Did you want to talk a little bit about Crooklyn? But you could also spin paranoid loops that the Riffs were in on it or he was protected in some way. Even if you’ve never seen it, you’d recognize its signature (and unscripted) line: “Warriors, come out to pla-ay!” In this edition of Making the Scene, Luther himself, the actor David Patrick Kelly, discusses that magical moment of divine inspiration. It was in sequence, which probably led to Walter wanting more out of that final stand-off. The Sheriff?” I just looked at them and they wandered back into the crowd. I like that it’s left for audience to decide. Directed by Walter Hill, The Warriors is Greek mythology on the subway. Everyone looks so exhausted that it really seems as if there’s been countless battles from the evening before. And it was so crazy and free at the same time. The Rogues’ Death Wagon was a classic Cadillac Hearse. I think it was a monstrous expression of jealousy and rage and frustration and whatever horrible things Luther had been through to get to his position of power. These five words, delivered in a sing-songy voice by actor David Patrick Kelly toward the end of the movie, conjure up the crazy adventure of the Warriors, a Coney Island gang who are framed for a murder and must spend their night evading other New York City gangs to get back home. I’d be happy to see any of the cast or crew anytime. It was really great. Tell me about your role in there and how you saw yourself, how you created that persona. So I found three little bottles and invoked Liz Swados and Harry Partch and let Luther’s fury rage. We rehearsed it and Walter had me bring the bottles up slowly and then we shot it in one. They cast me in the Warriors on the basis of that show where I did a funny scary monologue about killing my bosses. Resplendent in a WFUV Fordham radio t-shirt, Kelly FaceTimed an interview from the East Harlem apartment he shares with his wife and daughter. David Patrick Kelly, Actor: Twin Peaks. It’s the perfect time to revisit the 1979 NYC classic, The Warriors. I imagined Luther as an apprentice gangster. I was very fortunate with The Warriors and I am glad it meant so much to people. They all contribute so much. He had his storyboard ideas and wanted these young actors to do what he said being a young director in charge of a big complicated production. Then by the end of the shoot, having led this large unwieldy army through a tough shoot, Walter was ready to allow me to ‘make something up’ as he asked me to do. Walter and I mentioned briefly Richard III doing whatever it takes to steal the throne. Required fields are marked *. Make something up. To the show’s contestants, he meant the world. All of Luthers scenes were in the film plus the added “Come Out To Play” scene. That one really resonates in terms of the guy who’s trying to bring the peace, and he punches Tony Eyes in the face. The Warriors get unfairly blamed for a murder and must fight their way back to Coney Island. WMS: What was it like filming in New York City at night in the late 1970’s, and did you have any experience with meeting real-life gangs on-set? quiz host dead at age 80. The New York of today looks something like the dying city of the 1970s, back when Ford told the city to drop dead. You talk about The Warriors resonating. When I went for my second meeting I remember Walter saying “I think you are in the spirit of this movie.”. I think that his other films get more attention. The bottle clinking, the sing-song way you say “Warriors, come out to play.” I don’t see the line in the official script. I lived in a neighborhood which was dangerous if you were not street-smart, which I quickly became. Very Greek with offstage violence. I like to get behind the challenge of that and make it my own, so contrast the scene where Luther receives the gun to commit the assassination. I made up a character as “the Boss” who combined political corruption with gangsterism, someone Luther knew from a young age, a kind of mentor who Luther was anxious to please, a kind of Fagin/Boss Tweed. He was trying to get a good set of stability, and so I appreciated that character, because it represented this extremely repressed person and his relationship with his mother. Thank you. I came to it right after doing The Crow and the tragedy of that with Brandon Lee, so it was quite healing to come into that. Over the years, the movie gained a cult reputation as a classic. WMS: What are you currently up to and do you have any projects in the pipeline? Did you shoot the famous confrontation scene in sequence? My part in that was Charlie Blossom ,a funny, scary homicidal maniac so I think they began thinking about me as Luther. The back-to-back NBA Champion Golden State Warriors announced today that they have promoted David Kelly to Chief Legal Officer, Business and Basketball. Sing them something.” I had been doing experimental theatre down at La Mama and working with my band at CBGB so a lyrical ballad did not come to mind. WMS: Did any of your scenes get cut from the movie, and if so what did they entail? But then what I so admired about him is that his character is almost worse in that movie, the glue-sniffing bully that he plays in that. WMS: Can you remember the location of the scene in the candy store as this is one we have no idea as to where it might be? I think he only said “the Boss”. My sister did that for Crooklyn. Were you surprised or hurt by the early criticism? John was coming out big in the Coen brothers movies, Barton Fink. But so yeah, and he told me, he said, “Now, David, this was a crazy character with smelly dogs and all this kind of stuff.”. General Manager, Advertising: Kevin Sanders. Lots of interesting theatre, music and film projects . You’re still living there today. There were no seats except for the drivers seat that Joel Weiss was in. Why do you think your song is so menacing? David Patrick Kelly. Alfre Woodard was really wonderful and Delroy Lindo. photography show at the Whitney by Martine Barrat, 'What Did Jack Do?' It was really interesting, because Sam Jackson was doing his auditions. Roger Ebert gave it just two stars, calling it “a ballet of stylized male violence.” Others claimed it glorified gangs. I’m going to end the interview with that, that, shockingly, you are feeling that this is actually a moment of change, rather than sort of despair. Does it feel just as burnt out and scary or just as burnt out and something else? He burst onto the acting scene in 1979, playing the devious leader of the leather-clad gang "The Rogues" in, October Horrors 2020 – Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), Michael Walker’s Dark Comedy ‘Paint’ Lands at Gravitas Ventures (Exclusive), Fantasia Review: Fugitive Dreams Plunges into an Inescapable Purgatory, Prominent People in Big-budget '80s Action Films. That is strictly and beautifully choreographed. Warriors Forever. WMS: Did you get to keep anything from the movie as a keepsake, like the jacket? Only Cropsey the driver had a seat. Then they both came to see me on Broadway in Working that I and Lynn Thigpen were in. Gangs in bespoke costumes meet in Van Cortlandt Park to discuss a peace treaty, but the evening ends in bloodshed. We’d take the Cross-Bronx Expressway to Utopia Parkway in Queens and I’d stare at the rows of destroyed buildings.
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