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 – turns the tale of a Greek army’s retreat after the death of its leader into a cult classic about a gang framed for the murder of a powerful gang leader that must fight its way back to the safety of Coney Island.
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