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Streets Of Fire Is A Movie Worth Seeing

Posted by Lucy Garza

Walter Hill directed Streets of Fire as an attempt at making what he believed would’ve been the absolute best movie ever when he was a teen. He wrote the script by simply writing a checklist of things he loved as a kid, and making sure that the script included everything on the list. We’d put it on any top movie downloads list of great eighties flicks.

The film takes place in a city trapped somewhere between the nineteen fifties and the nineteen eighties, following Tom Cody, a war hero returning to his hometown upon hearing that his old girlfriend, Ellen Aim, has been kidnapped by Raven, the leader of the local biker gang. The film takes place in a beautiful, glitzy, rainy, neon lit city.

The movie is really defined by the music, again, blending fifties and eighties styles. You’ll hear these great old fashioned fifties rock tunes with a layer of synth and aggressive, eighties style vocals. It really invents its own style of pop and Rock and Roll, even having led to the hit single, I Can Dream About You.

The story is pretty traditional, standard stuff, but because of the feel, the sound of the movie, this old story of kidnapping and rescue is elevated to the level of Rock and Roll Fairy Tale.

Hill has always been one of the great directors for as long as he’s been creating films. However, you rarely hear his name mentioned alongside Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola. While he has every bit of the talent to earn that sort of respect, he tends to focus on action and western flicks, which don’t always earn a director the same degree of respect.

The pop and rock soundtrack is contrasted by Ry Cooder’s guitar score, which adds an extra layer of earthiness to the character of Tom Cody. The atmosphere and soundtrack are largely glitzy and fast paced, so the more laid back, gritty sound of Cooder’s slide guitar adds a certain contrast that really helps both sides of the soundtrack compliment each other.

If you haven’t seen The Warriors yet, Streets of Fire makes an excellent double feature with that film, as both take place in an elevated reality, a sort of fantasy world, with The Warriors taking it in a more gritty direction while Streets of Fire takes the concept into a more glitzy, glamorous direction. The two fantasy worlds feel akin to one another.

The movie was going to be a trilogy, with the two sequels to be called The Return of Tom Cody and The Far City, but box office returns came out somewhat disappointing and those plans were scrapped. It’s too bad, because it does feel like there was another story to tell in this environment. Luckily, the film has become a cult classic over the years and has earned the fanbase it deserved, it’s only too bad that didn’t happen back when that would’ve gotten us a sequel!

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