Is this a realistic portrayal of 1970s NYC gangs?
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FinalFight — 9 years ago(September 30, 2016 05:08 PM)
I was a witness to one of their brawls. A pizza brother threw a large deep dish pizza like a frisbee towards a baseball fury who caught it on the top of his bat with the pizza still spinning. I remember being caught up in the moment and not believing what I had just witnessed.
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handa-1 — 10 years ago(November 27, 2015 06:17 PM)
Some aspects of life for youth of that time frame are kind of accurate.
Like the DJ, radio DJs in the 70s/80s, particularly KTU and BLS did speak directly with the audiences as a whole. Way more than DJs do now.
Also the grafiti tagging, it was a big dis to tag someone elses grafiti back then. -
Knowby_Warrior — 10 years ago(December 28, 2015 11:57 AM)
The movie is set in a "near future".
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therealman — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 01:57 PM)
Other than wardrobe/theme, a big difference with the gangs in the film vs. in real life was how well most of the gangs were integrated. In the sixties when the novel was written and into the seventies when the movie was made gangs would be of a single race. You would have the black gangs vs. the mexican gangs vs. the white gangs. The producers didn't think (probably correctly) movie fans would go to see a picture that featured all Hispanic leads. So they integrated the gangs and made the lead white.