\n8. THIS IS ONE LONG CHASE FROM A CHASE MASTER.<\/strong>
\nThe Warriors is one of the more exceptional works from director Walter Hill, who earned a deserved reputation for his hard-boiled tough-guy movies made with elegance. While he\u2019ll always be most famous for 48 Hrs., the hit starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, his other features like The Driver and The Long Riders are worth seeking out. In particular, The Driver, featuring Ryan O\u2019Neal and Bruce Dern, perfected the car-chase move long before Ryan Gosling\u2019s Drive liberally took inspiration from it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n9. YOU\u2019RE WATCHING REAL GANG MEMBERS.<\/strong>
\nThe real action in The Warriors kicks off with an impressively epic meeting of various gangs in the Bronx\u2019s Van Cortlandt Park (though it was actually filmed in Riverside Park). Cyrus, the leader of the city\u2019s most powerful gang, invites everyone in an attempt to forge an alliance and increase the gangs\u2019 leverage over police, before being abruptly shot and killed. Hill refers to it as \u201cour big production number.\u201d In order to pull off the sequence, the filmmakers asked real gangs to be extras. So The Warriors feels legit for good reason.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n2. IT\u2019S NOT A VERY FAITHFUL ADAPTATION, THOUGH.<\/strong>
\nAfter being handed Yurick\u2019s novel, director Walter Hill immediately had an idea for a fun movie. \u201cI felt very strongly that it certainly was not a very realistic book, and I wanted to make it even less so,\u201d he told Esquire. \u201cI wanted to take it into a fantasy element, but at the same time add some contemporary flash.\u201d The Warriors in the novel are actually the Coney Island Dominators, a black and Hispanic gang. In Hill\u2019s cinematic rendering, the main crew is a diverse group of white and nonwhite misfits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Schrodt and Mental Floss present 15 Things to Look For the Next Time You Watch The Warriors.\u00a0 Here are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20906,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905\/revisions\/20906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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