Actors: Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah van Valkenburgh, Thomas Waites, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, David Harris, Mercedes Ruehl
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Warriors
The biggest gang in NYC, the Riffs were having this big meeting up in the Bronx , so the every gang in the city were going to be there. So this gang from Coney Island(the Warriors),went to check out what was happening about this big truce Cyrus put together. The next thing that happens is that the Rogues leader shoots Cyrus, the cops come, and blames the Warriors.
So after their leader is killed, Swan(Micheal Beck) has to take over and tried to get the whole gang back home to Coney. While the Riffs tell the dj on the radio to catch the Warriors and bring them to the Riffs dead or alive. So they use the subway trains to try and from different destinations after bopping through many turf such as the Orphans, Baseball Furies, Lizzies, and the Punks, and even the cops. They may even lose 3 of their soldiers and got a female companion and even rumbled with the best of them.
But they made it back to Coney Island and they're still the Warriors.
--S.Marie Williams, Resident Scholar
Representatives from all the "important" gangs in New York City are called together by Cyrus, the head of Gramercy Riffs, to plan to overthrow police. Amidst the huge outside conference, someone shoots Cyrus and blames the Warriors, a gang from Coney Island. The Gramercy Riffs tell all the other gangs to catch the Warriors. They have a long way to go to get home and are weaponless. They go through many obstacles on their way - tough rival gangs, police, fire on the subway, and the loss of some of their members.
--Amy Moore, Resident Scholar
Leader from the gang movement at New York City want to join all gangs against the police in a territorial war. During a big meeting of gangs in the downtown New York, opposition kills the leader and the crime is falsely pinpointed on a small gang called The Warriors. The Warriors have no guns and miles from their home turf, and now they must cross all New York City, at night, esscaping from every gang of the city that wants them dead.
--Mário Henrique R. Bernardes, Resident Scholar
"The Warriors"is a film in which a street gang from Coney Island travels into manhattan to attend a gang summit under a truce by the Gramercy Riffs. At the summit,the speaker Cyrus is shot by another gang and the warriors are blamed. When their leader is caught, the warriors must fight their way back to coney under the direction of Swan(Michael Beck). Along the way they are faced with many violent situations with other gangs who are being told by the radio dj(Lynn Whitfield) that the warriors are the one to blame for Cyrus' murder.
--dennis gunder, Resident Scholar
The Warriors gang was falsely accused of murdering Cyrus, the boss of the Riffs gang. Prosecuted, they must flee for their lifes on the subways of NY. Can you dig it?
--Mário Henrique R. Bernardes, Resident Scholar
Hundreds of adult gangs get together in NYC to discuss a truce and how they can run the city when they outnumber cops 5:1. After a leader was murdered, Ajax, Swan, Cowboy, five other friends must bop there way back to Coney Island.
--Trevor, Resident Scholar
Gang from Coney Island goes to meeting of gangs in Bronx, NY, to discuss the uniting of NYC gangs to take of the city. At meeting, rogue gang shoots leader, and Coney Island gang (the Warriors) gets blamed. Through a serious of rumbles, the gang must clear their name, and make it back home.
--Andrew Lee, Resident Scholar
Representatives of all major street gangs travel to a meeting in uptown New York, where the leader of the most prominent, largest gang in town (the Grammercy Riffs), appeals to them to join forces and take control of the city. When he (Cyrus) is shot, the Warriors are falsely accused and, with the temporary truce called off, have to fight their way back to Coney Island as they pass through enemy territory. Considered by some a sick exploitation movie, a cult classic by others, this low-budget Walter Hill film allegedly inspired real-life violence by actual gangs who believed Cyrus' pipedream was worth pursuing.
--Troy, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of The Warriors
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 60% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- gang conflict
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- moving train
- sewers/subways
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- run over
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
Is this movie based on a
- book
