Hi JEFF!

19 Янв 04, JEFF MACDANIELS wrote to DANNY CEPPA:

 >>  AP> It is really cool movie but I think it isn't true.
 >>
 >> Like most movies, it was at best quite fictionalized.

 JM> The latest news on Gangs of New York. I just got finished watching
 JM> the
 JM> Pey-Per-View.

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^What is it? 8)

 JM>  Overall, on a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 8.5. The
 JM> storyline is set to match with real life events as they happened. The
 JM> battling they refer to did actually take place. Cross the bridge into
 JM> Brooklyn, and on the left (the little grassy area) is the remains of a
 JM> cemetary where about 40,000 people were buried who died during the
 JM> fueds/battles. The President did,in fact, order Northern Army in to
 JM> the city to end the gangwars. The military were the only winners,
 JM> numbers-wise. I recommend this movie with much enthusiasm to anybody
 JM> wanting to know why New York is the way it is now.

So film closed to reality?
Or it is just retelling?

 JM>  It started off
 JM> rough, and has reason to stay that way. Back in those days, the CITY
 JM> was all like current day Central Park after dark.

Are you inhabitant of NY?
Central Park is a scary place?

 JM>  Constant fights for
 JM> power (earliest know Mafia-like factions in US history) fill
 JM> the movie, which has a couple of key elements of the period masqued in

JM> ways hard to detect upon first sight.

Excuse me, I'm hard to understand- what hard to detect upon first sight?


Alex

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