Gangs of New York, A Film Analysis :: Film

street arab the bumbler was the ideal bad guy for a movie. He was a tenacious individual who would not change his focuss of thinking for anyone. If you came off a boat and tried to settle in the United States you were automatically hate by Mr. Cutting. Bill was a tall man, very skinny, and he had abundant hair with a matching mustache. Bill and his party believed that the only just people to have jobs, families, and make money were people who were born in the U.S., not immigrants. Women and children are not even spared by Bill and his low party. They hatred for the immigrants was so strong that they would shout profanities at them or retch rocks at them when they unloaded from the massive ships. At times they would beat an immigrant bordering to death just because they looked at them the wrong way. Cuttings father installed these beliefs into him, Bills father was killed in a gang war with the immigrants and he would never live that down. The way the immigrants were treated by some of the townspeople made some of the immigrants start very poor. Shop keepers and other store owners would not hire immigrants generally because they did not like them and secondly that they did not want to upset Bill and his gang. Immigrants would soon leave New York and look for an easier life but close remained behind and lived in the side streets to fend for food with the rats. This is where thievery came in. Since some of the immigrants were poor they had to learn to buy to survive. Pick-Pocketing became the most famous means to steal in the streets of New York. The immigrants who would come off of the boats had no idea what was in store for them as they unloaded their boat. The immigrants were friendly people for the most part, they were not looking for a fight in America just a new start to their life.