Streaming Streets of Fire Online
Jeudi, avril 15th, 2010 |
Streaming Streets of Fire Online.
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This film bombed with reviewers and at the box office when it came out — but I loved it! And its soundtrack remains one of my common lps/CDs.
It’s a queer narrative of a biker gang leader (William DaFoe) who kidnaps a rock singer (Diane Lane) . Her nebbish manager (Rick Moranis) hires her ex-soldier/ex-boyfired (Michael Pare) to rescue her. He hires a sidekick, ex-soldier Amy Madigan.
What makes this film so queer is — you wonder WHEN it’s taking situation. It’s chubby of anachronisms. The art direction looks 1950s (the malt shop, some of the costumes, the faded police squad cars, the teletype) . Yet you have female soldiers, and an integrated police force. And the biker gang leader looks like he’s dressed for an S&M leather party, in a shadowy leather farmer’s overall issue. Very outlandish.
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The dialog is also exclusive. Very stylized — to the point of parody. Women are “skirts.” Everyone’s sarcastic, snarling zingers at each other. Even the bit players. The film feels like everyone in town, from street punks to cops to young girls, is a badass with a terrible attitude. And half the zingers seem to slay in fights. Very very irregular.
The subtitle is: A Rock & Roll Story — whatever that means. Don’t try to understand this film. Objective let it wash over you. You’re in a exclusive netherworld. Derive it, and you’ll like the pace. Especially if you like the music…
Some of the music written by Jim Steinman — if you thrill to the bombastic sounds of Bonnie Tyler and Meat Esteem, you’ll fancy this soundtrack. There’s also a song written by Stevie Nicks, sung by Marylin Martin — who sounds exactly like Stevie Nicks.
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The sort of bizarre film where many will inspect and wonder: What were they thinking? Others will emrace it with the care for that cult films attract. I did.
I first saw this movie during my formative teen years, and it has affected my sense of style and taste in music and movies ever since. Though I would not go overboard in saying that it is a “very beneficial” movie, but it is a “stout” movie.
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It has been said that this is the ’50’s movie place in the ’80’s Walter Hill always wanted to design, and he succeeds in catching that feeling. The people are clad in ’50’s garb, the cars are pretty pieces of Detroit steel or Studebakers, the biker gang lives the dream of Link Wray’s music and the threat of Brando’s “Wild Ones,” the music is at times like a flash and urgent, like youth racing to an entertaining carry out, or glum and atmospheric, catching tension, sorrow, and romance. The production value is helpful, every rain puddle in station, aesthetic neon colors, and a literally “ripping” scene disolve.
Hill has created a complete world here. The yarn takes position in a city that is so immense a wanderer (such as Amy Madigan’s or Michael Pare’s characters) can pass through a “district” the draw an dilapidated west drifter would pass through a town (not the only similarity to westerns this movie has) . One can drive all night, passing through several of these districts, each with their fill distinctive character, without finding the waste of it. There is a run-down residential station, a nightlife strip, a spooky industrial set, even a southern style district with racist cops! The character of these districts is expressed everywhere, from the production effect to the music to the costumes, so you can really derive the flavor of it. I felt that the costumes especially should be commended (hello, academy), not only because they were well produced and looked trustworthy, but also each costume expressed the character of the people wearing them and the district they resided in.
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The main action of the movie follows the pattern of a less serious version of “The Warriors”: our heroes must accumulate their scheme home against sizable odds. They must hold trains, lift cars, fight cops, and screen from their pursuers. Instead of the run-down griminess of a city on the edge of collapse, however, there is the sense of urgent vibrancy of a thriving culture.
Loving this movie so great, I have accumulated blueprint too worthy trivia about it. The name of the biker bar, “Torchies” is extinct in “48 hrs” “The Driver,” and “Brewster’s Millions.” The stripper in the bar is played by Jennifer Beales’ double from “Flashdance.” She was also in a rock video in the early ’80’s. The racist cop from the Ardmore is the Action News reporter from “Brewster’s…” The negate conductor was the DJ in “The Warriors.” Robert Townsend can be seen as one of the doo-wop combo, but does not have a single line, unless you count him lip-psynching the songs. They venerable such light-sensitive film in making the movie that some of the neon was too lustrous and they had to paint it in.
The music, as has been said before, is mammoth. Ry Cooder (a frequent Hill colaborator) does all the incidental music covering such works as “Earn out of Denver” and “Rumble,” as well as creating some unusual pieces. It’s a shame none of it afflict up on the soundtrack album. The Blasters hit their high-water label of mainstream popularity with their performance at Torchies (this was my first exposure to them and they have been my well-liked band ever since) . The Jim Steinman anthems, though not his best, are very appropriate for the theme of misspent youth that the movie has. I don’t understand what The Fixx was doing on the closing credits, but it’s a great song.
About the acting: it seems acting skills are in inverse proportion to matinee-idol attractiveness, but that’s OK, because the beautifully radiant leads don’t have to do remarkable (and Diane Lane is more fine here than in any other movie before or since) . The less gorgeous secondaries fetch the righteous banter, and the stoic cop and the nefarious villain play their roles to the hilt.
Sure the area is predictable, corny, even. So is the dialogue. That’s fraction of what makes it so frigid! Corniness comes from tradition and universality, so what makes it distinctive is the style, and what style! And its worth noting that the final showdown is one of the most racy fights in cinema, and has a original and thrilling esthetic.
So pop a brew, pour that tequila, gather some chips & salsa, cuddle with your honey, and crank up your stereo big-screen TV (hopefully you’ve got a widescreen version too) . This is fun, thrilling, and broad, and if you’re not smooching by the extinguish, gain another honey!
Just a understanding about the DVD version vs. the VHS version…
In most instances, a DVD version of a movie is genuine to the VHS version. The report is sharper, the colors more smart, certain, and subtle, the sound better, and it is available in widescreen. All these things are lawful about the Streets of Fire DVD, however…
This movie is not a subtle film. It’s stunning choices are heroic and strong, not subtle or deep. In the VHS version, where the main color on the cover is red, it totally bleeds RED. Where it is blue, and is a mettlesome and dominant BLUE, etc. On DVD these effects are lost as the sharpness of the medium brings out the subtleties of the colors. A shot that was dominantly blue is now a suble mix of greens and blues, and is weaker for it.
Also, that musty VHS had a trailer for “Conan the Destroyer,” one of the least subtle movies of all time.Seeing that before hearing that Ry Cooder riff really do me in that mid-’80’s action movie mood!
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