The Black Hands. SPOILER QUIESTION - Does anyone know if that's Debra Winger, playing one of the prom girls, on the train at the end of the 1979 movie, The Warriors? Reportedly Shaquille O'Neal's favorite film. They may also be partly based on the Greek myth of Sirens, mermaid like creatures that lured sailors to their deaths. The Imps. Walter Hill told him to just "come up with something". Debra Lynn Winger[1][2] (born May 16, 1955)[3] is an American actress. After making a splash as Sissy in the 1980 mega-hit Urban Cowboy with John Travolta, Winger romanced. An actor interprets the words of a screenwriter or playwright, using their body as a vessel by which they bring a character to life. The travel route the Warriors gang must travel all through the night to get back home went from The Bronx through Manhattan and Brooklyn, and finally to Coney Island. Theirs was a story of courage. Many people say that Debra Winger was one of them. The Baseball Furies aka The Furies. It's her. There's an oft-repeated maxim that there are no roles in Hollywood for women over 40 because Hollywood just apparently isn't interested in depicting the stories of mature women or putting women who aren't 22 anymore up on the screen. The High Hats The High Rollers. However, Ajax, who is extremely aggressive starts to maul her. While he expressed enthusiasm for the role he mysteriously vanished right before shooting began and was not heard from again. In the subway where Mercy is running with Fox's double, she fell and broke her wrist because the actor didn't let go of her hand. Stunt coordinator Craig R. Baxley put the cast through stunt school because Walter Hill wanted realistic fights depicted in the film. Oh, Debra Winger. (Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. Despite being a movie about tons of gangs, the only gangs that are ever actually seen using guns are the Lizzies and the Rogues. Deborah Van Valkenburgh's boyfriend at the time discouraged her from auditioning because he thought the director was looking for someone more well endowed. The Electric Eliminators. From 2016 to 2020, Winger starred opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch. Where did you go, Debra Winger? The filmmakers had Mercy disappear from the film for a while, meeting up with the Warriors at the subway platform and saying that she stole the jacket she was wearing before arriving there. I felt like a slice of rye in a loaf of Wonder Bread." The acclaimed actress was a guest on Cohen's Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen . The IND Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Brooklyn was used for the 96th St. station scenes. The element the two gangs had in common was the they were both from Coney Island. J.D. Swan does, however, reappear at Coney Island to fight the final battle after the Riffs learn the truth about who shot Cyrus. Walter Hill uses this gimmick frequently; other movies he has made that work this way are Southern Comfort (1981) and The Long Riders (1980). "World Announcement (Skit)" by the rap group Def Squad from their 1998 album "El Nio" is modeled on Cyrus's speech. The Amsterdam All-Stars. This is done by placing a piece of tape over the optical soundtrack. Director: Steve Conrad | Stars: Gil Bellows, Cindy Bossan, Yannis Bougeard, Selma Brook. I think had I been a better director, I might have gotten through to him better. The Blackjacks. Cyrus wants has called on all the gangs to make a truce so that he can organize them into one large gang. Read the trivia for "The Warriors". In order to get the movie out before rival "gang" film The Wanderers (1979), post-production on this picture employed three editing teams in three editing suites, who worked around the clock to finish the film. Published on October 31, 2018 01:52 PM. Hill saw that film because he wanted to see Weaver's performance, as she was being considered for the upcoming film Alien (1979), but was so impressed by Beck's work that he had him come in for an audition which led to his being cast in THE WARRIORS. Loosely based on Xenophon's "Anabasis", the account of an army of Greek mercenaries who, after aligning themselves with Cyrus the Younger in the battle of Cunaxa (401 BC) in his attempt to seize the Persian throne, found themselves isolated behind Persian enemy lines. Michael Beck was discovered by Walter Hill when Hill was watching the movie Madman (1978), which Beck co-starred in with a then less-famous Sigourney Weaver. He plays a gay character in the movie. Ranked #16 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time.". Those roles were mostly rehashes of ones she's already portrayed, and, as far as she was concerned, why bother? Her performance in A Dangerous Woman earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. This was removed for the original theatrical release version but was re-instated, displayed within the comic book title cards, for Walter Hill's 2005 Director's Cut DVD edition. In 2016, she joined the cast of The Ranch. 14 No. Another is the late stunt-great A.J. According to a New York profile of Winger, she stood on a road in Ireland and announced to her soon-to-be-husband, "That's it, I'm done." She also had a role opposite Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway in the harrowing Rachel Getting Married. The film was also Winger's debut as a producer. In the trailer, the narrator states "between them and safety stand 20,000 cops and 100,000 sworn enemies." Reports suggest that Debra winger has also trained in the Israel Defense Forces. The ploy worked, and the death scene was taken out. Definitely not Debra. Yeah, like the trivia sections on IMDB are never wrong. Makes several anti-gay slurs. Whatever Happened To The Guy In The Green Shirt Dancer Daniel Levins? According to the movie's source script, the full name of "The Warriors" gang was actually "The Coney Island Warriors". It was in this time she vowed to pursue a career as an actress if she got better. The Gladiators. The Lizzies. She was in Urban Cowboy after The Warriors came out and French Postcards just before The Warriors came out and in both of those she's typical Debra Winger. This upset and outraged many people; some tried to have the film banned. [24] The same year, she starred in her first romantic lead after many years in The Lovers. In 2017, Winger had a cameo as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV miniseries When We Rise. (1982) made and released around three years later. But in the last six years, tell me a film that I should have been in. There's a big difference between being an actor and being a movie star. If not, it looks exactly like her. Winger semi-retired in 1995, or she at least placed some lofty restrictions on herself and filmmakers that wanted to work with her. When Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986, Davis said, "I see a great deal of myself in Debra Winger.". [18], Rosanna Arquette made a critically acclaimed documentary film, Searching for Debra Winger, that was released in 2002 after Winger returned to film acting. This is a homage to one of the better known scenes in The Warriors. The film was made and released about fourteen years after its source novel of the same name by Sol Yurick had been first published in 1965. Votes: 317. For one thing, she's too tall. The actors , the subway & outdoor scenes look outstanding on bluray. That is false information. She was in Urban Cowboy after The Warriors came out and French Postcards just before The Warriors came out and in both of those she's typical Debra Winger. I'm perfectly prepared to think that some of it was my fault. Many people say that Debra Winger was one of them. Contrary to popular belief one of the young "Prom Couples" females is NOT played by a young Debra Winger. The group Pop Will Eat Itself used sound bites from the movie for their song Can you Dig it? She enjoyed exponential growth as an actress and recognized talent. Although Danza expressed interest he was forced to turn down the offer due his filming commitments for the sitcom "Taxi". The picture is listed as a "Cult Film" by Danny Peary in his "Cult Movies" book, his first about them. Oh, Debra Winger. Rachel Getting Married. Winger produced the mixed-media film (animation, time-lapse photography) about Bel Borba, a legendary street artist in Salvador, Brazil, who creates huge public murals. The crowd panics and Luther begins screaming that the Warriors did it, The Warriors shot Cyrus. Votes: 11,159 | Gross: $49.85M. He's written me a couple letters.". Debra Lynn Winger is an American actress. The main reason why Hollywood movies rarely ever feature Debra Winger anymore? The Magicians. She was cast in A League of Their Own but dropped out and was replaced by Geena Davis. 7", "SHORT TAKES: Debra Winger Is Not for Politics", "Debra Winger: The return of a class act", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Debra_Winger&oldid=1123133822, 3 episodes: "The Feminum Mystique" (Parts 1 & 2), "Wonder Woman in Hollywood", This page was last edited on 22 November 2022, at 01:39. The Homeboys. Her As she's listed in the movie though so she is in that movie what she played is yet to be seen she very well could be that PromGirl. They also provide strong testaments to their craft. The Knockdowns. But in two movies "Cruising " and "Partners". Walter Hill says of this film on his 2005 DVD introduction: "At the very beginning, I said [that] to do this properly and to do the vision of the novel, it really only makes sense if you do it all black and Hispanic. Waites is not in the final credits because he demanded that his name be removed. Debra Winger starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s. RELATED: Whatever Happened To The Guy In The Green Shirt Dancer Daniel Levins? Over two millenniums ago, an army of Greek Soldiers found themselves isolated in the middle of The Persian Empire. The wardrobe department made sure nobody walked off location wearing The Warriors colours. James Remar ,David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham and Marcelino Snchez all appeared in 48 Hrs. The picture's opening credits title cards and the film's movie poster title logo featured font lettering in the form of graffiti paint. The Female Villains Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. A movie star does those things, but they also have to go out and promote their movie, convincing talk show audiences that their new project is the greatest film ever made. The hiphop group Delinquent Habits styled the cover of their debut album 'Delinquent Habits' (1996) after the famous Warriors movie poster, where the various gangs can be seen in their 'colours'. Entertainment Weekly ranked this Number Six on their "Guilty Pleasures: Testosterone Edition" list in their March 30, 2007 issue. Debra Winger evidently enjoyed a reputation as one of the most "difficult" actresses in 1980s Hollywood. She is a really bad shot and the trio all manage to escape by smashing through the door. The role went to Kathleen Turner. Debra Winger was born on the 16th of May in the year 1955 in the Cleveland region of Ohio to parents Ruth and Robert Winger. There are some really freaky gangs and one of the most twisted is the Rouges which is led by Luther (David Patrick Kelly). When Ajax and Cowboy are running from the Baseball Furies, you can see several times that James Remar reaches over and slaps Tom McKitterick on the butt. According to Walter Hill, what had happened was gangs were attracted to the film and they had saw their rival gangs and caused violent incidents. No it's not. But when they went back, they found out that the cast and crew had done this so they could bring out a huge bouquet of roses which they then presented to a surprised Van Valkenburgh. The Rogues. They could run New York City." Walter agreed and decided to go back and re-shot the conversations that The Warriors have before their train arrives. The film originally sported the subtitle "Sometime in the Future". Debra Winger is getting candid about why she dropped out of "A League of Their Own.". The Warriors' vests were made of fake leather. On Tuesday night, Winger, 63 . "But I was horrified to see it edited with a chainsaw. In her 2008 book, undiscovered, Debra Winger describes how she got her first major rolethat of Sissy, a sassy Texan cowgirlin Urban Cowboy: "I arrived at the Paramount lot the day I read about the recasting of the female lead in Variety (Sissy Spacek and John Travolta [who had . The Moonrunners. The Turks. Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Debra (her father named her Debra after his favorite actress, Debra Paget ). Tony Danza was offered the lead, but he chose to film the television series Taxi (1978) instead. However, the actual fight, and a great deal more running, was done by stuntmen. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1995 Winger decided to take a hiatus from acting. The Zulus. Hill explained, "I feel very bad about the whole thing. The Plainsmen. The Lizzies are a group of female gang members from New York in the 1979 movie The Warriors. Lynne Thigpen's (DJ) whole face is never shown, only her mouth and part of her eye. Filming sometimes had to move due to noise from crowds that came to watch. However, financing fell though and Gordon was able to get The Warriors funded by Paramount Pictures. The Boyle Avenue Runners. In the script, Fox was originally the love interest of Mercy, but the two actors had no chemistry and the Mercy romance was transferred to Swan. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman. While they shot in the Bronx, bricks were tossed at the crew. Her first role came as "Debbie" in Slumber Party '57. In addition to a sizable contingent of on-set security members, the producers also paid a real-life gang, The Mongrels, $500 per day to guard the production's equipment trucks. The basketball star often quoted Cyrus' "Can you dig it?" The Warriors chick is heavier too. It's really exciting.". She has also compared John Malkovich, her co-star in the 1990 drama The Sheltering Sky, to "a catwalk model," and called her An Officer and a Gentleman partner Richard Gere "a brick wall," as noted by The Telegraph. Thomas G. Waites was fired eight weeks into principal photography for being difficult and arguing with Walter Hill; his character was removed from the movie by having a cop throw him into the path of a train during a fight. Cleon (Dorsey Wright) the leader of The Warriors is killed instantly by members of Gramercy Riffs. family (originally from Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire). Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Debra (her father named her Debra after his favorite actress, Debra Paget ). [37][38], In 1996, Winger married actor/director Arliss Howard, whom she met on the set of the film Wilder Napalm. The gang didn't take too well to this, so the producers paid them to be in the film. This too is a story of courage". However, word of mouth and a couple of incidents killed the film's momentum. In an interview with "Film Bulletin", Lawrence Gordon explained how the film came about. The Warriors chick is heavier too. Winger was to play Peggy Sue in the film Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to back out just before production began after injuring her back in a bicycle accident. Still, this was true for a long time, and, not only did Debra Winger bear the brunt of it, she was also the poster child for it. James Remar spent time in Coney Island so he could observe real people on whom to base his portrayal of Ajax. The Locos. Catch up with Winger and watch the trailer below. "The Warriors was a tough haul for us, all the way through. The block parties were also a pivotal moment in the evolution of hip hop. The Five Points. The scene was actually shot in Riverside Park, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He's since apologized. Cochises play mate pulls a knife and Vermins girl pulls a gun an begins blasting away. Mary Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruth (Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. After memorable performances in An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Urban Cowboy, Debra had found herself in the top tier of American actresses, but she shocked everyone by turning her back on the industry in 1995. Her roles in that special were the "Cyclone" narrator and the Wicked Witch of the West. First of four cinema film collaborations of actor James Remar and writer/director Walter Hill. 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