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Bill: Here's the thing... I don't give a ten-penny fuck about your moral conundrum, you meat-headed shit-sack... That's pretty much the thing.

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Gangs of New York (2002) - 28 corrections

Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Brendan Gleeson, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Henry Thomas, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Neeson (add more)

Genres: Crime, Drama

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In the scene where the little dog fights the rats it's supposed to kill 25 in three minutes. When the bag with the rats is opened something like 10 rats fall on the ground. [This is simple editing similar to not watching the entirety of a 3-hour car ride. The viewer does not need to see the multiple bags of rats dropped into the pit to get the desired effect.]
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Before Jenny and Amsterdam make love she reveals a scar that, according to her, was the result of a baby taken out. The position of the scar would have been good for removing the left lung, but a bit far away from the uterus. [A scar placed correctly for the "removal of her left lung" would transect Jenny's breast or her sternum, and this does neither. It is in the centre of her abdomen, showing the results of a sloppily performed hysterectomy.]
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Right before the last battle scene, when Bill and Amsterdam are both preparing for battle, Amsterdam recites a couple of his words backwards during his prayer. [It's not exactly a mistake for someone nervously going into a gang fight to flub some words in a prayer.]
Edit Corrected by LorgSkyegon
When the four scapegoats are hanged you see two shots of people watching them fall, following them with their eyes on their way down: first the wife of one of the condemned scapegoats, then Bill's followers. The funny thing is that in the second group, only Amsterdam seems to look at the executed, while McGloin and the others keep staring into empty space where the hanged had been before they fell. [McGloin and the gang are looking at the right place, it is Amsterdam who is simply looking down in disgust. You can see in the following shot that Amsterdam looks back up like everybody else for a split second.]
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In the movie, Amsterdam says that the New York City Draft Riots lasted for four days. It really lasted only three days. [They ran for four days. July 13-16, 1863. 13, 14, 15 and 16, four days.]
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At the end of the movie (before the credits roll) you see the skyline of modern New York, with the World Trade Center Towers included. As patriotic as this is, the towers are placed incorrectly in relation to the Brooklyn Bridge. They should be more to the left. [The positioning of the World Trade Centre is correct. As it was shot on location, that is the correct position, and the Towers should not be "more to the left" as suggested.]
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Late in the film when Bill is standing outside the barber shop staring down Monk, the Irish man running for Sheriff, Monk holds his club in his right hand with the leather strap around his fist. A quick cut to Bill's straight face, and then they show Monk holding the club in his left hand with no strap visible. [First of all there is enough time between shots for Monk to switch the club to his left hand. Second of all the strap isn't visible when the club is in his left hand, because he is now gripping the other end of the club and the end with the strap is not visible in the shot.]
Edit Corrected by Andreas[DK] Time
Near the end, when they are reading off the telegraph messages, one message reports an ironclad lying off the city, ready to act. But the ship we see firing into the city is a wooden ship, not an ironclad. [Perhaps there are TWO ships out there?]
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In the scene where Amsterdam is looking at the dead at the end of the movie, the dead are shown breathing. [This "mistake" is often submitted for films with a large battle sequence that leaves a lot of bodies on the ground. The question is this: why assume they are all dead already? Battle casualties in the real world almost always list more wounded than dead, and the wounded still breathe. In a fight with melee weapons (or even firearms, for that matter), most kills are not instant, but delayed deaths following serious wounds. Those "dead" just aren't quite dead yet.]
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Every time you see a person or soldier holding a rifle or pistol, you'll notice that the weapon has no primer cap under the hammer (which means there is nothing to create a spark to ignite the powder) and (especially with the rifles) quite frequently has no ram rods (without which they cannot reload.) [The movie primarily takes place in 1863, when most firearms were using cartridge ammunition, or at least cap-and-ball ammunition, no ramrods or external primer systems required. You're describing muzzle loading firearms, from an earlier period.]
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At the very beginning of the theater scene, we see an actor's face close up who is dressed as Abraham Lincoln. Look closely at the right side of his beard. It's a false beard because you can see a gap between it and his skin where the beard has lost its grip on his cheek. [It's a theater scene. The beard is supposed to be fake. It's a make-up mistake in the play, but not in the film itself.]
Edit Corrected by SexyIrishLeprechaun
At the beginning, when the two gangs meet for a fight, there is snow on the ground - indicating that it is winter. But there is no condensation vapour coming from the actors as they speak. ["Breath-steam" is dependent on the lungs adding enough heat and moisture to the air during a single breath. The longer you are outside in the cold, the cooler and dryer the inside of your lungs are and eventually the steam stops. The atmospheric conditions also are a factor (humidity/dew-point) so that sometimes you don't get any effect at all even if it is quite cold.]
Edit Corrected by Myridon
Amsterdam's accent changes frequently through the movie from American to Irish. [It's supposed to - he's lived in the house of reform for 15-16 years, so his accent is going to be very inconsistant. This is confirmed on the commentary on the DVD.]
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In the first big fight scene (when Amsterdam was a young boy), the conflict is shown in great detail. Viewers can see the deaths of hundreds of people, most of them occurring in the center of the brawl. However, when the camera pans out at the end of the scene, there are only a few bodies scattered around, and the majority of them are on the edges of where the fight occured. [The people in the middle of the brawl are already being wheeled away in carts or wagons, leaving only two dozen or so bodies on the outskirts.]
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In the scene where Daniel Day-Lewis shows Leonardo DiCaprio how to stab a person, using a pig, Day-Lewis hands over the knife to DiCaprio. In the shot that actually shows the knife exchanging hands, the handle is black plastic. [It's not clear if the hand of the knife is plastic or wooden or made of some other material. One cannot be certain about that.]
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When Amsterdam sees the man who told Bill who he was, he walks up to him with his hands in his pockets. Camera angle changes and his hands are now at his side. [The first time Amsterdam and Johnny meet one-on-one after the betrayal Amsterdam has his hands in his pockets, then takes them out and reaches for a beam. There's nothing wrong with this scene.]
Edit Corrected by Nancy<>Felix
When Amsterdam is fighting with the police officer, the policeman is seen with his gun in his hand and he fires it as it's pointed straight up. The camera angle changes and the policeman now has his hands around his neck and the gun is nowhere to be seen. [Mulraney visibly dropped the gun.]
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When Bill calls Jenny up to the stage, Amsterdam stands up and reaches over to help her up. Camera angle changes and he is seen standing up again. [He is not getting up in the second shot but just straightening a little.]
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When Bill is talking to Amsterdam about fear being the reason he has lived as long as he has, the camera cuts to Amsterdam and you can hear an audio clip that was added after the scene was shot. [I have listened to the scene several times and I couldn't hear anything strange.]
Edit Corrected by Nancy<>Felix
When Bill thanks Amsterdam he kisses his own hand and lays it on Amsterdam's head. Camera angle changes and his hand is now on his forehead. [There's a huge bunch of hair hanging over Amsterdam's forehead that, in the first shot, may give the false impression that Bill lays his hand on top of Amsterdam's head. If there's a difference it may be an inch or less.]
Edit Corrected by Nancy<>Felix

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