Gangs of New York: Book vs. Movie
Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002) draws inspiration from Herbert Asbury's nonfiction book The Gangs of New York. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a young man seeking revenge amid the rival gangs and political tensions of nineteenth-century Manhattan.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Herbert Asbury
- Year
- 1927
- Pages
- 330Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 12 hr 24 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Peter Lerman
Herbert Asbury recounts the gangs, criminals, and street conflicts that shape New York's underworld during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His history moves through neighborhood rivalries, saloons, political machines, and battles over territory. Accounts of notorious figures sit alongside the conditions that allow organized violence to become part of the city's everyday life.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Writer
- Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan, Steven Zaillian
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 2 hr 48 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent
- Genre
- action, Crime, crime drama, Drama, epic, gangster, historical, historical drama, Mystery, period drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Amsterdam Vallon returns to New York's Five Points seeking revenge on Bill the Butcher, the gang leader who killed his father. Rather than confront him immediately, Amsterdam works his way into Bill's confidence and becomes involved with pickpocket Jenny Everdeane. His private plans unfold amid hostility toward Irish immigrants, political corruption, and mounting unrest over the Civil War draft.
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