DESTROY ALL CULTURE

DAC Episode 373 - The Warriors (1979)


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The Warriors! The million-meme spawning, reality-adjacent adaptation of a 2,400 year old Greek poem, transformed into a carnivalesque vision of a New York City run by elaborately themed gangs straight out of a Lucy Sante book. Best known these days for David Patrick Kelly’s “Warriors… come out to play-ay-yay” line, The Warriors feels like an elegy for something that never quite existed: an action movie with not much action, a musical that misplaced its score, a dystopia that barely redrew its map.

Come listen to Adam and Aidan as they discuss this weirdo classic. Listen below or find us on your podmachine of choice.

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DESTROY ALL CULTUREBy Aidan and Adam