Talk:Wild in the Streets

Yay for drugged tapwater! Boo for underage sex!

Does "providing all the Senators and Representatives with teenaged escorts" mean what it sounds like? Because that alone should be enough to win over most members of Congress. Whether the word means "chaperones" or "prostitutes" here may be the difference between the film being merely edgy and being downright subversive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asat (talk • contribs)

Your "escorts" link above doesn't appear in the text... and well it shouldn't. The term used in the movie dialogue was a "teenage guide", and their only stated job was to keep the politicians company while they tripped, in the hours leading up to a (no pun intended) joint session. (One's first LSD experience is reputably best not had alone; "guides" were actually a sound idea.) Most of them were young men, and the only comment of a sexual nature made was by Billy Cage (the gay member of the Troopers), when he cancelled Johnny Fergus's scheduled guide, to "take that man myself." If any sex went on, it didn't come up in the movie. Zephyrad 15:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

deletion

Garland Jeffreys wrote an unrelated song called "Wild in the Streets", which both he and Chris Spedding recorded in the 1970s. It became the title song of a 1982 album by The Circle Jerks.

Bon Jovi also released an unrelated song titled "Wild in the Streets".

If these songs are unrelated to the movie why do they are mentioned then? This makes no sense. 85.177.168.171 19:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)nomennescio

Comic book Reference

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, Chapter 2. Paint It Black. Max Frost is President is a analogues of historical figure Richard Nixon:

On Page 28. Panel 3. “In international news, controversial United States President Max Foster quoted the post-war communist American President Mike Thingmaker...”

On Page 43. Panels 1-2. “I mean that the current president of the United States is Max Foster. Max Foster the pop singer. He’s setting up camps for anyone he thinks is too straight. It’s hippy fascism.”

It’s a reference to the film Wild in the Streets (1968), in which singer Max Frost becomes president and has everyone over 35 sent to “re-education camps.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.181.14.108 (talk) 05:51, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor has an uncredited roll in a scene where Frost is discussing running for President. rem486 ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rem486 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 24 November 2020 (UTC)