Who Won the Movie?
Walter Hill; Luther; New York
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- Walter Hill, the director, is one pick for creating the prototype for the action movies that followed; another host did not know his name until this podcast.
- Swan is praised as a sweetheart taking care of his people, smart and willing to turn it up when challenged by the Orphans, but another host does not think he won the movie.
- Luther clearly won for one host as the one character everybody knows, whose 'Warriors' prompts the next four words; a case is made for Cyrus and for Dwayne The Rock Johnson for ripping off Cyrus's bit on WWE.
- New York is another vote: cinematographer Andrew Laszlo's story about fearing rain led to an early rain sequence and wetting the streets every night, giving the neon a post-rain shimmer that makes the city a dingy crystal palace, seen across more of the city than Serpico or Dog Day Afternoon.
- The wet-street trick was also a Miami Vice season one signature that many have since copied, and The Warriors may have started it.
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