1979 Directed by Walter Hill
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Michael Beck James Remar David Patrick Kelly Dorsey Wright David Harris Deborah Van Valkenburgh Brian Tyler Steve James Tom McKitterick Marcelino Sanchez Terry Michos Roger Hill Lynne Thigpen Mercedes Ruehl John Snyder Irwin Keyes Antone Pagán Sonny Landham Thomas G. Waites Johnny Barnes George Lee Miles Paul Greco Iris Klein Tony Clark Robert Townsend Ginny Ortiz Edward Sewer Joel Weiss J.W. Smith Show All…
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The scene on the subway when they're sitting opposite the rich kids is probably the best depiction of a class divide I've ever seen, you know? That pretty much silent scene tells you a million things about this fantasy world, more than hours of plot ever could.
When Swan stops her fixing her hair, silently reassuring her she's got nothing to prove it just gets me man, makes me wanna cry.
How I see myself: A Warrior
How others see me: A Baseball Fury
How I really am: An Orphan.
"Can you dig it?"
Yes, I dig it, but try explaining this film to somebody and it sounds dumb:
"So yeah there's this gang of men that wear vests that were framed into a high gang leader's assassination and now all the gang's are after them as they try to catch the train home. There's a gang that wears black singlets, a gang that wears black singlets with red stripes, a gang of mimes, a gang of baseball players, a gang of men wearing glossy purple shirts, a gang of skinheads in a bus, a gang of people from the movie Grease, a gang of orphans that wear the shittiest clothes, a gang of women in high waisted jeans, a…
The Warriors are a street gang of total badasses. They don't take any shit and they fight with their fists and not guns. When they are framed for the murder of a street legend they must use all their wits to survive the night in this Walter Hill cult classic. The Wonder Wheel. The way the Warriors look in their vests. Purple pimps. Mimes? Cyrus the Prophet. Gangbanger summit. Gun pass. Assassination. Strobe lights. False blame. Power struggle. Graveyard graffiti tagging. Radio message. Boombox. Distant cousins of Baseball Bat Guy from The Raid 2. James Remar's dirty mouth. Five Finger Discount. Lazy eye. The Orphans. Chicken shit. Warrior groupie. Cochise's war bonnet. Vermin's chest hair. Subway smushed. Home run swing.…
sometimes you’re an overalls and rollerskates guy and sometimes you’re a fuckin lizzie
It's worth noting just how gay this really is, fronted by a cast of cartoonish masculine archetypes who are sent on an odyssey through most of New York's major cruising spots -- Central Park, the subway, tearooms, bars, the Coney Island boardwalk -- all while being hunted by leathermen, skinheads, and an assortment of deceitful and burdensome women. Say what you will about Remar's repeated use of 'faggot,' but it's his character's tiringly obnoxious need to flaunt his heterosexuality that causes his downfall.
Can't wait for the upcoming remake about a group of DSA organizers trying to escape the new Amazon facility!
Hey there boppers…
Rewatched partly because of the obvious influence on John Wick 4, but didn’t realize the degree of the influence until last night. I don’t blame Stahelski & Co, The Warriors was one of the coolest movies I watched in my youth and continues to live rent free in my brain a decade later.
I hope they never remake this, but let’s be honest, it’s only a matter of time.
Dystopian West Side Story without the musical numbers.
The Warriors aren't "warriors" (nothing about a red vest represents "warriors") as much as adolescent symbols of macho masculinity (bare-chested boys pretending to be men). Childish male wish fulfillment of a fantasy world without parents that sympathizes with its often unsympathetic juveniles even as they get distracted by every hormonal impulse from vandalism to womanizing.
More successful as an Escape from New York prequel than an allegory for international politics; the "turf" metaphor functions instead as a blanket signifier for community and family ("getting home"). Triumph of style in production design (costume) and editing (cartoonish transitions even without Director’s Cut add-ons).
Junesploitation: Day 24 – Teenagers!
The Warriors” kicks the “West Side” operatics out of street gangs, and allows them to self-stylize with their own type of sharpened theatricality.
Walter Hill’s film takes inspiration from classical epics and comic books to tell its one night tale of a hundred tough guys. The titular group must make a voyage across New York from the Bronx to Coney Island - with every baddie in every borough on their trail.
But none of them - quite so Bad as the Warriors themselves.
In an era where it was neigh impossible to walk a block of New York without crunching over a spent heroin needle, Hill presents a version of the city that is both fantastical and hyper realistic. Face…
