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 Assault on Precinct 13
John Carpenter. His more recent films have not been as good as the ones he made in the 70's!
Black, Oriental, Chicano, White. The four diverse head gang members join forces against the police. Cool scene!
White. Strange scene, the other gang members don't really react at first. This type of scene and atmosphere is what makes this film disturbing.
John Carpenter. Wow! Only John Carpenter can take a few easily written and performed notes of music and turn it into an eerie, surreal atmosphere, ex. "Halloween"! The music makes this movie - it raises the hair on the back of your neck.
| How many bullets does it take Lt. Ethan Bishop to shoot the tank at the end of the movie? | Assault on Precinct 13
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3. The sound of violence in this scene is unsettling, to say the least.
Shot in the head. He should have checked the back seat. Has a great quote in the movie: "Two cops wishin' me luck, I'm doomed!" The actor Tony Burton plays Wells. Tony plays Duke in the 'Rocky' movies (Apollo and Rocky's trainer).
Napoleon. Great character in the movie, very confident and cocky but comes off subtle.
| According to the LA Times, what director(s) stated one of his favorite movies of all time was "Assault on Precinct 13"? | Assault on Precinct 13
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Quentin Tarantino. Also another great cult movie director!
"From Dusk Till Dawn", Quentin Tarantino. The character Scott Fuller, portrayed by Ernest Liu, wears a T-shirt throughout the movie stating: "Precinct 13" Also another great movie, directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino.
4. Napoleon, Leigh, Lt. Ethan Bishop and don't forget Lawson the hysterical man who never explains why he's there or what he did. Austin Stoker portrays Lt. Ethan Bishop, a great 70's African American actor who does a great job in this movie.
Rio Bravo. Carpenter wanted to do a western but was hampered by a B-movie budget. So he took the main plotline of his hero Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" - lawmen fighting bad guys from springing a jailed killer - to modern-day L.A (crossed with "Night of the Living Dead"!). The other movies - John Sturges' "Escape", Hathaway's "Rawhide" and Budd Boettcher's "Tall T" - have similar plotlines, though.
| Carpenter not only wrote, directed and composed the score, but also edited. Under what name? | Assault on Precinct 13
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John T. Chance. Carpenter's pseudonym is a tribute to "Rio Bravo"; it was the name of John Wayne's stalwart sheriff in the film. Duke also played Ethan in John Ford's masterwork "The Searchers", Sean in Hawks' "Hatari!" and Wedge in the WW2 actioner "The Fighting Seabees" (Carpenter also gave hiself a cameo as one of the attacking gang members!).
Anderson, California. Anderson is the fictional ghetto Carpenter laid his story in. Haddonfield is the setting for "Halloween", Sherwood Anderson (coincidence!) created Winesburg and Stephen King made Castle Rock.
Street Thunder. The Warriors were lensed by Walter Hill in the film of the same name, the Jets were from "West Side Story" and the T-Birds were from "Grease"!
6. Two police snipers ambushed and killed six members of the gang.
guns. In the scene following the ambush, we see an opened crate of guns, obviously stolen by the gang from a police armory.
take a blood oath to avenge their comrades. Vowing to avenge their fallen members, the four warlords cut their forearms with switchblades and pour their blood into a bowl. This blood oath is called a "chulo". Later three members toss the blood before the door of the police station as a "chulo" for the people inside. It means the fight is to the death, and they will enter the building and kill them all, no matter how many of them die! A similar threat to Wayne and his crew was in "Rio Bravo".
Ethan Bishop. Austin Stoker played the heroic black policeman. Kurt Russell was Carpenter's Plissken ("Escape From New York") and Burton ("Big Trouble in Little China") and Clint Eastwood was "Dirty Harry" Callahan.
oversee a closing station in Anderson. A closed police station in Venice, Ca. was the film's station, to be watched over on its last night by Bishop, who was born and raised in Anderson. He wanted a chance to be a hero, and as they say, be careful what you wish for...!
Napoleon. The late actor Darwin Josten gave a riveting performance as the sardonic murderer who becomes a hero in the siege on the police station.
1629. The other numbers are historical dates.
Cordell and Wells. Cordell is the sickly one always coughing and Wells is the bald black con (Tony Burton) who is Wilson's chief antagonist. Milton and Small are the duo of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", Howard and Fine are the names of the original Three Stooges, and Panama and Frank are an American film makng team responsible for such films as the Danny Kaye vehicle "The Court Jester".
3. They are: Laurie Zimmer as secretary Leigh, Nancy Loomis ("Halloween") as secretary Julie, and young Kim Richards as Kathy Lawson, the little girl whose murder by the gang sets off the assualt in the title.
1977 Ellendale Place. We see it on the sign Bishop hammers into the ground outside the station. In fact, it was the real-life address Carpenter stayed at when he first came to Hollywood. Archie Bunker and the Munsters are at the first two and the last is from the comic strip of the same name, which I've done a quiz on!
Cordell is coughing. The keepers think Cordell may have a contagious disease, so they leave him and the others in the holding cells at the precinct until morning, when they can have Cordell examined (tuberculosis, maybe?).
Frank Doubleday. Doubleday (no relation to Abner or publisher Frank) was the white warlord in the blood oath scene, and he killed Kathy and the vendor with a Luger pistol. Doubleday later appeared in Carpenter's "Escape From New York". I think he bears a slight resemblance to actor Willem Dafoe.
Kathy's father. Kathy's father (Martin West) tracked and killed Doubleday's thug, then fled from the gang until he reached Precinct 13, where he was protected by Bishop and the rest. The vengeful gang then began their siege on the station.
Chaney. Chaney, played by Henry Brandon, is the desk officer Bishop meets when he arrives. When the station lights go out, Chaney goes out to investigate and is mowed down by a silenced rifle. Julie, Cordell and the keepers are all wiped out afterwards.
Wells. Wells and Wilson play "one potato" to decide who goes out to a car in the parking lot to drive for help; Wells loses, goes through a manhole and makes it out, only to be killed by a gang member in the back seat!
right. She's wounded by an invading gang member but doesn't make a sound, and she gives the punk a classic groin kick! Whatta gal!
Leigh. Hawks often used the device of one character giving another a cigarette and light. Here Leigh shows her respect for Wilson is classic Hawksian fashion.
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