Part of the events seen in the movie are taken indirectly from the book "Life After Life", written by Dr. Raymond Moody and published in 1975, a series of compilations about people who by a brief time were dead and later lived again, called NDE or Near-Death Experience. Between them, the concept of a light white tunnel, which appears when a person dies to take his soul to the Afterlife (in the movie it appears three times: when Sam dies, when a man dies in an operating room, and when Sam saves Oda Mae and Molly, completing his unfinished business). The second part is the idea of black spirits who capture the souls of bad people to take to other side of the Afterlife, called Lower Astral, a place similar to Judeo-Christian Hell to punish and torture them. The third part is people, maybe friends and familiars, who wait to receive the recent dead to the Afterlife. It is showed when Sam walks toward the Afterlife at the end of the movie, where he mixes with a lot of spirits who wait for him (as they appear in diffuse figures in blue, it's impossible to know if they are Sam's friends or familiars).
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The original budget was $83 million.
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Martin Scorsese was a big fan of the film O Lucky Man! (1973), and considered casting Malcolm McDowell as Amsterdam. Had Scorsese been able to make this film in 1978, he planned to cast Robert De Niro as Bill the Butcher.
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When Boss Tweed considers sex with a prostitute, Bill The Butcher warns him that she's been "frenchified," a 19th-century term for venereal disease.
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During filming Daniel Day-Lewis talked with his film accent during the entire time of production, even when he was not on the set.
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Jim Broadbent and John C. Reilly share the same birthday, 24th May.
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In one scene, Boss Tweed describes to a few men the city's need for a grand new courthouse before being interrupted. It's a reference to the infamous New York County Courthouse, now known as the Tweed Courthouse. Tweed and Tammany Hall stole millions from the city that was earmarked for the construction of the building, making it the most expensive civic building of the 19th century.
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Tobey Maguire was considered for the role of Johnny Sirocco.
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At one point, Monk speaks a line of Gaelic to Amsterdam, then translates it. Before working as an actor, Brendan Gleeson taught Gaelic and other subjects as a secondary school teacher.
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gangs of New York - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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