@@10yearsafter57 Yeah, I was about 8-9 when I saw this. I was able to see a lot of movies I shouldn't be seeing at that age.' Scarface,' 'To Live and Die in LA' That remain my favs.
Maybe it's more like they can't make movies like this anymore BECAUSE of CGI. It never feels as real as things like this. Look at American Werewolf in London compare to how crappy the CGI lycanthrope changes are these days.
@@charlespage8692 I love this d@mn movie. As a kid growing up in the 80s my dad was always watching this film on VHS 📼 😁 Hearing the EFNY theme back then captivated me, even before I'd watched the film.
Maybe the most atmospheric beginning to a movie ever. Saw it as a kid. Blew me away. Could it be the first ever action movie? Either way, given the way the world was looking at the ass end of the 70's... This, along with The Warriors capturef a certain mood. Cinema had decreased as a medium since then. TV has taken over.....
you know in the film where the glider is heading into NYC, the computer display of the supposed 3D renderings of the buildings are actually recordings of boxes the shapes of the buildings with glow in the dark paint to create the 3D wireframe models. The back matte painting of NYC cityscape in the beginning is also made by Jim (James) Cameron, who three years later made The Terminator.
Good question, I think it's a combination of this being a different time and he likes total control of his movies and he probably doesn't get that these days.
@@soundsgreatentertainment4203 John's also a self-described nihilist, if I recall correctly...and Hollywood doesn't take kindly to that anymore. But I do agree about him wanting the final say over his projects, and the studio heads balk over that too. They think they know better than the people who actually create these characters from scratch.
Even though the plot is pretty absurd, this film is scary as hell, shows what a master John Carpenter is. And while this isn't a popular opinion, I'd also love this film to be remade by the right person with the right approach.
@@alexthompson3228 It's bound to be remade sooner or later. There's a lot you can do with the concept that wasn't explored in the original movie, the best we can hope is somebody does it justice rather than make a safe-playing dumb action movie.
In 2022, the crime rate in the United States rose 400%. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.
I watched this movie in the theater when it came out. My mom took me lol. I was 8 years old and had a huge crush on Kurt Russell. I thought he was hot even at that age lol.
Love these original Metal Gear 1 (Escape from N.Y.) and Metal Gear 2 (Escape from LA) movies! And always watch "They Live" right after these two action hits!!! PRICELESS...
As much as I like this movie, I've always wished Carpenter gave a bit more justification for why Manhattan was chosen to be the prison island (other than that it's kind of cool), as opposed to some place that's not as important. Why couldn't the US government use some uninhabited Pacific islands for that purpose, for instance? And for that matter, how were millions of people moved out of New York? And why were the bridges mined instead of being demolished, since no one was going to use them anyway? Escape from L.A., though it's not as good, has a setup that makes a bit more sense. Los Angeles is separated from the mainland by an earthquake and its infrastucture is ruined, so the whole prison conversion thing makes more sense in that movie.
In 1981 when the movie came out, the entire city was falling into total anarchy because of the crime rates and urban decay, it really didnt seem unrealistic at the time. They dont mention it in the movie, but in the novelization, they reveal that New York was hit by a nerve gas attack as well, driving most of the population insane.
Yeah, 9/11 was fun. The closed bridges/tunnels and people being searched on/off the island. Good times. I think for a few weeks , before the various civic fuckups became known Mayor Gulliani was considered - even by many of his detractors to be the "man of the hour", however imperfect. Later as the various fuckups/abuses started to become apparent, people could describe the guy as "America's Mayor" and he was very serious about "cleaning up NYC", which he did. But, as a friend of mine - who was never really a fan of Mayor Gulliani, pointed out at dinner a couple of weeks after 9/11. As things started progressing in a more positive direction , the giant pile of wreckage was being cleared and those lost were still being recovered. In that immediate moment, as we started to return to something that would become the "new normal", my friend , confided at dinner that while he was not a fan, and he was sure he wasn't wrong about the Mayor, he said "sometimes a micromanaging fascist is exactly what the situation calls for.". So for a moment, that was true, but as we see, like most all truths, they are not always so.
The film was made in '81, and the hippies, and anti-war crowd had really morphed into some splinter domestic terrorism groups in the 70's in several instances. But, at this time they weren't really 100% pacified with Vietnam being still fresh in peoples minds. So if by 1988 Reagan had not made significant ground in disarmament talks with the Soviet Union, combined with another unpopular war, the anti-war crowd might have exploded with a crime rate, and violence much worse than the 60's. It's not hard to imagine the reasons for NYC becoming a prison. The novelization of the film does a good job of explaining the backstory for those who want to hunt it down.
Watching this now ..newyork strict federal quarantined...governor impotent....dont come out says the President...wuhan virus rampant...praying..god bless america..vaccine imminent
As a matter of fact, sometimes I actually believe that present CGI artwork SPOILS most of the movies, and there're no more soundtracks like this! [prof.brunotsouza]
I loved wireframe graphics, and I thought that in the 1990s, we would be able to buy headsets that make everything look like the intro. I was disappointed when polygon graphics replaced all the woreframe graphics.
Manhattan has been ruined of past grandeur. Was like no one lived below 14th street. Disappointed with Giuliani far that...and I couldn't even get even a little hassled in times square where me and max slept on silver chairs some nights whilst sideshow Bob and Mila kunis slept in fancy hotels...
A film that brings together those who were John Carpenter's two favorite actors: Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasance. If the latter was often a very good actor in most of his roles, here, in this case, physically in any case, he does not, however, appear very credible as President of the United States (in any case My opinion).
I Am Legend is a novel written by Richard Matheson, and was published in 1954. Outstanding book and one of my favourites. I highly recommend it! It has been adapted for the screen multiple times, including the 2007 film, which I assume you're referring to. 😎
@phill mitchell Ah, good to know. Look forward to watching Omega Man. Price's film was decent and watchable but did not have the impact of the novel. Also, it was not long enough to do proper justice to the novel.
@phill mitchell Saw the Omega Man on TV as a kid. Loved it. Saw it again in the cinema in NYC during a Charlton Heston tribute week. Unlike Escape from NY, it hasn't aged well.
One of my favorites. Even with all the CGI today. They cannot make a movie like this anymore.
I see alot of comments like yours and I completely agree. Movie industry has gone all to hell.
@@10yearsafter57 Yeah, I was about 8-9 when I saw this. I was able to see a lot of movies I shouldn't be seeing at that age.' Scarface,' 'To Live and Die in LA' That remain my favs.
2day w/ GOTG Vol. 2 is awesome, and Snake Plisken was much worse than ever
Maybe it's more like they can't make movies like this anymore BECAUSE of CGI. It never feels as real as things like this. Look at American Werewolf in London compare to how crappy the CGI lycanthrope changes are these days.
Well ... Escape From LA... proved that you can't make THE SAME MOVIE with CGI!
This. Is. Classic.
I absolutely love this opening, the theme...just everything. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Same here classic keyboards ...love it🎹
Absolutely perfect movie.
Generations past us won't get it. But we will. Masterpiece!
@@charlespage8692 I love this d@mn movie. As a kid growing up in the 80s my dad was always watching this film on VHS 📼 😁 Hearing the EFNY theme back then captivated me, even before I'd watched the film.
With all due respect Mr President you're both fucking idiots.
One of the most compelling title sequences ever created. I could watch it over and over.
exactly -- was a kid hoping my parents didnt notice me so I could watch!
Agreed....to think they moved an entire population to create a prison....always fueled my imagination....
Yep, and Top Gun.
It is I love this opening the keyboards just everything about it and them when that keyboard take off!!
I love watching this ...classic opening has compared to the garbage opening on movies now a day
Arguably Carpenter's most polished film. Modest budget of 6 million dollars, turns out one of the most influential movies of the 80's.
i saw this movie 9 years old , together with 5 kids of my neighborhood in 1981, love this movie , and it s music! timeless!
Ha ha...me too.. Same age, same year. Blew us way. Listening to this still does.
I am a truck driver, while I'm driving I listen to the music for The Duke's Arrival... try it sometime.
Oh yeaaaaaahhhh
dude I have put that specific track on CDs for 15 years!! right on!
Of course - but don't forget 'The Pork Chop Express!'
Yep. I do the same when I’m driving to work or anywhere at night. You are not alone
What odd times we live in that this concept might come reality.
Look no further than CHAZ in portland
Maybe the most atmospheric beginning to a movie ever. Saw it as a kid. Blew me away. Could it be the first ever action movie? Either way, given the way the world was looking at the ass end of the 70's... This, along with The Warriors capturef a certain mood.
Cinema had decreased as a medium since then. TV has taken over.....
FoobsTon why does this future have everyone watching movies on digital? Like the movie theater is still and always will be a fun trip for me.
Er, no the first action movie was "The Great Train Robbery" in 1902.
I love this intro because it sets up what you need to know about the reason for New York being a prison
you know in the film where the glider is heading into NYC, the computer display of the supposed 3D renderings of the buildings are actually recordings of boxes the shapes of the buildings with glow in the dark paint to create the 3D wireframe models. The back matte painting of NYC cityscape in the beginning is also made by Jim (James) Cameron, who three years later made The Terminator.
the opening info-dump are also said by Jamie Lee Curtis
@@MDBowron Nope that's Debra Hill ...RIP
This title sequence and the intro to The Warriors. Brilliant.
Like a lot of Carpenter's opening credits very simple and a great score.
Absolutely love time warp.
love this movie, love JOHN CARPENTER
Why can't Carpenter make a film as tight as this again?
Good question, I think it's a combination of this being a different time and he likes total control of his movies and he probably doesn't get that these days.
@@soundsgreatentertainment4203 John's also a self-described nihilist, if I recall correctly...and Hollywood doesn't take kindly to that anymore. But I do agree about him wanting the final say over his projects, and the studio heads balk over that too. They think they know better than the people who actually create these characters from scratch.
Because Debra Hill has passed :(
because : SJW.
He doesn't need to
Even though the plot is pretty absurd, this film is scary as hell, shows what a master John Carpenter is. And while this isn't a popular opinion, I'd also love this film to be remade by the right person with the right approach.
No way man
@@alexthompson3228 It's bound to be remade sooner or later. There's a lot you can do with the concept that wasn't explored in the original movie, the best we can hope is somebody does it justice rather than make a safe-playing dumb action movie.
80's cinema masterpiece with a rock solid theme and cast - an unheralded film by today's account for cinema in the past decade and a half.
Walling off Manhattan doesn't seem like a bad idea now.
1981: Escape from New York
2020: Escape from CHAZ
In 2022, the crime rate in the United States rose 400%. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country.
A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made.
The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.
2021: Escape from Washington DC.
2022: Escape from St. Louis
Damn that Theme is badass
Such a great score!
I watched this movie in the theater when it came out. My mom took me lol. I was 8 years old and had a huge crush on Kurt Russell. I thought he was hot even at that age lol.
The same brilliant opening as THE FOG...Carpenter is the best
3 people couldn't escape New York
Love these original Metal Gear 1 (Escape from N.Y.) and Metal Gear 2 (Escape from LA) movies! And always watch "They Live" right after these two action hits!!! PRICELESS...
1981 *John Carpenter's* 1981
Escape From New York
Escape from new york prince of darkness the thing christine haloween assault on precinct 13 movies were made when carpenter made them
Richard Kyle I'm not even going to be sarcastic. Please use punctuation. I'm begging you.
I can't wait for 1997 to see if this comes true.....
I love the opening theme.
Love the rules once you go in you don't come out
One big FEMA Camp
The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don't come out. Unless you're Snake Plissken, that is.
The movie that inspired Metal gear solid.
The opening get to the point of the movie love it
RIP WTC in movies KING KONG 76
Can we turn NYC into a maximum security prison in real life?
No. But we can go for Texas.
Its in the beta stage...:)
Kenny Powers Lock AOC and all the lowlifes away.
Why only New York when Trump is turning the whole country into a maximum security prison???!!!
@@Howyaduing what? Lmao he is upholding the constitution unlike democratic socialist that side with communistic views
It was this day 4 years ago that this intro was uploaded
Best intro because it sets the world up but it doesn't force feed the plot it just gives the basic jest of the film let it unfold more in due process
This is NY City today
Carpenter and George Carlin are some of the best modern day philosophers of our time. They reveal the truth how this country really works.
Jamie Lee Curtis is the voice and she was uncredited for this
As much as I like this movie, I've always wished Carpenter gave a bit more justification for why Manhattan was chosen to be the prison island (other than that it's kind of cool), as opposed to some place that's not as important. Why couldn't the US government use some uninhabited Pacific islands for that purpose, for instance? And for that matter, how were millions of people moved out of New York? And why were the bridges mined instead of being demolished, since no one was going to use them anyway? Escape from L.A., though it's not as good, has a setup that makes a bit more sense. Los Angeles is separated from the mainland by an earthquake and its infrastucture is ruined, so the whole prison conversion thing makes more sense in that movie.
Yeah, like they would do this to NYC. And by the way, that is Jamie Lee Curtis doing the opening narration.
In 1981 when the movie came out, the entire city was falling into total anarchy because of the crime rates and urban decay, it really didnt seem unrealistic at the time. They dont mention it in the movie, but in the novelization, they reveal that New York was hit by a nerve gas attack as well, driving most of the population insane.
@@Piledriver86
Yep.. Kids today will have no idea about that or the Cold War raging in the background. The Warriors also captures this feeling.
@sha11235 yes it is Jamie’s voice for the narration.
Yeah, 9/11 was fun.
The closed bridges/tunnels and people being searched on/off the island. Good times.
I think for a few weeks , before the various civic fuckups became known Mayor Gulliani was considered - even by many of his detractors to be the "man of the hour", however imperfect.
Later as the various fuckups/abuses started to become apparent, people could describe the guy as "America's Mayor" and he was very serious about "cleaning up NYC", which he did.
But, as a friend of mine - who was never really a fan of Mayor Gulliani, pointed out at dinner a couple of weeks after 9/11. As things started progressing in a more positive direction , the giant pile of wreckage was being cleared and those lost were still being recovered.
In that immediate moment, as we started to return to something that would become the "new normal", my friend , confided at dinner that while he was not a fan, and he was sure he wasn't wrong about the Mayor, he said "sometimes a micromanaging fascist is exactly what the situation calls for.".
So for a moment, that was true, but as we see, like most all truths, they are not always so.
Narration by Jamie Lee Curtis
I guess Walls work.
Around the liberals multi million pound estates ironically they do. Strange how hypocrisy works.
HAHAHAHA they cant hurt right?
I'm pretty sure this was a joke. Everyone is taking this WAY too seriously.
A wall of water in a big trench, or "river" as it's sometimes called. Trump University graduate Noah
It's becoming reality as we speak GOD 🙏 help us all...
The film was made in '81, and the hippies, and anti-war crowd had really morphed into some splinter domestic terrorism groups in the 70's in several instances. But, at this time they weren't really 100% pacified with Vietnam being still fresh in peoples minds. So if by 1988 Reagan had not made significant ground in disarmament talks with the Soviet Union, combined with another unpopular war, the anti-war crowd might have exploded with a crime rate, and violence much worse than the 60's. It's not hard to imagine the reasons for NYC becoming a prison. The novelization of the film does a good job of explaining the backstory for those who want to hunt it down.
That book is worth $70-$100 bow. I bought it and Dirty Harry for $2 and gave them away after reading them.
Watching this now ..newyork strict federal quarantined...governor impotent....dont come out says the President...wuhan virus rampant...praying..god bless america..vaccine imminent
2:43 That's the voice of Jamie Lee Curtis.
This could happen soon. NYC yep.
The Ringer rewatchables brought me here. I never saw this...as a GenXer I'm ashamed
We avoided this timeline by banning lead paint and gasoline
Hollywood doesn’t make masculine films like this anymore.
Sake Plissken , I thought you were dead . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ René.
Are they still using New York as a prison when the events of Escape of LA unfold?
2:53 Uncredited Jamie Lee Curtis as narrator
call me snake ... ok snake ..the names plissken ..epic lol
As a matter of fact, sometimes I actually believe that present CGI artwork SPOILS most of the movies, and there're no more soundtracks like this! [prof.brunotsouza]
so basically the theme?
SNAKE ANSWER ME !! ....SNAKE?! SNAAAKEEEEE!!
The Duke of New York is A number ONE
I loved wireframe graphics, and I thought that in the 1990s, we would be able to buy headsets that make everything look like the intro. I was disappointed when polygon graphics replaced all the woreframe graphics.
Call me Snake.
Me encanta.
Manhattan has been ruined of past grandeur. Was like no one lived below 14th street. Disappointed with Giuliani far that...and I couldn't even get even a little hassled in times square where me and max slept on silver chairs some nights whilst sideshow Bob and Mila kunis slept in fancy hotels...
It's always bothered me how she says "shoreline" twice in the same sentence without emphasizing "Brooklyn".
Then complain to Jamie Lee Curtis, she was doing the narration.
SOUNDS like what is going on here USA MAY 28 2023 CRIME UP so high
A film that brings together those who were John Carpenter's two favorite actors: Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasance. If the latter was often a very good actor in most of his roles, here, in this case, physically in any case, he does not, however, appear very credible as President of the United States (in any case My opinion).
Snake your on your own
Great cast!!
I wonder if I am Legend was possibly inspired by this movie?
I Am Legend is a novel written by Richard Matheson, and was published in 1954. Outstanding book and one of my favourites. I highly recommend it! It has been adapted for the screen multiple times, including the 2007 film, which I assume you're referring to. 😎
@phill mitchell Yet to see Omega Man. The Price film was decent.
@phill mitchell Ah, good to know. Look forward to watching Omega Man. Price's film was decent and watchable but did not have the impact of the novel. Also, it was not long enough to do proper justice to the novel.
@phill mitchell
Saw the Omega Man on TV as a kid. Loved it. Saw it again in the cinema in NYC during a Charlton Heston tribute week. Unlike Escape from NY, it hasn't aged well.
what did i teach you?
Movies before were beautiful and amazing as this one, nowadays it's just Star Wars bullshit.
GOLD24k5 r/lewronggeneration
That is just a massive over-generalization my fine sir. Star Wars was actually released 4 years prior to EFNY.
@@thegoosh6469 r/etarded
GOLDSC24k5 Make that politically correct bullshit.
Escape from Portland.