Streets of Fire (1984)
Streets of Fire (1984)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 4:3 (720x480) VBR | 01:33:41 | 4 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; Français AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English HoH, Español
Genre: Action Thriller, Rock Musical
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 4:3 (720x480) VBR | 01:33:41 | 4 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; Français AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English HoH, Español
Genre: Action Thriller, Rock Musical
More like a series of MTV sequences than a long-term narration, this super-thin story line focuses on a kidnapped singer (Diane Lane) and her ex-boyfriend (Michael Pare) who goes forth to save her through rainy streets, the roar of elevated subways, several alleys, and the usual warehouses. Each thrust of the story has rock music that follows along with the narration.Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka, Allmovie.com
In the 1970s and 80s, Walter Hill established his reputation as one the most distinctive action-movie directors Hollywood has produced, an exponent of lyrical violence in the class of Sam Peckinpah, for whom he scripted The Getaway. His first six movies – Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs – all terse, lean, unsentimental, were commercial and critical successes and are now classics. His seventh, Streets of Fire, lost money and went down badly with US critics, possibly because many of them thought it resembled The Warriors too closely and because there were no stars apart from former child actress Diane Lane. It's now something of a cult classic that anticipated the current fashion for films based on graphic novels.
The film, Hill has said, is "by design, comic strip in orientation, mock-epic in structure, movie-heroic in acting style, operatic in visual style, and cowboy-cliche in dialogue". Its subtitle, "A Rock & Roll Fable", contains all the elements Hill looked for in a movie as a teenager in the late 50s, and in 94 minutes it manages to be an urban western, a backstage rock musical and a biker flick set in an unidentified, run-down rust-belt inner city that might be yesterday or tomorrow. A gang of authentic Hells Angels (led by Willem Dafoe in his first Hollywood movie) kidnaps a rock singer (the 18-year-old Diane Lane), and her former, roughneck boyfriend (the cool Michael Paré) is brought in to effect a rescue. The striking Amy Madigan (who worked as a rock musician before studying at the Lee Strasberg Institute) auditioned for the role of Paré's sister but suggested she play his tough male sidekick instead. Hill, an admirer of Howard Hawks, gave her the part but didn't rewrite it. She was the perfect Hawksian woman and the hit of the film.
Hill is working with regular collaborators – among them cinematographer Andrew Lazslo, co-author Larry Gross, composer Ry Cooder, designer John Vallone – and they serve him well in a carefully stylised movie that's something like pure cinema. It begins and ends with choreographed fights, features sets that crackle with garish neon in a hellish nocturnal world. The elegantly tattered clothes are designed by Giorgio Armani.Review by Philip French, Observer
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Director: Walter Hill
Writers: Walter Hill, Larry Gross
Cast: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe, Bill Paxton and other
Streets of Fire (1984)
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-Theatrical trailer
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