Walter hill knew exactly what he was doing. And has said what his intentions were in interviews. It is not photographed in a straight forward manner. That’s by design. It has mythic undertones that were fully intended.
Sure he did. Don’t know why you’re always so hung up on declaring things that suck good but The Warriors sucks. Sorry dude, I suffered through it once, it was awful, I will never watch it again, my wife who got me to watch it admitted it wasn’t nearly as good as she remembered. You can blather all the silliness you want about abstract blah blah blah and it doesn’t change the simple fact that there is not one single frame of that movie worth the celluloid used to make it.