Coming into this week I had never seen the movie, The Warriors before, however as soon as I told my father that it was the film this week I was immediately interrupted by his best Luther impression reciting the classic line, “warrriorrs come out and plaayyyay.” Now this is something I had heard from him many times before but never really understood the reference and just shook it off as my dad being weird. That was until this week when I saw this movie and fell in love with it. After watching this film I had many thoughts and questions about it and am very eager to talk about them here.

I really liked how Chris described it as ‘a very long chase scene’ and what I believe Mary said about seeing other films cover the whole plot of this movie in about 15 minutes, because I believe both those things are very true. I don’t think you could really make this movie and specifically this movies plot again now as I think the audience would get bored but the way Walter Hill directed it, it never did. The main thing that kept my attention was all the very weird gangs that kept coming after our heroes the Warriors. I am used to gangs in films being depicted as tough and leather glad, which to their credit some of them were, but others were just plain weird. I honestly couldn’t pick a favorite between the Lizzies, the all lesbian gang who seduced the Warriors with their femininity only to pull out guns and be just bad enough shots that our heroes get away, or the Punks, the large gang of long haired men in overalls or the Baseball Furies, the baseball clowns? Each one gets a little weirder then then next.

When it came to our readings this week I thought Peary’s article on The Warriors was a really interesting almost ‘behind the scenes’ look into the film. What really stuck out to me first that I found to be quite fascinating was how inciteful the poster was compared to the film.

Getting into the mindset of the crazed conservative down the street I could see how this poster could be scary, the eye contact of the characters is very confrontational and the phrase “They out number the cops five to one. They could take over New York City” is a daunting thought. However once you see this film you can clearly see, through the lack of civilians except, for some innocent prom goers, that these night armies mean no harm to you, they are only after The Warriors.

My last quick thing about this film that I found to be quite confusingly funny is how even though everyone in the city was out to kill them all the Warriors, who didn’t die, at some point in the movie stopped to have sex. Whether it was Ajax trying to rape the undercover officer, Swan and Mercy getting close in the subway tunnels or the three Warriors seduced by the Lizzies they all had one track mind while everyone else was trying to kill them. Call me a prude or not romantic but thats way to stressful of an environment for me to even think about anything like that.