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Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:30 am to Jack Ruby
Crazy then and now.
I’m a fan.
I’m a fan.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:46 am to Jack Ruby
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Man, Wick steals so much from this film especially the 4th one where the entire second half of the film is basically just the Warriors plot line of getting through the dense city in one night alive.
In fairness, The Warriors borrowed much of its plot from Anabasis.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:48 am to Jack Ruby
WHO ARE THE WARRIORS??!! I want them alive if possible.....if not.....WASTED!
Posted on 5/31/25 at 11:27 am to Tiger Ugly
I always liked this scene. Prom kids, having the time of their lives juxtaposed against young punks who just spent the night trying to stay alive. All living in the same city but rarely interacting with each other.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 12:02 pm to dblwall
David Patrick Kelly was the most punch-able face from my teens.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 12:56 pm to chinese58
He was still playing shitbird characters in Malcolm X
Posted on 5/31/25 at 1:45 pm to chinese58
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David Patrick Kelly was the most punch-able face from my teens.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 1:59 pm to Jack Ruby
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It's crazy to me that no film looks remotely close to this 'low budget' B movie from 1970s anymore. The vibe. The art design. The originality. Just insane.
It helps that the director was Walter Hill, a Hollywood script doctor who also made other films like Brewster’s Millions and 48 Hrs.
Talented guy whose output is generally underrated outside of 48 Hrs.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:03 pm to chinese58
Another punch able face, from a different movie Boyz N Da Hood was Lloyd Avery II. From the series Life Imitates Art. In the end Avery was sentenced to 2 life terms for murder, and killed in prison.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 4:02 pm to Lawyered
"Can you count, suckas?"
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:08 pm to Lawyered
How week were the Baseball Furys gang? They all had baseball bats, for God's sake. The Warriors didn't have any guns and they still beat the crap of the Baseball Furys. Look, if you are gonna paint your face and wear Yankees uniforms, you gotta be able to back it up.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 8:08 am to Jack Ruby
Some fans might not know that the film itself is loosely based on a real historical event - known as the "Anabasis" (best translation is "An Ascent"), because of the account written by one of the leaders, Xenophon.
The Persians were so impressed by the Greeks after their early military encounters (including Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea), that subsequent generations of Persian rulers would sometimes employ Greek hoplites as mercenaries. Two of Xerxes' great-grandchildren, Ataxerxes II and Cyrus the Younger were battling for the throne in the late 5th Century BC. Cyrus employed a company of Greeks known to history as The Ten Thousand. They defeated Ataxerxes II's army at the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, but Cyrus was killed during the battle. Without a patron and local protection, and with the suspicion of the victor, Ataxerxes II going against them, they agreed to parley with the now ruler of Persia. It was a ruse and the leaders of the Greeks were killed.
Younger leaders had to step up and lead the army out of central Persia and near the coast so they could be evacuated back to (primarily mainland) Greece. It was, in many ways, a running battle and a logistical miracle.
Obviously, you can read a translation of The Anabasis itself. I can also recommend a fictionalized account called The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford, which is very similar in tone (and quality) to similar works such as The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara about Gettysburg) or Gates of Fire (Stephen Pressifield about Thermopylae).
The Persians were so impressed by the Greeks after their early military encounters (including Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea), that subsequent generations of Persian rulers would sometimes employ Greek hoplites as mercenaries. Two of Xerxes' great-grandchildren, Ataxerxes II and Cyrus the Younger were battling for the throne in the late 5th Century BC. Cyrus employed a company of Greeks known to history as The Ten Thousand. They defeated Ataxerxes II's army at the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, but Cyrus was killed during the battle. Without a patron and local protection, and with the suspicion of the victor, Ataxerxes II going against them, they agreed to parley with the now ruler of Persia. It was a ruse and the leaders of the Greeks were killed.
Younger leaders had to step up and lead the army out of central Persia and near the coast so they could be evacuated back to (primarily mainland) Greece. It was, in many ways, a running battle and a logistical miracle.
Obviously, you can read a translation of The Anabasis itself. I can also recommend a fictionalized account called The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford, which is very similar in tone (and quality) to similar works such as The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara about Gettysburg) or Gates of Fire (Stephen Pressifield about Thermopylae).
This post was edited on 6/1/25 at 8:11 am
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