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Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic crime drama film[3] directed by Martin Scorsese, set in the New York slums, and inspired by Herbert Asbury’s 1927 non-fiction book The Gangs of New York. The screenplay was written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz.Review Of Gangs of New York (2002) MovieIn the slum neighborhood of Five Points, Manhattan, in 1846, two gangs have engaged in a final battle (or “challenge”) in Paradise Square over “who holds sway over the Five Points”; these two factions participating in this event are the nativist, English Protestant Natives led by William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting, and a group of Irish Catholic immigrants, the “Dead Rabbits”, led by “Priest” Vallon. At the end of this battle, Bill kills Vallon and declares the Dead Rabbits outlawed. Having witnessed this, Vallon’s young son hides the knife that killed his father and is taken to an orphanage on Blackwell’s Island.