Eighties Movie Download Streets Of Fire
Walter Hill really created a unique little flick with Streets of Fire. Hill actually came up with the film by simply thinking of everything he'd want to have seen in a great movie as a kid, and then writing a checklist, and making sure he hit all those moments as he banged the screenplay out. The result is one of the all time great eighties movie downloads.
The film follows a discharged soldier, Tom Cody, as he returns to town to save his old flame, pop star Ellen Aim, from Raven, the local biker gang leader. The movie blends fifties and eighties aesthetics into an all new fantasy environment, with dreamlike cinematography showing a lot of rainy streets, neon lights and classic cars.
Something that really helps to define the movie is the music. Again, it blends the style of the fifties with the eighties, so you have those great old Doo Wop dance rock songs treated with a layer of synth rock and roll and dramatic female vocals. Ellen Aim's band, The Attackers, features prominently in the film. One of these songs, I Can Dream About You, actually climbed up pretty high on the charts.
The story itself is pretty stock action film stuff, but this time it's done with such incredible style that it feels fresh and all new. The girlfriend is kidnapped, the hero comes home to save her. We've seen this story hundreds of times before, but this time, it's elevated to a sort of modern day, Rock and Roll fairy tale.
Hill has remained one of the most consistently competent and capable directors since his debut decades ago, and it's really too bad that he doesn't often get the respect he deserves. He tends to focus on action flicks, which tends not to earn the same sort of respect as other genres, but Hill really is one of the best directors out there right now.
Besides the rock and roll, the film also has a score written by blues legend Ry Cooder. The earthy, bluesy feel of his slide guitar offers a contrast to the glossy feel of the rest of the soundtrack, and drives home the "down to earthness" of Tom Cody, the character most frequently accompanied by Cooder's guitar score.
If you haven't seen The Warriors yet, Streets of Fire makes an excellent double feature with that film, as both take place in an elevated reality, a sort of fantasy world, with The Warriors taking it in a more gritty direction while Streets of Fire takes the concept into a more glitzy, glamorous direction. The two fantasy worlds feel akin to one another.
The movie was original intended to be the first in a trilogy, but, unfortunately, the film didn't perform at the box office quite as well as expected, so the sequels, The Far City and The Return of Tom Cody, never got funding. Luckily, the film has become a cult legend over time, so it has, of course, earned the respect it deserves as an all time action movie classic and one of the best films made in the nineteen eighties, but it's unfortunate that that didn't happen back when fans could've gotten a sequel out of the deal. - 2361
The film follows a discharged soldier, Tom Cody, as he returns to town to save his old flame, pop star Ellen Aim, from Raven, the local biker gang leader. The movie blends fifties and eighties aesthetics into an all new fantasy environment, with dreamlike cinematography showing a lot of rainy streets, neon lights and classic cars.
Something that really helps to define the movie is the music. Again, it blends the style of the fifties with the eighties, so you have those great old Doo Wop dance rock songs treated with a layer of synth rock and roll and dramatic female vocals. Ellen Aim's band, The Attackers, features prominently in the film. One of these songs, I Can Dream About You, actually climbed up pretty high on the charts.
The story itself is pretty stock action film stuff, but this time it's done with such incredible style that it feels fresh and all new. The girlfriend is kidnapped, the hero comes home to save her. We've seen this story hundreds of times before, but this time, it's elevated to a sort of modern day, Rock and Roll fairy tale.
Hill has remained one of the most consistently competent and capable directors since his debut decades ago, and it's really too bad that he doesn't often get the respect he deserves. He tends to focus on action flicks, which tends not to earn the same sort of respect as other genres, but Hill really is one of the best directors out there right now.
Besides the rock and roll, the film also has a score written by blues legend Ry Cooder. The earthy, bluesy feel of his slide guitar offers a contrast to the glossy feel of the rest of the soundtrack, and drives home the "down to earthness" of Tom Cody, the character most frequently accompanied by Cooder's guitar score.
If you haven't seen The Warriors yet, Streets of Fire makes an excellent double feature with that film, as both take place in an elevated reality, a sort of fantasy world, with The Warriors taking it in a more gritty direction while Streets of Fire takes the concept into a more glitzy, glamorous direction. The two fantasy worlds feel akin to one another.
The movie was original intended to be the first in a trilogy, but, unfortunately, the film didn't perform at the box office quite as well as expected, so the sequels, The Far City and The Return of Tom Cody, never got funding. Luckily, the film has become a cult legend over time, so it has, of course, earned the respect it deserves as an all time action movie classic and one of the best films made in the nineteen eighties, but it's unfortunate that that didn't happen back when fans could've gotten a sequel out of the deal. - 2361
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