@@CinePals i know this could only happen if the stars aligned, but imagine a Metal Gear Solid movie with Kurt Russell as Big Boss and Wyatt Russell as Solid Snake.
I've gone through nearly every comment, and I've seen no one mention that Duke was played by iconic singer/composer Isaac Hayes....aka Chef from South Park.
One of Carpenter's finest hours (and yes the man is still alive) - this is Russell's fave film of his (and his most iconic role w/MacReady a close2nd). The Girl in the Chock Full O'Nuts sequence is Season Hubley, Kurt's first wife. Russell has confirmed he was doing his best Clint Eastwood imitation as inspiration for Snake's vibe/delivery and it's *chef's kiss. We lost Charles Cyphers this past week (he's one of the control center gents). Cabbie is played by Oscar winning legend Ernest Borgnine. Adrienne Barbeau who plays Maggie was Carpenter's wife at the time and was also in THE FOG (another must see) and is the uncredited voice of the chess AI in THE THING. Harry Dean Stanton was also an acclaimed character actor best known for the doomed Brett in ALIEN. Lee Van Cleef was best known for his roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns A FEW DOLLARS MORE & THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (the trilogy is a must see as well, gents). And yes that is Donald Pleasence as The President was Dr. Loomis in the HALLOWEEN franchise.
I saw this movie a long time ago and at the time I didnt know who Lee Van Cleef was because i wasnt into western movies but now that im older western movies are my favorite genre.. Lee Van Cleef what a legend..
@CinePals That woman in the beginning who you thought was Sigourney Weaver was Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) in Halloween (1978), H20, and Halloween Kills. Tom Atkins (the brown/grey-haired gent in the beginning) was Dr. Challis in Halloween III: Season of the Witch and also The Fog (1980). John Carpenter loved reusing his actors.
Kurt was doing an impression of Clint Eastwood for this role, once you see it you cant unsee it. Also the TV show The Lone Gunmen, the X Files spin off, had an episode which was much closer to the 9/11 incident. I think for this reason they stopped showing it on Tv for a while. Fun fact, Carpenter is stil releasing synth music and touring to this day. I always thought the spikey hair guy was Steve Buscemi, but it aint.
Escape from New York was actually one of John Carpenter's earliest screenplays. He wrote the original first draft back in 1974 or 1975 shortly after President Richard Nixon's resignation following the Watergate scandal, back when Carpenter was working on his very first movie, Dark Star, with Dan O'Bannon.
@@kingscorpion7346 Yep. John Carpenter made Dark Star with screenwriter Dan O'Bannon in 1974, originally as a student film. Carpenter decided to expand it into a theatrical release, similar to what happened with George Lucas' THX-1138. Assault on Precinct 13 was actually Carpenter's second feature film, followed by Halloween.
I adore this movie, and its sequel. The slower pace, the long shots, the extended shots, the subdued music. This movie hits all the nostalgia triggers from my childhood.
FACT: The voice narration at the beginning of the film was done by Jamie Lee Curtis, who had previously worked with John Carpenter on both "Halloween" (1978) and "The Fog" (1980).
Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter reunited after this with The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and Escape From LA. One of the prison guards is played by legendary Western actor Lee Van Cleef. Another film similar to this I recommend watching is The Warriors. The narrator is voiced by Jamie Lee Curtis. Another Kurt Russell film to watch is Tango and Cash
Taking place in an alternate 1997, it was revealed in some Wikipedia pages and novels that in 1985, WWIII happened after Russia launched a sneak attack on the United States, destroying every city on the East coast, except for Washington and New York. In 1988, New York is turned into the world's largest maximum security prison due to the crime rate. Snake Plissken, an Army Vet, joja several rescue operations around the world, until Russia launches a deadly nerve gas in a small town in Nebraska, where Snake grew up, losing his mother and father, and also explains that he lost his eye to the nerve gas, causing him to wear the iconic patch. In 1991, he turns to a life of crime and becomes a famous outlaw. The rest is history.....
That is the Sepulveda Dam. That early shot that starts there, passes through the guard station, and comes out the other side on Liberty Island is so cool because it looks like one take but it's two locations on the opposite ends of the country. The tape had technical about the dangers of fallout if the was escalated to nuclear exchanges. Snake set the tone for the 80's anti-hero. This film lack many women but it's fun to note that Carpenter's version of The Thing is one the rare films that has no women. In contrast, the female lead in his earlier film Assault on Precinct 13 is a strong woman who lends some some her DNA to Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor. James Cameron who created those two 80's action icons did special effects on some of Carpenter's work, including Escape From NY.
Such a great movie. Much of the outdoor scenes, and a fair number of the indoor scenes were filmed in St Louis. They couldn't film in NY because the permits were too expensive, this is a low budget action film after all, and lucky for them, St Louis had had a massive fire back in the late 70s, which gave them a perfect place to film, in fact the city asked them what they'd like, even offering to turn off the power for blocks if they needed that. There's a great video here on YT featuring Carpenter and Russell talking about the movie, and one of my favorite pieces is that in the scene at the train, if you pay attention, there are multiple Snake Pliskens. Depending on whether a stunt was being filmed or not, Kurt and his stunt double would switch places, and they'd often play background characters in those scenes, although that scene really took the cake.
Was looking for this comment when I heard them say the locations were set built, but I knew some other fan would know the St Louis fire in the 70s and how they took advantage. Carpenter has one of the most solid library’s for me with his stuff up till Mouth of Madness. I still rewatch a lot of his stuff yearly.
The song playing as Snake flies to the Trade Towers is a synth version of "La cathédrale engloutie" (The Sunken Cathedral) by Claude Debussy. It's an intense song in most renderings / orchestrations.
There was a part 3 in development. The story was that Snake gets sent to a giant space station.The film Lockout,starring Guy Pearce,was the script that was considered to be adapted to be part 3.
One of my all-time favorites. The first and only film I held on to the armrest tightly, sat on the edge of my seat, and did not relax until the end credits. I loved that so much I saw this in theater half a dozen times. Each time I yelled out, “F@(K!” when that guy ran past the door at the WTC and when he lost his walkie-talkie! The blonde who got taken by the Crazies thru the floor was Kurt’s wife at the time, Season Hubley. I grew up watching Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie) in the classic TV series ‘McHale’s Navy’. He often played heavies in Westerns and a formidable gladiator overseer in Demetrius and the Gladiators. Love that man!
Many of the matte special effects in Escape from New York were done by none other than James Cameron himself, back when Cameron was working with Roger Corman's New World Pictures special effects company. All of the scenes with the New York City skyline both at night and during the day were matte paintings created by James Cameron.
The green wireframe "graphics" were done by building a model of the NYC skyline, putting fluorescent tape on the edges of the buildings, and filming that in the dark.
Another fun fact. Most of the scenes were filmed in St Louis. There was a scene where Kurt ran around a corner of a street and there were some local guys who were just hanging out around the area. They had no idea a movie was filming and Kurt came upon them with the machine gun, eye patch etc and still in character and the guys put their hands up and said to Kurt “Easy man, just take it easy” Kurt then walked over to John Carpenter and told him I think this character is going to work lol
John Carpenter liked the view so much he was married to her! This was very obviously a fun movie for a lot of the guys, the Carpenter + Russell commentary you can find on one or two of the DVDs is excellent.
One of my favorite movies. The reason the music reminded you of Halloween is that John Carpenter composed the soundtrack for both movies. Somewhere on RUclips is a concert video of Carpenter playing his movie music. The actress who played the woman in the cafe was Season Hubley, who was married to Kurt Russel at the time. Cabbie was played by Ernest Borgnine. He's been in many movies and tv shows. He first rose to fame in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, and recently he was the voice of Mermaid Man in Spongebob Squarepants. Donald Pleasence (The President) has also appeared in many movies, including The Great Escape (1963)
The music is just as iconic as the film itself. Its John Carpenter, of course the music is iconic. Escape from New York is a legendary classic. Please react to The Fog, another legendary Carpenter classic.
Top tier Carpenter. Beautifully made with a great cast lead by Kurt being instantly iconic. Plus Carpenter's brilliant score and legendary DP Dean Cundey's gorgeous cinematography. A classic.
Cabby (whose voice you recognized) was well-known veteran actor, Ernest Borgnine who had an incredible career that spanned some 60 years, beginning in the 1950s with major roles in academy award winning movies like MARTY, BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK and FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. And he continued to receive that high level of quality roles throughout those 60 years. But modern audiences like yourself probably know him best at the tail end of his career when he lent his voice to the character Mermaid Man in the Sponge Bob cartoons. And I'm guessing you may have known this (although you didn't say) but Maggie (the character with the "nice jacket") was played by Carpenter's, then wife, Adrienne Barbeau. She was also, by the way, the voice of the chess computer in Carpenter's THE THING. You know, the computer MacReady threw his drink on while calling it a cheatin' wh0re. Always wondered if there was more to that scene than met the eye, given that they divorced shortly after that movie came out.
21:46 There's a reason the music from Escape From New York and Halloween sound similar; they were composed and performed by the same person: John Carpenter, the director of both films
The tape was a recording of the plans and formula for a new nuclear fusion weapon. The President was going to use the plans to force the U.S.' adversaries into signing a peace treaty. Snake switching out the tape and destroying it was his final FU for being forced into this deadly situation. The computerized wire map of New York City was done practically. They basically just built a model of the city and lined the edges of the buildings with reflective tape, reminiscent of how the lightsaber effect was originally done in Star Wars: A New Hope. The voiceover at the beginning is not Sigourney Weaver. It's actually Jamie Lee Curtis making a vocal cameo.
It's not exactly common, but also not unheard of; in 1977 there was a TV movie called _Flight to Holocaust_ (a pilot for a series that never got picked up) about a team of "troubleshooters" called in to extract survivors from a small commuter plane impacted into the side of a skyscraper.
You guys should react to both "The Thing" (1982) and "Big Trouble In Little China" (1986), if you haven't already done so. Those two are also classics from the great John Carpenter.
At the very end of this movie that tape that snake pliskin destroyed as he was walking off was a tape of the presidents speech i assume about nuclear weapons or somthing like that.
Ok l usually don’t comment before watching a reaction video….but lm shocked you haven’t since the legend of Snakes origins. “Call me Snake” And yes:Solid Snake is based loosely off this awesome character.
Even as a 19 year old when I first saw this on the big screen, (it looked fantastic on the big screen BTW), We expected more "action" early on too. So even back then, it took us a few minutes for our minds to adjust to its deliberate slower pace, but it was fine. No one was really "bored" with it. But understand, this was made AFTER faster-paced films NYC films such as The Warriors, for example, which BTW STILL has one the best opening credits in film history. As far as the soundtrack being as iconic as the film itself? Hmm, IDK I guess so. It's certainly recognizable to this day if we hear it, we INSTANTLY know its from Escape From New York lol. Anyway, great insights, guys. Spot on. I'm impressed.
The cabbie was Ernest Borgnine who won the Oscar for best actor for his role in the film Marty in 1955. His film and TV biography is longer than your arm.
You brought up Total Recall, which is a movie I use as an example of the change in attention span. The original was a lot of action, but there were moments where it slowed down a bit to build story. The remake was one long chasing. There was no time to catch your breath and I got kind of numbed at the action. When the pace slows down once in a while it makes the next action sequence that much more impactful.
Escape From New York is one of my favorite cyberpunk styled genre movies from the 80s. CD Projekt Red used Escape from New York as inspiration for the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty. Premise for the game is very similar to this movie.
"Cronenberg," the doctor who plants the explosives in Snake's neck, was played by John Strobel. He had a bit role in Carpenter's previous film _The Fog_ and worked in the sound department for a short titled _Intrusion,_ but those are the only three entries in his IMDb page.
Two Fun Facts; 1.)A 26 year old James Cameron worked on this film 2.) This film is a Cinematic Chiasmus- a film that takes the same number of steps to reach its peak as it does to end and addressing the same issues/themes but in a reversed mirrored manner.
Awesome pick and reaction guys another cool one is Kurt in 1998s Soldier, Can't wait for Escape from L.A. The ever funny ( to me ) line of I thought you were dead always reminds me of the John Wayne movie Big Jake a running joke throughout and since then I have seen/heard that line in many movies since. :)
15:36 What may be throwing you is the doctor's voice. He sounds a lot like Michael Biehn. The doctor is played by John Strobel, who was in Escape From New York, The Fog, and Intrusion.
There's a fun sci-fi action movie called Lockout, starring Guy Pearce and co-written/produced by Luc Besson. John Carpenter sued the studio and filmmakers due to it being too similar to an unproduced Escape sequel script, called Escape from Earth. He actually won the plagiarism case.
1. Snake is in trouble throughout the entire movie. 2. A British President? 3. Manhattan is very expensive real estate for a prison. 4. The girl in the Chock Full O'Nuts is Season Hubley. She was Russell's squeeze at the time. Before Goldie. 5. Everyone who says, "I heard/thought you were dead" dies. 6. The eye patch is Russell's idea.😎 7. I loved, loved, loved Harry Dean Stanton😇 8. Favorite character: Romero.🤩 9. This was filmed entirely at night in an area of St Louis before it was refurbished. 10. The only reason to watch "Escape from LA" is to say you have. Besides doing this for a living. Absolutely NO remake. "If it ain't broke don't fix it". Look how they ruined "Mad Max".
Funny that you thought Carpenter was dead. 😂 Understandable though, as he doesn't really make movies any more. Instead, he's had a late career resurgence in music and has released four albums of new music in the last nine years, all of them great.
Awesome times, fun movie esp in its day! Lee Van Cleef was a Western Legend, in some ways like Kurt Russell underrated, my mom was a big fan, Van Cleef, Eastwood, Brunner, McQueen, Bronson all those dudes, Newman, she loved Western genre! BTW the blonde punk chick that got pulled done the hole, was married to Kurt Russell before he married Goldie Hawn One of my favorite Kurt Russell movies is Death Proof, but best watched as it was intended as a double feature Planet Terror (both Quentin Tarantino movies) I miss this sort of film making myself. Also a Kiwi stuntwoman in Death Proof, she's awesome Kiwi Zoe Bell, no dis not quite on the others acting level, but cool to see her in the movie, it was a great cast and cool story. sorry for the deviation off Escape from New York! If you guy's haven't done that yet, l would love to see a reaction of that double feature with "Jabs, Achara and "esp Kristen", Vivian and Steph", the crew of girls since it revolves around girls' in the film, would be great to see, its made for reactions, QT is the master of shock🥰💯🤟
we have different tech for recording, allows for clearer more crisp sounds, the old tracks were limited do to so many factors, for example the sound dispursing foam pads we have no they didnt at 1st, same with the sound dampening wall squares that just add mass tot he wall to block outside sounds. we dont use records anymore fo this reason among a few others like data storage and durability
To get that lived-in look, they shot this in beautiful East St. Louis, Illinois. Apparently it didn;t require much set dressing for that burnt-out, wrecked-up feel.
Not only is John Carpenter still alive, but if you've ever played Fallout 76, there's a chance you've encountered him in the game. He's a big fan of video games and LOVES Fallout 76 and plays it pretty frequently. It's wild to think that you could be poking around in that game, come across some random other player and not realize it's John freaking Carpenter.
Metal Gear Solid is indeed a massive homage to this film and Snake/Big Boss in particular so you are bang in the money there
Yeah, after learning that is how I ended up trying to watch this as a kid.
@@CinePals i know this could only happen if the stars aligned, but imagine a Metal Gear Solid movie with Kurt Russell as Big Boss and Wyatt Russell as Solid Snake.
Kurt Russell sure does look like Solid Snake
@@CinePalsJaby react to mk1 trailer.
There is no Solid without Snake. No Wait! There is no Snake without Plissken. AAH! There is no Snake without Snake
I love how they created the night vision / CGI effect of the buildings at night by painting them black and putting reflective tape on them :)
That is brilliantly done. A lot of people think its early CGI.
I've gone through nearly every comment, and I've seen no one mention that Duke was played by iconic singer/composer Isaac Hayes....aka Chef from South Park.
If you watched the movie Shaft from 1971 Isaac Hayes did the soundtrack also.
One of Carpenter's finest hours (and yes the man is still alive) - this is Russell's fave film of his (and his most iconic role w/MacReady a close2nd). The Girl in the Chock Full O'Nuts sequence is Season Hubley, Kurt's first wife. Russell has confirmed he was doing his best Clint Eastwood imitation as inspiration for Snake's vibe/delivery and it's *chef's kiss. We lost Charles Cyphers this past week (he's one of the control center gents). Cabbie is played by Oscar winning legend Ernest Borgnine. Adrienne Barbeau who plays Maggie was Carpenter's wife at the time and was also in THE FOG (another must see) and is the uncredited voice of the chess AI in THE THING. Harry Dean Stanton was also an acclaimed character actor best known for the doomed Brett in ALIEN. Lee Van Cleef was best known for his roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns A FEW DOLLARS MORE & THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (the trilogy is a must see as well, gents). And yes that is Donald Pleasence as The President was Dr. Loomis in the HALLOWEEN franchise.
You forgot Jamie Lee Curtis as the voice at begining of movie. Or it might not be I believe its never real been confirmed but sounds like her
I read somewhere that the Secret Service agent trying to break into Air Force Ones cockpit, is ex-President Gerald Ford's son.
@@frankrodriguez2999 It's confirmed and it's her. She does a PA announcer's voice in HALLOWEEN 3 as well. "Curfew.... curfew..."
The biggest actor in this is Ernest Borgnine (cab driver)
Made me a little sad they didn't recognize him.
I saw this movie a long time ago and at the time I didnt know who
Lee Van Cleef was because i wasnt into western movies but now that im older western movies are my favorite genre.. Lee Van Cleef what a legend..
@CinePals That woman in the beginning who you thought was Sigourney Weaver was Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) in Halloween (1978), H20, and Halloween Kills. Tom Atkins (the brown/grey-haired gent in the beginning) was Dr. Challis in Halloween III: Season of the Witch and also The Fog (1980). John Carpenter loved reusing his actors.
Kurt was doing an impression of Clint Eastwood for this role, once you see it you cant unsee it. Also the TV show The Lone Gunmen, the X Files spin off, had an episode which was much closer to the 9/11 incident. I think for this reason they stopped showing it on Tv for a while. Fun fact, Carpenter is stil releasing synth music and touring to this day. I always thought the spikey hair guy was Steve Buscemi, but it aint.
What a great way to see a classic Carpenter/Russell collaboration. Movie still hold up today. Amazing
Escape from New York was actually one of John Carpenter's earliest screenplays. He wrote the original first draft back in 1974 or 1975 shortly after President Richard Nixon's resignation following the Watergate scandal, back when Carpenter was working on his very first movie, Dark Star, with Dan O'Bannon.
Dark Star was his first movie?! 🤣
@@kingscorpion7346 Yep. John Carpenter made Dark Star with screenwriter Dan O'Bannon in 1974, originally as a student film. Carpenter decided to expand it into a theatrical release, similar to what happened with George Lucas' THX-1138. Assault on Precinct 13 was actually Carpenter's second feature film, followed by Halloween.
I adore this movie, and its sequel. The slower pace, the long shots, the extended shots, the subdued music. This movie hits all the nostalgia triggers from my childhood.
FACT: The voice narration at the beginning of the film was done by Jamie Lee Curtis, who had previously worked with John Carpenter on both "Halloween" (1978) and "The Fog" (1980).
That "I heard / thought you were dead!" gag is funny.
Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter reunited after this with The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and Escape From LA. One of the prison guards is played by legendary Western actor Lee Van Cleef. Another film similar to this I recommend watching is The Warriors. The narrator is voiced by Jamie Lee Curtis. Another Kurt Russell film to watch is Tango and Cash
One of my top 25 to 50 films of all time and one of John Carpenter's best. It was a joy to see you both fall in love with this timeless romp
RIP to Charles Cyphers. One of the nicest actors I've ever met. We would always talk sports when I would be at a table at the same horror conventions.
John Carpenter's music score for this movie is iconic!
James Cameron did matte paintings on this movie as well as was one of the directors of photography.
Taking place in an alternate 1997, it was revealed in some Wikipedia pages and novels that in 1985, WWIII happened after Russia launched a sneak attack on the United States, destroying every city on the East coast, except for Washington and New York. In 1988, New York is turned into the world's largest maximum security prison due to the crime rate.
Snake Plissken, an Army Vet, joja several rescue operations around the world, until Russia launches a deadly nerve gas in a small town in Nebraska, where Snake grew up, losing his mother and father, and also explains that he lost his eye to the nerve gas, causing him to wear the iconic patch. In 1991, he turns to a life of crime and becomes a famous outlaw.
The rest is history.....
In the book, Plissken lost his eye in Russia during a secret mission.
@MilesDoyleSalttake your copy and paste bullshit elsewhere...
@MilesDoyleSalt You are going to hell.
@MilesDoyleSalt You are going to hell!
@@dabreal82in my Captain America voice, "Language!!!"😅
The Taxi driver was Oscar winning actor, Ernest Borgnine.
That is the Sepulveda Dam. That early shot that starts there, passes through the guard station, and comes out the other side on Liberty Island is so cool because it looks like one take but it's two locations on the opposite ends of the country.
The tape had technical about the dangers of fallout if the was escalated to nuclear exchanges. Snake set the tone for the 80's anti-hero.
This film lack many women but it's fun to note that Carpenter's version of The Thing is one the rare films that has no women. In contrast, the female lead in his earlier film Assault on Precinct 13 is a strong woman who lends some some her DNA to Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor. James Cameron who created those two 80's action icons did special effects on some of Carpenter's work, including Escape From NY.
Such a great movie. Much of the outdoor scenes, and a fair number of the indoor scenes were filmed in St Louis. They couldn't film in NY because the permits were too expensive, this is a low budget action film after all, and lucky for them, St Louis had had a massive fire back in the late 70s, which gave them a perfect place to film, in fact the city asked them what they'd like, even offering to turn off the power for blocks if they needed that.
There's a great video here on YT featuring Carpenter and Russell talking about the movie, and one of my favorite pieces is that in the scene at the train, if you pay attention, there are multiple Snake Pliskens. Depending on whether a stunt was being filmed or not, Kurt and his stunt double would switch places, and they'd often play background characters in those scenes, although that scene really took the cake.
Was looking for this comment when I heard them say the locations were set built, but I knew some other fan would know the St Louis fire in the 70s and how they took advantage. Carpenter has one of the most solid library’s for me with his stuff up till Mouth of Madness. I still rewatch a lot of his stuff yearly.
This movie, Water World, and Tank Girl were my top favorite movies as a kid
One of the coolest flicks ever…great job Jaby!
The song playing as Snake flies to the Trade Towers is a synth version of "La cathédrale engloutie" (The Sunken Cathedral) by Claude Debussy. It's an intense song in most renderings / orchestrations.
There was a part 3 in development. The story was that Snake gets sent to a giant space station.The film Lockout,starring Guy Pearce,was the script that was considered to be adapted to be part 3.
God I love that movie
One of my all-time favorites. The first and only film I held on to the armrest tightly, sat on the edge of my seat, and did not relax until the end credits. I loved that so much I saw this in theater half a dozen times. Each time I yelled out, “F@(K!” when that guy ran past the door at the WTC and when he lost his walkie-talkie! The blonde who got taken by the Crazies thru the floor was Kurt’s wife at the time, Season Hubley. I grew up watching Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie) in the classic TV series ‘McHale’s Navy’. He often played heavies in Westerns and a formidable gladiator overseer in Demetrius and the Gladiators. Love that man!
Many of the matte special effects in Escape from New York were done by none other than James Cameron himself, back when Cameron was working with Roger Corman's New World Pictures special effects company. All of the scenes with the New York City skyline both at night and during the day were matte paintings created by James Cameron.
The green wireframe "graphics" were done by building a model of the NYC skyline, putting fluorescent tape on the edges of the buildings, and filming that in the dark.
Fun fact. Kurt still has the original black sleeveless shirt and leather jacket. He said a few years ago it’s in his closet lol.
Another fun fact. Most of the scenes were filmed in St Louis. There was a scene where Kurt ran around a corner of a street and there were some local guys who were just hanging out around the area. They had no idea a movie was filming and Kurt came upon them with the machine gun, eye patch etc and still in character and the guys put their hands up and said to Kurt “Easy man, just take it easy” Kurt then walked over to John Carpenter and told him I think this character is going to work lol
Love me some Adrienne Barbeau. She's cool as hell, too. Last time I chatted with her at a con we talked about her role in SOA.
John Carpenter liked the view so much he was married to her!
This was very obviously a fun movie for a lot of the guys, the Carpenter + Russell commentary you can find on one or two of the DVDs is excellent.
Yes it sounds like the Halloween theme , both Halloween and escape from New York's sound tracks are made by John Carpenter
One of my favorite movies.
The reason the music reminded you of Halloween is that John Carpenter composed the soundtrack for both movies. Somewhere on RUclips is a concert video of Carpenter playing his movie music.
The actress who played the woman in the cafe was Season Hubley, who was married to Kurt Russel at the time.
Cabbie was played by Ernest Borgnine. He's been in many movies and tv shows. He first rose to fame in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, and recently he was the voice of Mermaid Man in Spongebob Squarepants.
Donald Pleasence (The President) has also appeared in many movies, including The Great Escape (1963)
The music is just as iconic as the film itself. Its John Carpenter, of course the music is iconic. Escape from New York is a legendary classic. Please react to The Fog, another legendary Carpenter classic.
Top tier Carpenter. Beautifully made with a great cast lead by Kurt being instantly iconic. Plus Carpenter's brilliant score and legendary DP Dean Cundey's gorgeous cinematography. A classic.
Without this movie Hideo Kojima would not have found his inspiration for Solid Snake and Big Boss for Metal Gear Solid!
Cabby (whose voice you recognized) was well-known veteran actor, Ernest Borgnine who had an incredible career that spanned some 60 years, beginning in the 1950s with major roles in academy award winning movies like MARTY, BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK and FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. And he continued to receive that high level of quality roles throughout those 60 years. But modern audiences like yourself probably know him best at the tail end of his career when he lent his voice to the character Mermaid Man in the Sponge Bob cartoons.
And I'm guessing you may have known this (although you didn't say) but Maggie (the character with the "nice jacket") was played by Carpenter's, then wife, Adrienne Barbeau. She was also, by the way, the voice of the chess computer in Carpenter's THE THING. You know, the computer MacReady threw his drink on while calling it a cheatin' wh0re. Always wondered if there was more to that scene than met the eye, given that they divorced shortly after that movie came out.
Escape from New York is the best movie
John Carpenter usually does the music for his movies, including Halloween, his most famous music.
That's lee Van Cleef as the police commish of Clint Eastwood spaghetti western fame
*Lee Van Cleef played "The Bad" in Sergio Leone's "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly".* ⬅📀🎭🎬📡📺
The guy snake fought in the ring was pro wrestler OX Baker
Ox baker one of the toughest and scariest looking wrestlers of all time
24:21 "Is That Rick James?!!" LOL!!!
The actor playing Romero, the goon with the spiky blonde hair, is Frank Doubleday, who played one of the gang leaders in Assault on Precinct 13.
I haven’t seen that yet!
@@baptistekande6000when are y'all gonna learn they take their request through Patreon not the comments...
He is Portia Doubleday's dad, she was Angela in Mr. Robot.
21:46 There's a reason the music from Escape From New York and Halloween sound similar; they were composed and performed by the same person: John Carpenter, the director of both films
Adrienne Barbeau was known for three things. Being a bad ass woman in every role, and, well, you were the ones staring.
The blond woman in the lobby who got pulled into the floor by the cannibals was Kurt Russell's wife at the time.
The tape was a recording of the plans and formula for a new nuclear fusion weapon. The President was going to use the plans to force the U.S.' adversaries into signing a peace treaty. Snake switching out the tape and destroying it was his final FU for being forced into this deadly situation.
The computerized wire map of New York City was done practically. They basically just built a model of the city and lined the edges of the buildings with reflective tape, reminiscent of how the lightsaber effect was originally done in Star Wars: A New Hope.
The voiceover at the beginning is not Sigourney Weaver. It's actually Jamie Lee Curtis making a vocal cameo.
A plane hitting a building was in an earlier film called The Medusa Touch from 1978. Richard Burton starred in the movie.
It's not exactly common, but also not unheard of; in 1977 there was a TV movie called _Flight to Holocaust_ (a pilot for a series that never got picked up) about a team of "troubleshooters" called in to extract survivors from a small commuter plane impacted into the side of a skyscraper.
2:23 The DoP for this was Dean Cundey, who later worked with Spielberg.
Kurt, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, and Harry Dean 💫🤩
When you get a chance, watch Marty (1955)
21:47 That's because John Carpenter scores all of his movies. He had a background in music before he started making movies.
St. Louis is the stand in set for the streets of New York
John carpenters music is always great
Kurt Russell is a stuntman 😂 he's been doing stunts since he was a kid.
You guys should react to both "The Thing" (1982) and "Big Trouble In Little China" (1986), if you haven't already done so. Those two are also classics from the great John Carpenter.
I laugh each time the stunt woman stumbling each time on camera...
6:26 The character's name is Pliskin, which Solid Snake used in Metal Gear Solid 2. He, like Big Boss, gets an eye patch as well.
Definitely a classic movie
Watching this in the theater when I was 14 was the best, and made Kurt Russell an action star. Plus we all fell in love with him❤😂
3:34 This was 20 years before 9-11. That's crazy. 😲🤣
For like 20 years I did not know that Megas XLR had a scene referencing this movie. I found it funny back then and I find it even funnier now.
At the very end of this movie that tape that snake pliskin destroyed as he was walking off was a tape of the presidents speech i assume about nuclear weapons or somthing like that.
Ok l usually don’t comment before watching a reaction video….but lm shocked you haven’t since the legend of Snakes origins.
“Call me Snake”
And yes:Solid Snake is based loosely off this awesome character.
Even as a 19 year old when I first saw this on the big screen, (it looked fantastic on the big screen BTW), We expected more "action" early on too. So even back then, it took us a few minutes for our minds to adjust to its deliberate slower pace, but it was fine. No one was really "bored" with it. But understand, this was made AFTER faster-paced films NYC films such as The Warriors, for example, which BTW STILL has one the best opening credits in film history. As far as the soundtrack being as iconic as the film itself? Hmm, IDK I guess so. It's certainly recognizable to this day if we hear it, we INSTANTLY know its from Escape From New York lol. Anyway, great insights, guys. Spot on. I'm impressed.
Much of what you thought was shot on a set was actually shot on location near downtown St. Louis, Missouri 😅
The green and redlight motif. Has meanings
The Entrance of the Duke theme music was basically used as the bad guy theme in Beverly Hills Cop 2, opening scene.
The cabbie was Ernest Borgnine who won the Oscar for best actor for his role in the film Marty in 1955. His film and TV biography is longer than your arm.
You brought up Total Recall, which is a movie I use as an example of the change in attention span. The original was a lot of action, but there were moments where it slowed down a bit to build story. The remake was one long chasing. There was no time to catch your breath and I got kind of numbed at the action. When the pace slows down once in a while it makes the next action sequence that much more impactful.
It was theme to a 70s show called American Bandstand at the end
For a good Ernest Borgnine comparison, watch "From Here to Eternity" 1953 (great movie)
Hope yall watch the sequel. I think it's better!
Escape From New York is one of my favorite cyberpunk styled genre movies from the 80s. CD Projekt Red used Escape from New York as inspiration for the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty. Premise for the game is very similar to this movie.
John Carpenter also composed and performed the score for the movie.
Not only is John Carpenter still alive, but he has a First-Person Shooter co-op videogame coming out soon. It's called Toxic Commando.
"Cronenberg," the doctor who plants the explosives in Snake's neck, was played by John Strobel. He had a bit role in Carpenter's previous film _The Fog_ and worked in the sound department for a short titled _Intrusion,_ but those are the only three entries in his IMDb page.
Two Fun Facts; 1.)A 26 year old James Cameron worked on this film 2.) This film is a Cinematic Chiasmus- a film that takes the same number of steps to reach its peak as it does to end and addressing the same issues/themes but in a reversed mirrored manner.
If you had been following Adrienne Barbeau's career, you'd know it was okay to look.
The Shout Factory blu-ray of this has a great commentary track with Carpenter and Russell.
Awesome pick and reaction guys another cool one is Kurt in 1998s Soldier, Can't wait for Escape from L.A.
The ever funny ( to me ) line of I thought you were dead always reminds me of the John Wayne movie Big Jake a running joke throughout and since then I have seen/heard that line in many movies since. :)
Spike was Character actor Frank Doubleday. Watch Assault on precinct 13 for his iconic role.
A lot of the street shots were filmed in a warehouse section of St. Louis that had a very big fire a few years prior.
15:36 What may be throwing you is the doctor's voice. He sounds a lot like Michael Biehn. The doctor is played by John Strobel, who was in Escape From New York, The Fog, and Intrusion.
There's a fun sci-fi action movie called Lockout, starring Guy Pearce and co-written/produced by Luc Besson. John Carpenter sued the studio and filmmakers due to it being too similar to an unproduced Escape sequel script, called Escape from Earth. He actually won the plagiarism case.
1. Snake is in trouble throughout the entire movie.
2. A British President?
3. Manhattan is very expensive real estate for a prison.
4. The girl in the Chock Full O'Nuts is Season Hubley. She was Russell's squeeze at the time. Before Goldie.
5. Everyone who says, "I heard/thought you were dead" dies.
6. The eye patch is Russell's idea.😎
7. I loved, loved, loved Harry Dean Stanton😇
8. Favorite character: Romero.🤩
9. This was filmed entirely at night in an area of St Louis before it was refurbished.
10. The only reason to watch "Escape from LA" is to say you have. Besides doing this for a living.
Absolutely NO remake. "If it ain't broke don't fix it". Look how they ruined "Mad Max".
John Carpenter composed music for the recent Halloween movies and is helping on a new Halloween video game ( Hope its not just multiplayer)
20:55 That is Ernest Borgnine. You probably know his voiceover work from Sponge Bob. He was the voice of Mermaid Man until his death in 2012
Funny that you thought Carpenter was dead. 😂 Understandable though, as he doesn't really make movies any more. Instead, he's had a late career resurgence in music and has released four albums of new music in the last nine years, all of them great.
The music for a lot of carpenter's films was composed by the man himself so there is a feel he goes for try the film The Fog
The only person in the film that doesn’t recognize Snake is the only person who’s met him: the President, who gave him a medal.
That tape was the most important thing they had to keep track of, and neither of them did it.
Awesome times, fun movie esp in its day! Lee Van Cleef was a Western Legend, in some ways like Kurt Russell underrated, my mom was a big fan, Van Cleef, Eastwood, Brunner, McQueen, Bronson all those dudes, Newman, she loved Western genre!
BTW the blonde punk chick that got pulled done the hole, was married to Kurt Russell before he married Goldie Hawn
One of my favorite Kurt Russell movies is Death Proof, but best watched as it was intended as a double feature Planet Terror (both Quentin Tarantino movies) I miss this sort of film making myself. Also a Kiwi stuntwoman in Death Proof, she's awesome Kiwi Zoe Bell, no dis not quite on the others acting level, but cool to see her in the movie, it was a great cast and cool story. sorry for the deviation off Escape from New York!
If you guy's haven't done that yet, l would love to see a reaction of that double feature with "Jabs, Achara and "esp Kristen", Vivian and Steph", the crew of girls since it revolves around girls' in the film, would be great to see, its made for reactions, QT is the master of shock🥰💯🤟
The deleted opening where Snake is caught robbing the Federal Reserve is on RUclips, IIRC.
Please no remake, this film is awesome as it was. But the review discussion at the end was quite interesting.
If you ever get the chance/ I'd love to see your reaction to The Warriors.
we have different tech for recording, allows for clearer more crisp sounds, the old tracks were limited do to so many factors, for example the sound dispursing foam pads we have no they didnt at 1st, same with the sound dampening wall squares that just add mass tot he wall to block outside sounds. we dont use records anymore fo this reason among a few others like data storage and durability
To get that lived-in look, they shot this in beautiful East St. Louis, Illinois. Apparently it didn;t require much set dressing for that burnt-out, wrecked-up feel.
Nope
They shot it on the Missouri side of the river, in downtown Saint Louis.
Not only is John Carpenter still alive, but if you've ever played Fallout 76, there's a chance you've encountered him in the game. He's a big fan of video games and LOVES Fallout 76 and plays it pretty frequently. It's wild to think that you could be poking around in that game, come across some random other player and not realize it's John freaking Carpenter.
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