To me, it's one of the few holes in this film..the whole barracuda's thing seems tacked-on to liven things up..and I just couldn't buy into it..Tony and his friends were certainly rough around the edges, but not to the point of being "gang-bangers"
I agree. It seems they added this element to show how tough Tony and his friends were. Of course, there were gangs in existence in NYC in the late 70s, but seeing that this was mainly a movie about the disco lifestyle, they had to liven it up a bit and add the rumble and it's aftermath at the hospital. Check out "The Warriors" to see a more appropiate representation of gangs in New York from around the same time.
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Check out "The Warriors" to see a more appropiate representation of gangs in New York from around the same time.
Tony and his friends referred to themselves as "The Faces" at least once in the movie. It made me think of the old British rock group. I did not consider them a gang. And I don't think they were a gang by most definitions.
shareYeah, I have to agree with the poster who said that the "gang" idea was most likely just thrown in there to make Tony and company seem more tough then they actually were.
I mean c'mon... it's a film about some dudes who go dancing and try to get laid as often as they can. They are not some ambitious, gun-toting, young drug gang hoping to make a name by carving out a nice, juicy territory for themselves in Brooklyn.
Just the very thought of Tony and the bunch trying to get into a rumble with a rival gang makes me laugh hysterically.
A rival dance group maybe. A street tough, battle hardened collection of young murderers, drug dealers, rapists, thieves, arsonists, extortionists, etc... No. Definitely not.
Law enforcement tries to label any aggregate of knuckleheads with a nickname as a gang to justify their budgets. I referred to my old friends jokingly as a gang. It was a term of endearment to me.
shareThe Little Rascals were originally titled as "Our Gang", and I seriously doubt anyone anywhere would have felt threatened by a bunch of snot nosed little kids running around getting into mischief.
shareDidn't Alfalfa once threaten to pop a cap?
shareYeah, that was right after Buckwheat said to Darla, "I'm gonna tap that phat ass."
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
lol...oddly enough, that's how he died! :)
"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"
Check out The Warriors to see a more appropriate representation of gangs in New York from around the same time...
Yeah, when I was growing up in NY in the 70's, you couldn't turn the corner without running into baseball uniform wearing clowns or dudes in spangly vests on roller skates who wanted to mug you. Puh-leaze.
This made me laugh. The Furies are so hilarious, just imagine seeing one of those running after you in the dark! There's a park in Hoboken my ex-BF and I called "Furies Chase Park" and whenever we walked through it, he would hum their theme music.
Also speaking of The Warriors, one of the Barracuda girls reminded me on one of the Lizzies.
Which park in Hoboken? Was it Columbus Park?
shareWhen I was in high school in the mid '80s my friends used to joke that Tony's "gang" and the Barracudas were really fighting about whose collars were bigger and whose polyester shirts were stretchier.
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It was not a prevelant storyline in the movie. They just showed how the guys stuck together and had each others backs (except for Bobby C). Also to flesh out the homosexual points to Bobby C (note the conversation between Double J and him after the fight)
Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...share
Also to flesh out the homosexual points to Bobby C (note the conversation between Double J and him after the fight)
you weren't paying attention were you. It was coded, but it was in there.
Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...share
LOL! More nonsense, with a large dollop of attitude. What exactly prompted you to read "homosexual points" into this film?
shareIt's all in the conversation between Double J and Bobby in the car (when Double J was flicking the lighter) and then in the hospital.
No one sees that Bobby is in love with Tony???
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Bobby considered Tony as a Big Brother, Nothing more.
shareIt wasn't that convincing to me either. The whole ambush on the rival gang hideout was rather over blown, and the fight scene wasn't too impressive with all those fake-sounding punch effects. I feel like a more low key, rumble in an alleyway or bar fight would have been more realistic and keeping in tone with the movie.
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They should have had a dance off to settle things.
shareMaybe more like this? http://youtu.be/bxoC5Oyf_ss
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