SOLID SNAKE ESCAPE FROM LA FREE

Plissken allies with a salt of the earth cabby, an intellectual and his mistress – and for a brief moment – a damsel – until she is snatched away by psychopaths. He’s reasonable with people who can be reasoned with – and otherwise hits them about the back of the head with a spiked baseball bat. But just as François Truffaut claimed there is no such thing as an anti-war film, I say there is no such thing as a film that turns New York City into a walled-off prison camp that can’t help but make it seem like a terrific idea.Īs our hero strides about the streets of the cityprison, he backhands opportunistic vagrants, and feeds lead to cannibals.

SOLID SNAKE ESCAPE FROM LA FREE

That is until the government offers him a deal – rescue the President and his material within twenty-four hours – and you’ll go free – fail, and you’ll die. But that old soldier is fading away – Snake is a convict set to be dumped on the island prison for crimes the film never cares to detail. The film never lets us forget that he won two Purple Hearts, and was the youngest man to be decorated by the President. Our hero, ‘ call me Snake’ Plissken, is a war hero. This is the premise of John Carpenter’s 1981 film, Escape from New York, an accidental Callipolis. When Air Force One is hijacked and goes down into this hive of villainy, one man – Snake Plissken – is sent to extract the asset. To keep order at home, a wall has been instituted around New York City, and it is designated a maximum-security prison. In the year 1997, the US government is at war with a Sino-Soviet alliance.

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