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Hello all. Hope all is well. Anyone out there have any memories or comments on the 1983 film, Bad Boys? Not counting all the Prohibition era films, for me Bad Boys was the original gangster film.
Since I now go regularly to Chicago, I've seen some of the location sites. Kind of cool. Unfortunately I emulated some of the actors and lifestyle at a young age ( 12 or 13), but hey, I lived to tell the story.
Anyone else a fan of this movie?
Most definitely. I am referencing the 1983 movie. There is a major blooper at the end fight. As the camera is panning the boys who created a circle around the fight, you can see Cameraman B, in the circle, filming the fight from another angle.
Earlier in the film you can see the murals of Pilsen, the Marshall Square theater, a then-Walgreens in Uptown on Broadway. Cool stuff!
Most definitely. I am referencing the 1983 movie. There is a major blooper at the end fight. As the camera is panning the boys who created a circle around the fight, you can see Cameraman B, in the circle, filming the fight from another angle.
Earlier in the film you can see the murals of Pilsen, the Marshall Square theater, a then-Walgreens in Uptown on Broadway. Cool stuff!
I've seen the movie several times and never noticed that. I did watch the brief clip on youtube which shows the cameraman. But I can't tell if that clip was taken from the actual movie, or of if it was from an outtake/documentary.
PW Dawg. Good day. The actors you mentioned did versions of an era of Chicago gangsters, that were more sophisticated... the kind that caved in a skull with a baseball bat, and then went to church with the wife and kids.
Mark S. Good day. I understand your comment, but THAT is why I tried to differentiate the genre in the title, by acknowledging it was the first "urban" gangster movie. I meant, in the sense, that it was not organized crime figures, but rather loose neighborhood gangsters.
Mark S. Good day. I understand your comment, but THAT is why I tried to differentiate the genre in the title, by acknowledging it was the first "urban" gangster movie. I meant, in the sense, that it was not organized crime figures, but rather loose neighborhood gangsters.
So you're differentiating between "gangster" (as in organized crime / mafia) and "street / youth gangs?" Okay, sure.
I'm certainly not an expert on the street gang genre, but most of the ones I have seen (THE WANDERERS, LORDS OF FLATBUSH, THE WARRIORS, COLORS) take place either in New York or L.A. THE OUTSIDERS (another great movie) is set in Oklahoma. So it is entirely possible that BAD BOYS was the first "street gang" movie set in Chicago. I'm not sure.
Mark S. Yes. Unfortunately, movies like Bad Boys, Clockwork Orange and The Warriors inspired me to choose that type of persona, beginning in my preteen years. Ironically, now I am a social worker in a county jail, though.
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