The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)
by Walter Hill
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Actor: Brian Tyler, David Harris, Dorsey Wright, James Remar, Michael BeckDirector: Walter Hill
Brand: BECK,MICHAEL
Writer: Walter Hill
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Freeman A. Davies
Producer: Joel Silver
Producer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: David Shaber
Writer: Sol Yurick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, Director's Cut, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)
Movie Review: We're goin' in like everybody else - 9 guys no weapons
Summary: 5 Stars
I can understand some of the complaints about the director's cut using campy comic book scenes in breaking up sections of the film - but as the Director states in the film - this version is closer to the novel and closer to to the director's vision. The film is very accurate in portraying New York City gangs in the late 1970's - but the film's plot and portrayal crosses the line into a pure comic book world in several areas - hence I think the comic scenes are OK.
This is one trippy film. I was born in the 1970's in a lower middle class part of New York City and I can just remember gangs roaming around like the ones depicted in the film. You can really see how the American diet has changed over the years because everyone in this film is skinny as a rail and lean. You could not create a film now and recreate the 1970's anymore because even if you made up accurate film sets - americans really do not look the same anymore. (Spike Lee did a good job in 'Summer of Sam' but its still not close).
I put this film on and I think of myself and my family over 30 years ago. The film drags you in when the subway picks up the Warriors in Coney - seeing the old Wonder Wheel lit up - ahhh. The music is great as the Warriors rocket through the subway tunnels up the Bronx and we hear the names of some great gangs like 'The Van Cortland Rangers' all dressed in camaflouge. (Van Cortland park in the northern Bronx has large swaths of woods). Back in the 1970's gangs still had some type of Honor Code and some education - for instance, the gang members uses the word 'conclave' to describe the meeting called by Cyrus. Gangs were able to send emissary's into other gangs turf under truce to deliver information. They use the term 'Parlay' in the film without explanation. (In the movie 'Event Horizon' they actually have to explain that CO2 gas builds up when humans breeth!) - gangs had some education - now your typical gang member cant tie his shoes.
In any case - a rival gang member shoots Cyrus (for laughs) "I like doing stuff like that" and blames the Warriors for it. The Warriors are then hunted by every gang in the City as they make their way back to Coney. The police break up the meeting right after the shooting. Cyrus' gang even uses coded language over a jazz radio station to tell everyone in the City to 'bring in' the warriors. "You better be looken' good Warriors - you better be looken real good - all the way back to Coney."
The Warriros then fight off several gangs - "we bop are way back." For instance, the 'Punks' who take a beat down in an old New York City subway bathroom. (I remember those OMG!) The 'Punks also all wear 4 wheel roller skates. I can remember going to disco style rollar rinks as a kid!
I think that the people that appreciate this film the most are those who can remember and grew up in New York City circa 1973 to 1983. The feel of this film, the locales, the way the old street lights used to look and the trippy music - it brings back a lot of memories. Back then gangs were still ethnically made up but all gangs were more or less American. There were also 'white gangs' not all made up of bikers, nazis, or kkk guys - the white gang just happened to all come from a 10 block area of a lower middle class neighborhood - the film traces an old New York City subway map as they goto the Bronx - they talk about making subway transfers along the way. Been there - done that.
In reality, these gangs did tens of millions of dollars of property damage, dealt drugs, shook down businesses for protection money, etc. Incredibly - the film crew shooting the parts of this film in Coney Island paid protection money to the gang down there at the time. When a payment was missed - film equipment was trashed. Read online about the history of the film!
This film is part of my collection - its a window on my past and window on New York City's past, for good or ill. Its a good story, albeit a yarn. There were a lot of throw-away kids back then - there are now just a different kind.
Kudos to the Warriors!
Summary of The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)
A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they're after the Warriors - a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death. This contemporary action-adventure story takes place at night, underground, in the sub-culture of gang warfare that rages from Coney Island to Manhattan to the Bronx. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives, seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty. This intense and stylized film is a dazzling achievement for cinematographer Andrew Laszlo.The Warriors combines pure pulp storytelling and surprisingly poetic images into a thoroughly enjoyable cult classic. The plot is mythically pure (and inspired by a legendary bit of Greek history): When a charismatic gang leader is shot at a conclave in the Bronx meant to unite all the gangs in New York City, a troupe from Coney Island called the Warriors get blamed and have to fight all the way back to their own turf--which means an escalating series of battles with colorful and improbable gangs like the Baseball Furies, who wear baseball uniforms and KISS-inspired face make-up. Pop existentialism, performances that are somehow both wooden and overwrought, and zesty, kinetic filmmaking from director Walter Hill (Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs.) result in a delicious and unexpectedly resonant operatic cheesiness. The Ultimate Director's Cut doesn't radically alter the movie--some of the editing is tighter, the Greek legend has been added as an introduction--with one exception: in transitions, scenes begin and end as scenes from a comic book. While The Warriors always had a comic book flavor (and Hill, in an interview, says he deliberately pursued that sensibility), this device--similar to The Hulk--seems a bit overkill. But it's a minor problem; the movie holds its own, even 26 years later. The dvd has no audio commentary, but there are four short documentaries (really, one documentary in four parts). These include excellent interviews with Hill, actors Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. The producers, the cinematographer, the costume designer, the stunt coordinator, and many others give lively and in-depth descriptions of how the movie came to be. One of these documentaries includes portions of a deleted scene that was used when The Warriors was screened on television; no other deleted scenes are included. --Bret Fetzer
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