Armies of the night : the Warriors and its legacy /
"The Warriors opened to scathing reviews, big box office, and major controversy. Walter Hill's stylized tale of gang warfare wasn't just another action movie--it rewrote the rules of the genre. Vilified and celebrated in equal measure, it rose above its notoriety to become a cult phen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cleveland, Ohio :
1984 Publishing,
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| Summary: | "The Warriors opened to scathing reviews, big box office, and major controversy. Walter Hill's stylized tale of gang warfare wasn't just another action movie--it rewrote the rules of the genre. Vilified and celebrated in equal measure, it rose above its notoriety to become a cult phenomenon. Today, it stands as an influential classic, spawning cross-media spinoffs and offering a vivid snapshot of late-1970s New York City. The history of The Warriors is a complex, sometimes tumultuous one. Armies of the Night: The Warriors and Its Legacy tracks the movie's long journey, beginning with its origins as a groundbreaking Sol Yurick novel, revealing the many changes it underwent from book to script to screen, recounting a turbulent production involving real gang encounters and a lead actor dropped mid-shoot, through to a detailed chronicle of the controversy The Warriors sparked. How did the film overcome the kind of obstacles only an all-nights NYC shoot could throw in its path? And how did a movie that does not actually contain much graphic violence ignite such a firestorm of outrage?"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-165) |
| ISBN: | 9781948221979 1948221977 |