Finally, to games facts, the journalists have been admitted on the set, among the old beer house heart of the play and the suggestive Chinese pagoda of the Five Points of which already very is told tales, but it looks like to star absent. Taken between last resumptions and retouches, Scorsese would be limited to a brief regard. The plot of the film, however, is what it notices: in the New York of end Eight hundred, Irish gang and they are not faced to the last blood, while the racial tension is to the stars. Liam Neeson, father of Of Caprio, Amsterdam Vallon, dies alias by the merciless Day - Lewis. For the whole film, Leo looks for the revenge and contends to the it retaliates love of the beautiful prostitute and thief Jenny/Cameron.

Then, as the whole great sets, also Gangs of New York has built, still before the film, his legend made of scoop and anticipations "stolen." Among the strangest gossips, the search of the ugliest man of the world (Scorsese wanted a bad from the special face) that you/he/she is concluded with the enlistment of Mr. Phil Kirk, technician of cables for the tv regularly affiliate to the Ugly Agency and embarked on the first airplane for Rome, where it attended him/it a check of 18 million liras and a full immersion in the magic world of the cinema.

The Big Apple of two centuries ago reconstructed for thread and for sign by our Dante Ferretti, (laws the interview on tamtam). Included Docks. Otherwise the swimming pool of Cinecittà to that it would serve?

It is a little bit sad certainly to think, that " all these things will end, as tears in the rain." 50mila meters you square of set, perhaps the greatest of the world, surely one of the most impressive, to get off and to destroy. Stradine and vicoletti of red bricks, local smoky, the suggestive Paradise Square, a New York sottocasa to which Ferretti has to say goodbye. "I don't know if I/you/he/she were this my more beautiful job, but of a thing I am certain, you/he/she has been the most binding" it reveals scenografo: a whole world in which everything, also what seems wood, it is made in Cinecittà and of vetroresina. But the explosion that will put word " end " to the film will facilitate the job to the maestranzes of the Tuscolana. It is tonight, cast, troupe and guests of luxury they will toast among the rubbles. This way, the end officially has been slid from Friday 13 to Saturday 14: Scorsese is not immune from a pinch of italoamericana superstition, and he wants to be allowed a few more takes inside with DiCaprio.

And then? "All in synagogue to pray that I/you/he/she am a success", Harvey Weinstein jokes, magnate of the Miramax, and manufacturing of the film. The success of Gangs, at least in Italy, it is almost announced: the Fox, that initially him you/he/she was refused to produce the film, you/he/she is fallen to make sure the Italian distribution, that Initial Entertainment Group is refused to surrender up to the last one, really to throw on the price and behavior the bargain. But Gangs will have to be a phenomenon of cult, to the Titanic - Leo refer us the miracle! - to repay the expenses of production: 270 billion liras the declared budget to the press, very taller, probably, the real costs. Then good luck and talk to you soon, Martin.

Scorsese: last takes, then the magic of Lucas
from the Corriere Della Sera newspaper, April 12 2001
Giovanna Grassi

To elegant Cinecittà of the resumptions of «Gangs of New York». «The special effects will complete the film» Rome - «For all of my life I have dreamt to turn a Cinecittà film and, finally, with" Gangs of New York", I have succeeded there. Thanks», Martin Scorsese says, going out of a house of red bricks of the «his» 1846 New York reconstructed to Cinecittà on an immense piece of ground of ground. «But the film - the director adds - it is developed only in the prologue in the '46, because it begins with a flashback, then the action has been ambientata since 1860 to 1863. My film on the past, in America that started to open the doors to the world, it faces, in controluce, contemporary themes, for instance the racism against the new minorities. The beer house dormitory where families of the Irishmen were camped they are not very different from the places of the world where today the immigrants of the Third World arrive». In the three years of the arc of the history and on 50 thousand square meters - in the Chinese pagoda, in the harbor of New York where they are moored in the left wing of our establishments two ancient velieris («I am clippers and they brought the immigrants to New York. In a scene of initial mass, thousand of appearances go down from one of them», Martin says), in the barber shop, in the ancient bricks houses, in a blackened construction and disemboweled from an explosion and with the writing «Apartments to let», on the stairs of a Catholic-Irish church called by the director «Saint Thomas» in honor of his friend Tom Cruise that had come to Rome to find him, in the abandoned beer house where the Irishmen more poor men were camped, in the saloon, in a ring of boxing and in another for the bets on the struggles among animals - whole history of an is unwound already legendary film and that it will go out to Christmas on the American screens distributed by the 20th Century Fox and, probably, in concomitance also in Italy.

«The workmanship - Scorsese explains - it will now continue, only for the part of the special effects, to San Francisco where the" Industrial Light & Magic" of George Lucas provvederà to introduce with the computer in many of our sets pannings and backdrops in the New York of epoch, the stern of a clipper, the colors of the sky of the East Coast. I repeat, there are no Italian in the history: the whole circumstance of struggles and loves and racial conflicts and also religious, to tell the birth of America and his melting pot or rather the racial crogiuolo from which my Country was born, is developed among the first nucleuses of immigrants, that native-Americans were considered even if American of first generation, some group of anglo-Americans Protestants and the new Irish immigrants. I am there, rather, groups of Chinese, that already managed different places».

For the first official visit, considering that tomorrow the workmanship will be concluded, Harvey Weinstein arrives, the boss of the Miramax that has produced the film «costs few more than 90 million dollars» (over 180 billion liras) and its Italian right arm, Fabrizio Lombardo, while the scenografo Dante Ferretti (that with Scorsese he has realized «The age of the innocence», «Country house», «Kundun» and «Á. the of there of the life») and the responsible of the you furnish, Francescas It Enslaved, illustrate scenes with over thousand appearances, a resumption in the Irish district, that is radiated around Paradise Square, completely covered with snow, a factory for which have been necessary 400 meters wood cubes, the fumeria of opium, the lofts with writings as «Saloon & Spoortsmans Hall» and others wrong «the analfabetizzazione induced to errors: we have respected them».

Daniel Day Lewis, the Irishman against which struggle Leonardo DiCaprio, to which a rival clan has killed his father (the actor Liam Neeson), he has departed; Leonardo will actually stay to Saturday. Cameron Diaz has gone of which DiCaprio is enamored, Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Gary Lewis seen in «Billy Elliot»... Although all men, Scorsese says that «the female figures are numerous. In the Chinese pagoda there are great cages of rope that hang from the tall one: the women were exposed in those baskets and choices. They are satisfied indeed some screen-play also written by Kenneth Lonergan, the director of" You Khan count on me", that I have produced».

What will it happen of the New York of Cinecittà? Weinstein and Lombardo declare that you/he/she has been required from «a park to theme». «I would like that it stayed here - Scorsese whispers -. Studious of the memory of the cinema, I have gone to seek the insides and the objects of the films of Fellini, Viscounts, Bertolucci, Leo, authors that I love. The strongest roots of the films are not canceled, even if the sets are dispersed». From KatawebCinema, April 12

Gangs of New York, Scorsese returns home Cinecittà is finished to the resumptions of the kolossal with DiCaprio and it is finally opened to it is impressed her/it doors of the thin set until now inaccessible. Here thing we have seen of Alexander Pies And when the camcorders are finally to be extinguished and secret in the custodies, the armored set of Gangs of New York (ours special from the set) it is opened for a few times to the curiosity of the media and it grants some transient foreshortening that work from anticipation to one of the films more chiaccheratis of the last years. In the night between Wednesday and Thursday he has ended in fact principal resumptions of the film and particularly the outside turned in the prodigious reconstruction of the Paradise Square of the district Five Points in Manhattan that Dante Ferretti has realized in the southern area of the establishments of Cinecittà. And immediately left again Daniel Day Lewis, one of the protagonists of the film, while they are being still to Rome Leonardo DiCaprio and Scorsese to realize (up to Saturday) the last links of the scenes in inside. E' the same Dante Ferretti to proudly serve as guide on that sets that for months has severely been off limits to the indiscreet looks and to whose preparation is working since April of 99, with over six months made him necessary for its real construction.

The first one covers it is therefore really the famous plaza theater of the clashes among the rival gangs, the Irishmen led by DiCaprio and the native Americans to the orders of Day Lewis. That that is introduced to the eyes is a reconstruction of unbelievable realism (and all to natural greatness) of the rough architecture in wood and red bricks in the New York half Eight hundred (the film is ambientato between 1846 and 1863, year of the battle of Gettysburg that gave the turn to the Civil War), for how much totally devastated by the " cannonades " that they evidently represent the violent epilogue of the circumstance. Then it is passed to the" Harbor of New York", another usable foreshortening to 360 degrees (whose principal backdrop is a blue - screen on which the images of Brooklyn and the sea will be projected) with two almost complete vessels of the length of 40 meters the one, the greatest of which gifted also of a movement before - back thanks to a platform systematized sott'acqua.

Finally the insides: the Chinese Pagoda, operational base of the gang of DiCaprio, a circular place to more plans in which the arredatoris driven by Francesca Him Enslaved have made a true masterpiece of reconstruction remodeling in vetroresina the maniacal furnishing of a space that contemporarily acted from saloon, brothel and fumeria of opium. Then the Santan's Circus, the dark cafe - butchery where the followers of Day Lewis were assembled. And the Factory of Beer, reconstruction of a building really existed in the New York of the epoch and that - a little bit as the old pastificio of the Pantanella in the Rome years Ninety - it worked from first shelter for the Irish immigrants just disembarked to New York, to which was allowed to lodge in this crumbling beehive and blackened by the soot. Broadway or the elegant and bourgeois street, inserted finally in the same space of Cinecittà that has already entertained the Roman street of disloyal Competition of it Drains, of which traces the structure (with particular architectural naturally different). Also in this case the avenue is closed by a blue screen that will allow to simulate its boundless length.

General development of the set: 50mila square meters. Weeks of delay in the closing of the operations: 6. Money spent for bringing after all the film": a little bit more than 90 million dollars" confirmation Ferretti. But to Harvey Weinstein, the boss of the Miramax that has paid for everything, seems a great deal money well spent: "Gangs of New York will be the great event of the Christmas to the cinema. It will put well in clear the difference between the Miramax and the other studios. A matter of class." Martin Scorsese doesn't comment: it is limited to a smile, a handshake and it doesn't go over a small sign on his narrative intentions": I have wanted to tell as America was born."