Gangs of New York (2002)

Henry Thomas: Johnny Sirocco

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• Johnny Sirocco : It's not a matter of words, I can tell by the way she smiles at me.

  Amsterdam Vallon : Well, she smiles at a lot of people, John.

• Johnny Sirocco : Jenny, finest bludget in all the Points.

  Amsterdam Vallon : She is a prim looking star gazer! But I'd check my pockets if I was you. Because I do believe she lifted your time piece.

  Johnny Sirocco : [looks in his coat]  Well, I let her take it. I let here take things all the time.

  Amsterdam Vallon : Is that right?

• Johnny Sirocco : The Five Points. Paradise square! The streets here are always livelier in the evening.

  Amsterdam Vallon : Who are the gangs around now?

  Johnny Sirocco : We got the Daybreak boys and the Swamp Angels. They work the River Luton ships. The Frog Haulers shanghai sailors down around the bloody angle. Shortails were rough for awhile, but they became a bunch of jackrolling dandies. Lolling around Murderer's Alley looking like Chinamen. Hellcat Maggie she tried to open up her own grog shop. But she drunk up all her own liquor and got thrown out on the street. Now she's on the lay for anything. There's the Plug Uglies, they're from somewhere in the old country. They got their own language. No one understands what they're saying. They love to fight the cops. And the Nightwalkers and Ratpickers. They work on their backs and kill with their hands. They're so scurvy, only the Plug Uglies will talk with them. But who knows what they're saying. The Slaughterhouses and the Broadway Twisters are a fine bunch of Bengal boys! And the little Forty Thieves. I used to run with them for a while. Till they got taken over by Benjer the Cockroach and his red eyed buggers. Benjer carry's a germ. If you try to leave the gang, they say he hacks up blood off you... The True Blue Americans call themselves a gang; but, all they really do is stand around on corners damning England...

  Amsterdam Vallon : Anything about the sand of the Dead Rabbits?

  Johnny Sirocco : You don't say that name. That name died with your... They been outlawed.

  Amsterdam Vallon : When I was in the blockhouse, the chinks told me that the Natives celebrate their victory every year. Is that true?

  Johnny Sirocco : Aye, that they do.