History Trivia / StreetsOfFire

* BreakawayPopHit: "I Can Dream About You", "Nowhere Fast", "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young."

* HostilityOnSet: Michael Pare hated Rick Moranis. Hilariously, the shrimpy Moranis would mock the hunky Pare mercilessly on set, and Pare didn't have the quick wit to defend himself.

** According to the book Disneywar, the producer of the movie, Lawrence Gordon, pitched Hill's screenplay to Paramount, who distributed ''Film/FortyEightHours''. When the idea was rejected, it and Gordon, Silver, and Hill's next movie ''Film/BrewstersMillions1985'' went to Universal. An added side effect of this move, however, came when Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed the movies with Gordon. Katzenberg turned this knowledge over to his boss Michael Eisner, who promptly ended all speaking terms with Gordon for the next 2 years.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/WillemDafoe but subverted as it is arguably a case of RetroactiveRecognition. ''Streets of Fire'' was a AcclaimedFlop unlike the [[Film/{{Platoon}} film that really put him on the map only two years later]] where, ironically, he was actually PlayingAgainstType. However, this is the first role in which he was the kind of menacing villain out of which he has make quite a career.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/WillemDafoe but subverted as it is arguably a case of RetroactiveRecognition. ''Streets of Fire'' was a AcclaimedFlop unlike the [[Film/{{Platoon}} one that really put him on the map only two years later]] where, ironically, he was actually PlayingAgainstType. However, this is the first role in which he was the kind of menacing villain out of which he has make quite a career.

* StarMakingRole: Subverted as this film was a AcclaimedFlop unlike the [[Film/{{Platoon}} film that really put him on the map only two years later]] where, ironically, he was actually PlayingAgainstType. However, this is the first role in which he was the kind of menacing villain out of which he had make a career.

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/BillPaxton. The film came out one year before his supporting role in ''Film/WeirdScience'' and two years before his supporting role in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
** Creator/DeborahVanValkenburgh, who plays Reva Cody, is Mercy from ''Film/TheWarriors'', another Walter Hill film.
** Creator/RobertTownsend. The film came before he struck it big with ''Film/HollywoodShuffle''.
* StillbornFranchise: Creator/WalterHill once claimed he wanted to make a trilogy of films about Tom Cody, but the film flopped and those plans went unfulfilled.

** The first episode of ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' is heavily inspired by ''Streets of Fire''. Priss and the Replicants song "Kon'ya wa Hurricane" is heavily based on Ellen Aim and the Attackers "Nowhere Fast", sharing the first 7 or 8 bars. The song title itself is similar to the Japanese version of "Tonight is What It Means to be Young", Kon'ya wa Angel".

** The first episode of ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' is heavily inspired by ''Streets of Fire''. Priss and the Replicants song "Kon'ya wa Hurricane" is heavily based on Ellen Aim and the Attackers "Nowhere Fast", sharing the first 7 or 8 bars.

** Creator/DeborahVanValkenburgh, who plays Reva Cody, is Mercy from ''Film/TheWarriors''.

** Creator/ DeborahVanValkenburgh, who plays Reva Cody, is Mercy from ''Film/TheWarriors''.

** Creator/BillPaxton. The film came out one year before his supporting role in ''Film/WeirdScience'' and two years before ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.

** Creator/BillPaxton. The film came out one year before his supporting role in ''Film/WeirdScience'' and two years before ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' .

** Bill Paxton. This film predates his more famous supporting roles in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/WeirdScience'' during the following year.
** Robert Townsend. The film came before he struck it big with ''Film/HollywoodShuffle''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Robert Townsend. The film came before he struck it big with ''Film/HollywoodShuffle''.
** Also Bill Paxton, before his more famous supporting roles in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/WeirdScience'' the following year.

** The first episode of ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' is heavily inspired by ''Streets of Fire''. Priss and the Replicants song "Kon'ya wa Hurricane" is heavily based on Ellen Aim and the Attackers "Nowhere Fast".

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' fans reached a general consensus that the first game was inspired by this movie, given its similar plot and character names, but according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxUB8rdmJxU this]] video the game's producer had never even heard of the movie.

** According to the book Disneywar, the producer of the movie, Lawrence Gordon, pitched Hill's screenplay to Paramount, who distributed ''Film/FortyEightHours''. When the idea was rejected, it and Gordon, Silver, and Hill's next movie ''Film/BrewstersMillions'' went to Universal. An added side effect of this move, however, came when Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed the movies with Gordon. Katzenberg turned this knowledge over to his boss Michael Eisner, who promptly ended all speaking terms with Gordon for the next 2 years.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/RickMoranis as Billy Fish, Ellen's surly manager. He isn't a tough guy, but he's got way more spunk than Moranis' other roles