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Actors: Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Amy Madigan, Rick Moranis, Willem Dafoe, Bill Paxton, Ed Begley Jr. The Blasters
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Streets of Fire |
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Cody's (Pare) ex-girldriend, Allen Aim, a rock star played by Diane Lane, is kidnapped by Raven, leader of the Bomber's gang (Willem DaFoe) because he wants to toy with her for a few weeks. Cody's sister, knowing he's Ellen's ex-boyfriend and he's out of the Army, writes him to come home, urgently. Cody does, joins up with McCoy (Amy Madigan), also ex-Army and out of work, and they, reluctantly paid by Ellen Aim's current lover/producer (Moranis)go against Raven and the Bombers to rescue her. The soundtrack by Ry Cooder makes the whole movie so much better than it would have been otherwise, it's like another character/actor in the movie.
--Glenda Konopka, Resident Scholar
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"The leader of the pack steals the queen of the hop and the soldier boy comes home to do something about it." In "another time, another place" that vaguely resembles the 1950's, a singer is kidnapped by a biker gang and her ex-boyfriend comes home and rescues her. This leads to a chase through a really big city at night and climaxes in a kick-ass sledgehammer fight.
--Zorikh Lequidre, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Streets of Fire |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal kidnappers
Criminal enemy is...
- gang conflict
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Irish/McCourt
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Irish/McCourt
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Misc setting
- moving train
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 0 (not a murder mystery)
- 1
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
- Classic/oldies rock
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