The Warriors

The Warriors (1566779)	Home · Maps · About

Home > SubChat

[ Post a New Response | Return to the Index ]

(1566779)	view threaded
The Warriors
Posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021 Were the subway scenes real in this movie? As many shows and movies I have always been curious how these shots were done.
Post a New Response

(1566783)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Dan* on Tue Jan 26 08:36:58 2021, in response to The Warriors, posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021.* Subway scenes filmed on location but I'm surprised that the MTA gave permission to the film-makers. The graffiti covered cars of the era gave the MTA a deservedly bad image. Good movie though.
Post a New Response

(1566784)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Catfish 44* on Tue Jan 26 08:39:38 2021, in response to The Warriors, posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021.* Maybe that fight scene in the bathroom was filmed on sound stage but most everything else seems real. It also seems like a lot of that movie was shot overnight in the early am but I don’t know for sure.
Post a New Response

(Sponsored)

iPhone 6 (4.7 Inch) Premium PU Leather Wallet Case - Red w/ Floral Interior - by Notch-It

(1566786)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by pragmatist* on Tue Jan 26 09:43:15 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Dan on Tue Jan 26 08:36:58 2021.* The bathroom scene was the only scene for which a sound stage set was built. The wooden stall supports needed to be pre cut so they would break in the right places and sequence. Of course, when they were done it pretty much looked like most of the bathrooms in the subwayanyway.
Post a New Response

(1566787)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Catfish 44* on Tue Jan 26 09:55:38 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by pragmatist on Tue Jan 26 09:43:15 2021.* Hahaha you’re right about the bathrooms in the subway
Post a New Response

(1566788)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by pragmatist* on Tue Jan 26 10:28:36 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jan 26 09:55:38 2021.* They probably couldn't find one in good enough shape to bust up. Just about everything else was done in real locations, even if some stuff was added or tweaked. Having a station with unused platforms (Hoyt-Schermerhon) and different looks at different points was a big help.
Post a New Response

(1566791)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Catfish 44* on Tue Jan 26 11:50:41 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by pragmatist on Tue Jan 26 10:28:36 2021.* For sure
Post a New Response

(1566826)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP* on Tue Jan 26 19:34:56 2021, in response to The Warriors, posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021.* Hoyt-Schermerhorn was disguised as 96th St. Union Square is the real deal. None of the train markings are correct. I suspect this was done on purpose. The express train in the opening titles is running along Fulton St.
Post a New Response

(1566829)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by BusRider* on Tue Jan 26 20:09:43 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Jan 26 19:34:56 2021.* Thanks guys! I actually thought 96th was real. I think there was topic discussion before on how scenes worked for elevated segments. The opening with the flashing lights, I thought it was the Bronx.
Post a New Response

(1566851)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by MainR3664* on Wed Jan 27 07:31:48 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Jan 26 19:34:56 2021.* I have seen so many subway trains in movies with non-existent routings that I realize it's on purpose. I can't understand the reason, though. In the Warriors, I remember and R27 or R30 signed up as an L.... I doubt they ever actually ran in service with that designation- at least not before the 1985 elimination of double letters.
Post a New Response

(1566852)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by MainR3664* on Wed Jan 27 07:33:49 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by pragmatist on Tue Jan 26 09:43:15 2021.* It certainly did look authentic, LOL. But I know that in real life being shoved through partitions and plate glass, like we see frequently in movies and TV, leads to very serious injury- you probably won't get right back up and keep fighting. So yeah, they faked it.
Post a New Response

(1566880)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Express Rider* on Wed Jan 27 17:27:51 2021, in response to The Warriors, posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021.* I didn't see the movie but read the book by Sol Yurick when it came out during the mid 60s. It was good, long descriptions, of course, of the gang's subway ride back to Brooklyn.
Post a New Response

(1566887)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP* on Wed Jan 27 18:53:26 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by MainR3664 on Wed Jan 27 07:31:48 2021.* Just before the train pulls into Stillwell Ave., where those two prom couples board the train, you can see a QB local via bridge side route sign.
Post a New Response

(1566963)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Wakefield-241st Street* on Thu Jan 28 16:50:24 2021, in response to The Warriors, posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021.* Except for the bathroom fight scene (interior stage) all other scenes were filmed in NYC subways as well as other locations such as Riverside Park and Coney Island. A notable geographic error on the film shows the closed Eastern Parkway J mezzanine (look at the token booth as the Warriors jump the turnstiles to escape the Gun Hill gang in the "Bronx".)
Post a New Response

(1566978)	view threaded
[PHOTO] Re: The Warriors
Posted by Bill Newkirk* on Thu Jan 28 19:40:53 2021, in response to The Warriors, posted by BusRider on Tue Jan 26 07:37:09 2021.* Going through my collection I found this. Note the graffiti on the Stauch's Bath's building. (July 1977)
Post a New Response

(1566979)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Bill Newkirk* on Thu Jan 28 19:46:06 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Thu Jan 28 16:50:24 2021.* Except for the bathroom fight scene (interior stage) all other scenes were filmed in NYC subways as well as other locations such as Riverside Park and Coney Island. Here's a photo on ebay for proof. Bill Newkirk
Post a New Response

(1566982)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Catfish 44* on Thu Jan 28 20:56:53 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Thu Jan 28 16:50:24 2021.* How about the error when the movie ends in Fort Tilden?a
Post a New Response

(1566986)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Wakefield-241st Street* on Thu Jan 28 22:52:06 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Jan 28 20:56:53 2021.* Honestly I thought it was all within Coney Island Beach. Here is something interesting about the filming locations.
Post a New Response

(1566987)	view threaded
Re: The Warriors
Posted by Catfish 44* on Thu Jan 28 23:03:28 2021, in response to Re: The Warriors, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Thu Jan 28 22:52:06 2021.* That’s a cool site. I haven’t seen that before. It certainly is Ft. Tilden. The dunes were destroyed during Sandy. But as that movie ends and the folks walk along the beach you can very clearly see the end of Rockaway Point. It’s a narrow beach down there too whereas Coney Island is fairly wide.
Post a New Response

(1567094)	view threaded
Re: [PHOTO] Re: The Warriors
Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP* on Sat Jan 30 10:08:18 2021, in response to [PHOTO] Re: The Warriors, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jan 28 19:40:53 2021.* More proff.:)
Post a New Response

[ Return to the Message Index ]