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The Warriors

year 1979decade 70sdirector Walter Hillgenre Drama
host Bill Simmonshost Shea Serranohost Sean Fennessey
All 16 categories

Most Rewatchable Scene · 18:05

Cyrus's speech

The movie is described as six scenes that are fun to watch over and over with lagging in between; Cyrus's speech is amazing, including the little wooden platform built for him that fell apart when he bumped it, and his 'can you count, suckers?' to 900 juvenile delinquents.

The production could not afford 900 extras and used real gang members, whose cheering during the speech was genuine; Roger Hill's performance is called all-time, with three lines in the lexicon ('can you count, suckers', 'can you dig it', 'the future is ours if you can count'), and The Rock's late-nineties wrestling persona seemed like a Cyrus impersonation.

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 1:02:13

"Warriors come out to play"

Candidates: 'I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle', 'Warriors come out to play', 'can you dig it' and 'the Warriors are good, real good, the best'; the popsicle line is one host's favorite, but the iconic quote that has lasted forty years is probably 'Warriors come out to play', and it comes down to that and 'can you dig it', which has been good too.

The film

The Warriors (1979)

Directed by Walter Hill · Drama

92 minutes

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Cast

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Michael Beck "Swan", the second-in-command and interim War Chief of the Warriors
James Remar "Ajax", the vulgar mouthy enforcer of the Warriors
Deborah Van Valkenburgh "Mercy", girlfriend of the Orphans leader who accompanies the Warriors to Coney Island
Marcelino Sánchez "Rembrandt", the youngest member and Graffiti Artist of the Warriors
David Harris "Cochise", a member of the Warriors who sports Native American gear
Tom McKitterick "Cowboy", a member of the Warriors who wears a cowboy hat
Brian Tyler "Snow", an enforcer of the Warriors with a taste for music
Dorsey Wright Cleon, War Chieftain and leader of the Warriors
Terry Michos "Vermin", a member of the Warriors who is the known bearer of the group
David Patrick Kelly Luther, the psychotic leader of the Rogues who was responsible for Cyrus's assassination and who clicks empty bottles together to taunt The Warriors while repeating "Warriors - come out to play-ee-eh..."
Roger Hill Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs and host of the Van Cortlandt Summit
Edward Sewer Masai, second-in-command of the Gramercy Riffs who personally trains the gang members [ N 1 ]
Lynne Thigpen the D.J.
Thomas G. Waites "Fox", the Scout for the Warriors [ N 2 ]

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