{"id":6869,"date":"2017-11-14T19:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2022-08-05T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T00:39:56","slug":"2-famous-lines-from-the-warriors-shakespeare-rewrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/2-famous-lines-from-the-warriors-shakespeare-rewrite\/","title":{"rendered":"2 famous lines from the warriors—shakespeare rewrite"},"content":{"rendered":"

the movie the warriors<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0tells the story of an new york city gang trying to get home after attending a\u00a0summit<\/strong><\/em> (meeting, conference) with all of the other gangs in the city.\u00a0 at the meeting cyrus, the city’s most powerful gangster, gives a speech urging<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(recommending) the various gangs to unite pointing out<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(mentioning) that all together they outnumber the police 3 to 1.\u00a0 in one of the most famous lines in the movie, cyrus asks the assembled crowd of thugs<\/strong><\/em> (gangsters), can u dig<\/strong> it<\/em>? then lowers his voice and asks it again.<\/p>\n

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dig<\/strong><\/em> means break and remove earth<\/em>, make a hole<\/em>. the most common tool for digging a hole is a shovel<\/strong><\/em>. dig<\/em> is an irregular verb (dug, dug)<\/p>\n

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digging a hole with a shovel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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there’s a lot of digging in dig dug.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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but when cyrus says can u dig it?<\/em> he’s asking the warriors and the other gangs if they understand<\/em> and agree<\/em> with him.<\/p>\n

fun esl practice\u00a0\":)\"<\/span>\u00a0richyrocks english on youtube<\/a><\/h4>\n

spoiler alert\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(warning: if u haven’t seen the movie, i’m going to talk about what happens at the end, even though spoilers don’t really apply to movies that are 40 years old 😹).<\/p>\n

when cyrus finishes speaking he is shot by luther, the pathetic leader of another gang: the rogues.\u00a0 luther blames the warriors for his crime, so as the protagonists\u00a0try to get back<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(return) to their turf<\/strong><\/em> (neighborhood, home territory) they have to fight off<\/strong><\/em> (win fights against) attacks from several other gangs.\u00a0 when they finally arrive, luther and the rest of the rogues are waiting for them, and luther challenges the warriors with perhaps the most famous line of the movie, warriors, come out to play<\/em>, while clinking<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(sound of glass hitting glass) three bottles together on his fingers.<\/p>\n