Pt. 2 - Return to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (retrospective docu - 2003) 

This demonstrates what you can achieve with some imagination and guts. No CGI crutch, no suits tinkering with everything, no huge merchandizing plans.

Man the music is another character in the movie ... That's how perfect the score was

Kurt Russell plus John Carpenter equals magic

The greatest movie ever. Best score, best cast, best premis and execution. It's to unsung

Escape from New York was a different and defining movie of that era. John Carpenter along with other directors like Walter Hill (The Warriors) and Michael Mann (Thief) ushered in cool new visions for sci fi and action movies that stretched from the late '70s into the '80s and beyond. Can't get enough of these movies!

Andrian's twins played an outstanding support role.

The thing, Escape from new york ,They live.... John Carpenter is A number 1

An absolute popcorn classic.

Wish I could ERASE my mind(amnesia) and watch Thing,Fog and Escape from NEW York over and over again!

imagine that. 5 million dollar budget makes a fun and excellent movie. How much does disney spend on star wars? and its absolute trash. isnt that just remarkable?

I love this movie.

As a kid, I wanted to be Snake Plissken. I am 50 in 3 years, I STILL want to be Snake Plissken!

John Carpenter is a genius...that's all.

Scoring, prop creativity (chandlers on cars), location scout managers, film editors, costume designers, so much, such goodness....runtime 1 hour and 46 minutes - wished it was a 3 hours and 58 minutes.

Watch Escape from New York on Escape from LA back to back. 15 year difference and Kurt Russell did the part as if it was only months.

''Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton'' Wiki

Saw it three times. I'll never grow tired of it.

I'm on holiday next week, and escape from new york is on the menu. Snake what are you doing, playing with myself, great one liner. Thanks for the view. 👌

Greatest movie EVER!!!!!

Ox Baker did a great job in that role. My only other picks for that role might of been Big John Studd or Andre the Giant.

2 best directors of all time George A Romero and John Carpenter!!! No one else will ever be as great!!!

This is awesome!

I can't remember if I read the book or saw the movie first but I loved both. A classic!

Adrienne Big Juggs

Best soundtrack ever

It just shows how people are so easily entertained nowadays movies like this hardly ever being made.

Don't even think about doing a remake

It's sad that so many of the great actors have passed like Isaac Hayes, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Harry Dean Stanton and Frank Doubleday.

ESCAPE FROM NY, THE THING , BIG TROUBLE LIL CHINA......EPIC EPIC 80s movies. that STILL holds up today....now thats a great director.

Long live John Carpenter

ffs that was great! Thanks

Kirk R. Who doesnt care about hollywood awards at least i think so. A much uder rated actor.

Interesting case study to contrast with George Miller and the Mad Max franchise. Miller took up the post apocalyptic concept with asphalt and gasoline. Carpenters visions was guns and guts. And over time, as asphalt and gasoline have morphed in the social consciousness, Miller has adapted his ideas to human trafficking and exploited people and was showered with accolades (I just came here from reading a retrospective on Fury Road on NY Times site). Meanwhile those themes were part of "Escape from NY" from the beginning. However Blisken's character represented an optimistic libertarian beacon... the inherent hard boiled tough guy with the unflinching ability to call the cards as they were dealt. And the Max character, through the original 3 trilogy films, as well as the reboot, was always a character adrift in a tidal wave of dysfunction whose humanity was somewhat lacking. For example, his flirtations with the idea of staying with the force after they bribe him with the V8 pursuit special lead to the death of his wife and baby in the first film. In the case of Blisken's universe, Blisken doesn't cause anyone's death so much as he helps them discover their own human dignity in a cause greater than themselves. Maggie's death (note how Brain dies first), for example, is not a deforming moment for Snake to lose his humanity over, but instead he uses that to test the humanity of the President and he finds the President lacking, whereby he destroys the Presidents MacGuffin. Just such a sad thing IMHO that Mad Max has had a second life in the age of male guilt, Carpenter and his vision about civilization, corrupt authority, and the power of stoic masculinity has been pigeonholed by Hollywood into Halloween remakes for audiences who have forsaken one of his best social commentary films as a kind of joke. Sure it was a hyperbole, but at it's core was 1980s version of Conan the Barbarian with a S&W, cargo pants, and an eye patch.

One of my favorite endings to a movie ever

A remake, just for the sake of better special effects and a grittier, more realistic vision, would maybe work, BUT, nobody would do it without a new PC angle and a gender flip or two, so, no way !! Besides, the limits of the effects in the original are part of it's appeal.

Brings memories......

this should have thousands of views atleast :(

heard there is suposed to be a third sequal called escape from earth? Where the is it make it all ready mr. carpenter.

Harry Dean Stanton is a boss

CALL ME SNAKE.....

It was/is an awesome movie and brings back so many memories! But I don't dare to watch it again... won't ruin that memory!

Their was a rumor Ken Stabler was supposed to play Snake Plusskin and back out of the role because he was in the middle of the football season at the time is that true.

Kurt Russell always does John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.

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funny how fiction becomes reality.

At 2:30 that's his real life wife at that time

Dc 8????? LOLOLOL It's a Convair 340 or 440. NOT a jet aircraft.

If they do a remake, Charlie Hunnam from SOA would play a great Snake...

REMAKE REMAKE REMAKE!!!!!!🙏🙏🙏

Trump would be perfect for the role of the hapless pussified POTUS.

I thought escape from L.A. was a better film.

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