Similarities And Differences In The Gangs Of Far And Away

Gangs of New York and Far and Away This quarter, we watched two movies, The Gangs of New York and Far and Away. These two movies had a lot of similarities but also had some differences. The similarities and differences include characters, setting, and plot. The first connections of both movies are in the characters. Similarities between the movies include the following. Both Far and Away and The Gangs of New York have an Irish man who is in New York. The two men are Joseph Donnelly (Far and Away) and Amsterdam Vallon (The Gangs of New York). In both the movies they have women that accompanying them, Jenny Everdeen (The Gangs of New York) and Shannon Christie (Far and Away). Another similarity between the movies is that the main character’s fathers died. In Far and Away, Joseph’s father died from the landlords and Amsterdam’s father died from Bill The Butcher. There are also a lot of differences between the characters. In Far and Away Joseph lived in Ireland and wanted to move to America to get land and to make money while in The Gangs of New York, he was in America because his father moved there from Ireland during the potato famine. Also …show more content…
The similarities between the settings of both movies are as follows. The first similarity is that both movies take place in New York for a little while. They also are around the same time in history. They also have to deal with Ireland in some way. Even though there are similarities with the movies there are also differences between the settings. The beginning of Far and Away starts in Ireland while in The Gangs of New York the movie starts off in New York. Another difference between the settings are that The Gangs of New York ends in New York while Far and Away ends in Oklahoma. The last difference between the settings are that in Far and Away it skips 8 months into the future while in The Gangs of New York it skips first 18 years into the future then 4 months into the