The Real Gangs Of New York

The Gangs of New YorkThe movie I chose was The Gangs of New York .The movie is about all the immigrants and the native Americans that did not get along. "Four of the main characters: William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting), Boss Tweed, Happy Jack (John C. Reilly), and Monk McGinn were based on actual people but they existed in different time frames. William Cutting was based on William Poole "Bill the Butcher", a real butcher with a shop in Washington Market, who lived in New York City from 1832 until his murder in 1855 by Lew Baker. The real William did not have a glass eye with an eagle on…