FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) Here comes a variant of Walter Hills Warriors, which has been traced by rotoscopy. Appropriate, because even Hills Original doesn't look real, but like an artificial ballet. The Warriors from 1979 (the year in which all the big gang movies saw the light of day) is a speciality! This work about the street war in New York turns into a single stylistic exercise of mannerism. Hardly a moment when we want to believe that the Warriors, their enemies, even the streets where they fight, are real. I don't think it was Walter Hill's intention to accept that. That's why The Warriors is so unusual, because we get a "Male Rampage" action movie presented as a ballet, as an opera piece in different acts. A typical Walter Hill, because even his first movies were far away from reality. Here everything is myth, legend, even a living statue. Hill stylizes so much that every life is kept out of its tableaux. There are great choreographed scenes and a lot of energy, but when the Warriors talk to each other, you think you have a fairy tale in front of you. Before the fight, they position themselves in a row. Then the leader speaks, then his deputy, finally the third in the row. Only then is the fight started. And the police? Just as exaggerated! Here they fight in symbolic places, not in Brooklyn or anywhere else. I was astonished by the cast, because only a few gang members seem to be able to hit it at all. Most of them just look wonderfully disguised. All this was sold by Paramount in 1979 as an action movie. Seriously? How about that? How about that? The Warriors, a masterpiece of the avant-garde by Walter Hill (with a lot of scraping).
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