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 The Warriors, a 1979 movie about awesomeness |
 Mar 26 2008, 06:31 PM
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Ain Soph Aur  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600  |
I caught a movie called The Warriors on tv the other day.
If you are Wounded Ronin, you can stop reading here and go rent it. If you are not Wounded Ronin, you can continue reading about why you should rent this. It's a 1979 movie about a Connie Island gang that ends up with a bounty on their heads, and as they try to make their way home from a multi-gang meeting in the Bronx they get attacked by a bunch of other gangs. This movie is awesome because it was made at the height of the "OMG New-York is a murder temple" gang crime wave. The gangs featured in the movie all have a gimmick, like the one where they dress up as baseball players with creepy face paint. The Warriors themselves all have this tiny leather thing and bare chest, making them look ridiculous, weren't it for the fact its 1979. It is so chock-full of early 80s New-York crime fear fetish that it is simply awesome. The gang members are so stoic its awesome. |
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Mar 26 2008, 06:35 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
It's very much a classic. Almost cross-genre. Also check out the recent video game from Rockstar.
EDIT: Last year in NYC I saw a man sitting at a cafe wearing a Warriors uniform. |
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Mar 26 2008, 07:54 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 830 Joined: 3-April 04 From: Columbus, Ohio Member No.: 6,215 |
Whenever my friends and I are feeling awkward at a party (read: any time we're at a party, because we're all dorks), we like to yell "the chicks are packed!" and run for the door. That way, the fact that the "chicks" are ignoring us seems like a good thing, because it's being compared to them trying to kill us.
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Mar 27 2008, 12:58 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 13-July 03 From: Scotsprawl Member No.: 4,923 |
Warriors, come out and PlAyyyyyyyyyyyyy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)
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Mar 27 2008, 04:41 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Is the video game any good?
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Mar 27 2008, 07:48 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 16-March 08 Member No.: 15,779 |
QUOTE (Fortune @ Mar 27 2008, 01:41 AM)  Is the video game any good? I never played the campaing, but i really enjoyed the multiplayer mode. |
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Apr 18 2008, 03:03 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 17-April 08 Member No.: 15,904 |
I thought so until my 8 year old daughter asked my why I was beating up a girl in the alley.
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Apr 18 2008, 03:29 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
An interesting and little known fact is that The Warriors is loosely based on a true story. It happened 2400 year ago in Persia instead of 70s New York and the Warriors were 10,000 Greeks instead of a small Conney Island gang,
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Apr 18 2008, 03:33 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
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Is it actually based on Xenophon's March? Like, they had that in mind when scripting it or whatever? |
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Apr 18 2008, 05:16 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
QUOTE (Dakka @ Apr 17 2008, 11:03 PM) I thought so until my 8 year old daughter asked my why I was beating up a girl in the alley. Because in the interests of postmodern feminism you're treating men and women exactly equal? |
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Apr 18 2008, 05:32 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
QUOTE (Dakka @ Apr 17 2008, 11:03 PM) I thought so until my 8 year old daughter asked my why I was beating up a girl in the alley. "Because the alley is where I found her, sweetie." |
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Apr 18 2008, 08:34 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
QUOTE (Critias @ Apr 18 2008, 05:33 AM) ... Is it actually based on Xenophon's March? Like, they had that in mind when scripting it or whatever? According to the wiki entry, yes. |
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Apr 18 2008, 10:36 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Huh.
Y'learn something new every day. I'd long understood and appreciated the awesomeness of the two things, but wholly independently from one another (with Xenopon and his Greeks maintaining a clear lead, of course). Cool to hear about that little seed of an idea coming from history, though. |
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Apr 18 2008, 04:04 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 18-September 06 Member No.: 9,421 |
That is a neat little correlation. I never really connected them either except peripherally. Also, Critias and Wounded Ronin, your little comments made me laugh out loud in a classroom here at school. A guy was walking past and looked in at me very strangely sitting alone at a computer in an empty classroom laughing. It doesn't help that I have a very sinister laugh. Deep, rolling, and full of madness.
Chris |
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Apr 19 2008, 07:31 AM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
QUOTE (Dakka @ Apr 17 2008, 07:03 PM) I thought so until my 8 year old daughter asked my why I was beating up a girl in the alley. I hope you told her, "Bitch didn't have my money!" |
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