ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Call Him Snake!
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This was my dad's all-time favorite movie. We must've watched it together a hundred times. I miss him terribly.
James Cameron was on the special effects team for this film. He was on the team that built and photographed the miniatures of the buildings as Snake is gliding in.
Painted the matte shots too.
He did the Matte Paintings, not the miniatures
@@cryogenixoldskool5803 He did both, as well as several other things on the film.
I watched this movie in the theater with my friends when I was 12 y/o. We had to get permission to watch it. But everyone had the same reaction when Cabby dies. You could hear everyone in the movie theater get simultaneously bummed when he died on the bridge. So far, decades later, the new generation of people reacts to his death exactly the same way. Good stuff.
You can tell James Cameron was really influenced by Carpenter’s movies to a degree also
Cameron worked on this movie, he did the matte paintings
James Cameron did the Matte Paintings for this film
Adrienne Barbeau was also featured in Swamp Thing (1982), and first came to everyone's attention as the daughter, Carol, on the show Maude. She was also married to Carpenter from 79-84.
Cannonball Run 1981
It may sound a bit chauvinistic but Adrienne had an impressive rack back then. Loved her in Swamp Thing and Cannonball run
@@r.g.o3879 She sure did. Awesome lady to meet in person too. Met her at a horror con years back and had a great conversation with her. Even got her to autograph my DVD copy of The Fog no less.
What a great movie, very innovative SFX too! The “computer” read outs, were just fluorescent paint on miniature buildings! Another reason why I like practical effects. Ingenuity to achieve a result. Great reaction, cheers Mr & Mrs!
What you meant was VFX or Visual Effects. "SFX" stands for Sound Effects.
@@RafaelBenedicto nope - SFX, an abbreviation for special effects
The Duke of New York was played by the late Isaak Hayes, who also voiced Chef in South Park, back in the day.
Academy award winner 4 the soundtrack of “Shaft”...... 🤙🏽💯😎
"He's from McHale's Navy."
Me: "AIRWOLF!!!"
My favorite character was Hauk because i love Lee Van Cleef, he was a great character actor and he didn't take crap from anyone, he didn't put up with Plisskens tough guy act and he didn't take crap from the Secretary of State either, he was like this is my prison and i'm in charge, i once watched this movie from a hospital bed but the problem was it was in Spanish and the nurse was like "I didn't know you spoke Spanish" and i told her i don't but i've seen this movie so many times i know exactly what they're saying and to prove it i said the lines in English as they said them in Spanish, the nurse was like "How many times have you seen this movie?" and i said "probably more times than you've had hot meals"
If you lived in NYC in the 70's, as I did, you would believe this movie was possible.
Watch the whole Dollar Trilogy by Sergio Leone.
"For a Fistful of Dollars"
"For a Few Dollars more"
"The Good the Bad and the Ugly" ist the last one
And as a bonus: "Once Upon A Time In The West". That one's a classic.
edit: corrected the title from the german translated to the correct english version...
For advanced studies, "A Fistful of Dynamite" isn't entirely bad either. And "Once Upon a Time in America" is also good. I also want to advocate for Lee Van Cleef's Sabata franchise- Sabata and Return of Sabata. It's cheesy Italian pulp goodness.
A Fistful of Dollars
@@frankmiller4550 I saw that early this week. It's a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojmbo".
@@Madbandit77 Tsubaki Sanjuro & Yojimbo.
Leone remade both parts. "The Last Boy Scout" with Bruce Willis is another version of the story.
Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" also was remade into The Magnificent Seven, and "The Hidden Fortress" gave lots of inspiration to the first Star Wars Movie, or 'A New Hope'.
@@Cau_No Don't you mean "Last Man Standing"?
Watching this reaction, for the first time I realized that Snake would have given the real tape to the President with a sincere apology/thank you. But that’s a politician for you…
Fun fact that you may not know, the female voice at the beginning is Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis.
One of my all-time favourite films. The atmosphere, the music, the feel of the whole thing is perfect. A reboot now would be too cheesy and not dark enough, (like Escape From LA - even Bruce Campbell couldn't save that).
Agreed. Bruce's Surgeon General of Beverly Hills was the only halfway decent thing about Escape From L.A., and he's only in it for a few minutes. Should've been the main villain.
Escape from LA is better than most movies coming out today.
@@geeebuttersnap2433 True, but that's a pretty low bar
The thing that I was surprised about with Kurt Russell in this movie was this was his first movie role getting away from his old Walt Disney movie characters. And it was an action movie not a comedy which was what he was doing in the Disney movies. After seeing him in Disney movies such as "Not you see him now you don't", "The strongest man in the world", "Computer in tennis shoes" and "Superdad", this was a big change. But switching from comedies to action, he did a great job. But then again, he has been acting since he was a kid. He's one of the few child actors that made it to the big time. I remember seeing him in an episode of that old cowboy tv show called "Gunsmoke" when he was just 11 years old. So yeah, he's been doing it for a while. And I also thought it was funny when the lady said whispering "Why is he whispering," and then the guy says back to her also whispering, "Why are you whispering". And the crazy part about all this was I was thinking that to myself before the guy said that, and then he says it. lol
Such an awesome movie. Kurt and carpenter are movie gold. Really want to see you react to John carpenters in the mouth of madness with Sam Neil. One of my favourite carpenter movies.
That is one of the craziest movies. Sam Neil was superb as he became unhinged.
You need to do a review of Sorcerer from 1977. It is brilliant and you will love it.
Tommy Lee Jones, Charles Bronson and Sylvester Stallone were considered for Snake Plissken. This was Kurt Russell's first action move since leaving Disney in 1978. Him and John Carpenter are still friends to this day. The film takes place in an alternate universe where WWIII happened in 1985-1991. Most major cities were destroyed, but humanity has since leaned a lesson about nuclear war. During this time, New York has been turned into a maximum security prison in 1988 due to rising crime rate in America.
Once you go in, you don't come out.
Also in the 70's and early 80's NYC was pretty much at its nadir. It went bankrupt in 74-75 and President Ford came within a whisker of refusing to bail them out. People had been abandoning cities for the suburbs since the 1950's. The long climb back of big cities in the US hadn't started when this movie was made, so abandoning Manhattan to the criminals, walling it off and making it into a prison was marginally less fantastic then.
The creepy guy is Frank Doubleday. He is also a very creepy guy in Assault on Precinct 13, the film John Carpenter made before Halloween.
He passed away a couple of years ago. His two daughters are actress. One of them, Portia, was a regular on the TV cybercrime drama, "Mr. Robot".
The Narrator and woman's voice in the deportation area at the beginning of the movie was Jamie Lee Curtis. Also the woman in the Chock Full O'Nuts was Kurt Russell's wife Season Hubley
Crazy, I bought this movie on blu-ray today
Hope it was the Shout Factory release. They put out some excellent releases of cult films IMO.
Whenever anyone mentions great movie scores, I always bring up this movie. Peak 80s synth!! Love it.
Donald Pleasance also plays Blofeld in the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice" and he is also in "The Great Escape"
When this movie came out, Kurt Russell was known mainly as a goody-goody Walt Disney star in such films as "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" and "The World's Greatest Athlete." It was very hard to imagine him as a tough action star. I was still skeptical even as the movie began to roll. Fortunately he pulled it off extremely well and the rest is history.
Childhood favorite. And that synth score. Still gives me chills. Amazing movie. Favorite character definitely Cabbie.
I watched the second Part i n the Cinenma . I facking loved it!
So glad you did this one. Your comments throughout had me laughing out loud... love it!
I love this movie. The opening exposition is voiced by John Carpenter alum Jamie Lee Curtis. I only found this out about a year ago. But once you know, you can't not hear it. The model of the city Snake sees in his glider display was filmed by building a cardboard replica of the buildings and putting reflective tape lines on them for the detail. In 1981 there wasn't a computer that could render the image. The outdoor scenes were filmed in Kansas City, MO. There had been a major fire recently that depopulated some of the downtown. City services, like electricity, were sketchy. And no police. So YMMV on safety. The scene where Snake walks down a street and turns a corner, Kurt Russel walks up on a group of randos just out in the night. They take a look at him and his prop kit and say "Hey, man, just take it easy." Kurt tells Carpenter afterward, "I think this character is really going to work." The woman in the Chock Full O Nuts (a New York brand) coffee shop is Season Hubely, a.k.a. Mrs. Kurt Russell at the time. Kurt was a Disney child actor in his early career. The same year he made this he did the voice of Copper in Fox & the Hound. No more Disney after this.
I love how in the beginning of the film, once the tracker isn't going to work, Pliskin just gets a chair and gives up lol.
Kurt Russell was doing an impersonation of Clint Eastwood in this film. That's why he was talking like that.
The Duke is singer Isaac Hayes who also voiced Chef from South Park.
Well other than Cabbie I would say Snake Plissken himself, one of the most bad ass anti-heroes ever! Hope you had a great Christmas and New Years Eve =) The narrator in the beginning was Jamie Lee Curtis, though she's uncredited, and she also did the uncredited narration in the 2nd movie also. Escape from L.A. is basically the 1st movie again except it takes place in L.A., the villain is forgettable and it has the early cgi that does not look good at all.
I remember watching Escape from LA, and wondering how you're supposed to have a suspension of disbelief during some of those CGI scenes. Also I seem to recall the enemies having stormtrooper academy aiming in it.
@@lmcgregoruk Escape from L.A. was at heart a parody of action films, as well as political satire, using much the same plot of the first film. Highly underrated!
Jamie Lee Curtis did something similar in Halloween 3.
But, the ending of Escape From L.A. freaked me out as a teenager. I was just completely frightened if that was to happen...wtf!
@@Brooklyn_Bleek Understandable, but I still stick with my opinion.
I haven't seen this movie in so long, I'd forgotten Ox Baker was in it. He was one of my favorite wrestling "bad guys" back in the day. Of course, if Kurt had really hit Ox with that spiked bat, it would've just made him mad. 😆
Actually, Kurt did punch him in the nuts because Ox was working too stiff and Ox backed off in later takes.
I was just going to mention Ox Baker was the Gladiator!
Well spotted.
Ox Baker caused a riot in a Cleveland wrestling match beating up on Ernie Ladd. Fans hit the ring and he ran out while fans chased him. Its on RUclips. My fav is his appearance on Price is Right in early 80’s with Bob Baker
"Why is he whispering?" "Why do we need to call him 'Snake'?"
Both questions have the same answer. Because he is a BAD@$$!
6:12 that's exactly what I thought when I first saw him coming like that 😰
I loved the concept of Prison city and the atmosphere with that stunning background score by John Carpenter
The psycho who toke over Air Force One is played by Nancy Stephens who was Marion Chambers in Halloween 1 & 2.
Hey! I’ve lived in New York my whole life but I might have to escape it at this rate!! 😭😂😂
the reason people think he's dead is explained in the deleted 12 minute intro scene cut from the final film that i would recommend watching.
Two names keep coming up in Kurt Russell's career. John Carpenter and Elvis Presley.
8:57 - "Where's his coat?"
He's too cool to get cold.
Kurt is basically playing Clint (the good) in this.. thats why he whispers... also Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror from the Grindhouse double feature with Quentin Tarantino was heavily influenced by Escape from New York.... especially from an atmospheric point of view.
Interesting fact since Lee Van Cleef was Clint’s nemesis.
Sergio Leone used Lee Van Cleef at least a couple times in his spaghetti westerns. Besides Good, the Bad and the Ugly he was also a bad guy in " A Few Dollars More" ( I think_) and another classic " The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
This is an absolute classic! I can't remember how many times I saw this as a kid on a little black and white television. "Escape from LA" is another matter entirely...
“Snake Pliskin……. I heard you were dead.”
I saw this theatrically when I was about 14 years old and I have been a huge fan of Kurt and John Carpenter ever since.👍
Good eye on seeing the hand on the door. I saw this in 1982 on HBO and have watched it quite a few times since then and never noticed it.
I remember Lee Van Cleef from a TV show in the 80s called "The Master", where he played an American ninja!
Master Ninja was a great episode of MST3k
Not only was Lee Van Cleef in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", but he was also in "For A Few Dollars More" & "The Man That Shot Liberty Valance". Plus "The Octagon" with Chuck Norris just to name a few.
"I don't know the aerodynamics of a chandelier."
Someone didn't pay attention in school.
It's Solid Snake everybody.
Solid Snake is based on him not Plissken based on Solid
What a cast for a movie that is criminally underappreciated today.
It'd be cool to see you react to the original Gojira(1954)
The movie that helped give us MGS, I love it. Escape from LA is good too
Fun fact! The woman flying the jet in the very beginning was also Nurse marian chambers from Halloween 2 81 , Sherrif brackett.
Snake: "What's wrong with Broadway?"
Mrs. Movies: "All the struggling actors." :)
Earnest Borgnine one of the greatest actors ever in my opinion brilliant in every role
"Cargo Pants" LMAO
Fun fact: The flaming wreckage was neither a special nor practical effect. That was just a random St. Louis neighborhood in its typical condition at the time the movie was filmed. 🤣
There was a fire in St Louis that destroyed most of the waterfront area - thus the filmmakers agreed to film there and had the cooperation of the City. The Aircraft used was a real DC 8 that was cut up and brought there under cover of darkness for shooting - without permits.
This was filmed in St. Louis Mo.....yes, the downtown area was that bad.😁 The bridge scene was shot on the old Chain of Rocks bridge. Me and a couple buddies were extras in it. We were part of the crowding shooting arrows into the station wagon and then again in the Union Station Fight Ring scene. All the actors were cool and friendly with the extras.......Adrienne Barbeau, will lets just say that dress was even more spectacular in person. 😍😍
As for the glider going up, per a helicopter pilot friend, tall buildings create and channel up drafts, which makes flying a helicopter between buildings almost impossible.
Suggestions for other reviews: Kurt Russell in "Soldier" and Kurt Russell/John Carpenter "Big Trouble in Little China".
I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 recently and it's really cool seeing this movie. Hideo Kojima wanted Kurt Russell to voice Snake in the game but Kurt said no. If people don't know, all the Snakes in the series were inspired by Pliskin in this movie.
John Carpenter to the Hollywood Reporter ""CanalPlus , wanted to also go after the video game Metal Gear Solid, which is kind of a rip-off of Escape From New York, too, but I told them not to do that. I know the director of those games, and he's a nice guy, or at least he's nice to me."
The question came after Carpenter and CanalPlus winning a lawsuit against Luc Besson , Lockout (2012) ... 2015 French court ruled that movie was too similar to Escape from NY (1981) and Escape from LA (1996) .
David Hayter does a pretty good Snake Plissken impersonation as Solid Snake IMO.
@@pete_lind Glad Carpenter told them to chill out on that. Kojima had reached out to Carpenter and told him that Solid Snake was heavily inspired by Escape from New York and Snake Plissken so that worked out in his favor in that case.
14:05 'Look at me remembering something.' lol
I saw this on tv years ago (back in the day when they still played movies on broadcast tv) and fell in love with it. I remember seeing the trailer in the theater just before watching The Howling at the age of 8. I know you guys have The Howling slated for October, just keep in the back of your mind that my dad took me to see it when I was 8.
Don’t forget cabby is also sheriff Lyle in the movie convoy and the duke is Issac Hayes (the musician who made the Shaft theme)
The guy that Snake fights in the ring was a real Pro Wrestler for many years. His ring name was Ox Baker.
*Used Cars (or Car Wars) also starring Kurt Russell, incredibly funny!!!*
Saw this at the drive-in when I was 12? I think, maybe 11? My older cousins took me. Loved it ❤️Still love it.
The Duke: “hello children” ✋ “Hi Chef”
His soundtracks sounded 70’s in the 80’s.
They were awesome.
The hijacker of Air Force One is played by Nancy Stephens, who also played Nurse Marion Chambers in Halloween.
Sitting here in England reading News about America, I think, the only thing missing is the wall LOL
Thank your for reacting to this movie. My favorite movie of all time
Can't wait to see your reaction to the 2nd movie. Should be an interesting watch.
Thanks for watching and reviewing this movie. One of my all-time-favorites, with Big Trouble in Little China. Classic Kurt Russel movies.
Yeah, a family friend decided to take the kids to the movies one night and we ended up seeing this as a double feature with "The Exterminator" Oh yeah! Good times for a 13 year old! LOL! 😄
One Of Kurt Russell's Best Performances
The ending "your the Duke, your the Duke A number 1" was always my fave
Favorite character has to be Snake, such a cool badazz character, I’ve read or heard that he’s Kurt’s favorite role also we can only hope! Thanks again
I loved the whole "Call me Snake...".... and then when he calls him "Snake"... "The name's Plissken" routine. It's he little FU, whichever you call me is gonna be wrong....
The Tortoise and the Hare - A story about stopping when you are in the lead and allowing a slower less capable person to get ahead. The Tortoise did not win, the hare gave in.
Brilliant theme tune, written by John Carpenter himself. Some terrific performances in this; Russell of course, Borgnine, the always-reliable Lee Van Cleef, and Isaac Hayes with his eye twitch. And of course a scene-stealing performance from spooky little fella Frank Doubleday.
Oddly enough, i found Frank Doubleday more menacing in Assault on Precinct 13. Scared the crap out of me as a kid!
@@andyholmes6380He shot a little girl in Assault on Precinct 13 that was very cold hearted and brutal.
Snake rolling in with the family truckster!
If you’re into Carpenter, you definitely owe it to yourself to see They Live.
So glad that you watched this movie! Thanks guys xx
I forgot Ox Baker was in this movie... he was a big time wrestler in the 60s and 70s. Really nice guy, he was on the price is right too.
was sitting here waiting for a comment on the scope! hahaha! Thanks for not letting me down. :)
Saw this movie at the 1981 "Festival Du Film Fantastique" in Brussels, Belgium. Loved it then and still love it now, although it's slightly dated thanks to technology catching-up with so-called "science fiction". Cell-phones and flatscreens and all that. Still, I loved the reaction. All hail to thee. Greetings and well-wishes from Belgium.
Heck yes! Saw at the theater one of my favorites thanks y’all!
John Carpenter tours with his band and his adult son playing songs from his movies! They play clips from the films in the background. It's so f'ing cool!
The woman that gets pulled through the floor, Season Hubley. Was Kurt Russell's wife at the time. He didn't meet Goldie Hawn until they did the film Overboard.
The opening narration following the opening credits is actually done by an uncredited Jamie Lee Curtis. She also does the voice of the PA system in the Liberty Island Debarkation Center. John Carpenter's then-girlfriend and co-producer Debra Hill(who also co-wrote and co-produced Halloween) did the voice of the Liberty Island Security Control computer.
“UR THE DUKE! A-NUMBER ONE!!!!!” 😂🤣😂
Ever wonder why the President is British? Carpenter joked that Pleasence was the illegitimate love child of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Lol!
Born in the US, raised by Maggie in the UK. (Hence the accent.)
I was introduced to Ernest Borgnine through "McHale's Navy" too, but when I think of him, the first things I remember are his Oscar winning performance in "Marty" and Taylor Holland saying "I need an aspirin the size of Ernest Borgnine" on "Bosom Buddies."
The blond girl Snake runs into first who gets pulled underground was Season Hubley, Kurt Russell's wife at the time.
I love the fact that this was filmed in St. Louis, MO.
"Call me snake." 🐍
Bad ass!
James Cameron did some special effects work on this film. Since cgi or any computer display was expensive or impossible back then, he taped reflective tape to the building models and filmed with a green light to make a computer display for the glider.
Love your channel, keep up the great work!
Snake Plissken fit the definition of "90s anti-hero"--9 years before the 1990s even began.
Snake Plissken created that stereotype.
As always, I loved your reaction. I gotta say though, I'm surprised you guys didn't discuss "The Duke", whom was played by Isaac Hayes. Isaac was known for his song "Shaft", and voicing "Chef" in "South Park".
I watched them film a lot of this in St Louis.
Jamie Lee Curtis did the voice at the beginning of the movie as well as the automated voice when Plissken was doing a walkthrough before meeting Hauk
the air force 1 pilot was in haloween 1&2 she was the nurse that was helping doctor loomis bring Michael to wherever they were taking him . she's the 1 that told loomis that laurie was Michael lil sister
Snake Plissken is one of my favorate characters all time..