The Warriors

Watch cult classic Battle Royale on the big screen and stay for a midnight screening of The Warriors

Hot on the heels of Anchor Bay Entertainment’s recently released gorgeous collector’s edition of the cult classic Battle Royale, IFC Center tonight starts an exclusive New York City theatrical run of Kinji Fukasaku’s teen survival epic, featuring a high-definition digital projection. A long-unavailable underground hit, veteran director Fukasaku’s incredibly violent, still-shocking and deeply influential genre ….

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You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?

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By: Roger Hill
Characters: Cyrus
From: The Warriors
Genres: Cult Cinema

Context:
Gang overlord Cyrus says this to a sea of gang members meeting for a sort of "peace summit" in The Bronx, at the beginning of the Walter Hill film The Warriors. He called the conference in an attempt to unite all the gangs in the area.