neeson, if you haven't seen a movie called next of kin made back in 1989 watch it. Liam Neeson is funny as hell in this movie. And the best part of this movie is right in the half way point. Trust me it's so funny your stomach will hurt cause you will laugh that hard.
"At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it." Best movie line ever.
I sure wish Daniel Day-Lewis would make another movie, that dude is one hell of an actor, and he sticks to his morals, rare breed indeed! One of the few actors I respect.
Yeah I really enjoyed that movie and almost every movie I've seen him do He gets into the character like nobody else. Most these actors even some of the older ones are all the same character in every movie but not Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis has retired 4 previous times just to come out of retirement when reading a script he wanted to be a part of, so don't count him out yet.
Worst snubs in Oscar history: Edward Norton- "Primal Fear" Billy Bob Thornton- "Sling Blade" Val Kilmer-"Tombstone Daniel Day Lewis- "Gangs of New York"
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is the best character actor of all time. We should all consider ourselves fortunate to have lived with and enjoyed his works throughout his career. There may never be another like him.
With this performance alone DDL stands alone with the greatest movie villain performance of all time. To think that he didn't win for this is absolutely disgusting. As heinous an act as not giving kilmer the award for doc holliday
Anyone else find it remotely hilarious that in the 1800’s in NYC, gangs of opposing fire fighters would show up to fight each other for “fire fighter supremacy” instead of putting out the actual fire? 👩🚒 👨🚒
As said already still goes on today. One of the reasons 9/11 fallout was not handled to well. Fire, police, ambulance didn't fully speak to each other because they came from different districts. Crazy world we live in
It is said that Daniel Day Lewis stayed in character for the duration of the filming of GONY. Off set,he retained the spirit and composure of Bill The Butcher so well,that people were scared shitless of him. True story.
Acting was a second hobby to him ...truly amazing and eccentric man.... He retired from acting all together... he said that with each movie it took part of his soul from him
This is the first time I've heard a YT documentary with a Scottish accent. I can *feel* the effort to pronounciate the words in a way non-Scots will understand. Reminds me of phone conversations with English admins after they claim I'm "mumbling". Good job.
Appreciate the support. I have slowed it down as much as possible and trying to speak clearly for the Americans. Still sound like I'm talking Japanese apparently. If I talked as rapid as I do in my normal voice I'd sound like an alien to them.
We can try and imagine what it was like back in those days in NYC with these gangs, but I don't think we can fathom the ruthless violence that took place. These people were scary & Tough.
Bill the Butcher died like a true American gangster. And he said thank God. I died like a true American. What a classic quote ever. That is why everyone should like Bill the Butcher.
@@angelofdeathmichael673 Well if that is the case China should say thank God I died like a true Chinese. Cause time's like this we all are in it together. But I am not Chinese I am white native American. My mom's dad was white her mom is full blooded native American my dad has native American too. So I must be a white native American person.
And why I think Bill the butcher. Let the kid take is life. Maybe he felt bad for the kid. He tooked him under his wing. What the poor dead rabbit bastard do. Acting like a real dead rabbit as a snake he was.
Fun fact: boxers from back then used that funny stance with their hands very low because there were few punches to the head. Without gloves or even your hands wrapped it was very easy to break your hands on someone's head. Fighters generally stuck to body shots and tried to chop each other down. That's why you would get 40 round fights that lasted 3 hours. Fucking savage.
this wasn't all that long ago... I'm only 42 and I can vividly remember my great grandma who was born in 1893. Her grandparents would've been Bill Poole's contemporaries
@@lukegriffiths7234 an American? What is American, did they not come from another land like everyone else, the native Indian is a true American, this butcher was just a radical anti Catholic nob head.
"He was a hero of the Bowery, a prince of lawless times, then was battered by the butcherman in 1849. He knew the game of fistacuffs he knew the game of might, but no one knew the men who came and took his life one night." Les Claypool,
Daniel Day Lewis has be one the best actors ever. My Left Foot, In the name of the Father just brilliant acting. I met him in Roundwood near Bray in Co Wicklow few years back when Rep of Ireland beat Germany 1 nil in the soccer. Nice man loves Ireland.
The American Civil War started in 1861, in the film 'Gangs of New York' drafting for the Civil War was depicted as Irish immigrants were disembarking the ships that brought them over to the USA. Bill the Butcher died six years before the Civil War started!
@@lonnieweddington2883 Yes, point taken. Gangs of New York was of course a film not a documentary and it depicted true events, but for obvious narrative reasons, the events weren't necessarily in the correct chronological order. Doesn't matter, it doesn't stop it from being an enjoyable film and it certainly brought that particular era in New York's history to life and to the attention of a modern audience. Films like this also hopefully prompt more people to become historians, like yourself, and learn more about their past
@@stevewhite8059 You mentioned a character in the movie not mentioned in my comment, and for no apparent reason. I repeated what was in my comment which is a factual event.
While bill the butcher is often credited as being a boxer, his only reported fight was with john morrissey. Morrissey was american champion at the time and poole made him quit This was not a championship fight and was probably, like the rest of pooles fights a 'rough and tumble' where anything short of weapons were allowed. I have looked and looked but have never found any mention of an organized prize fight for poole. I would say its safe to say all of bill the butchers fights were rough and tumbles
@tony You will not find any proof of an organized prize fight for any of these as the *Horton law* which legalized prize fighting in New York was not passed until 1896. Most of these folks were long dead before that happened.
@@merccadoosis8847 you mistake 'legal' for 'organized' Bareknuckle prize fighting was well organized from the middle 1840's on. Tom hyer vs yankee sullivan was a national event with people coming from as far away as new orleans to new york to watch it Prize fighting was organized, just not legal
This was freaking excellent. Thank you for this extremely well put together video. If you happen to read this I am curious if any bad luck has befallen you after making such a video. There are some things that seem to draw ill fate in this country since the late forties or early fifties and speaking of the United States' anti-catholic and anti-religion history is one of those things. another is speaking of the true beliefs of our forefathers the majority of whom were only slave owners on the paper of others and did more than anyone else for their extended families or what most Americans call their slaves these days. Speaking of our forefathers true abolitionist agenda which what they considered to be a self-evident truth "all men are created equal" attest to but our ignorant Church educated populace does not believe today.
Thank you, much appreciated. Cant say I have experienced any ill fate in particular other than being on lockdown with everyone else. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens.
Embarrassingly enough he is an ancestor of mines. I am a Poole of Scotland. We came from Suffolk, Sussex, Lincolnshire and various other parts of the UK. Bill the Butcher is my so many removed grandfather’s Son. Making him one of my uncles. Many of the Poole’s settled around New York, Louisiana and Salt Lake City Utah. Still looking into this more but will keep everyone posted.
Mike Fantasia hey Mike - if you ever get the chance read Tycoon’s War. During the same period after Mexican American war but before revolution. Wild story and well referenced from historic archives.
@@jasonkinzie8835I think it is well established that the definition of evil is tied up with pain. If you deliberately cause pain, then it is evil because you wouldn't want pain forced on you. Something can't be evil if it doesn't involve hurting. We don't need a definition for that, is more like universal understanding, with maybe a tiny minority of exceptions.
@@dontfearthereaper2887 Throughout history there have been people who caused a great deal of pain for what they believed was for the greater good. Let's say they are misguided and they actually aren't fulfilling any greater good but are simply creating unnecessary misery and death. Are they evil? Well if evil is about intentions they might not be. Codes of honor are not automatically good things. They can be horribly misguided things. Yet they can also be the subject of a powerful belief. So powerful that a person will live and die by them. This might prove that this person, who is willing to take risks and sacrifice their own greater interests in the name of this system of honor, actually has a strong moral character, even though they do things that we consider to be the height of evil and cruelty.
@@jasonkinzie8835 I think defining evil is more about awareness than it is about intention. If you know and understand that you're causing pain, even for the greater good, it is still evil, but it may be justifiable (or necessary) evil. Sacrificing 3 people to save a 100 is still evil if the 3 people suffered, but maybe it was justifiable evil. The real question is who's to be the judge of whether the evil deed was justifiable or not.
So the movie took a lot of liberties. He died before the Civil War. It had that in the movie where they were recruiting to join the Civil War. And he did not die in the street he died in a bar because he got shot while on the ground. That should’ve been in the movie
Bill was even better in this movie than he was in real life. Never seen a better person than D.D. Lewis to actually become one of those people from way back then. He's the best 👌
The Bowery boys were part of the know nothing group. They were an old political group in nyc, which employed the american guard, on little water street. Tammany hall was there before the Irish, around the time of French immigration. But again this is a great video. Very accurate.
@@taylorjeremy71 Actually do a quick google search and you will see what is different. America and the world in general is way more peaceful than it was in the past.
One can imagine the utter relief for the victim of a fire at the arrival of two fire fighting companies at the scene... Only to turn to horrified disbelief as both companies completely ignored the blaze and instead set about violently fighting each other for the percieved prestige of being the ones that successfully fought the fire! Unsurprisingly, whilst they fought, the blaze raged further out of control, razing buildings to the ground and frequently igniting adjoining buildings too! Quite what the despairing victims thought of this state of affairs remains unknown, but given the violence that these crews meted out to one another, it is doubtful that many voiced complaints! That apart, for gangs of heavily armed men to face one another and engage in hand to hand combat took courage! The fearsome weapons each side carried and their readiness to use them would deter all but the bravest of men. The severity and range of injuries and the medical services at that time made the prospect of be injured much more dangerous than today. Throughout history, edged weapons and blunt force trauma weapons have taken more lives and inflicted more injuries than ballistic weapons.
I recall telling a girlfriend once before the movie "Gangs of New York" came out that the name of the vicious "Hells Kitchen" street gang that Owen "The Killer" Madden belonged to as a teenager, was known as the "Gophers". She laughed. Who would be afraid of a gang with a name like that? Strange, but they did have names like that. So, I told her that as a youngster Madden was known to wrap a lead pipe in newspaper to carry in his back pocket, walk up behind a victim and bash in back of the skull for pocket money. Rough enough for you? I asked.
@@the5thmusketeer215 Buffalo Bill Cody said in his time after visiting NYC that he'd much rather take his chances in the Wild West with Indians on the warpath and all the other dangers than to stay in that city.
Today... we have a dude who identifies as a broad who identifies as a stag that descides what you can or can't say on Twitch. I hope they invent a timemachine soon.
Legend has it that Daniel Day Lewis constantly blasted Eminems 'Lose Yourself' in his headphones on set while they shot the movie. The song kept him riled up, and into his role.
The term would have been "misfired" instead of "jammed". Back then they didn't have semi-automatic pistols only revolvers... And revolvers don't jam. Thank you for this awesome video it was quite enjoyable!!!
Grammatically correct for the period, however I have experienced my blackpowder revolvers (Colt's 3rd Mdl Dragoon & 1860 Army) cylinders jam on occasion from a brass cap, after firing get wedged between the cylinder & frame as the cylinder rotated. This has also been the occasional experiences of other black powder revolver shooters that I personally know, so I would imagine revolver jams were occasionally experienced during the mid-19th century as well as the more frequent misfires.
Ya except that ejector rods could effectively Jam the cylinder against the frame. So Ya they can jam. Typical mope on the internet who knows nothing about firearms.
Fire fighters at that time were mainly recruited from gangs and the reason they were paid well "per-fire" was because they would loot the belongings of the burning property after the fire was instantly put out... thus they would be given the moniker of "land pirates"... a terminology used to describe highway men and men who would "Shanghai" other men.
Louisiana was my first home ever since I landed in this country. I stayed there for 2 years and tasted the French-Spanish catholic style of governance, then I fled to Washington State. If I witnessed a contest between White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Catholic Irish/French/Latinos in America, I would have sided with the WASPs without a second thought. This country was built on English Protestantism, except for Louisiana.
The US needs to be dissolved and broken up into independent regional nation-states. We just make South Louisiana a republic, give the South West to Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Blacks can have Florida.
I was born inAstoria NY in 1955.Am 66. Live in MD now. Have family back home. Have ancestors Eire"born.Have cousins Irish American born over 6'. Had Uncle NYPD named in book @ Director SeedmanNYPD Uncle knew Finbar Devine. I saw him .7'tall Led ST.Pat's parade. Bill Butcher-Anglo saxon vulture feed.
Back when people actually fought for a job literally and now fight not to work by putting down the working class and business owners. How far we've come 😒
Interesting, in the movie the Civil War had started, Infact they had Dead lining the streets But The Butcher was dead in 1855, 1/2 decade before the Civil War started..I also see this is 2nd movie they just Added Dicapero or however you spell his name..He wasnt really in this Or Titanic, but stillness was great movie😁
Amazing how people have selective memories when it comes to ethnic and racial criminals. The country has been plagued by criminals for centuries and not just by those “ dark complexioned thugs “.
My fore fathers from Ireland and Scotland or what was called Scotland back then got off the boat and suffered all the indiginities as portrayed in Gangs of New York. Oral history says moving to hills of North Carolina, spreading out a bit and just surviving mostly except for an occasional success story. I liked Gangs of New York but it was difficult to watch knowing I could have been born in those violent, really shitty times.
Yeah I think the Irish even got a hard time when they came to Scotland. Gangs of New York esq protestant vs catholic gangs fights that still affects Scotland today.
There any films for us outsiders that don’t understand that animosity? It starting to sound like it’s rooted in tribal conflict, like India and Pakistan.
The scottish were the british just as much as the English were. For good and bad. The scottish were also the ones who were sent to ireland by the scottish king james to displace the natives there. If your ancestry is scotch/irish, your people were colonisers in Ireland. And remain in the North to this day.
Me ancestor was a dead rabbit. Hes where i got my drinking from my anger from and my hatred for anyone or anything harming my way of life. My ancestors were irish,Native American, and some American. My dead rabbit ancestor went to marry a Cherokee squal. And their children went off to mary up in new york.
if any of you remember those old cartoons where the guy with the mustache and the top hat tied girls to the railroad tracks ? guess who that was based on?
Love when DDL starts fake crying over that poor defenseless rabbit. Sounds like a bunch of screw ups. Glad i didnt live back then i like being clean too much.
Lewis, in my opinion played this role to the extent of the most believable portrayal of a real man I have ever seen.
Well technically Lewis is in fact a real man. No cgi used for him I don't believe.
I completely agree with you. He is an amazing actor.
Only a few people could kill Liam Neeson. But no one kills him in the opening scene. Legend
Loved that doc
Speaking of liam neeson, if you haven't seen a movie called next of kin made back in 1989 watch it. Liam Neeson is funny as hell in this movie. And the best part of this movie is right in the half way point. Trust me it's so funny your stomach will hurt cause you will laugh that hard.
@@mattjacobson3616 I used to have that video. It’s one of my favorites. He is awesome in that movie.
@@shananalexander9789 yes it is a good movie. The mob guy hanging outside the window still makes lol.
@nedkelly3436 always a classic line from old gary get me two.
DDL portrayal of Bill the Butcher was one of the most terrifying on-screen villains of all time. Absolutely brilliant
Bryan B Bill the Butcher is my favorite movie gangster.
@@jeremymadden8008
He was so brilliantly believable.
I think that's what made him so frightening
My type of villain
Bryan B the patties that defied
DDL is one of the best character actors ever
"At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it." Best movie line ever.
Here is Los Angeles its called a case.....
May the Christian Lord guide my hand against your roman popery
@@stephengrahn9361 prepare to meet the true lord
@沒有人的天空 absolutley. Never more true
Coming true again.
- Bricks , bats , axes , knives , pistols ?
- No pistols.
- Good boy.
Here u go
ruclips.net/video/KTGxqyfLpOQ/видео.html
Challenge!
I'm the 60th like!
One thing I've never been able to figure out is. What a brickbat is?
@@schweinfurterrory8030 A bat made from bricks?
I sure wish Daniel Day-Lewis would make another movie, that dude is one hell of an actor, and he sticks to his morals, rare breed indeed! One of the few actors I respect.
The man deserves a video of his own for his mental method acting tactics.
Yeah I really enjoyed that movie and almost every movie I've seen him do He gets into the character like nobody else. Most these actors even some of the older ones are all the same character in every movie but not Daniel Day Lewis
He was great in "There will be Blood"
I thought Phanton Thread was fantastic, looks like that will be his final film
Daniel Day-Lewis has retired 4 previous times just to come out of retirement when reading a script he wanted to be a part of, so don't count him out yet.
Worst snubs in Oscar history: Edward Norton- "Primal Fear"
Billy Bob Thornton- "Sling Blade"
Val Kilmer-"Tombstone
Daniel Day Lewis- "Gangs of New York"
1980 ordinary people over Raging Bull.
I tend to agree
Bill the Butcher. I knew his cousin, Bob the Builder.
Dont forget their long lost cousin, Dora-The Explorer
I think Bob got his famous one liner from his Cousin Bill “Can we fix him? No he’s F....ed.”
Hahahaha
Also his grandson Leon the professional
And their method of transportation? THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE!!!
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is the best character actor of all time. We should all consider ourselves fortunate to have lived with and enjoyed his works throughout his career. There may never be another like him.
Daniel day lewis portrayal of bill the butcher was Genius..it was robbed and didn't give credit at the oscars
cause the Butcher was racist and the oscars are too woke
@@nickf2861 it's acting..bro
@James Vickers so that's so
@@chewcab8008 no man it's that recognitiy that artist deserve what does to them
@@nickf2861 What about Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds? That character was pretty racist and he won an Oscar.
With this performance alone DDL stands alone with the greatest movie villain performance of all time. To think that he didn't win for this is absolutely disgusting. As heinous an act as not giving kilmer the award for doc holliday
Kilmer stole the show in Tombstone. Such a great portrayal! “ You’re no daisy” love that line to the dying Johnny Ringo 😂
DDL doing Daniel Plainview was a movie villain on par with DDL doing Bill The Butcher
he was better in there will be blood. as a villain
I agree whole-heartedly!
@@americanwelder9865 "I was just foolin about
I wasn't."
awesome
Anyone else find it remotely hilarious that in the 1800’s in NYC, gangs of opposing fire fighters would show up to fight each other for “fire fighter supremacy” instead of putting out the actual fire? 👩🚒 👨🚒
Look at today's FDNY and you can still see the various factions represented. Today though they're all on the same side
Crazy right. I believe not long ago frances firefighters were starting fires and fighting the police in protest.
As said already still goes on today. One of the reasons 9/11 fallout was not handled to well. Fire, police, ambulance didn't fully speak to each other because they came from different districts. Crazy world we live in
Government ineffectiveness on display since the beginning of this fucked up nation
@Euphoric Moto Films there's loads more to it. But yes u see where you are coming from
“I’ll festoon my bed chamber with his guts” “heart? This boy has no heart” Two of my favourite lines from the movie
“I’m going to paint paradise square in his blood. Two coats!”
Orange blossom. Delicious.
It is said that Daniel Day Lewis stayed in character for the duration of the filming of GONY. Off set,he retained the spirit and composure of Bill The Butcher so well,that people were scared shitless of him. True story.
Yeah he listened to nothing but Eminem so he'd always be pissed off. I always thought that was 😎
Actually it wasn’t Eminem it was Matchbox 20 on a continuous loop
@@darrelsmith1380 lol
Acting was a second hobby to him ...truly amazing and eccentric man.... He retired from acting all together... he said that with each movie it took part of his soul from him
Arnez Willis 🤣🤣🤣
This is the first time I've heard a YT documentary with a Scottish accent. I can *feel* the effort to pronounciate the words in a way non-Scots will understand. Reminds me of phone conversations with English admins after they claim I'm "mumbling".
Good job.
Appreciate the support. I have slowed it down as much as possible and trying to speak clearly for the Americans. Still sound like I'm talking Japanese apparently. If I talked as rapid as I do in my normal voice I'd sound like an alien to them.
"See this knife, I'm going to teach you to speak English with this knife"
@Jack Burton I know, but didn't wanna swear.. incase there are snowflakes reading it
"thats a wound!"
One of my favorite quotes
Starts carving alphabet into wood plank
"So as you can see we begin with thee letter A..."
@@buzzkillington7725 well there's your problem- you care what snowflakes think
This is one of my favorite movies of all time! Very interesting to actually learn the backstory. Great video!!!
The reason many were firefighters is because many would loot some homes plus be paid financially 💪😎. Great video 🙏
Such a great movie, if only they'd release a version that edits out the whole romance subplot.
Yeah, I wasn’t into the whole “Bill licks a bunch of knives and blades”, stuff either
Absolutely the romantic melodrama destroyed that movie
A romantic plot with a whore? Please
I kinda liked it 🤷♂️
Yeah,I thought that love story was a waste of time in the movie.
Wait, wut? A barfight with guns? Wouldn't that be a gunfight in a bar...
No it's still fighting in a bar so barfight is more accurate. Lol
Better to bring a gun to a barfight than a bar to a gunfight.
well back then folks werent sissys and gun fights in bars were not frowned upon
@@moreygloss9248 that's some deep shit
Yes, the dead rabbits were pussies
We can try and imagine what it was like back in those days in NYC with these gangs, but I don't think we can fathom the ruthless violence that took place. These people were scary & Tough.
Thank god I died like a true American. That was a classic quote I ever heard.
Bill the Butcher died like a true American gangster. And he said thank God. I died like a true American. What a classic quote ever. That is why everyone should like Bill the Butcher.
@@richardtaylor1062 in these times right now we should look at him as an inspiration. Thank God I died a true American.
@@angelofdeathmichael673 Well if that is the case China should say thank God I died like a true Chinese. Cause time's like this we all are in it together. But I am not Chinese I am white native American. My mom's dad was white her mom is full blooded native American my dad has native American too. So I must be a white native American person.
@michael french I thought he called himself the Native's. Cause he was Native American.
And why I think Bill the butcher. Let the kid take is life. Maybe he felt bad for the kid. He tooked him under his wing. What the poor dead rabbit bastard do. Acting like a real dead rabbit as a snake he was.
Thank you for this information man! That Bill the Butcher character made the entire film.
5:50 the longest reach in all of boxing history
Go go gadget arms😂
Got a killer left hook.
Fun fact: boxers from back then used that funny stance with their hands very low because there were few punches to the head. Without gloves or even your hands wrapped it was very easy to break your hands on someone's head. Fighters generally stuck to body shots and tried to chop each other down. That's why you would get 40 round fights that lasted 3 hours. Fucking savage.
@@mjwbulich pure brutality
That is copy of the original lithograph using Silly Putty .
Put playback speed to 1.25 you'll notice the difference immediately
Great job and research. The Libravox audio account of his funeral is eerie and felt like I was there in NYC.
It was tough old shit in them days
Carl_Marks no difference now
Barry aLLen very
@@BarryaLLen-ik8bq u fool
@@BarryaLLen-ik8bq LOL 😆 😂 🤣
Bill the butcher was terrifying because he was totally brutal but also smart
What makes someone smart ?
this wasn't all that long ago... I'm only 42 and I can vividly remember my great grandma who was born in 1893. Her grandparents would've been Bill Poole's contemporaries
he was actually a undercover nyc pd & worked 4 vanderbuilts..
he got a piece of everything came
through long island new york
At that time there really was only one Vanderbilt
I didnt see Bill as a villain in Gangs of New York. He was simply a man that stood by his ideals.
I agree sir. An American.
@@lukegriffiths7234 an American? What is American, did they not come from another land like everyone else, the native Indian is a true American, this butcher was just a radical anti Catholic nob head.
I did a history presentation on William Poole (Bill the butcher) when I was at school! Very underrated piece of history!
Superb, I love that. If only History presentations were as interesting when I was at school.
"He was a hero of the Bowery, a prince of lawless times,
then was battered by the butcherman in 1849.
He knew the game of fistacuffs he knew the game of might,
but no one knew the men who came and took his life one night."
Les Claypool,
Primus Sucks! 😉
Shut up Flanders
@@lionelhutz5137 Yo, dummy, "Primus sucks" is a badge of honor to the band. Do some research.
Yup
Daniel Day Lewis has be one the best actors ever.
My Left Foot, In the name of the Father just brilliant acting.
I met him in Roundwood near Bray in Co Wicklow few years back when Rep of Ireland beat Germany 1 nil in the soccer.
Nice man loves Ireland.
Most patriotic last words 🇺🇲 R.I.P Poole
The draft riots were also a historical fact depicted in the movie, they were put down by the military.
The American Civil War started in 1861, in the film 'Gangs of New York' drafting for the Civil War was depicted as Irish immigrants were disembarking the ships that brought them over to the USA.
Bill the Butcher died six years before the Civil War started!
@@stevewhite8059 I said nothing about any characters, the draft riots were real and the military utilized to put them down.
@@lonnieweddington2883 Yes, point taken.
Gangs of New York was of course a film not a documentary and it depicted true events, but for obvious narrative reasons, the events weren't necessarily in the correct chronological order. Doesn't matter, it doesn't stop it from being an enjoyable film and it certainly brought that particular era in New York's history to life and to the attention of a modern audience.
Films like this also hopefully prompt more people to become historians, like yourself, and learn more about their past
@@stevewhite8059 You mentioned a character in the movie not mentioned in my comment, and for no apparent reason. I repeated what was in my comment which is a factual event.
A complete master piece. Brilliant and very very convincing role Daniel day louis is electrifying
The Butcher was a real Beast i wish i could've met him, the Natives had alot of heart.
You wanna meet a 19th century xenophobic phychotic killer? Don't think it would go well 😂
While bill the butcher is often credited as being a boxer, his only reported fight was with john morrissey. Morrissey was american champion at the time and poole made him quit
This was not a championship fight and was probably, like the rest of pooles fights a 'rough and tumble' where anything short of weapons were allowed. I have looked and looked but have never found any mention of an organized prize fight for poole. I would say its safe to say all of bill the butchers fights were rough and tumbles
@tony
You will not find any proof of an organized prize fight for any of these as the *Horton law* which legalized prize fighting in New York was not passed until 1896. Most of these folks were long dead before that happened.
@@merccadoosis8847 you mistake 'legal' for 'organized'
Bareknuckle prize fighting was well organized from the middle 1840's on.
Tom hyer vs yankee sullivan was a national event with people coming from as far away as new orleans to new york to watch it
Prize fighting was organized, just not legal
he was a street fighter not a prize fighter boxer ..lol street fighter win everytime
This was freaking excellent. Thank you for this extremely well put together video.
If you happen to read this I am curious if any bad luck has befallen you after making such a video.
There are some things that seem to draw ill fate in this country since the late forties or early fifties and speaking of the United States' anti-catholic and anti-religion history is one of those things.
another is speaking of the true beliefs of our forefathers the majority of whom were only slave owners on the paper of others and did more than anyone else for their extended families or what most Americans call their slaves these days.
Speaking of our forefathers true abolitionist agenda which what they considered to be a self-evident truth
"all men are created equal"
attest to but our ignorant Church educated populace does not believe today.
Thank you, much appreciated. Cant say I have experienced any ill fate in particular other than being on lockdown with everyone else. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens.
@@CriminalHistory1 thank you and good luck.
screwball psyche good to hear👍🙏 thanks for this really interesting video, and hello from way over in Royal Oak, Michigan👋
@@evanabbott2737 Cheers man, hello from Scotland
Embarrassingly enough he is an ancestor of mines. I am a Poole of Scotland. We came from Suffolk, Sussex, Lincolnshire and various other parts of the UK. Bill the Butcher is my so many removed grandfather’s Son. Making him one of my uncles. Many of the Poole’s settled around New York, Louisiana and Salt Lake City Utah. Still looking into this more but will keep everyone posted.
Small world :)
why Embarrassingly? he was a badass mofo.
Why is it embarrassing ?
@@jamess2664 He was a pretty messed up guy who did some messed up things.
There's a Scotland tours video that talks about this very subject. We're all related to someone famous.
I really enjoyed this, very interesting and I subscribed. Thank you. Can you do the Molly McGuires?
Cheers Priscila, I will look into it.
Such an incredibly interesting time in history.
I agree and recommend the original book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gangs_of_New_York_(book)
Yeah if you were white!
Mike Fantasia hey Mike - if you ever get the chance read Tycoon’s War. During the same period after Mexican American war but before revolution. Wild story and well referenced from historic archives.
@@andresmiguel2573 Ok, Karen....
Thank you for using CC. I appreciate it.
Bill had guts, I'll give him that. Terrible human being but he had guts and a code of honor that he genuinely followed.
If terrible human being means evil, then he couldn't have had honor. Something doesn't add up.
@@dontfearthereaper2887 Guess it depends on one's definition of evil.
@@jasonkinzie8835I think it is well established that the definition of evil is tied up with pain. If you deliberately cause pain, then it is evil because you wouldn't want pain forced on you. Something can't be evil if it doesn't involve hurting. We don't need a definition for that, is more like universal understanding, with maybe a tiny minority of exceptions.
@@dontfearthereaper2887 Throughout history there have been people who caused a great deal of pain for what they believed was for the greater good. Let's say they are misguided and they actually aren't fulfilling any greater good but are simply creating unnecessary misery and death. Are they evil? Well if evil is about intentions they might not be. Codes of honor are not automatically good things. They can be horribly misguided things. Yet they can also be the subject of a powerful belief. So powerful that a person will live and die by them. This might prove that this person, who is willing to take risks and sacrifice their own greater interests in the name of this system of honor, actually has a strong moral character, even though they do things that we consider to be the height of evil and cruelty.
@@jasonkinzie8835 I think defining evil is more about awareness than it is about intention. If you know and understand that you're causing pain, even for the greater good, it is still evil, but it may be justifiable (or necessary) evil. Sacrificing 3 people to save a 100 is still evil if the 3 people suffered, but maybe it was justifiable evil. The real question is who's to be the judge of whether the evil deed was justifiable or not.
Thanks mate.
Very interesting mini-documentary.
I wish you rainbows.
Thanks dude, glad you enjoyed it.
The book by Herbert asbury (gangs of ny is a fabulous book there’s at least a half a dozen movies in there
Daniel Day Lewis was more Bill the Butcher than Bill the Butcher himself.
So the movie took a lot of liberties. He died before the Civil War. It had that in the movie where they were recruiting to join the Civil War. And he did not die in the street he died in a bar because he got shot while on the ground. That should’ve been in the movie
Bill was even better in this movie than he was in real life. Never seen a better person than D.D. Lewis to actually become one of those people from way back then. He's the best 👌
I thought everyone knew gangs of New York was based on real history.
I know, where the fuck is that coming from
Not so much “based on” as it was “inspired by”.
The Bowery boys were part of the know nothing group. They were an old political group in nyc, which employed the american guard, on little water street. Tammany hall was there before the Irish, around the time of French immigration. But again this is a great video. Very accurate.
It's amazing anyone survived that era at all. Constant carnage and murder and the police being totally impotent and currupt.
What's the difference from today? Your Dunning Kruger effect is showing
@@taylorjeremy71 Actually do a quick google search and you will see what is different. America and the world in general is way more peaceful than it was in the past.
Great video thanks for putting it together.
My pleasure. Any suggestions for the next one?
5:42 I wouldn’t want to box someone with a left arm like a giraffe’s neck.
"New York wasn't a city, it was a furnace where someday a city might be forged."- Amsterdam, Gangs of New York
Awesome. 🇺🇸
One can imagine the utter relief for the victim of a fire at the arrival of two fire fighting companies at the scene... Only to turn to horrified disbelief as both companies completely ignored the blaze and instead set about violently fighting each other for the percieved prestige of being the ones that successfully fought the fire!
Unsurprisingly, whilst they fought, the blaze raged further out of control, razing buildings to the ground and frequently igniting adjoining buildings too!
Quite what the despairing victims thought of this state of affairs remains unknown, but given the violence that these crews meted out to one another, it is doubtful that many voiced complaints!
That apart, for gangs of heavily armed men to face one another and engage in hand to hand combat took courage!
The fearsome weapons each side carried and their readiness to use them would deter all but the bravest of men.
The severity and range of injuries and the medical services at that time made the prospect of be injured much more dangerous than today.
Throughout history, edged weapons and blunt force trauma weapons have taken more lives and inflicted more injuries than ballistic weapons.
To this day firearms are not most used weapon to commit homicide. I think it is number 3 or 4 on the list behind bludgeoning, stabbing, and poisoning.
Thanks for the education and history.
Thanks for the support Gavin
Play it at 1.25 and your good to go
I recall telling a girlfriend once before the movie "Gangs of New York" came out that the name of the vicious "Hells Kitchen" street gang that Owen "The Killer" Madden belonged to as a teenager, was known as the "Gophers". She laughed. Who would be afraid of a gang with a name like that? Strange, but they did have names like that. So, I told her that as a youngster Madden was known to wrap a lead pipe in newspaper to carry in his back pocket, walk up behind a victim and bash in back of the skull for pocket money. Rough enough for you? I asked.
Clearly there were some “hard hitting headlines” in the newspapers of that period! 😂👍
@@the5thmusketeer215 Buffalo Bill Cody said in his time after visiting NYC that he'd much rather take his chances in the Wild West with Indians on the warpath and all the other dangers than to stay in that city.
I would have dumped her on the spot. I hope you didnt breed with her
Great video, but don't understand why there are shots of NYC with cars. That's from many decades after the the events of Gangs of NY.
Cheers. Couldnt get footage from that time oddly enough haha.
Old bill would roll in his grave if he could see America now..👳♂️
I Saw The Gangs of New York the beginning of that movie my God was it brutal
Today... we have a dude who identifies as a broad who identifies as a stag that descides what you can or can't say on Twitch.
I hope they invent a timemachine soon.
Aint it the shit???? And the man in charge wants to date his own daughter!!!
In the movie, there is a gang of transvestites. So, nothing much has changed.
Great musical sound track.
The movie captured this really well it seems
Legend has it that Daniel Day Lewis constantly blasted Eminems 'Lose Yourself' in his headphones on set while they shot the movie.
The song kept him riled up, and into his role.
*the way I am
One of my favorite people in history
That's WILD that old hacksaw in his hands that has not changed a bit. That hacksaw still looks the same today in design
Huh I just thought Gangs of New York was a period piece didn’t realize it was closer to being based off a true story
That first portrait of bill.. that’s exactly how I have my hairstyle 😂 knew I had taste.
The term would have been "misfired" instead of "jammed". Back then they didn't have semi-automatic pistols only revolvers... And revolvers don't jam. Thank you for this awesome video it was quite enjoyable!!!
Settle down. Geez
Grammatically correct for the period, however I have experienced my blackpowder revolvers (Colt's 3rd Mdl Dragoon & 1860 Army) cylinders jam on occasion from a brass cap, after firing get wedged between the cylinder & frame as the cylinder rotated. This has also been the occasional experiences of other black powder revolver shooters that I personally know, so I would imagine revolver jams were occasionally experienced during the mid-19th century as well as the more frequent misfires.
Thanks for the buzz kill. Always has to be one i guess
@@dogstarstudios718 the cylinders can also jam up when they get out of time
Ya except that ejector rods could effectively Jam the cylinder against the frame. So Ya they can jam. Typical mope on the internet who knows nothing about firearms.
I would like to know whats the name of the intro song. I think it's based on an irish jig, but which one?
So here's the true origin of Police vs Firemen rivalry 😁
Great video mate, whats the song you use when u introduce tamany hall its great
Well made & informative production
Thanks man, appreciate it
Fire fighters at that time were mainly recruited from gangs and the reason they were paid well "per-fire" was because they would loot the belongings of the burning property after the fire was instantly put out... thus they would be given the moniker of "land pirates"... a terminology used to describe highway men and men who would "Shanghai" other men.
this was my mothers great grandfather who carried
slapjack & a barber blade in NYC
Damn
why did u thumbs up
those were the only two things
my father let my mother keep
Louisiana was my first home ever since I landed in this country. I stayed there for 2 years and tasted the French-Spanish catholic style of governance, then I fled to Washington State. If I witnessed a contest between White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Catholic Irish/French/Latinos in America, I would have sided with the WASPs without a second thought.
This country was built on English Protestantism, except for Louisiana.
Just become an atheist. Easier
No Surrender 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Billy Boy.!!!
The US needs to be dissolved and broken up into independent regional nation-states. We just make South Louisiana a republic, give the South West to Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Blacks can have Florida.
Why what was the difference?
The five points or hella kitchen has a wild history.
9171paladin I walked through a few years ago at dawn, it was like Disney :(
"He grew to stand over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds and grew an imposing figure"
Well shit i guess i'm imposing
Shit, probably the average height in those days was 5’3. I’m 6’4 275 lbs. We’d be giants taking over the world!
In those days the average height was a lot shorter than now
@@coraje1388
No it was around 5ft 7.5 inches, so he would be like 6’2 today
Y’all midgets I’m like 7’4”. Tiny weiner though.
Back then people were a lot smaller
I was born inAstoria NY in 1955.Am 66. Live in MD now. Have family back home. Have ancestors Eire"born.Have cousins Irish American born over 6'. Had Uncle NYPD named in book @ Director SeedmanNYPD Uncle knew Finbar Devine. I saw him .7'tall Led ST.Pat's parade. Bill Butcher-Anglo saxon vulture feed.
Back when people actually fought for a job literally and now fight not to work by putting down the working class and business owners. How far we've come 😒
Great choice of music!!
Can someone please tell me who wrote it and what's it called?
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
John Kilsheimer Thank you :)
I am blasting it out now at 4 a clock in the morning, having a "forget about the fucking coronavirus party" 😁😁
Interesting, in the movie the Civil War had started, Infact they had Dead lining the streets But The Butcher was dead in 1855, 1/2 decade before the Civil War started..I also see this is 2nd movie they just Added Dicapero or however you spell his name..He wasnt really in this Or Titanic, but stillness was great movie😁
He was a supporting actor not the star
“Firefighters fought for firefighter supremacy in Manhattan.” is just a sentence you’re really never truly prepared to hear.
Amazing how people have selective memories when it comes to ethnic and racial criminals. The country has been plagued by criminals for centuries and not just by those “ dark complexioned thugs “.
>irish
>white
My fore fathers from Ireland and Scotland or what was called Scotland back then got off the boat and suffered all the indiginities as portrayed in Gangs of New York. Oral history says moving to hills of North Carolina, spreading out a bit and just surviving mostly except for an occasional success story. I liked Gangs of New York but it was difficult to watch knowing I could have been born in those violent, really shitty times.
Yeah I think the Irish even got a hard time when they came to Scotland. Gangs of New York esq protestant vs catholic gangs fights that still affects Scotland today.
There any films for us outsiders that don’t understand that animosity? It starting to sound like it’s rooted in tribal conflict, like India and Pakistan.
The scottish were the british just as much as the English were. For good and bad.
The scottish were also the ones who were sent to ireland by the scottish king james to displace the natives there. If your ancestry is scotch/irish, your people were colonisers in Ireland. And remain in the North to this day.
Most of the footage can now be seen in 3D and in color ;)
Refreshing to hear a Scottish accent narrating a RUclips vid
In real life he died 5 years before the civil war so the movie is not an accurate portrayal of his life
Great video. Got any in english?
If you can’t understand this narrator your a moron
@@scott6926 spot the irony anyone?
I actually learned something new
Me ancestor was a dead rabbit. Hes where i got my drinking from my anger from and my hatred for anyone or anything harming my way of life. My ancestors were irish,Native American, and some American. My dead rabbit ancestor went to marry a Cherokee squal. And their children went off to mary up in new york.
if any of you remember those old cartoons where the guy with the mustache and the top hat tied girls to the railroad tracks ? guess who that was based on?
I give up....
@Usa mabaho lol
Snydley Whiplash? Dick Dastardley?
Fred Schneider!
The gay biker in the Village People.
Great video.
Love when DDL starts fake crying over that poor defenseless rabbit. Sounds like a bunch of screw ups. Glad i didnt live back then i like being clean too much.
Great vid...thank you for the history‼️
Holy shit , At 5:46 the bare knuckle boxer Tom Hyer must have been related to Mr Tickle , check out those arms ..😀😀😀😀