I’d just like to take time to pay respect to the house band for having the awareness to know exactly when a fight starts to intensify the music accordingly. Very professional musicianship.
@@benriffle104 when you’re even in the same town as DDL, you bring your A game or at least try to keep up. Johnny was like, what the hell did he say? When McGloin explained what the word meant, Bill looks away and laughs.
Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the finest actors to grace the big screen. He’s never made a movie that he didn’t nail his role right to the wall. It doesn’t get better than Bill the Butcher.
So true but from what I have heard and read it also makes him a difficult person to be around. When Daniel Day-Lewis was still acting he had a reputation for being among that select crop of method actors who took their work way too seriously. Basically that means he would get so immersed in his characters that he would be them all of the time. Actress Vicky Krieps who co-starred with him in his last film Phantom Thread commented how she tried to stay away from him during filming because he was just not the kind of person you would want to be in the company of.
@@xyPERSON She said she was avoiding him to make their first meet more real; but when it happened she thought that was it, they would be like colleages. However DDL stayed in character all the time so one day she knocked his door and he welcomed her calling her "Alma", he was so nice to her and they would have long conversations about musicals and movies, always in character; but she had a good opinion about him, at least on the interviews I saw of her. Sorry for my broken English.
@@yosoykarito Your English is just fine and thank you for clearing that up for me. You hear and read all kinds of things online and never really know what's true and what isnt.
Because Bill knows that Priest was actually the better man. After all, Bill had to resort to an underhanded move and throw another man in Priests way, just to distract him for a moment.
@@Embrachu it does say a lot about the Butcher, he knew he couldn't beat him and he did have to resort to an underhand move to best Priest Vallon, but even after his victory, he still respected him years later and still talked about the Priest honorably. I'm fairly certain that they admired each other and their beliefs in a way but were on opposing sides of the table.
@@knightwind6628 think he even says it at one point in the movie that the Priest was an honorable man, and the last honorable man that Bill knew of in the 5 Points
Bill in his own way was an honorable man. He treated priests corpse with respect allowing no desecration, and had him buried with his weapons. He also made sure that Amsterdam grew up in a place where he would be relatively safe and his needs met.
I love Daniel Days accent, it feels so authentic like he's from the time period. Very inventive. I feel it would be hard to understand people in 19th Century America but he does a good job making it different but not silly or weird.
How would you know if it's authentic or not? Were you around that location during that time period? Or are you just regurgitating what you've heard elsewhere?
Everyone has their own voice, even today. He put more work into his accent from what everyone talks about, but no one stood out as having an awful accent in this movie.
That 5-6 second pause before they violently take their jackets off is the chefs kiss on this scene for me. I watched this movie for the 10th time last night and that pause had me on the edge of my seat once again. This film is almost perfect IMO. Historically accurate as well from what I’ve read.
Couldn't agree more.... Impossible to pick a fave scene, in a film, bursting with solid gold scenes..... But yeah... I think THAT, is my favorite moment....
If you watch closely, look at Day Lewis's reaction when he calls him that name - it's really understated but just says 'even I don't fucking know what you are on about....' brilliant.
Leo got that fighting stance to damn near Perfect historical accuracy. When he stood like that, he looked like a vintage photograph of Irish bar history lol
@@rong2912 It was the old timey way of providing distance for your face and your hands because BNB was usually bodyshots. Why break your hand on some goons face? Eventually people started using the Philly Shell, and that opened up the head game and killed the duke's up stance. This is all irrelevant because Leo had the dude in a clean RNC, no chin. That's lights out in 7 seconds for anybody, but instead he lets go and sticks his hand in the old man's mouth. 😅
Me too. I kind of feel like he had a legitimate bone to pick. I think it would be kind of fucked up too, to steal some dead bodies and sell them on the side.
1:46 It's almost like fights happen SO often that there's a set procedure marked by them taking their jackets off, to then move the tables, get all the monies out, set up the wager and bet on the winner with different music playing etc all within a short time which seems so efficient and organised - it's like it's so standard xD
I love the tiny detail that he has to read "a fresh outrage" slowly like he's thinking about the words, but speeds up at "the Five Points" because he's seen it written much more frequently.
Most of the time you still can. Gotta be careful though, too many guys and girls too scared to take a beating will pull a gun on your ass. Happened a few weeks ago where I work.
As a Kick-boxer myself, I can say this scene is quite realistic : I often fight opponents smaller than me, and I can tell you they fight exactly like Gary Lewis (McGloine) : as they have a shorter reach, they move and bend to avoid the strokes of their taller opponent. And once they can hit your ribs, they don't leave you anymore. True pitbulls...
For those that didn't read the book, McGloin was like one of the baddest dudes in the Five Rabbits. (Leonardo's fathers Irish gang.) He defected to the Natives when the Dead Rabbits were disbanded. But in order to get in, had to prove his worth by fighting and killing his way in to the gang. For Amsterdam to have defeated him is a tremendous feat in Bill's eyes.
even though this scene didn't focus on DDL, his presence and every word/act exerted the strongest presence on screen. his performance as Bill the Butcher in this film will go down as one of the finest in history.
yo this scene amps me up so much to the rawness of the history in this country and how free everyone used to be. The whole bar just responded by making way for the fight of two free men and bets were immediately started. shit was insane.
Haha! And I bet you wished that still happened today, right? I mean, it's still doable but you have to accept the fact that it might no longer be just fists and you'll either get cut or shot.
@George Washington derrrr.... stupid comment..... blah blah.... right. yea people were much more violent. there was a lot less rules. Women had full bushes.... it was the golden years.
@@antzooma Bill the Butcher says it right after the fight, poking fun at the older McGloin who thinks he’s a tough guy but almost got his cheek ripped open by the younger Amsterdam (Leo’s character)
One of the very few times in the film where the Butcher is playful and good humoured at the end there. There was always menace to every scene he was in but he disarmed it here and Di Caprio's character is laughing in relief and because it was funny.
Even though he wasn't in the majority of the action, Daniel Day Lewis commands the whole scene. He owns that room, especially when he walks over to Amsterdam and gives him the meat for his face. Lewis is one of the greatest actors of this generation or any for that matter.
When the UFC first started the fish hook was actually a named illegal technique. Considering groin shots were perfectly legal actually says something about the fish hook.
No. I think in this one Leo is correctly cast, He is supposed to be an underfew scrawny mid-teen out of the orphanage where he spent 10 years fighting with sodomite monks as well as other irish orphans. He is basically Brad Pitt in movie Snatch without the tattoos or a periwinkle blue caravan.
Except brad Pitt in Snatch had crazy one punch knockout power, but leo here did well. I like how the bald Irishmen who was at least slightly portrayed as someone who has seen his fair share of street fights shows so decent skill and toughness by staying calm and focused when he are a few punches to the face, then perfectly timed a duck under Leo's last punch while they were both on their feet and hit him with a sweet combo that sent 2 good shots to the body and then went upstairs to get him with another 2 shots to the face all in one fluid combo. Old man has some hands on him, his only fault, like so many people back then and even nowadays, he had little to no wrestling/grappling skills or techniques wich is what cost him the fight. I would have loved to see a rematch between these two later in the movie where it's settled with boxing on the feet. But showing them hit the ground and roll around the way they did was great for realistically showing an actual street fight. Very realistic and well done fight scene!!
Would love to see more onflict resolution like this. Just two guys using fists to settle their difference in a fair fight. No guns, knives, sucker punches, just fight till one can't continue.
so justice doesn't figure into it, then, in your preferred means of resolution, the right and wrong of the dispute is irrelevant, it's just might equals right. see, you only get to that position by being a privilege brat who's lived his whole life taking for granted the systems, formal and informal, that protect him from men who would beat the shit out of him. ironically that's an argument against the mechanisms of civilization you daydream of bypassing, they protect you too well from the natural consequences of your terrible opinions. if you ever had to actually live in the kind of society you're dreaming of you'd soon regret it, no matter how much you fantasize about winning fistfights.
