They kind of saw it worked in the world of an MTV video.[8]. I was like, "Jesus, this is incredible. ", "From The Other World Walter Hills Streets of Fire in 70mm", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Streets_of_Fire&oldid=1015349448, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Worst Supporting Actress: Diane Lane (1984), This page was last edited on 31 March 2021, at 23:40. [3], According to cinematographer Andrew Laszlo, the film's style was dictated by the story. I think he thought that I was a needy guy. It was a movie that was built to succeed. He's also a tough son-of-a-bitch. That was in our heads...there's the past and there's the future, sort of. In a city where it is always nighttime, during a concert performing live before a crowd of her fans, rock 'n' roll singer Ellen Aim is kidnapped by motorcyclist Raven Shaddock and his biker gang "The Bombers" on stage. The four men began planning Streets of Fire while completing 48 Hrs. [5] The lighting for these concert scenes were done by Mark Brickman, who also lit concerts for Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd. [5] Hill was so impressed with her work on the film that he wrote additional scenes for her during the shoot. Joined by ex-soldier and mechanic McCoy who is also in town looking for work, Cody and Fish set out across the rain infested streets inhabited by cops, street gangs and rock fans and into the criminal neighborhood 'The Battery', where Cody, Fish and McCoy prepare to rescue Ellen from the gang. During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals. Two firemen in a burning building get a treasure map - stolen gold church items are hidden in a closed down factory in St. Louis. I really freaked out. That idea of a totally artificial universe. Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France, "Tonight is What Means To Be Young: "Streets of Fire" at 30", "How Did This Get Made: A Conversation with 'Streets of Fire' Co-Writer Larry Gross", "Tom Cody, Pleased To Meet Ya! [29], Streets of Fire was intended to be the first in a projected trilogy titled The Adventures of Tom Cody, with Hill's tentatively titling the two sequels The Far City and Cody's Return. It is another time - Another Place - where the 1950s is mixed with the 1980s. We would stage it and shoot it. The movie intentionally refuses to settle down on a single tone or genre. [4], Walter Hill thought "the audience will go with you when you set up an abstract world with teenage values and play out a drama within this. We went further with that, perhaps, than we should have. [5] The version of "Sorcerer", composed by Stevie Nicks, that was featured on the actual soundtrack album was performed by Marilyn Martin. You can't do that on a movie set. Streets of Fire Walter Hill's updated (1984), highly stylized take on biker movies still looks like a determinedly eccentric project that happens to work at times, but not at others. ''Streets of Fire,'' incidentally, is violent enough to raise a few eyebrows over its PG rating. "Streets of Fire" was a motion picture released by Universal in 1984. I was already worried about whether I should do the sequel or not."[33]. And just so you know, this is the early ’80s and you had stylized films—like New York City—that were all done on set and that idea was in the air. [5] Cinematographer Andrew Laszlo shot the film with very low light, giving the images a stark, "low-tech" quality. Walter proudly considers himself a capitalist, so he suggested we do the latter. Argyle prints and plaids are used in the Parkside District, and neon lights color the Strip.[3]. Comedians are a special breed. A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries... A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective. Hill met Lane in New York City and she auditioned for him in black leather pants, a black mesh top and high-heeled boots. She described her character as "the first glamorous role I've had". "He wanted to create his own "comic book movie", without the source material actually being a comic book", said Gross, which led to the creation of Tom Cody.[4]. INTERVIEW: Michael Paré talks with TV STORE ONLINE about the cult classic STREETS OF FIRE", "Mr. Beaks Talks THE LINCOLN LAWYER, EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS and STREETS OF FIRE With Michael Paré! "He did not love creating scripts from scratch; he loved rewriting." We only get the final song. "[11], Roger Ebert wrote that "the language is strange, too: It's tough, but not with 1984 toughness. While there are thus two versions of the song, only Hartman's version was released commercially. Streets of Fire, by Thomas Cook, a-minus, Narrated by George Guidall, Produced by Recorded Books, downloaded from audible.com. Streets of Fire is a pretty awful film. I already had a great respect for people like Minnelli. The film is described in its opening credits and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable"[2] and is a mix of various movie genres with elements of retro-1950s woven into then-current 1980s themes. [5] The factory scenes that take place in the Battery were filmed at a rotting soap factory in Wilmington, California, for ten nights. Witnessing this is Reva Cody (Deborah Van Valkenburgh), who asks her brother Tom (Michael Paré), an ex-soldier and Ellen's ex-boyfriend, to come home and rescue her. A world where it's raining all the time. "[5], The character of Ellen Aim was written as a 28-year-old woman. 2:17 Streets Of Fire. Which VERY late sequel is most watchable? Ellen and Tom also have an argument. I don't think there was any other way to do it given the circumstances.[8]. The movie screened very, very well. The structural advantage of the old studio system we didn't have. And then it didn't, and that was sad. [5], The exterior of the Richmond Theater where Ellen Aim sings at the beginning of the film was shot on the backlot, with the interior done in the Wiltern Theater in L.A. for two weeks. A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang. After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms. No director holds a candle to Hill for sheer visceral expertise. [23] After 10 days, it made $4.5 million, while fellow opener Star Trek III: The Search for Spock grossed $34.8 million in the same time. While Reva and McCoy go to a diner to wait for Billy, Tom acquires a cache of weapons, including a pump action shotgun, a revolver, and a lever action rifle. Writers aren't always that good at communicating in person. The subway scenes were filmed on location in Chicago at many locations, including: LaSalle Street (Blue line), Lake Street (Green line), Sheridan Road (Red, Purple lines), and Belmont Avenue (Red, Brown, and Purple lines). Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Those are two very successful movies that figured out how to do the stylization with the appropriate amount of gore that they hooked the audience. The movie's bigness of size—compositionally—changed the meaning of things and made it more of a fairy tale...The Warriors, it was bewoven with a unique sense of realism. Ellen follows Tom, while Billy and McCoy go back and forth once again about Tom and Ellen's love affair. McCoy enters and is stopped by one of the "Bombers". And I thought that we had done what we set out to do. I blamed you but you can't be upset with me. "People think that he doesn't like women and he knows that's not true. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. The concept for Streets of Fire came together during the making of 48 Hrs., and reunited director Walter Hill with producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver, and screenwriter Larry Gross, all of whom worked together on that production. If nothing else, it's creative and stylistic. BridgetEnlt9211. I've always wondered why Walter has never wanted to work with me again. Two songs written by Jim Steinman were part of the soundtrack: "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" and "Nowhere Fast", both performed by 'Fire Incorporated', with Holly Sherwood providing lead vocals on the former and Laurie Sargent on the latter. Road to Hell is a 2008 action-fantasy film directed by Albert Pyun.It was inspired by Walter Hill's Streets of Fire and began shooting that same year in June at Los Angeles.Pyun states that the genesis of Road to Hell began when he and Paré attended a film festival in Spain. Raven has Ellen tied up in an upstairs bedroom. I was a student of Medicine in KMC Mangalore at that time and the streets of the city literally roared with the sound of our motorbikes. The world is a high school, essentially. He told me he's going to do this new thing: he's going to put a female character right in the centre of the narrative." Although three districts are seen, the city has a total of five districts: the Richmond, the Strip, the Battery, the Cliffside, and the Bayside. It was scary. I said, where'd you hear that? 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