![]() Escape From New York still holds up today and is still a classic 40 years on. It's also a favourite amongst many Kurt Russell fans who agree that Snake Plissken is one of the best characters. No surprise that it was a box office flop and not well received by critics. (1996), I thought they just tried to recycle the plot from the first movie albeit in Los Angeles. After mixed success with low budget movies, Escape From New York would turn out to be a critical and commercial success for him which would lead on to bigger projects with a bigger budget. Director John Carpenter, well known for the horror slasher Halloween (1978), creates an atmosphere of suspenseful action, dark humour, memorable one liners, and great characters. His role as Snake Plissken is definitely one of his best roles, and he has stated himself that it is one of his favorite roles. Kurt Russell has always been a quality and very versatile actor. Fellow inhabitants/inmates Brain (Harry Dean Stanton) and Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau) also help Plissken find the whereabouts of The Duke's hideout where the President is being held prisoner. While he is there, he meets a friendly taxi driver named Cabbie (Ernest Borgnine) who drives an armoured taxi who agrees to helps him navigate his way around the island. Plissken successfully enters New York via a stealthy glider. The US President is found and taken hostage by a group of criminals led by crime boss The Duke (Isaac Hayes). Fugitive reptiles don’t usually make it to the pages of the Bits. Last Friday, as New Yorkers droned through their morning commute, employees of the Bronx Zoo discovered something rather disturbing : An adolescent Egyptian cobra had gone missing from an exhibit enclosure at the zoo. Former special forces soldier turned convicted criminal Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has been offered a full presidential pardon in exchange for accepting a top secret mission by Police Commissioner Bob Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) to rescue the US President (Donald Pleasance) after his escape pod lands in New York after Air Force One crashes following a hijacking. Screenshot via Twitter BronxZoosCobra’s Twitter stream. ![]() Escape From New York takes place in a dystopian 1997 where Manhattan has been converted into a heavily fortified maximum security prison after the crime rate has skyrocketed 400% and the US Government has ordered New York to be cut off from the rest of the USA. Director John Carpenter directed, co-wrote and co-scored Escape From New York and this would also be one of a number of collaborations with Kurt Russell who would later reunite with The Thing (1982) and Big Trouble In Little China (1986). Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken would be renowned as one of the most memorable anti heroes on screen. Escape From New York which was released in 1981 is a very entertaining science fiction action movie which still holds up today.
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