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THE WARRIORS Cyrus: Can you count, suckers? I say the future is
ours...If you can count. Now look, what we have here before us. We've got the
Sarasens sitting next to the Jones St Boys. We've got the Moon Runners, right
next to the Van Courtland rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That is a
miracle. And miracles.. is the way things ought to be. You're standing right
now with 9 delegates from 100 gangs and there's a hundred more. That's 20
thousand hard core members! 40,000 counting affiliates and 20,000 more not
organized, but ready to fight. 60,000 soldiers. Now there ain't but 20,000
police in the whole town. Can you dig it? Can you dig it? CAAAANNN YOUUUU DIG
ITTT! Now here's the sum total. One gang could
run this city. One gang. Nothing would move, without us allowing it to
happen. Tax the crime syndicates, the police, because we've got the street,
suckers! CAAAANNN YOUUUU DIG ITTT! (Roar) The problem in the past has been the man
turning us against one another! We have been unable to say the truth, because
we have been fighting for 10 square feet of ground. Our turf, our little
piece of turf! That's crap brothers! The turf is ours by right, because it's
our terms. All we have to do is keep up the general truce. We take over one
borough at a time, secure our territory. Secure our turf. Because it's
allllll... ourrrrr... turf. Luther: There he is... that's him... that's... the
warrior! Masai: Riffs! Who are the warriors? There must be
some word. I want them all. I want all the.... Warriors. I want them alive,
if possible - if not, wasted! But I want them. Send the word. DJ All right now, for all you boppers out
there in the big city, all you street people with an ear for the action, I've
been asked to relay a request for the Gramercy Riffs. It's a special for the
Warriors, that that real live bunch from Coney, and I do mean the warriors.
Here's a hit with them in mind. You hear me babies? Good. real good. The Orphan
Leader Guy: [shaking a straight razor] You see what you get, Warriors? You see
what you get when you mess with orphans? D.J: Be lookin' good, Warriors. All the way back
to Coney. You hear me babies? Good. Real Good. Adios Vermin: We’re gonna have to bop all our way back to
Coney. Cowboy: [trying to catch his breath] I can't make
it. Ajax: I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn
you into a popsicle. The DJ: 'It turns out the early reports were wrong.
All wrong. Sorry about that Warriors. Luther: Warriors, come out to pla a ay |
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The Warriors is an excellent movie.
It got dated quickly, but once you swallow the premise it can be very
enjoyable. Something along the lines
of Bad Boys with Sean Penn, these are
two movies that were not highly rated, nor well known, but the fan base for
both is incredible. At some point you
may have heard The Warriors most famous line which was uttered by Luther as
he clinked two bottles of beer in his hand.
“Warriors, come out to plaaaaa-ay”,
When heard out of context, you just have to wonder, what the hell is
this guy saying. But until you hear
Luther say it in the movie, you really can’t appreciate the line. Likewise,
once in a while you see a very original Halloween costume from one the gangs. The most popular being the Baseball
Furies. So, if you saw someone dressed
up as a Fury, you might ask what they were and then just go, “Uh yeah, sure,
the Baseball Furies”, once again with the “What the hell? Ajax calls them wimps and though they look
good in practice, they didn’t show up for the game against the Warriors. But they did look cool. For a complete lowdown on the Warriors and
the rival gangs, check out my Missing Links for one very cool site. Masai could have visited this site if he
really wanted to know “who are the Warriors”. |
