Tag: Walter Hill
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Nick Nolte Led an ’80s Neo-Western That’s Macho & Actually Good
Few actors epitomize mid-’80s machismo as effectively as Nick Nolte, and few films prove this like Walter Hill’s 1987 dark neo-Western Extreme Prejudice. The film is a complete collision of all the things that made the ’80s such a unique, if surface-level, decade full of blood squibs, character actors often giving performances overshadowing those of…
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The Stunt Work on ‘S.W.A.T.’ Is a Surprisingly Refreshing Throwback
Over six seasons, CBS’ “S.W.A.T.” has served up the kind of dynamic character-based action that used to be the bread-and-butter of theatrically released cop movies, eschewing the trend toward CGI and superheroes in favor of a more grounded approach that looks back to the urban action classics of Walter Hill and Richard Donner. “We really…
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‘Streets of Fire’ Should Have Been the Biggest Rock Musical of the ’80s
No one was afraid of cinematic excess in the ’80s, and nothing says “cinematic excess” quite as perfectly as the rock musical, a sub-genre that took on all sorts of (rockin’ and rollin’ and just plain bitchin’) shapes in the decade that birthed everything from “Purple Rain” to “Flashdance” and “The Blues Brothers.”Buried amongst a…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Adapting The Warriors As A Stage Musical. We Have Thoughts
Walter Hill’s 1979 cult action thriller “The Warriors” is a favorite among film fans, adapting Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name into an addicting tale about a group of rival gangs in New York City all trying to track down and take out a group known as the Warriors after they’re framed for…
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This 2,400-Year-Old True Story Inspired a ’70s Action Classic
Sometimes the most effective adaptations are the most transformative. It sounds absurd to consider that a movie about gang warfare could be based on not just a 2,400-year-old story, but actual history. Yet Walter Hill’s The Warriors – which is based on the Sol Yurick novel of the same name, itself based on Xenophon’s Anabasis…