This early Carpenter flick modernized 'Rio Bravo' as a '70s exploitation action-thriller.
John Carpenter has always said that he would love to make a Western one day, but remember that time when he basically remade the classic film Rio Bravo? That's right, in the early 1970s, John Carpenter took the logline and character archetypes of Howard Hawks' film and placed them in '70s Los Angeles, filled the frame with cops and criminals, and the result was Assault on Precinct 13. While Carpenter has never made a true-blue Western, this is arguably the closest he's ever been.
'Assault' is 'Rio Bravo' with a '70s Exploitation Twist Carpenter openly admits that Assault on Precinct 13 is essentially just a modernized exploitation go at his favorite Western, Rio Bravo. The film follows a police officer, an in-transit prisoner, and a few workers of a defunct police precinct as they hold their ground and defend themselves from a seemingly endless army of gang members.
The First Act of 'Assault on Precinct 13' Is Its Best Half of the fun with Assault on Precinct 13 is the buildup to the battle at the titular police precinct. We follow three separate storylines for the first act of the film. The first follows members of the Street Thunder gang as they coast around LA, terrorizing its citizens. Another involves Lieutenant Ethan Bishop , who is being sent to the defunct precinct to get take charge and get finish up some business.
The Ice Cream Truck Scene This all culminates in the film's most infamous scene — the ice cream truck set piece. A young girl and her father stop at a payphone, and when she spots an ice cream truck, she runs off to go buy some. She buys a cone, and after realizing she got the wrong flavor, she turns around to go back and is confronted by the Street Thunder gang as they're beating up the truck's owner.
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