10 Classic Movie Details You Never Noticed
3. The Gang Members Pay Their Subway Fare - The Warriors
At the start of Walter Hill's delirious action thriller The Warriors, we see gang leader Cyrus (Roger Hill) organise a midnight summit for all of New York City's gangs.
An opening montage shows the various gangs taking the subway to the meeting, and while you might expect such wanton law-breakers to simply flout the law by hopping the turnstile, we hilariously actually see them paying their fare.
Hell, in one instance a gang member even stands by the turnstile and continually loads coins into it as each of his comrades passes through.
You can simply interpret this as an amusingly subversive gag on Hill's part, because nobody expects criminals to pay their way, but it's far more likely the fact that none of the gangs wanted to be busted for a minor offense while on the way to an important meeting.
Some fans even theorised that the NYC Transit Authority might've required the film to show the gangs paying their fare as a condition for being allowed to shoot on the subway at all.
Then again, considering we do see the gangs vaulting the turnstiles later on once the mayhem ramps up, maybe not.