Well, many villains think they're doing the right thing.

Villain?

God bless billy b if only he could have won

" This is you, right here. Knotch 45"

@@Merjedmedia A religious fool of a villain.

Agreed, iv watched his movies so many times its amazing how he is completely his role

Yet he didn’t win the Oscar...ridiculous

He's really good to bad he retired

Absolutely. I first saw him act inMY LEFT FOOT and he nailed it! I’d love to see him in Lincoln. Can you imagine, I haven’t seen the movie yet but this just reminds me that I need to. Love his acting 🎭!!!

Agreed 100%

Or, he could just be saying that for the sake of the crowd. A point not often touched upon is Bill's evident narcissistic vanity in his clothes and public image, and the whole "patriotism" thing may just be an element of that.

@@imcallingjapan2178 well... Having a highly personalized or eclectic sense of style when one can afford it is hardly a sign of narcissism by itself. As far as crowd pleasing it would've made a bigger statement to just kill him. I definitely think he meant to leave him alive both as a shame thing as well as out of respect for Priest Vallon. As far as politics go, mass migration has always bred problems. It had more to do with national identity and culture than anything else. See views on the Hessians, Irish, Italians, and Chinese during the immigration years. Similarly colonization of Africa, subdivisions of China (Han and Mongol etc), Western influence in Japan, it's universal. Every culture has a reflex to retain integrity and region of control. Any that doesn't destroys itself within dozens of years. Again, see post Meiji Japan, Rome, and increasingly the US. Integration and assimilation are key to successful immigration and that's impossible on large scales.

@@johnquick9409 If you think Bill understood any of that, you're kiddng yourself. He couldn't even read. He just had literally nothing to motivate or provide meaning in his life, so he chose something that suited him and his anger and devoted himself to that. And respect for Priest Vallon? Lol, right. When he sent John C. Reilly to shoot Amsterdam, there's your "respect." And I meant his entire show of "patriotism" and his image was narcissistic in nature. He wanted everyone to view him a certain way, and he justified every heinous action to himself with the constant charade of "foreign hordes defiling" the wretched rathole that was his entire world from birth to death.

@@johnquick9409 well said.

@@johnquick9409 Rome at least successfully integrated dozens of cultures into their empire over hundreds and hundreds of years and a vast swathe of territory. If anything they showed that integration on a mass scale is absolutely possible and beneficial. The eventually sacking and downfall of Rome was because they DIDN'T try and integrate the later Germanic groups but instead hired them enmass as mercenaries, often in the civil wars. Rome was bought down by many factors but the biggest was probably the malfeasance of the Roman elite and the lengths they would go to to secure power, including actions that damaged the state that they were fighting over.

You mean the protagonist from Shark Tale?

@@ruffalo1643 Who lies and lies his way to riches?

Well said. Lewis is a JOY to watch, and his many iterations of complex characters always leaves one with a fresh surprise and a new appreciation.

I loved him in Crucible and Last of the Mohicans.

@@goldilox369 For me it's this and There Will Be Blood. But he really is always phenomenal in his roles and I have absolutely no gripes about your picks as they are both beyond top tier as well lol He really just does have an insane body of work/performances!

@@trautsj IVE ABANDONED MY SON!! Yeah, There Will Be Blood is def my top 3 movies ever. And its mostly because of his portrayal. I havent seen the movie in this video though yet so im interested to see how it squares up to TWBB

He is an incredible actor.

That would be awesome!!

That one would be truly interesting

Or johan liebert from monster, or funny valentine, pucci, kira, dio, tooru, diavolo from jojo!

needs to be done

And Dio and Maybe Cell

The best villains always see themselves as heroes and have moments of humanity you can feel some connection with.

Yeah, and totally play it straight.

At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking! I suggest you try it.

...'hence the name, Gold member.'

this would be an excellent april fools video!!

@@cougarhunter33 is the summers we would make meat helmets.....

Well said.

That’s your personal opinion, and it says more about you than you think.

Day-Lewis’ roles almost always outshine the films he is in. His Bill the Butcher was more of a scenery chewing role than the usual craftsman-like character studies that the actor plays.

@@kramalerav He really does dominate every movie he's part of.

True bro.. This is my top 5 favorite characters ever to have graced the cinema.

I came to this film late, and this episode of Analyzing Evil misses the mark for me. Bill is actually a man who commits morally questionable acts in service to keeping his nation the way it is from an invading religiously-differing people. Nations clashing over land and resources is natural and isn't something you will "fix".

hero

@@forceghostburtreynolds7597 He wasn't a Hero, he was racist hypocrite

@@bluetrailerproductions7488 Racist? No more than anyone else in those days, A hypocrite? I guess in a way but hierocracy isn't always wrong or necessarily a bad thing.

@@berjastkjuklingur1914 He Treated black people and The Irish unfairly. He even made a sick joke saying he would use guns to shoot them before they step on land. That's not a Hero, that's a sick person. Hypocrisy is wrong. You can't do something bad and be pissed off at someone who's doing the same thing and think they are wrong for that. Catching my Drift or am I being Obtuse

@@forceghostburtreynolds7597 You clearly live down South.

There will be blood holds a much better performance in my opinion

Mee too I was soo happy

Humanity at its best.

I think Daniel Day-Lewis is an awesome actor.

Has he ever had a bad role tho or not been at his best? Not being argumentative I just can't think of a bad role or movie from him is all.

Honestly, I didn't care much for the movie, but I've watched it 3 times because of Bill.

I agree, I love the movie and it was the first Scorsese film I saw as a teenager. I must admit it isn't a top Scorsese for me anymore. There's about an hour that could be trimmed out, especially the romance.

@@xax888servo7 Many of Scorsese’s films are hit-or-miss in one way or another. Everyone had such high hopes for ‘The Aviator’, which was a great film. I personally would have chosen ‘Sideways’ for Best Picture that year, but The Academy has a soft spot for Clint Eastwood. It amazed me that this film didn’t win a single Oscar. I thought it was a shoe-in for Best Cinematography, but that went to ‘Road to Perdition.’ I do suspect that Scorsese lost to Roman Polanski (The Pianist) because of the subject matter, which always goes over well with The Academy.

@@chamberofprogress5025 When Scorsese won his first Oscar for The Departed, he described it as his first film with a plot. Now that isn't entirely true (Cape Fear is a pretty straightforward thriller), but his films do have a tendency to have a very loose plot structure. People don't seem to mind that for a crime epic like Goodfellas or a biopic like Raging Bull or The Aviator, but in Gangs of New York, which on the surface is a simple revenge tale, it's a bit more noticeable.

Every darn review of this film is of it’s historical inaccuracies. As a piece of artwork it’s one of the most amazing films of the 21st century.

Indeed a intelligent man🧐

Yes

Excellent point, and we view this from a contemporary perspective. At one point much of his beliefs wouldn't have been considered so immoral or shocking in any way either. I think he is a fascinating and complex character who is played to perfection by DDL. One of the most memorable characters of all times on the big screen.

Good point.

Thats a good point. Cultural relativism is super important, especially when considering the character of someone's beliefs or actions. None of us today can imagine what your mental state would be like growing up in 19th century urban poverty. Although its never good obviously, you had to be a literal saint to not get corrupted by Victorian slum life

Comparably as odious as the Warden from Shawshank. He's like that boss that's smart enough to lie to your face, even in private, having both of you knowing the truth.

I've been hoping for Colonel Jessup for a while now.

You want that video? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE VIDEO.

@@RCAvhstape Did you request this video to be made... DID YOU _REQUEST_ THIS VIDEO TO BE MADE?!

@@canadbpolis I eat breakfast 300 yards from men trained to make videos. So don't think you can come down here, and make me nervous.

You don't watch it on a yearly basis?

@@iHawke lol, I can't say that I do But uh, I now have it on my to-own list then perhaps I will :D

I could not agree with this more!!!!! Fletcher from Whiplash is brilliant!!!

@@mrbrandoncole1 I'm really hoping we get a video for him. He deserves one for sure! [:

For reallll bro

There's not much to analyze. It would be a short video. Besides, Wild Bill was more of a main antagonist, but there's not much to analyze there either.

Ugh, dunno if I could stand that greasy mug looking at me again

Eegads...

I agree. I think alot of villains in real life are morally grey and that's what makes movie villains like Bill interesting. Not just somebody doing evil for evil's sake.

Anyone can play the Devil, but not everyone can play a fallen angel.

Its because they are far more common in real life. To use the idea of old westerns where good guys wear white hats and bad guys wear black, in real life there are no black hats and white hats. We all wear varying shades of grey.

Depends on who's doing the redeeming though don't it? My family is Irish Catholic and my 4th great grandparents immigrated to NYC in 1846 barely a year after the famine started. So they were around during all this and to those like myself there isn't a true redeeming to the butcher

@@BmoreCelt Nobody cares.

You got your wish, was just uploaded today.

Got your wish a year later

being a xenophobic hypocrite is absolutely unhinged

You don't think a man who has no qualms with killing people to get what he wants isn't unhinged?

@@Rawker101 no People misunderstand the concepts behind “crazy” and “unhinged” as acts that are harmful, bad, cause death etc The methodology (or lack of) is what makes something unhinged NOT the severity of the act There is a clear and linear logic to Bill’s acts. He responds to stimuli in a predictable manor. He does not meander in his speech and articulated his reasoning clearly and repeatedly His acts may be reprehensible but this in no way makes him unhinged. They are not the same

@@KrypticAsylum ok libtard

This is his own movie 🤣

I assumed what this person was trying to imply, that he will be the main character - his upbringing, his experiences that shape and molded him to be who he was in his present time of being established as a force to be reckon with. Mostly the first person view of such actions. Well pretty much how we seen Leo's character coming to age and after. That what was being implied.

Throw sam Elliott and Michael Shannon in there if you will. And Christian Bale as far as method/character role playing goes.

Also Vincent d'onofrio

God I hope so

He was Catholicism will take Amerika

Haha yea I understand

Would so love to see a video on Errol Childress or the whole family!

@@alliezenonos yeah they were those kind of people that were strait out of the darker parts of the abyss. I'd like to add 2 others to that list as an honorable mention... Al Swerengen and Rust Chole. Just because they're both interesting characters.

Bill the Butcher: Native Native Americans: Not Native?

@@bribriarwhitey7781 The indigenous peoples didn't call themselves or even have a concept of what America was ( Early on anyways). To be American in those days was to be apart of the founding stock of people from Northern Europe the same people who created the Nation and gave it its name.

@@bribriarwhitey7781 How can you be native to country that doesn't exist yet?

Yes absolutely

HUMAN WORK

Koba also views apes that don't know sign language and apes who aren't as developed as he is as inferior

Ironic he holds the exact same views as the people he despise.

They were treated according to their actions.

@@gabreshaa8234 🙄

@@gabreshaa8234 dafuq? getting off a boat?

and today their decendants are being asked to pay reparations for the crime of having the same color of skin as some slave owners...which is somehow not just as racist.

At least the Irish integrated after a while and are basically American in the broader sense. Im black and even though black people have been here for 400 years its been a hassle for them (us) to integrate

The hatred of the Irish was more related to religious bigotry,combined with inherited hostility towards the Irish inherited from the English, more than anything else. It was not that the Irish were immigrants or poor. At the same time of the great Irish migrations, huge numbers of Germans also migrated to the US, by the Germans were mostly Protestants. Crime was already rampant in the major American cities before the Irish came. Irish street gangs increased street crime to a huge degree, but after the first 1-2 decades since Irish gangs came into existence, Irish gangs mostly preyed on their fellow Irishmen. The Irish worked incredibly hard at the docks and at construction sites. They lowered wages, but also contributed mightily to the economic growth of New England. And then they fought as soldiers in huge numbers, mostly for the Union. The Irish were after the Germans, the second largest ethnic group in the Union Army. So, the Irish contributed immensely to the United States and were given relatively little in return. What the Irish learned however, was that power is not given. It is taken. Using the political power of the Irish gangs to gather votes for politicians is what ultimately made them rise in economic, political and cultural standing.

@@carbinepeepoo I think that's largely thanks to cynical "politicizing" of race, division continues to run rife because of a select few groups.

Wow... That's just stupid dog. I'm sorry but bill just an insane bigot I don't understand how you can sympathize with literally anything he does.

@@thabomuso6254 the Irish were targeted for their Irishness. That's why our language and culture was outlawed

So you read wikipedia too...? Solid research, bro.

He was definitely a racist too. He made racist comments about black people on several occasions, even calling black people racial slurs, was pro-Confederacy and pro-slavery. The Know-Nothing Party he was a prominent member of was explicitly pro-slavery as the signs they held up made clear. They were anti-Lincoln and pro-Jefferson Davis.

Also, at that time the Irish were not seen as white people. As hard as that can be for many modern Americans to wrap their minds around, in the 1600s through the mid 1900s the Irish were not seen as white people in the US. Initially only white Americans of Anglo descent were viewed as "white". Benjamin Franklin even described Germans as "swarthy" in his personal diaries. By the 1800s the definition of "white" stretched to include Germans by defining white as "Anglo-Saxon". But Italians, Greeks, Irish, Scottish, Spaniards, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarians, Russians, Ukrainians, and Ashkenazi Jews were not viewed as "white" in the US until WWII and the 1950s afterwards.

So much that's wrong about this comment.

No you don't.

Either fight and become a xenophobic racist or just roll over and accept...well what we have today.

I'm going to assume you don't mean the shitty xenophobia and more just the feeling of powerlessness

@@SquishyEggo You mean, a multicultural society? The term “nativist” is misused in the US, as it implies that white people are native to this country, when in fact they are the descendants of immigrants.

@@gregbors8364 Same thing happening to America is happening to europe though, who are the natives there

You're talking about the Civil War? How is wanting to own people as property and fighting to preserve that right not evil??

@Michael Howell That's right.

@@Lgbtfortnite Slavery existed throughout world history (and still exists in Africa). All races have been slaves, including millions of whites. If the existence of slavery justified the North's crushing of "evil" Southerners - despite slavery having not been forbidden by the Constitution - then the crushing of the indians was equally justified after the war by the same men who destroyed the South; but of course, they're praised as saints for the former, yet damned for the latter by the indoctrinated.

@@hookstomper7322 the chattel slavery of the americas cannot be compared to any other slavery. The amount of people enslaved and transported during this time period dwarfs the other systems of slavery. You can keep your whataboutism and revisionism. Keep licking the southern boot and trying to rewrite history.

@@thefirebreathingleftist8648 Brazil had way more slaves than the US

He was the new sherriff, not the mayor. I agree, it was a good example of how his so-called honor was negotiable.

He did lay down the challenge first. Monk had every reason to know that he was just called out by a killer who fights to the death, as Monk also did by the 44 notches in his club. It was brutal for sure. I believe Bill would've preferred a more sporting combat between warriors, but in the end he butchered him because in Bill's eyes Monk was acting like a domesticated cow.

@@fighterck6241 another great actor Brenden Gleeson

@@truckermike5853 Eh, I doubt that he was really there to fight. He was in an elegant suit with a top hat so he really intended to kill Monk without him looking. And he had it his way when Monk turned his back.

@@melvinbigsmokeharris7640 And in the opening scene, he walked out to face Priest's gang dressed pretty much the same before he took off the coat and his crew all threw their hats in the air before the charge. He's a stylish dude. Doesn't mean he's not always ready with a dozen knives and a cleaver on his belt.

I think so too. You seem alright man, we should hang out.

As I got older I became a racist. Cool

@@cm9241 racist? Lol why don't you go wash some black peoples feet then so you can fit in since your soooooooo not racist.

@@inflixi187 Tell us more about your fantasies.

@@cm9241 you got pink hair goofy

Why would you want to understand him?

Idk, being the Anti-Christ is pretty much the sum of his character and motivations.

@@Geezer-yf8hv My thought is, is he really evil if that's what he was born to do? Was there ever a choice? Also, possible spoiler, in Damien: Omen 2 we see that he didn't know and is very distraught and conflicted at first. So there are some things worth touching on in my opinion.

@@shadowulfhedinn8261 If you follow the Christian view, he is definitely evil by definition, whether he chose to, or not. He is what he is, and can never be turned “good”. He had relationships and “friends” and followers, but they mean nothing to him at the end. He has lived his entire life in human form, so he probable did have some conflicts. Even as a child though, he seemed to have no regrets seeing those who loved him being killed off, because they threatened the long term goals. In a secular/Godless world, he may not be seen as evil; rather a great leader. Loved and revered. That says more about the evil in humanity rather the the evil of Damien.