Life Lessons I Learned from The Warriors
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One weekend I was flipping through channels and I came across an old movie called The Warriors. I decide to watch it. I thought it was brilliant. It inspired me so much I decided to write this article.
The Warriors was a 1979 film directed by famed moviemaker Walter Hill and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was based on the 1965 novel written by Sol Yurick. In the book, which is based the Greek work Anabasis in where a band of Greeks are caught behind Persian enemy lines and must battle their way home, a street gang called “The Warriors” are framed for murder and then the entire city turns on them; while far from home and so they must fight their way back. Even though they are wanted:
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They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one.
They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors.
I was instantly hooked. So I watched the movie. Here is where I share with you my takeaway’s from the film and what I learned. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/TheWarriors_1979_Movie_Poster.jpg Morality
The director Walter Hill has been quoted as saying "every film I've done has been a Western" and that "the Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe.”
I have to agree with those statements.
The theme of the film is ultimately about morals.
The movie opens with a massive meeting of gangs of New York City listening to the top brass of another gang talk about how they outnumber the police and the city being theirs. Then out of nowhere a single shot is fired and kills him. The leader has been assassinated. Panic ensues. A lone gang known as the Warriors are singled out and fingered as the murderers, this is where the story begins.
Leadership
The protagonists are a long way from home. The long trek back is made even longer with menacing gangs out to get them at every turn. Meaning one thing: They have to fight all night