Speaking of liam neeson, if you haven't seen a movie called next of kin made back in 1989 watch it. Liam Neeson is funny as hell in this movie. And the best part of this movie is right in the half way point. Trust me it's so funny your stomach will hurt cause you will laugh that hard.
"At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it." Best movie line ever.
Worst snubs in Oscar history: Edward Norton- "Primal Fear" Billy Bob Thornton- "Sling Blade" Val Kilmer-"Tombstone Daniel Day Lewis- "Gangs of New York"
I sure wish Daniel Day-Lewis would make another movie, that dude is one hell of an actor, and he sticks to his morals, rare breed indeed! One of the few actors I respect.
Yeah I really enjoyed that movie and almost every movie I've seen him do He gets into the character like nobody else. Most these actors even some of the older ones are all the same character in every movie but not Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis has retired 4 previous times just to come out of retirement when reading a script he wanted to be a part of, so don't count him out yet.
With this performance alone DDL stands alone with the greatest movie villain performance of all time. To think that he didn't win for this is absolutely disgusting. As heinous an act as not giving kilmer the award for doc holliday
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is the best character actor of all time. We should all consider ourselves fortunate to have lived with and enjoyed his works throughout his career. There may never be another like him.
Anyone else find it remotely hilarious that in the 1800’s in NYC, gangs of opposing fire fighters would show up to fight each other for “fire fighter supremacy” instead of putting out the actual fire? 👩🚒 👨🚒
As said already still goes on today. One of the reasons 9/11 fallout was not handled to well. Fire, police, ambulance didn't fully speak to each other because they came from different districts. Crazy world we live in
This is the first time I've heard a YT documentary with a Scottish accent. I can *feel* the effort to pronounciate the words in a way non-Scots will understand. Reminds me of phone conversations with English admins after they claim I'm "mumbling". Good job.
Appreciate the support. I have slowed it down as much as possible and trying to speak clearly for the Americans. Still sound like I'm talking Japanese apparently. If I talked as rapid as I do in my normal voice I'd sound like an alien to them.
It is said that Daniel Day Lewis stayed in character for the duration of the filming of GONY. Off set,he retained the spirit and composure of Bill The Butcher so well,that people were scared shitless of him. True story.
Acting was a second hobby to him ...truly amazing and eccentric man.... He retired from acting all together... he said that with each movie it took part of his soul from him
The use of guns in street gangs really watered down the amount of shear guts and fire you needed to gain control. The people at the top were truly fierce warriors instead of weak folks that pull triggers. Real men fight with their fists.
@@jasonkinzie8835I think it is well established that the definition of evil is tied up with pain. If you deliberately cause pain, then it is evil because you wouldn't want pain forced on you. Something can't be evil if it doesn't involve hurting. We don't need a definition for that, is more like universal understanding, with maybe a tiny minority of exceptions.
@@dontfearthereaper2887 Throughout history there have been people who caused a great deal of pain for what they believed was for the greater good. Let's say they are misguided and they actually aren't fulfilling any greater good but are simply creating unnecessary misery and death. Are they evil? Well if evil is about intentions they might not be. Codes of honor are not automatically good things. They can be horribly misguided things. Yet they can also be the subject of a powerful belief. So powerful that a person will live and die by them. This might prove that this person, who is willing to take risks and sacrifice their own greater interests in the name of this system of honor, actually has a strong moral character, even though they do things that we consider to be the height of evil and cruelty.
@@jasonkinzie8835 I think defining evil is more about awareness than it is about intention. If you know and understand that you're causing pain, even for the greater good, it is still evil, but it may be justifiable (or necessary) evil. Sacrificing 3 people to save a 100 is still evil if the 3 people suffered, but maybe it was justifiable evil. The real question is who's to be the judge of whether the evil deed was justifiable or not.
We can try and imagine what it was like back in those days in NYC with these gangs, but I don't think we can fathom the ruthless violence that took place. These people were scary & Tough.
Fun fact: boxers from back then used that funny stance with their hands very low because there were few punches to the head. Without gloves or even your hands wrapped it was very easy to break your hands on someone's head. Fighters generally stuck to body shots and tried to chop each other down. That's why you would get 40 round fights that lasted 3 hours. Fucking savage.
Mike Fantasia hey Mike - if you ever get the chance read Tycoon’s War. During the same period after Mexican American war but before revolution. Wild story and well referenced from historic archives.
The American Civil War started in 1861, in the film 'Gangs of New York' drafting for the Civil War was depicted as Irish immigrants were disembarking the ships that brought them over to the USA. Bill the Butcher died six years before the Civil War started!
@@lonnieweddington2883 Yes, point taken. Gangs of New York was of course a film not a documentary and it depicted true events, but for obvious narrative reasons, the events weren't necessarily in the correct chronological order. Doesn't matter, it doesn't stop it from being an enjoyable film and it certainly brought that particular era in New York's history to life and to the attention of a modern audience. Films like this also hopefully prompt more people to become historians, like yourself, and learn more about their past
@@stevewhite8059 You mentioned a character in the movie not mentioned in my comment, and for no apparent reason. I repeated what was in my comment which is a factual event.
Bill the Butcher died like a true American gangster. And he said thank God. I died like a true American. What a classic quote ever. That is why everyone should like Bill the Butcher.
@@angelofdeathmichael673 Well if that is the case China should say thank God I died like a true Chinese. Cause time's like this we all are in it together. But I am not Chinese I am white native American. My mom's dad was white her mom is full blooded native American my dad has native American too. So I must be a white native American person.
And why I think Bill the butcher. Let the kid take is life. Maybe he felt bad for the kid. He tooked him under his wing. What the poor dead rabbit bastard do. Acting like a real dead rabbit as a snake he was.
@@taylorjeremy71 Actually do a quick google search and you will see what is different. America and the world in general is way more peaceful than it was in the past.
"He was a hero of the Bowery, a prince of lawless times, then was battered by the butcherman in 1849. He knew the game of fistacuffs he knew the game of might, but no one knew the men who came and took his life one night." Les Claypool,
Embarrassingly enough he is an ancestor of mines. I am a Poole of Scotland. We came from Suffolk, Sussex, Lincolnshire and various other parts of the UK. Bill the Butcher is my so many removed grandfather’s Son. Making him one of my uncles. Many of the Poole’s settled around New York, Louisiana and Salt Lake City Utah. Still looking into this more but will keep everyone posted.
While bill the butcher is often credited as being a boxer, his only reported fight was with john morrissey. Morrissey was american champion at the time and poole made him quit This was not a championship fight and was probably, like the rest of pooles fights a 'rough and tumble' where anything short of weapons were allowed. I have looked and looked but have never found any mention of an organized prize fight for poole. I would say its safe to say all of bill the butchers fights were rough and tumbles
@tony You will not find any proof of an organized prize fight for any of these as the *Horton law* which legalized prize fighting in New York was not passed until 1896. Most of these folks were long dead before that happened.
@@merccadoosis8847 you mistake 'legal' for 'organized' Bareknuckle prize fighting was well organized from the middle 1840's on. Tom hyer vs yankee sullivan was a national event with people coming from as far away as new orleans to new york to watch it Prize fighting was organized, just not legal
This was freaking excellent. Thank you for this extremely well put together video. If you happen to read this I am curious if any bad luck has befallen you after making such a video. There are some things that seem to draw ill fate in this country since the late forties or early fifties and speaking of the United States' anti-catholic and anti-religion history is one of those things. another is speaking of the true beliefs of our forefathers the majority of whom were only slave owners on the paper of others and did more than anyone else for their extended families or what most Americans call their slaves these days. Speaking of our forefathers true abolitionist agenda which what they considered to be a self-evident truth "all men are created equal" attest to but our ignorant Church educated populace does not believe today.
Thank you, much appreciated. Cant say I have experienced any ill fate in particular other than being on lockdown with everyone else. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens.
Bill was even better in this movie than he was in real life. Never seen a better person than D.D. Lewis to actually become one of those people from way back then. He's the best 👌
So the movie took a lot of liberties. He died before the Civil War. It had that in the movie where they were recruiting to join the Civil War. And he did not die in the street he died in a bar because he got shot while on the ground. That should’ve been in the movie
Daniel Day Lewis has be one the best actors ever. My Left Foot, In the name of the Father just brilliant acting. I met him in Roundwood near Bray in Co Wicklow few years back when Rep of Ireland beat Germany 1 nil in the soccer. Nice man loves Ireland.
I really enjoy the movie. Of course the time lines are off but who cares, it's a movie. It certainly seems to capture the feeling of being there. One of my favorites.👍
Today... we have a dude who identifies as a broad who identifies as a stag that descides what you can or can't say on Twitch. I hope they invent a timemachine soon.
Fire fighters at that time were mainly recruited from gangs and the reason they were paid well "per-fire" was because they would loot the belongings of the burning property after the fire was instantly put out... thus they would be given the moniker of "land pirates"... a terminology used to describe highway men and men who would "Shanghai" other men.
The term would have been "misfired" instead of "jammed". Back then they didn't have semi-automatic pistols only revolvers... And revolvers don't jam. Thank you for this awesome video it was quite enjoyable!!!
Grammatically correct for the period, however I have experienced my blackpowder revolvers (Colt's 3rd Mdl Dragoon & 1860 Army) cylinders jam on occasion from a brass cap, after firing get wedged between the cylinder & frame as the cylinder rotated. This has also been the occasional experiences of other black powder revolver shooters that I personally know, so I would imagine revolver jams were occasionally experienced during the mid-19th century as well as the more frequent misfires.
Ya except that ejector rods could effectively Jam the cylinder against the frame. So Ya they can jam. Typical mope on the internet who knows nothing about firearms.
this wasn't all that long ago... I'm only 42 and I can vividly remember my great grandma who was born in 1893. Her grandparents would've been Bill Poole's contemporaries
Only a few people could kill Liam Neeson. But no one kills him in the opening scene. Legend
Loved that doc
Speaking of liam neeson, if you haven't seen a movie called next of kin made back in 1989 watch it. Liam Neeson is funny as hell in this movie. And the best part of this movie is right in the half way point. Trust me it's so funny your stomach will hurt cause you will laugh that hard.
@@mattjacobson3616 I used to have that video. It’s one of my favorites. He is awesome in that movie.
@@shananalexander9789 yes it is a good movie. The mob guy hanging outside the window still makes lol.
@nedkelly3436 always a classic line from old gary get me two.
Lewis, in my opinion played this role to the extent of the most believable portrayal of a real man I have ever seen.
Well technically Lewis is in fact a real man. No cgi used for him I don't believe.
I completely agree with you. He is an amazing actor.
- Bricks , bats , axes , knives , pistols ?
- No pistols.
- Good boy.
Here u go
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Challenge!
I'm the 60th like!
One thing I've never been able to figure out is. What a brickbat is?
@@schweinfurterrory8030 A bat made from bricks?
DDL portrayal of Bill the Butcher was one of the most terrifying on-screen villains of all time. Absolutely brilliant
Bryan B Bill the Butcher is my favorite movie gangster.
@@jeremymadden8008
He was so brilliantly believable.
I think that's what made him so frightening
My type of villain
Bryan B the patties that defied
DDL is one of the best character actors ever
"At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it." Best movie line ever.
Here is Los Angeles its called a case.....
May the Christian Lord guide my hand against your roman popery
@@stephengrahn9361 prepare to meet the true lord
@沒有人的天空 absolutley. Never more true
Coming true again.
Worst snubs in Oscar history: Edward Norton- "Primal Fear"
Billy Bob Thornton- "Sling Blade"
Val Kilmer-"Tombstone
Daniel Day Lewis- "Gangs of New York"
1980 ordinary people over Raging Bull.
I tend to agree
I sure wish Daniel Day-Lewis would make another movie, that dude is one hell of an actor, and he sticks to his morals, rare breed indeed! One of the few actors I respect.
The man deserves a video of his own for his mental method acting tactics.
Yeah I really enjoyed that movie and almost every movie I've seen him do He gets into the character like nobody else. Most these actors even some of the older ones are all the same character in every movie but not Daniel Day Lewis
He was great in "There will be Blood"
I thought Phanton Thread was fantastic, looks like that will be his final film
Daniel Day-Lewis has retired 4 previous times just to come out of retirement when reading a script he wanted to be a part of, so don't count him out yet.
Daniel day lewis portrayal of bill the butcher was Genius..it was robbed and didn't give credit at the oscars
cause the Butcher was racist and the oscars are too woke
@@nickf2861 it's acting..bro
@James Vickers so that's so
@@chewcab8008 no man it's that recognitiy that artist deserve what does to them
@@nickf2861 What about Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds? That character was pretty racist and he won an Oscar.
Bill the Butcher. I knew his cousin, Bob the Builder.
Dont forget their long lost cousin, Dora-The Explorer
I think Bob got his famous one liner from his Cousin Bill “Can we fix him? No he’s F....ed.”
Hahahaha
Also his grandson Leon the professional
And their method of transportation? THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE!!!
With this performance alone DDL stands alone with the greatest movie villain performance of all time. To think that he didn't win for this is absolutely disgusting. As heinous an act as not giving kilmer the award for doc holliday
Kilmer stole the show in Tombstone. Such a great portrayal! “ You’re no daisy” love that line to the dying Johnny Ringo 😂
DDL doing Daniel Plainview was a movie villain on par with DDL doing Bill The Butcher
he was better in there will be blood. as a villain
I agree whole-heartedly!
@@americanwelder9865 "I was just foolin about
I wasn't."
awesome
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is the best character actor of all time. We should all consider ourselves fortunate to have lived with and enjoyed his works throughout his career. There may never be another like him.
Great job and research. The Libravox audio account of his funeral is eerie and felt like I was there in NYC.
Thank you for this information man! That Bill the Butcher character made the entire film.
Anyone else find it remotely hilarious that in the 1800’s in NYC, gangs of opposing fire fighters would show up to fight each other for “fire fighter supremacy” instead of putting out the actual fire? 👩🚒 👨🚒
Look at today's FDNY and you can still see the various factions represented. Today though they're all on the same side
Crazy right. I believe not long ago frances firefighters were starting fires and fighting the police in protest.
As said already still goes on today. One of the reasons 9/11 fallout was not handled to well. Fire, police, ambulance didn't fully speak to each other because they came from different districts. Crazy world we live in
Government ineffectiveness on display since the beginning of this fucked up nation
@Euphoric Moto Films there's loads more to it. But yes u see where you are coming from
That was amazing thank you.
Pleasure, thanks for the support.
It was tough old shit in them days
Carl_Marks no difference now
Barry aLLen very
@@BarryaLLen-ik8bq u fool
@@BarryaLLen-ik8bq LOL 😆 😂 🤣
Such a great movie, if only they'd release a version that edits out the whole romance subplot.
Yeah, I wasn’t into the whole “Bill licks a bunch of knives and blades”, stuff either
Absolutely the romantic melodrama destroyed that movie
A romantic plot with a whore? Please
I kinda liked it 🤷♂️
Yeah,I thought that love story was a waste of time in the movie.
Wait, wut? A barfight with guns? Wouldn't that be a gunfight in a bar...
No it's still fighting in a bar so barfight is more accurate. Lol
Better to bring a gun to a barfight than a bar to a gunfight.
well back then folks werent sissys and gun fights in bars were not frowned upon
@@moreygloss9248 that's some deep shit
Yes, the dead rabbits were pussies
Great vid...thank you for the history‼️
This is one of my favorite movies of all time! Very interesting to actually learn the backstory. Great video!!!
“I’ll festoon my bed chamber with his guts” “heart? This boy has no heart” Two of my favourite lines from the movie
“I’m going to paint paradise square in his blood. Two coats!”
Orange blossom. Delicious.
Thanks mate.
Very interesting mini-documentary.
I wish you rainbows.
Thanks dude, glad you enjoyed it.
Great video thanks for putting it together.
My pleasure. Any suggestions for the next one?
"See this knife, I'm going to teach you to speak English with this knife"
@Jack Burton I know, but didn't wanna swear.. incase there are snowflakes reading it
"thats a wound!"
One of my favorite quotes
Starts carving alphabet into wood plank
"So as you can see we begin with thee letter A..."
@@buzzkillington7725 well there's your problem- you care what snowflakes think
Well made & informative production
Thanks man, appreciate it
This is the first time I've heard a YT documentary with a Scottish accent. I can *feel* the effort to pronounciate the words in a way non-Scots will understand. Reminds me of phone conversations with English admins after they claim I'm "mumbling".
Good job.
Appreciate the support. I have slowed it down as much as possible and trying to speak clearly for the Americans. Still sound like I'm talking Japanese apparently. If I talked as rapid as I do in my normal voice I'd sound like an alien to them.
It is said that Daniel Day Lewis stayed in character for the duration of the filming of GONY. Off set,he retained the spirit and composure of Bill The Butcher so well,that people were scared shitless of him. True story.
Yeah he listened to nothing but Eminem so he'd always be pissed off. I always thought that was 😎
Actually it wasn’t Eminem it was Matchbox 20 on a continuous loop
@@darrelsmith1380 lol
Acting was a second hobby to him ...truly amazing and eccentric man.... He retired from acting all together... he said that with each movie it took part of his soul from him
Arnez Willis 🤣🤣🤣
One of My all time favorites just got better🙂
Fascinating!
A complete master piece. Brilliant and very very convincing role Daniel day louis is electrifying
Thank you for using CC. I appreciate it.
Thanks for the education and history.
Thanks for the support Gavin
That was hella cool from one of my favorites
Great video
Very informative. Two thumbs up!
Thanks dude
The use of guns in street gangs really watered down the amount of shear guts and fire you needed to gain control. The people at the top were truly fierce warriors instead of weak folks that pull triggers. Real men fight with their fists.
Bill had guts, I'll give him that. Terrible human being but he had guts and a code of honor that he genuinely followed.
If terrible human being means evil, then he couldn't have had honor. Something doesn't add up.
@@dontfearthereaper2887 Guess it depends on one's definition of evil.
@@jasonkinzie8835I think it is well established that the definition of evil is tied up with pain. If you deliberately cause pain, then it is evil because you wouldn't want pain forced on you. Something can't be evil if it doesn't involve hurting. We don't need a definition for that, is more like universal understanding, with maybe a tiny minority of exceptions.
@@dontfearthereaper2887 Throughout history there have been people who caused a great deal of pain for what they believed was for the greater good. Let's say they are misguided and they actually aren't fulfilling any greater good but are simply creating unnecessary misery and death. Are they evil? Well if evil is about intentions they might not be. Codes of honor are not automatically good things. They can be horribly misguided things. Yet they can also be the subject of a powerful belief. So powerful that a person will live and die by them. This might prove that this person, who is willing to take risks and sacrifice their own greater interests in the name of this system of honor, actually has a strong moral character, even though they do things that we consider to be the height of evil and cruelty.
@@jasonkinzie8835 I think defining evil is more about awareness than it is about intention. If you know and understand that you're causing pain, even for the greater good, it is still evil, but it may be justifiable (or necessary) evil. Sacrificing 3 people to save a 100 is still evil if the 3 people suffered, but maybe it was justifiable evil. The real question is who's to be the judge of whether the evil deed was justifiable or not.
The reason many were firefighters is because many would loot some homes plus be paid financially 💪😎. Great video 🙏
Bill the butcher was terrifying because he was totally brutal but also smart
What makes someone smart ?
We can try and imagine what it was like back in those days in NYC with these gangs, but I don't think we can fathom the ruthless violence that took place. These people were scary & Tough.
5:50 the longest reach in all of boxing history
Go go gadget arms😂
Got a killer left hook.
Fun fact: boxers from back then used that funny stance with their hands very low because there were few punches to the head. Without gloves or even your hands wrapped it was very easy to break your hands on someone's head. Fighters generally stuck to body shots and tried to chop each other down. That's why you would get 40 round fights that lasted 3 hours. Fucking savage.
@@mjwbulich pure brutality
That is copy of the original lithograph using Silly Putty .
Such an incredibly interesting time in history.
I agree and recommend the original book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gangs_of_New_York_(book)
Yeah if you were white!
Mike Fantasia hey Mike - if you ever get the chance read Tycoon’s War. During the same period after Mexican American war but before revolution. Wild story and well referenced from historic archives.
@@andresmiguel2573 Ok, Karen....
Great historical documentary. Thanks.
Thanks Bryan, hope you like the new content I'm working on.
That was great thanks
The draft riots were also a historical fact depicted in the movie, they were put down by the military.
The American Civil War started in 1861, in the film 'Gangs of New York' drafting for the Civil War was depicted as Irish immigrants were disembarking the ships that brought them over to the USA.
Bill the Butcher died six years before the Civil War started!
@@stevewhite8059 I said nothing about any characters, the draft riots were real and the military utilized to put them down.
@@lonnieweddington2883 Yes, point taken.
Gangs of New York was of course a film not a documentary and it depicted true events, but for obvious narrative reasons, the events weren't necessarily in the correct chronological order. Doesn't matter, it doesn't stop it from being an enjoyable film and it certainly brought that particular era in New York's history to life and to the attention of a modern audience.
Films like this also hopefully prompt more people to become historians, like yourself, and learn more about their past
@@stevewhite8059 You mentioned a character in the movie not mentioned in my comment, and for no apparent reason. I repeated what was in my comment which is a factual event.
5:42 I wouldn’t want to box someone with a left arm like a giraffe’s neck.
Great video.
Great musical sound track.
The movie captured this really well it seems
this was my mothers great grandfather who carried
slapjack & a barber blade in NYC
Damn
why did u thumbs up
those were the only two things
my father let my mother keep
I LOVE THIS MUSIC
Thx that was good
Most patriotic last words 🇺🇲 R.I.P Poole
I actually learned something new
Very interesting,
Most of the footage can now be seen in 3D and in color ;)
Put playback speed to 1.25 you'll notice the difference immediately
Well done
I did a history presentation on William Poole (Bill the butcher) when I was at school! Very underrated piece of history!
Superb, I love that. If only History presentations were as interesting when I was at school.
I remember my dad rented this movie from blockbuster when i was a kid. After he went to work i watched this. Dead 🐇
Thank god I died like a true American. That was a classic quote I ever heard.
Bill the Butcher died like a true American gangster. And he said thank God. I died like a true American. What a classic quote ever. That is why everyone should like Bill the Butcher.
@@richardtaylor1062 in these times right now we should look at him as an inspiration. Thank God I died a true American.
@@angelofdeathmichael673 Well if that is the case China should say thank God I died like a true Chinese. Cause time's like this we all are in it together. But I am not Chinese I am white native American. My mom's dad was white her mom is full blooded native American my dad has native American too. So I must be a white native American person.
@michael french I thought he called himself the Native's. Cause he was Native American.
And why I think Bill the butcher. Let the kid take is life. Maybe he felt bad for the kid. He tooked him under his wing. What the poor dead rabbit bastard do. Acting like a real dead rabbit as a snake he was.
That first portrait of bill.. that’s exactly how I have my hairstyle 😂 knew I had taste.
Interesting video
"New York wasn't a city, it was a furnace where someday a city might be forged."- Amsterdam, Gangs of New York
The book by Herbert asbury (gangs of ny is a fabulous book there’s at least a half a dozen movies in there
Awesome. 🇺🇸
Subscribed... interesting channel
Cheers man glad to have you on board
That’s it. Gotta make this guy a song now.
It's amazing anyone survived that era at all. Constant carnage and murder and the police being totally impotent and currupt.
What's the difference from today? Your Dunning Kruger effect is showing
@@taylorjeremy71 Actually do a quick google search and you will see what is different. America and the world in general is way more peaceful than it was in the past.
he was actually a undercover nyc pd & worked 4 vanderbuilts..
he got a piece of everything came
through long island new york
At that time there really was only one Vanderbilt
Loved the story
Play it at 1.25 and your good to go
Old bill would roll in his grave if he could see America now..👳♂️
"He was a hero of the Bowery, a prince of lawless times,
then was battered by the butcherman in 1849.
He knew the game of fistacuffs he knew the game of might,
but no one knew the men who came and took his life one night."
Les Claypool,
Primus Sucks! 😉
Shut up Flanders
@@lionelhutz5137 Yo, dummy, "Primus sucks" is a badge of honor to the band. Do some research.
Yup
I'm 6 ft tall and 230 lbs lol. I don't think I'm particularly imposing but maybe with a mustache a big trench coat and a tall hat I might be so.
Embarrassingly enough he is an ancestor of mines. I am a Poole of Scotland. We came from Suffolk, Sussex, Lincolnshire and various other parts of the UK. Bill the Butcher is my so many removed grandfather’s Son. Making him one of my uncles. Many of the Poole’s settled around New York, Louisiana and Salt Lake City Utah. Still looking into this more but will keep everyone posted.
Small world :)
why Embarrassingly? he was a badass mofo.
Why is it embarrassing ?
@@jamess2664 He was a pretty messed up guy who did some messed up things.
There's a Scotland tours video that talks about this very subject. We're all related to someone famous.
5:45 that's one helluva left
The Butcher was a real Beast i wish i could've met him, the Natives had alot of heart.
You wanna meet a 19th century xenophobic phychotic killer? Don't think it would go well 😂
While bill the butcher is often credited as being a boxer, his only reported fight was with john morrissey. Morrissey was american champion at the time and poole made him quit
This was not a championship fight and was probably, like the rest of pooles fights a 'rough and tumble' where anything short of weapons were allowed. I have looked and looked but have never found any mention of an organized prize fight for poole. I would say its safe to say all of bill the butchers fights were rough and tumbles
@tony
You will not find any proof of an organized prize fight for any of these as the *Horton law* which legalized prize fighting in New York was not passed until 1896. Most of these folks were long dead before that happened.
@@merccadoosis8847 you mistake 'legal' for 'organized'
Bareknuckle prize fighting was well organized from the middle 1840's on.
Tom hyer vs yankee sullivan was a national event with people coming from as far away as new orleans to new york to watch it
Prize fighting was organized, just not legal
he was a street fighter not a prize fighter boxer ..lol street fighter win everytime
Huh I just thought Gangs of New York was a period piece didn’t realize it was closer to being based off a true story
This was freaking excellent. Thank you for this extremely well put together video.
If you happen to read this I am curious if any bad luck has befallen you after making such a video.
There are some things that seem to draw ill fate in this country since the late forties or early fifties and speaking of the United States' anti-catholic and anti-religion history is one of those things.
another is speaking of the true beliefs of our forefathers the majority of whom were only slave owners on the paper of others and did more than anyone else for their extended families or what most Americans call their slaves these days.
Speaking of our forefathers true abolitionist agenda which what they considered to be a self-evident truth
"all men are created equal"
attest to but our ignorant Church educated populace does not believe today.
Thank you, much appreciated. Cant say I have experienced any ill fate in particular other than being on lockdown with everyone else. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens.
@@CriminalHistory1 thank you and good luck.
screwball psyche good to hear👍🙏 thanks for this really interesting video, and hello from way over in Royal Oak, Michigan👋
@@evanabbott2737 Cheers man, hello from Scotland
The five points or hella kitchen has a wild history.
9171paladin I walked through a few years ago at dawn, it was like Disney :(
It's probably about time I watched this movie again its been around 5 years
Get it watched sir. Classic
Bill was even better in this movie than he was in real life. Never seen a better person than D.D. Lewis to actually become one of those people from way back then. He's the best 👌
So the movie took a lot of liberties. He died before the Civil War. It had that in the movie where they were recruiting to join the Civil War. And he did not die in the street he died in a bar because he got shot while on the ground. That should’ve been in the movie
Daniel Day Lewis has be one the best actors ever.
My Left Foot, In the name of the Father just brilliant acting.
I met him in Roundwood near Bray in Co Wicklow few years back when Rep of Ireland beat Germany 1 nil in the soccer.
Nice man loves Ireland.
I really enjoy the movie.
Of course the time lines are off but who cares, it's a movie.
It certainly seems to capture the feeling of being there.
One of my favorites.👍
Savage!
I thought everyone knew gangs of New York was based on real history.
I know, where the fuck is that coming from
Not so much “based on” as it was “inspired by”.
So here's the true origin of Police vs Firemen rivalry 😁
Cool! Tell me the one about Pecos Bill, too!
Today... we have a dude who identifies as a broad who identifies as a stag that descides what you can or can't say on Twitch.
I hope they invent a timemachine soon.
Aint it the shit???? And the man in charge wants to date his own daughter!!!
In the movie, there is a gang of transvestites. So, nothing much has changed.
Holy shit , At 5:46 the bare knuckle boxer Tom Hyer must have been related to Mr Tickle , check out those arms ..😀😀😀😀
Fire fighters at that time were mainly recruited from gangs and the reason they were paid well "per-fire" was because they would loot the belongings of the burning property after the fire was instantly put out... thus they would be given the moniker of "land pirates"... a terminology used to describe highway men and men who would "Shanghai" other men.
I really enjoyed this, very interesting and I subscribed. Thank you. Can you do the Molly McGuires?
Cheers Priscila, I will look into it.
The term would have been "misfired" instead of "jammed". Back then they didn't have semi-automatic pistols only revolvers... And revolvers don't jam. Thank you for this awesome video it was quite enjoyable!!!
Settle down. Geez
Grammatically correct for the period, however I have experienced my blackpowder revolvers (Colt's 3rd Mdl Dragoon & 1860 Army) cylinders jam on occasion from a brass cap, after firing get wedged between the cylinder & frame as the cylinder rotated. This has also been the occasional experiences of other black powder revolver shooters that I personally know, so I would imagine revolver jams were occasionally experienced during the mid-19th century as well as the more frequent misfires.
Thanks for the buzz kill. Always has to be one i guess
@@dogstarstudios718 the cylinders can also jam up when they get out of time
Ya except that ejector rods could effectively Jam the cylinder against the frame. So Ya they can jam. Typical mope on the internet who knows nothing about firearms.
this wasn't all that long ago... I'm only 42 and I can vividly remember my great grandma who was born in 1893. Her grandparents would've been Bill Poole's contemporaries
Blooming awesome, I wondered if the movie had any truth to it, dig the accent mate
Cheers bro
Great video mate, whats the song you use when u introduce tamany hall its great
"He grew to stand over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds and grew an imposing figure"
Well shit i guess i'm imposing
Shit, probably the average height in those days was 5’3. I’m 6’4 275 lbs. We’d be giants taking over the world!
In those days the average height was a lot shorter than now
@@coraje1388
No it was around 5ft 7.5 inches, so he would be like 6’2 today
Y’all midgets I’m like 7’4”. Tiny weiner though.
Back then people were a lot smaller