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Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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It is the only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year that did not win any Academy Awards.
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Martin Scorsese hired "The Magician", an Italian man famous for a 30-year career as a pickpocket, to teach Cameron Diaz about the art of picking pockets.
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The opening street fight features music from Peter Gabriel's song "Signal to Noise." Gabriel wrote the soundtrack for Scorsese's earlier film "The Last Temptation of Christ."
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The draft riots depicted in the film are largely accurate, but the real-life Bill "The Butcher" Poole was killed several years before the riots took place.
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Daniel Day-Lewis became so uncomfortable with the greasy hairstyle he wore as Bill the Butcher that he shaved his head immediately after filming completed.
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Daniel Day-Lewis was persuaded to come out of semi-retirement by the fact that he had enjoyed working with Martin Scorsese so much on The Age of Innocence (1993).
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Bill the Butcher has a scene with every main and supporting character in the film, a symbol of his vast influence in the Five Points.
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To simulate Bill the Butcher's fake eye, Daniel Day-Lewis had his own eyeball covered in prosthetic glass. Day-Lewis learned to tap his fake eye with the tip of a knife without blinking.
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The closing credits of the movie feature the "Twin Towers." By the time it hit theaters in December of 2002, sadly, the towers were already gone.
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Cameron Diaz was unhappy that her six week contract kept getting extended. She ultimately spent six months working on the film.
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Amsterdam Vallon's description of nearly every grift (lay) or confidence game in the Five Points:For every lay we had a different name. An Angler put a hook on the end of a stick......to drop behind store windows and doors.An Autumn diver picked your pocket in church.A Badger, gets a fellow in bed with a girl... and robs his pockets when they're on the go.Jenny was a Bludger... a girl pickpocket., And a Turtle dove. A Turtle dove goes uptown...dressed like a housemaid. Picks out a fine house...and goes right through the back door. Robs you blind. It takes a lot of sand to be a Turtle dove.
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When the film was first conceived in 1978, Martin Scorsese planned to cast Dan Aykroyd as Amsterdam Vallon and John Belushi as Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting. The project fell apart after Belushi died. A cast reshuffle had Mel Gibson as Amsterdam Vallon and Willem Dafoe as The Butcher.
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Production designer Dante Ferretti recreated over a mile of mid-nineteenth century buildings, consisting of a five block area of Lower Manhattan, including the Five Points slum, part of the East River waterfront with two full-sized sailing ships, a thirty-building stretch of lower Broadway and replicas of a mansion, Tammany Hall, a church, a saloon, a Chinese theater, and a casino.
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Bill the Butcher is a rabid opponent of Abraham Lincoln. In one scene he throws a knife at a picture of the president. Day-Lewis would play Lincoln in Lincoln (2012) ten years later. Coincidentally Gangs of New York co-star Liam Neeson was originally cast to play Lincoln before Day-Lewis replaced him.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers was offered a part before production. He turned it down because he said he was too busy with other projects.
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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio both took salary reductions to preserve the budget.
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Leonardo DiCaprio got a dressing down in front of the entire assembled crew one morning when he turned up late after a night of heavy partying.
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Touchstone Pictures was credited in the opening logos along with Miramax, even though Touchstone had no involvement with the film. Both studios were owned by The Walt Disney Company at the time.
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