No sleep 'til Brooklyn...

[jack_babalon]

A few weekends ago I showed "Vee" one of my favorite movies ever... The Warriors. As 90% of you who read this knows The Warriors is the story of a street gang from Coney Island who must fight their way through the five boroughs against the law and a lynch mob of rival gangs out to get them before they reach their home turf... oh and this is after being framed for the murder of a prominent street gang messiah who was holding a conclave of rival gangs in a bid to take over the state of New York.

Anyway... we get a good forty minutes into the movie - the gang have just been split up after a run in with the pigs on the subway system (this is after being chased by a school-bus full of skinheads and them molotov cocktailing a car) - when Vee looks over at me and asks: "Why didn't they just take a cab home?"

"What?"

"Why didn't they just take a cab? It certainly would've been a lot easier."

"Well... who'd pick up eight cats decked out in their gang-colors?"

"Why not steal a car then and just drive back to Coney Island?"

"They wouldn't all fit in a single car"

"They wouldn't have to steal just one..."

"Honey, that's not the point... they're the Warriors... they're not gonna just drive home. No, they're gonna bop their way past a vertible army of gangs and cops and whoever else stands in their way. They have to. They're from Brooklyn."

"I'm just saying it'd be easier if they stole a car... and why wouldn't they? They're in a street gang?"

"Uhhh... none of them have licenses yet!"

"'None of them have licenses yet'?"

"Hey it's New York... you don't need a car to get around."

"Uh-huh..."

"Especially in the 70's... hell, I'd be surprised if any of them knew how to drive!"

"See this? This is my believing-you face" she says giving me a look that conveys a bemused incredulity.

Eventually we agree this wouldn't make for much of a movie... but still the imagery is funny enough to me: Thirty minutes into the film and we see two, maybe three yellow cabs pull into the Astro-Land parking lot, out of which emerge the eight Warriors - all high-fiving one another and feeling pretty good after the relatively quick trip. "Well it's a good thing we listened to Fox and decided to grab a cab" Swan grumbles stoically, "Otherwise it would've taken us all night to get home. Alright guys... let's call it the night and we'll meet up tomorrow to talk about Cleon getting elbowed to death by an army of black-belts. Later..."

Also I should add that I really, really wanted to see the Warriors fight the top-hat wearing mime gang we catch a glimpse of in the opening credits. Alas...