The Warriors Is A Controversial Cult Classic


Walter Hill’s The Warriors is one of those movies that’s quickly becoming more and more of a cult classic. You know how Scarface is a big movie for rappers? The Warriors is well on its way to replacing it in the hip hop community. It belongs on any list of must see action movie downloads for the way that it creates its own world, mixing the fifties, the seventies, sci-fi, and Greek legend.

The film focuses on The Warriors, a street gang in a slightly futuristic New York City. They receive a call to come listen to Cyrus, the leader of the city’s largest gang, the Riffs, as he speaks of unity and brotherhood amongst the gangs in hopes of achieving no less than taking over the entire city and taxing the cops, the mafia, and everyone in between.

Unfortunately, some crazy fool shoots Cyrus for no good reason, and pins it on The Warriors. So now the Warriors are running across New York City, trying to get back to Coney Island, marching through miles and miles of hostile territory. They flee from rival gangs and cops as they attempt to get home to safety, to their own turf.

It deserves comparison to Martin Scorsese’s After Hours for the way that it really just leads its characters from one screwy situation to the next, although the focus in this film is on action. The action, by the way, is really something. Each fight scene is modeled after a different genre, so you have a samurai battle in one scene and a horror scene in the next.

The style of the movie is really great. You’ve never seen street gangs like these guys, they wear insane costumes and use themes like baseball teams and mimes and roller skates to focus their gangs around. The fact that the film takes place in “the near future” gives Walter Hill a lot of license to get away with whatever crazy style he wants.

The music really helps to drive the film, too. The entire film is sort of guided by the radio DJ who speaks to the street gangs mysteriously over the airwaves, playing songs to send direct messages to the various gangs on the streets, and providing a narrative voice as the story unfolds over the course of the film.

The film was based on a novel of the same name, but the two stories are really quite different. Where the Warriors in the book are more amoral, more violent and ruthless, they’re actually played as heroes in the film. Similarly, while the book paints gang life in an unflattering light, the fantasy feel of the movie justifies a sort of heroic, action movie angle to the proceedings.

There’s a remake in the works, but… We can’t really say we expect it to hold a candle to the original. Without Walter Hill attached to direct, what’s the point of another Warrior movie?

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