Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: Gangs of NewYork, finalmente!

una brutta recensione, imho (d'altra parte parliamo di Fox News), ma è la
prima che appare in assoluto sul montaggio finale.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70453,00.html
Gangs of New York, at Last
Friday, November 15, 2002
By Roger Friedman
Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York finally screened yesterday for
selected press and exhibitors.
I can tell you definitively that this epic story of New York in the 1850s
is a success through and through. It will easily earn Scorsese a Best
Director nomination, a Best Picture nomination, and for Daniel Day-Lewis,
a slam-dunk nomination for Best Actor.
Day-Lewis' performance as Bill the Butcher is more than just mesmerizing.
It's the one to beat, even with formidable opponents such as Jack
Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Campbell Scott, Michael Caine, and Leonardo DiCaprio
waiting in the wings.
I include DiCaprio because I think it will be his performance in Steven
Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, and not Gangs, that will put him in Oscar
contention. That doesn't mean Leo isn't good in Gangs; he is. But his role
is that of the thankless central character/hero, meaning he has to cede
the showier ground to Day-Lewis.
Other acting nominations for Gangs are less certain. There's a good chance
that last year's Best Supporting Actor, Jim Broadbent, will repeat in that
category for his role as Boss Tweed, the legendary Tammany Hall political
boss. Cameron Diaz's disarming intensity and feistiness as the girl torn
between Leo and Day-Lewis may put her in the supporting category as well.
But mostly what Gangs is about, even in its final 2-hour 35-minute
version, is Scorsese. Even though he's made some of the finest films in
cinematic history — Raging Bull, GoodFellas, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets,
etc — Scorsese still has never taken a Best Picture statue home.
Gangs of New York could change all that. It breathes with excitement and
texture. It's epic in a way that films almost never are anymore, and every
bit of the blood, sweat, and tears Scorsese and his editor Thelma
Schoonmaker poured into it is evident.
Costumes, set decoration, and all other technical aspects are
breathtaking. When this movie is bloody — which it often is — you feel
it in your gut.
Gangs of New York tells the story of how the future of New York was
settled during bloody confrontations between the original Dutch and
English settlers and the Irish immigrants who flooded the streets every
day.
Day-Lewis' Bill the Butcher represents the former group; DiCaprio, taking
up the cause of his dead father (a cameo by Liam Neeson), takes up the
flag of the former. What seems like a simple story is embroidered expertly
by Scorsese and Day-Lewis so that you feel you have actually gone back in
time.
For Scorsese fans, Gangs is a combination of the director's two strongest
themes — the violence of GoodFellas and the historical drama of The Age
of Innocence.
For anyone who enjoyed — as I did — the look of Innocence, which
showed 19th-century New York à la Time and Again — Gangs of New York
will prove to be a treasure chest of riches.
Of course, it's also very violent, and even toning it down through editing
from the original 3-hour-plus version won't change the fact that Bill is a
butcher, literally. But for the legions of fans who seemed able to
withstand Hannibal Lecter's gross masticating, this won't be much of a
problem.
I will not tell you the exact ending of the movie; I will say it's
extremely moving and shows a link between violence in that part of New
York 150 years ago and violence there again 14 months ago. In that way,
Gangs of New York becomes contemporary.
Some movies are good and some are great. A few transcend the medium and
the culture and make an indelible impression. In so many ways Gangs does
that.
As for Daniel Day-Lewis — all I can tell you is the accent, the way he
holds himself and his delivery of lines is classic in the way that Marlon
Brando was in The Godfather, or Clint Eastwood was in Unforgiven, or Tom
Hanks was in Forrest Gump.
People are going to be mimicking him, imitating him and celebrating him
the way they do those actors playing those parts.
vanz
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sono curioso....
anche se il buon Scorsese...
e' da un poco che ha perso i
colpettini...
sempre buoni film, anche gli ultimi,
ma ve lo ricordavate ai tempi,
quando si e' inventato De Niro....
comunque rimango curioso e soprattutto fiducioso....
anche se mi rendo conto che it's impossible
mantenere certi livelli...
pochissimi ci riescono:
Kaurismaky...Cronenberg e Lynch.....
(quelli che mi sono venuti in mente all'istante)
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