CaptainCrawdad
Since: Aug, 2009
Nov 27th 2010 at 1:23:23 PM
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Removed:
- Five-Token Band - There's more than five of them, but the Warriors are a harmonious mix of black, white and Latino. Some of the other gangs are divided on racial lines, while others are also mixed. In the original book, they are black/hispanic, and the other gangs are along racial lines as well. This is explained in the special edition's commentary as Executive Meddling. The studio would not allow an all minority cast.
- Ten Token Band:
- Cleon - The Hero
- Swan - The Lancer
- Fox - The Smart Guy
- Snow - The Big Guy
- Mercy - The Chick
- Cochise - The Sixth Ranger (In the video game, it's revealed that the other members didn't trust him at first because he was born in Harlem.)
- Rembrandt - The Bumblebee
- Cowboy - The Heart
- Vermin - Mentor (In the video game, he's in charge of training new recruits.)
- Ajax - Token Evil Teammate
- Ten Token Band:
A lot of these seem pretty forced and dubious.
Stalling For Time was renamed Searching the Stalls. Given almost every use was mislead by the old title into thinking it was general stalling and no details are given here so we can't tell what is meant, move to discussion.