Amsterdam

Gangs of New York (2002)

Actors: David Hemmings (actor), Gary Lewis (actor), Brendan Gleeson (actor), Ottaviano Dell'Acqua (actor), Leonardo DiCaprio (actor), Stephen Graham (actor), Leo Burmester (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Salvatore Billa (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Peter Berling (actor), Eddie Marsan (actor), Giovanni Lombardo Radice (actor),

Plot: When his father is killed in New York City, Amsterdam Vallon returns in 1863 to hunt down his father's killer, the ruthless, Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting. It's not easy for Amsterdam as gangs roam a corrupt New York City, with Bill Cutting ruling over everyone.

Keywords: 1840s, 1860s, 19th-century, amazing-grace-hymn, american-civil-war, american-flag, animal-abuse, army, army-vs-civilians, assassination
Genres: Crime, Drama, History,
Taglines: America Was Born In The Streets.

Quotes:

Bill: Anything in your pockets?::Jenny: I ain't started working yet.

Bill: You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this fucking knife!

Amsterdam Vallon: Lord, place the steel of the Holy Spirit in my spine and the love of the Virgin Mary in my heart.

Boss Tweed: The appearance of law must be upheld, especially when it's being broken.

Happy Jack: I come for my due and proper.

Boss Tweed: You killed an elected official?::Bill: Who elected him?::Boss Tweed: You don't know what you've done to yourself.::Bill: [taps his glass eye with a knife] I know your works. You are neither cold nor hot. So because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth. You can build your filthy world without me. I took the father. Now I'll take the son. You tell young Vallon I'm gonna paint Paradise Square with his blood. Two coats. I'll festoon my bedchamber with his guts. As for you, Mr. Tammany-fucking-Hall, you come down to the Points again, and you'll be dispatched by my own hand. Get back to your celebration and let me eat in peace.

Bill: I took the father, now I'll take the son.

[after someone speaks to him in Irish Gaelic]::Boss Tweed: They don't speak English in New York any more?

Bill: He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering.

Bill: How old are you, Amsterdam?::Amsterdam Vallon: I'm not sure, sir. I never did quite figure it.::Bill: I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.