12. The last scenes to be filmed here were those from The Rocketeer in 1989. He’s the kind of a guy after my own heart.” – John Carpenter about Snake Plissken, “Really what we come down to here is this is a world where there are very few good guys left. Carpenter notes Van Cleef told him the scene with Hauk and Snake Plissken walking down a hallway discussing the mission was the toughest he shot for the film. According to Russell, the character of Maggie, played by Adrienne Barbeau, is the only character in the film Snake really cares about, and the scene where she dies is the only moment of true sadness in the film. What’s Snake rebelling against? Russell wasn’t comfortable with this, though he doesn’t mention if he was more nervous about flicking his cigarette at Donald Pleasence or flicking his cigarette at someone portraying POTUS. “There weren’t even bums on the street,” says Russell. 2. 'Escape From New York' is an example of how a superb writer/director and a solid gold cast can work well within a limited budget. In this version of New York, there are no guards, “only prisoners and the worlds they have made.” No one ever comes out again — the government has locked up the prisoners and thrown away the key. The Escape From New York Minute crew is Eric Deutsch (co-host and co-producer), Molly Bailen (co-host), and Brad Mendenhall (co-producer). New episodes of the podcast are posted three times per week. The director asked the wrestler if it hurt, to which the wrestler responded, “Does what hurt?” “So I knew that we were dealing with a pretty rough guy,” says Carpenter. 30. 21. And, who knows, by 1997 a new bridge could have been built. Stream John Carpenter’s masterful Escape From New York on Tribeca Shortlist now. 18. This is my short fan edit of the opening of Escape from New York, reinserting the deleted bank robbery scene in a unique position before the opening credits. 7. 1h:30. It’s really straight-forward. Carpenter brings up a critic who panned Escape From New York, one of the reasons they didn’t like it being how it depicts New York City’s Broadway as a four-lane street, which it isn’t. “He’s got to help her,” jokes Russell during the scene where Snake completely ignores a rape. You can throw Ghostbusters 2 on that list as well. “I must say that after we did this I got some of my favorite fan letters from girls who saw this tattoo,” says Russell, laughing all the way through. Russell remembers his stuntman, Dick Warlock, rehearsing with Baker. Robocop (1987) comes to mind, with its mechanized police force, as does Judge Dredd (1995) with cops who are authorized to detain, sentence, and even execute criminals. 13:13. 2,114,200 views. Some of these include: The Black Sheep Squadron, Escape From New York, China Beach, and others. John Carpenter made this classic dystopian thriller on the kind of budget usually spent on Jennifer Lawrence's hair budget and it holds up very well nearly 40 years later. “He invested his scene with a little bit of reality,” says Carpenter over the moment where the President kills the Duke. The director would go on to make more films criticizing Reagan-era consumerism, most overtly in 1988’s They Live, creating a body of work peopled with rebels and free thinkers. High School Music Band - 1997 Escape from New York - From "1997 Escape From New York" BestSoundtracksEver. The film had a budget of $5m, not much at all for a film as ambitious as Escape From New York. That’s the way we love to make films, and I think that’s the way we should.” – John Carpenter. Like the previous commentaries, this one is sure to be loaded with information from behind the scenes as well as what has to be one of the best examples of camaraderie between an actor and director in recent history. The new version won’t. It’s Plissken’s job to fly a glider into the lawless island to rescue the President (Donald Pleasance) before an important global summit ends. Deleted Escape From L.A. Scene Revealed! Carpenter mentions they’re remaking it. Carpenter’s Escape from New York presents the other approach, reimagining a violent, wayward city as a dumping ground for criminals, fencing in the entire island and its surrounding waterways with a fifty-foot wall (sound familiar?) Escape From New York Deleted Scene. There’s a lot of oppression and brutality, and the man who shines and carries out the mission and is the most dependable and the most courageous of all is the most despicable, toughest criminal.” – John Carpenter, “If you’re gonna be stuck in that situation for the rest of your life, why not put some chandeliers on your car.” – Kurt Russell, who laughs afterward, “I would like to say to the audience, rather than being pretentious, this is really the way a director and an actor talk. According to Carpenter, it had something to do with Margaret Thatcher taking over the world and making the United States a colony once again. They toyed with the idea of having the government agents reveal they never put a bomb in Snake’s neck and tricked him into going on the mission, but they decided to save that stupid plot point for Escape From LA. Deleted Scene (SD, 11 min.) The only blip in this commentary collaboration is that they only did the three commentaries, but it’s a good enough team when it comes to divulging information about theory, technique, and stories from the set that you could listen to Russell and Carpenter chat over any movie. Explore, If you have a story to tell, knowledge to share, or a perspective to offer — welcome home. He mentions Jimmy Carter was president when the screenplay was written, and American was swept up in the news of terrorists being held in Iran. John Maniya. To quote an early movie anti-hero, “Whadda ya got?”. According to Russell, he had two different eye patches, one with a perforation in it for action scenes. At the end of the film [SPOILER ALERT], Plissken rescues the President, but not without losses along the way. “A lot of the ideals that I grew up with were under assault.”. Sure, Brain (Harry Dean Stanton) and his lover, Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau), live in relative comfort inside the former New York Public Library, with their laundry hung on clotheslines strung between the bookshelves. The main title from "Escape from New York" may not be John Carpenter's (and Alan Howarth's) most memorable movie theme (that appellation goes to "Halloween"), but it's by far my favorite. Watch "The Bank Robbery" deleted scene at YouTube . Once-prosperous neighborhoods fell into decay as many wealthier, mostly white families fled inner cities for the safety of the suburbs, and police struggled to control drug use and gang violence. “He has no respect for anybody. Russell notes the scene looks like something from Roots but with helicopters. Carpenter notes the actress in the scene tried to talk him out of the scene altogether, but Russell just laughs even harder at how unphased Snake is by the whole situation. Just about every aspect of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK has been covered throughout the countless releases of the film and reaching out to someone in a deleted scene actually pays off quite nicely. Carpenter mentions he was speaking with his producing partner Debra Hill “the other day,” and Isaac Hayes’ name came up. As Carpenter says it himself near the end, “this is really the way a director and an actor talk.” There is no denying Carpenter and Russell are good friends, and that relationship comes across in commentaries just as well as it does in their movies. Don’t like the world around you? Many dystopian films of the ’80s and ’90s focus on some variation of the first solution, as it allows the government or military to be the heroes. A photographer’s side-by-side pictures compare China’s fake Paris to the real one, Margaret Bourke-White’s memoir “Portrait of Myself”. Until that day comes when Plissken – The name is Snake – strapped the leg holsters back on, we’ll have to fall back on this action classic made fresh with a solid commentary running over it. A less pessimistic version of this film would have Plissken making friends left and right, bringing a whole crew of them along when he finally escapes. They didn’t originally show her on the ground bleeding, only the Duke’s car hitting her. Right along with those done for The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China, this commentary for Escape From New York is chock full o’ information and fun. 14. He and Carpenter compromised on Snake casually tossing the cigarette in the President’s general direction. Rounding out the package are the trailer, TV spots and a still gallery. 0:19. Slag, the prisoner who Snake has a wrestling match with, was played by actual pro wrestler Ox Baker, who, according to Carpenter, was a nice man but got carried away with his moves against Kurt Russell. “Well, I was concerned with looking cool in a ’64 station wagon,” jokes Russell. Growler Media Presents: A Geppetto Studios Production Escape From New York Minute celebrates and analyzes the 1981 dystopian classic Escape From New York one minute at a time. Afterwards the only advice he could give Russell was “Good luck.” Carpenter remembers Baker cutting his leg while he was entering the ring to shoot the scene. It’s easy and free to post your thinking on any topic. His lines indicate that he doesn’t know who’s President, he doesn’t know what’s what, or where he’s going, and he doesn’t care, nonetheless. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. All 31 things we learned listening to the commentary for Escape From New York. It is a much easier argument, though, to put these two at the top of the collaboration list when it comes to DVD commentaries. Deleted Scene: The Original Opening Bank Robbery Sequence (with optional 1994 audio commentary by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell) (10:46) "Return to Escape from New York" (2003) featurette (22:59) Photo Galleries: - Movie Stills and Behind the Scenes Photos (12:02) - Posters and Lobby Cards (4:12) 2 Theatrical Trailers (2:42) Carpenter notes the obvious chemistry between Snake and the Chock Full O’Nuts Girl played by Season Hubley, who Russell was married to at the time. But it doesn’t take much imagination to come up with reasons someone might be disillusioned with its version of the U.S., set in a dystopian 1997, amidst a societal collapse and a world war with Russia and China. “Well I figured you could play Elvis, you could play anything,” says Carpenter. During production, there were concerns that the film took place too much at night and was dark all the way throughout. These are the people who cut Snake’s plane loose and pushes it off the Twin Towers, which explains the line, “Damn Redskins!”. And while it’s fun to admire Snake Plissken’s IDGAF approach to civil disobedience, the real role model here is John Carpenter. He mentions Pleasence got the hang of the film when he realized it was a comedy. Plissken’s heroism comes from finding a way to rebel against the president and his cronies, even when it looks as if he had no choices at all — and even if it means dragging everyone and everything down with him. The world laughs with him. When the President appears on TV a few moments later to play a tape that will end the war, he discovers Plissken has switched it out for one of big band music, and the film closes with Plissken tearing the tape out of the real cassette. A little investigating says this commentary was recorded in 1994, and thank God that remake idea still hasn’t gotten momentum. “Ike has a great face, doesn’t he?” asks Carpenter rhetorically about Isaac Hayes. 5. 29. As part of the President’s “humiliation” at the hands of The Duke and his men, Donald Pleasence decided to wear a long, blond wig, what Carpenter call’s “Donald’s contribution to the fun.” The director also notes there were concerns with the studio about how much they were making fun of the President of the United States. Because there’s not a single civilian on the wrong side of the wall, the entire island can be allowed to collapse into squalor and anarchic violence. 1. Originally, Carpenter wanted Snake to flick his cigarette at the President and hit him in the chest. 6. “I don’t give a f*ck about your war… or your president.” — “Snake” Plissken, We never find out what motivated Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to go from war hero — “two Purple Hearts, the youngest man to be decorated by the President” — to outlaw in John Carpenter’s cult classic Escape from New York (1981). Much of the film was in LA and downtown St. Louis, which had just had massive fire damage to buildings and streets. John Carpenter made this classic dystopian thriller on the kind of budget usually spent on Jennifer Lawrence's hair budget and it holds up very well nearly 40 years later. sutter-cane. Russell points out how the film is science fiction, yet Carpenter chose to populate it with classic cars. Directed by John Carpenter. Where is the Escape From LA commentary? But most of the inmates have not fared as well. “Basically he’s going to this specially designed, Presidential pod, which I now realize as a writer doesn’t make any sense at all,” jokes Carpenter, who also mentions the technology in the film was inspired by James Bond gadgetry. 25. 1h:30. 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. The original “Escape” film deleted the opening scene that showed how Snake Plissken was apprehended. “Here for a moment we’re thinking maybe Snake is gonna hook up with her,” says Carpenter. But the subversive political strain in his work that bloomed in They Live took seed in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and first flowered in Escape. 9. Brain has double-crossed him in the past and does so again, forcing Plissken to fight to the death in a match reminiscent of the Roman gladiators — a symbol of moral decay and a nod, perhaps, to another, earlier great empire that also rotted from within. ... (Airplane graveyard scene deleted - Gullfire Glider over Leningrad scenes deleted) 3 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? “Although I think that’s pretty much what we ended up with,” says Russell, who obviously laughs afterward. Rape and cannibalism are commonplace, and utilities have all been cut off. 16. I never thought this was actually filmed due to Robert L. Bush (Costume Supervisor) not being credited. He was married to Barbeau at the time, so I guess it was her garage, too. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton. Escape From New York Deleted Bank Robbery Intro Scene With John Carpenter Kurt Russell Commentary http://suttercane.over-blog.com 24. 'Escape From New York' is an example of how a superb writer/director and a solid gold cast can work well within a limited budget. 2,114,200 views. Emerging from the ’70s—a decade that gave us Charles Manson, Watergate, a demoralizing end to the Vietnam War, Carter’s “malaise,” and the Iranian hostage crisis—it’s no surprise that audiences connected with Snake’s nihilism and reflexive distaste for authority—a reflection of Carpenter’s own feelings. With Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence. We may not know much about Plissken’s inner life, but Carpenter takes him on an intense and ultimately satisfying journey of political rebellion. Carpenter explains that Donald Pleasence was a World War II pilot in the Royal Air Force who was shot down, held and tortured in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Carpenter wanted to get the show that tells us she is for sure dead, and the shot seen in the film was taken in Carpenter’s own garage. Russell laughs at this. The director notes this scene was cut, because the audience at the time was “totally confused.”. 23. “I think in science fiction movies, especially movies where you have to set the rules for the future, you have to do it in a very clear way right up front, so the audience says, ‘Ah ha. 20. Evidently they don’t have jet packs in the future world of 1997, though. Escape from New York (1981) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. “I didn’t use any of it,” says Carpenter. 17. Bonus! John Carpenter made this classic dystopian thriller on the kind of budget usually spent on Jennifer Lawrence's hair budget and it holds up very well nearly 40 years later. Georges Corraface got that comparable role. Anyone remember that guy? His wife was on set to make sure the actor could get through his scenes, especially those that required him to walk and act at the same time. I understand where you’re taking me,’,” he explains. The narration and map now seen in the beginning were added late in the game. It’s really not a whole lot of laying on of themes and pretension. In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him. 27. “Boy, this takes me back,” says Russell, who goes on to explain that it was a simpler time, this movie had a simpler story, and that they just had fun making a movie. But in Carpenter’s world, Snake can’t trust anyone, in or out of the prison. 15. Escape from New York vs Lockout by The Blockbuster Buster. Notes from the Snake Plissken chronology . & Crew T-Shirt! This story takes place on October 21, 1997 immediately before the events of Escape from New York. Some would argue that. Escape from New York (stylized on-screen as John Carpenter's Escape from New York) is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. The director explains he wanted to include a “little bit of reality and a little bit of the past in the future.” He says this gives the film resonance. “By the end of the ’70s there was a backlash against everything in the ’60s, and that’s what the ’80s were, and Ronald Reagan became president, and ‘Reaganomics’ came in,” Carpenter explained back in 2013. Even though that movie is a so-bad-it’s-almost-a-masterpiece rehash of Escape From New York, but commentaries for bad movies can be just as interesting as those for great ones. Co-president of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and Tribeca Shortlister Eric Feig explains why you should check out Escape From New York: A not-too-serious take on seriously great films, Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. When Air Force One is hijacked by terrorists, the President (Donald Pleasance) survives by ejecting in an escape pod. Deleted Opening Sequence “Snake’s Crime” (HD 10:46) – I love it when they include deleted scenes like this. An early version of the film Carpenter screened for an early audience didn’t have the prologue narration about the United States’ crime rate and New York City being established as a prison city. 2,114,200 views. Yes No. Escape From New York - Behind the scenes, making the movie.
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