I finally got the book! Reflections on it inside.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:59 pm
Ever since I found out that The Warriors was originally a book, I have wanted to read it. Well... my search has finally been successful.
Right now I'm in Toronto with friends (insert Easy Aces joke here), and I was walking through the Chapters at the Eaton Centre, if anyone knows where that is. I figured, "Well, maybe they have a copy here!" I looked around, and I was just about to give up. Then I saw it. Two copies jammed in between a row of books and the shelf.
Thus, I finally got it.
I read the whole thing in one night, I was so excited. I must say that it was like seeing a whole different story. I also have to admit that, after reading the book, the movie seems almost... not so good. I really like the gritty, real life feel of the novel. I also love the way that Yurick was super-accurate with the subway geography. For example, it's impossible to go through 96th Street to Union Square without changing trains somewhere in between. In the book they changed at Times Square, which made a lot more sense.
I liked the lack of fighting. It made it seem much scarier. The part with Hinton in the tunnels, for example, was one of the scariest things I have ever read. Yurick really did that scene very well. The fact that the characters were actually teenagers made it all the better, as their cluelessness about the world moved things along pretty well.
Overall, I sorta wish that a proper adaptation of the movie would be made. Not to say that The Warriors we know and love is a bad movie. On the contrary, it is still my favourite. I just think that the book has a totally different feel to the movie, and it would do well to be adapted a second time, this time more closely to the story. Seriously, imagine if the scene in the tunnel were to be put to film. I know that it was kinda done with Swan and Mercy, but there were two of them, neither were scared, and it descended into the textbook love scene.
Anyway, that is just my opinion.
Right now I'm in Toronto with friends (insert Easy Aces joke here), and I was walking through the Chapters at the Eaton Centre, if anyone knows where that is. I figured, "Well, maybe they have a copy here!" I looked around, and I was just about to give up. Then I saw it. Two copies jammed in between a row of books and the shelf.
Thus, I finally got it.
I read the whole thing in one night, I was so excited. I must say that it was like seeing a whole different story. I also have to admit that, after reading the book, the movie seems almost... not so good. I really like the gritty, real life feel of the novel. I also love the way that Yurick was super-accurate with the subway geography. For example, it's impossible to go through 96th Street to Union Square without changing trains somewhere in between. In the book they changed at Times Square, which made a lot more sense.
I liked the lack of fighting. It made it seem much scarier. The part with Hinton in the tunnels, for example, was one of the scariest things I have ever read. Yurick really did that scene very well. The fact that the characters were actually teenagers made it all the better, as their cluelessness about the world moved things along pretty well.
Overall, I sorta wish that a proper adaptation of the movie would be made. Not to say that The Warriors we know and love is a bad movie. On the contrary, it is still my favourite. I just think that the book has a totally different feel to the movie, and it would do well to be adapted a second time, this time more closely to the story. Seriously, imagine if the scene in the tunnel were to be put to film. I know that it was kinda done with Swan and Mercy, but there were two of them, neither were scared, and it descended into the textbook love scene.
Anyway, that is just my opinion.