She's a prostitute. If you Listened to the movie, she clearly states it. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
Here's one of the many excerpts where they acknowledge it:
Mercy: Friday nights are good. Saturday nights are better.
Swan: I bet you can't even remember who you get on Friday and Saturday night... you probably don't remember what they look like...
Mercy: Sometimes I can and sometimes I can't... who gives a damn?
Also, She wanted Swan AFTER they shared a long passionate kiss, She's been hot for him all night, that's one of the reasons she followed him, the kiss just set it off. Plus it was risky. If the world were about the end, most people would have sex.
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mobocracy
8 years ago
That really could be interpreted many ways -- either as she just gets drunk and has sex with whoever wants it, or she's an actual prostitute. Nothing in that statement explicitly says she has sex for money.
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bizzniss
8 years ago
LIKE I SAID IN MY ORIGINAL STATEMENT...LISTEN CLEARLY: "There were many excerpts where they acknowledge it", I was just pointing ONE out.
There is another part where Swan says, "I don't like what you do". She say's, "it's a living."
If you can't tell from that, then you are obviously very stupid, unworthy of my time and this conversation is over.
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mobocracy
8 years ago
All you're doing is reading between the lines. I never remember a single line that definitively says she does sex work for money.
You second bit of "proof" above doesn't say "what she does" only that she calls it "a living".
Prostitution isn't unreasonable as an assumption, but it's only an assumption. With her character and where she's from, there's a big grey area between prostitution involving sex in exchange for money and promiscuity used as a means of obtaining influence with the gang leadership or for drinks or favors.
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madconceptz2010
8 years ago
Mercy is a prostitute who hangs around with The Orphans but decides to tag along with The Warriors after looking for “some real action”. She takes a shine to Swan and walks with him on their way to Coney Island. She talks about her life as they walk through a subway tunnel where they share a kiss. Swan instantly regrets this and ditches her. They meet up again right before the fight with The Punks where they make up. On their arrival back to Coney Island she takes off with Swan and the other Warriors.
http://warriorsmovie.co.uk/cast
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Jeromagnus
8 years ago
@bizzniss : you know you're insulting people because you're not confident in your argumentation right ? Can't believe Mobocracy replied to you AND didn't return your gratuitous insult. Lucky you.
If your counter argument is that "there [is so] many exerpts where they acknowledge it, I was just poiting ONE out", why don't you point the other ones instead of insulting people ? Answer : cause there are none.
Just watched the movie and noticed absolutely no passage at all that confirm Marcy is a prostitute. Your statement is a personal interpretation and even an assumption wouldn't confirm it but rather that Marcy is nymphomaniac. In the "best case scenario", an extended interpretation would be that Marcy would use sex to gain power, just like Mobocracy suggested.
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mplo (2305)
6 years ago
I think that Swan had Mercy pegged exactly right when he said to her, "I don't like the way you live. You may as well carry a mattress on your back."
So did the other guy from Swan's gang (whose name escapes me at the moment), who said to Mercy, "We're not going to remove our colors just because some whore shakes her ass."
That being said, I'm inclined to think that Mercy really was a prostitute, despite her vindictive denial of that.
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