Orlando Film Examiner: The best and worst book-to-film adaptations: 3 - The Warriors »

Posted By FilmExaminer 6 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment

Installment one was a " best" and installment two was a " worst." So here's another example of one of the best: Walter Hill's The Warriors is an adaptation of Jewish-American writer Sol Yurick's novel of the same name. Walter Hill, as we already know , makes manly movies about manly men. And The Warriors is populated with manly gang members, as well as younger kids trying to be men by being in gangs. Importantly, it must be noted that this write up of The Warriors will be of the original film and not the recent " Ultimate Director's Cut DVD ," which itself (coupled with the director's cut of Donnie Darko ) is an example of a director not realizing what makes their film great. But that's a completely different article. So with that out of the way...

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