[PEN-L:33462] Re: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latestfilm

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> At 2:33 AM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> >I'd say the best thing about the movie from the standpoint
> >of how it would strike a politically untutored person is that
> >it raises a million questions.
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> Well said.

One point about the film I haven't seen mentioned: and one doesn't have
to see the film to make it. Say that you had not heard of the film
before and just heard the title. What would be your first thought in
response to the phrase "gangs of New York" in 2002? And of course that
first thought is tipped upside down the minute you learn about the film
at all.

Carrol