Race with the Warriors (episode 34)
Racin' along. Next podcast is up.
Music this time was by Cars Can Be Blue, located here more officially (where you can also buy their record, All the Stuff We Do) and here on myspace. Tunes were "The Cat Is Out" at the beginning and "Do You Remember?" at the end. They get considerably more offensive than both of these songs, but not any catchier because that would be impossible. They might be coming to your town, as they're putting together a small tour on their way to NYC Popfest.
This episode covers Race with the Devil (1975), a fun little movie about car chases and Satanists and drinking and driving. It stars, as you can tell from the poster below, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, but only one gun, not two. They take turns.
It also stars Loretta Swit ("Hot Lips") and Lara Parker. And a bunch of Satanists. It was directed by Jack Starrett and written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost, none of whom are Satanists, as far as I know...
For your further enjoyment, here's a picture of Peter Fonda about to blow your damn head off, you stinkin' Satanist.
And here's the trailer. I think it's a good idea to start putting these up here, when I can find them, as it's only going to make you want to see the movies more.
The other movie we watched and talked about is The Warriors (1979), which you've probably seen, but we hadn't.
I dig this Italian poster for it, with future font, more than the one everyone knows, with graffiti font. There's at least one entire website devoted to this movie, so, clearly, it's kind of a big deal, cult-wise. Also, one of my favorite details about the movie that I didn't get a chance to bring up is how much Shaq loves it, a nugget I learned from its Wikipedia page:
So here's David Patrick Kelly being scary.
And some baseball furies.
And the trailer.
Music this time was by Cars Can Be Blue, located here more officially (where you can also buy their record, All the Stuff We Do) and here on myspace. Tunes were "The Cat Is Out" at the beginning and "Do You Remember?" at the end. They get considerably more offensive than both of these songs, but not any catchier because that would be impossible. They might be coming to your town, as they're putting together a small tour on their way to NYC Popfest.
This episode covers Race with the Devil (1975), a fun little movie about car chases and Satanists and drinking and driving. It stars, as you can tell from the poster below, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, but only one gun, not two. They take turns.
It also stars Loretta Swit ("Hot Lips") and Lara Parker. And a bunch of Satanists. It was directed by Jack Starrett and written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost, none of whom are Satanists, as far as I know...
For your further enjoyment, here's a picture of Peter Fonda about to blow your damn head off, you stinkin' Satanist.
And here's the trailer. I think it's a good idea to start putting these up here, when I can find them, as it's only going to make you want to see the movies more.
The other movie we watched and talked about is The Warriors (1979), which you've probably seen, but we hadn't.
I dig this Italian poster for it, with future font, more than the one everyone knows, with graffiti font. There's at least one entire website devoted to this movie, so, clearly, it's kind of a big deal, cult-wise. Also, one of my favorite details about the movie that I didn't get a chance to bring up is how much Shaq loves it, a nugget I learned from its Wikipedia page:
Shaquille O'Neal has named The Warriors as his favorite movie and frequently references it during interviews, particularly Cyrus's line, "Can you dig it?"Anyway, how much else is there to say about this movie, really. You can just go poke around on that really thorough fan site.
So here's David Patrick Kelly being scary.
And some baseball furies.
And the trailer.
posted by hillary | 6:51 PM
5 Comments:
Are you as amazed as I am by the ratings that these movies got back in the early seventies? "Race with the Devil" is PG, and Vanishing Point, which was obviously a huge influence on "The Warriors" was, I kid you not, a G, and the is a character called "nude girl on bike" and she is, and you see nipples! That latter is very much not a complaint, by the way.
Lovin' DP Kelly, also as 'Jerry' in Twin Peak's world. There is some comical quote of his from that series concerning a smoked cheese pig, the entirety of which currently escapes me...
Hell yeah, shout out to James Remar, the cop Gentry trying to bust Bob and the gang in 'Drugstore Cowboy', Ajax in 'Warriors'. Lamest entrapment scheme to take down a mighty gangsta EVER!
"Oh NO that lady cop DID NOT just cuff my man to the bench..."
Daniel, how do you see Vanishing Point influencial on The Warriors? I too don't see how that ever could have had a G rating, drugs central to the plot.
One of the greatest lines of VP is during the flashback to when he used to be a cop and was courting the hippie chick, and during a voiceover, silouettes walking on the beach, she's all "Strange, isn't it. Me trying to turn you on; and You, trying to turn me in" with all of this syrupy strings and choral bits.
I don't so much see Warriors as a link to visual kei and cosplay in Japan, which I think started with more of a West Side Story greaser look of hangers out, then exploded into variations.
I think you have to link Warriors to 'Wild Style', in terms of how generally ghetto NYC looked in the late 70's early 80's, and semi-homage to the golden age of NYC graffiti, before they came out with the subway cars that couldn't be written on.
Boo, on the LA remake!
-Chilly
Yeah, the connection to Japanese youth culture is definitely tenuous. It's probably just that both draw on the same tendency to tribalize, down to dressing alike, when in search of identity. Dressing like your friends is a way to define yourself as not like other people.
I don't want to give too much away about Vanishing Point, here, before Hillary and Jared have seen it, but the radio to guide one home, as opposed to the radio to set a trap, etc. . . is definitely used as a primary force in The Warriors.
Mind, I really liked both movies very much.
Ah, forgot about that factor and definitely see your point D. Stylistically, this device had a much greater effect (possibly camp/comedic) on me in the earlier film.
-C Grouse
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