John Carpenter managed to create a fantastic vision that has stood the test of time.
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Carpenter wrote the story with Nick Castle and sends us a powerful message that is just as relevant today as it was when the movie was first released in 1981. John Carpenter managed to craft a perfect dystopian world for the action to take place in. The film is dark from start to finish which is a great reflection of the plot. The model work done of the city is fantastic and still looks great today. This grunged-up city is a character in itself and really brings this movie to life. This movie looks and feels like an apocalyptic nightmare, New York is decayed and desolate. What really makes this movie for me is the grim visualization of the future, particularly New York. Snake reluctantly agrees, but Hauk injects him with two micro capsules that will explode in his neck if Snake does not return with the president.
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New York Warden Bob Hauk offers Plissken a deal – In return for rescuing the President within 24 hours he will issue Snake with a full pardon for the crimes he has committed. Meanwhile, a former war hero turned criminal, Snake Plissken has been arrested while trying to rob the Federal Reserve in Denver, Colorado and has been sentenced to life in New York. The leader of the inmates, the Duke of New York, captures the President prisoner and plans to use him in order for himself and the rest of the population to be set free. The President of America crash-lands in New York when Air Force One is taken over by terrorists while he is on his way to a peace summit with the Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China. Set in 1997 (the movie was released in 1981) Manhattan is a maximum security prison surrounded by a 50 foot wall and all the inmates are serving a life sentence, forcing them to live in a world they make for themselves. President from detonating a stolen explosive device.John Carpenter crafts out an excellent landscape for a futuristic action movie in Escape From New York and populates it with a whole host of colorful, entertaining and menacing characters that make this movie a fun ride from start to finish. The sequel, Escape from L.A., finds Snake tasked with stopping the brainwashed daughter of the U.S. Co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, Escape from New York, the first installment in the franchise, introduces audiences to Kurt Russell as ex-soldier and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken, who is given just 24 hours to rescue the President of the United States, who has crashed landed in Manhattan, which is now a giant maximum-security prison. While Carpenter says he does not care too much about special effects-laden movies, the idea of Snake Plissken in space sounds like nothing less than cinematic majesty. So there’d be a lot of special effects in it. Escape from Earth was kind of Snake Plissken in a space capsule, flying interstellar. But what would Escape from Earth look like if it were finally made today? Well, according to Carpenter. While discussing the project with Fandom, Carpenter revealed what he believes the movie would look like if it were made today, and even backs the idea of Kurt Russell’s son, Wyatt, taking on the iconic role of Snake Plissken. Legendary director John Carpenter has discussed the idea of ever bringing the proposed Escape from New York sequel, Escape from Earth, to life.
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