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Crime Spree Series: The Warriors
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Fri Sep 4
7 pm,
9 pm
Crime Spree Series: The Warriors at The Trylon
Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic The Warriors continues to be a cultural touchstone—it even inspired a video game from the creators of Grand Theft Auto—and it holds up beautifully as a moody, eccentric take on the classic Homeric premise of a hero’s journey home. The film opens with delegates from all the New York street gangs summoned to a single place for a speech by a messianic leader, who calls for unification. When that leader is shot, a Coney Island gang called The Warriors is wrongly fingered for the crime and has to make it back across the city to their home turf. The journey involves many confrontations with colorful thugs from other neighborhoods—and no shortage of rich, dated signifiers from a New York of old.
The Trylon 3258 Minnehaha Ave., Twin Cities, MN -
Sat Sep 5
7 pm,
9 pm
Crime Spree Series: The Warriors at The Trylon
Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic The Warriors continues to be a cultural touchstone—it even inspired a video game from the creators of Grand Theft Auto—and it holds up beautifully as a moody, eccentric take on the classic Homeric premise of a hero’s journey home. The film opens with delegates from all the New York street gangs summoned to a single place for a speech by a messianic leader, who calls for unification. When that leader is shot, a Coney Island gang called The Warriors is wrongly fingered for the crime and has to make it back across the city to their home turf. The journey involves many confrontations with colorful thugs from other neighborhoods—and no shortage of rich, dated signifiers from a New York of old.
The Trylon 3258 Minnehaha Ave., Twin Cities, MN
Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic The Warriors continues to be a cultural touchstone—it even inspired a video game from the creators of Grand Theft Auto—and it holds up beautifully as a moody, eccentric take on the classic Homeric premise of a hero’s journey home. The film opens with delegates from all the New York street gangs summoned to a single place for a speech by a messianic leader, who calls for unification. When that leader is shot, a Coney Island gang called The Warriors is wrongly fingered for the crime and has to make it back across the city to their home turf. The journey involves many confrontations with colorful thugs from other neighborhoods—and no shortage of rich, dated signifiers from a New York of old.
Updated 03/04/2010
