Bill Burr reacts to John Carpenter's 1981 classic Escape from New York. Source: Monday Morning Podcast Apple: podcasts.apple... Spotify: open.spotify.c...
I watched Escape from New York (1981) last year for the first time and I thought it was an amazing Sci-Fi movie with a deep political story and themes throughout the film and a great performance from the legendary Kurt Russell. I also watched another Sci-Fi film last year called Paprika from Satoshi Kon and that is also an amazing Sci-Fi movie that I highly recommend to anyone who is a fan of the genre.
My best friend in the 80's used to think they tattooed a question mark on pliskin while he was passed out before his big fight. as kids we never connected that his name was "snake" with the tattoo
I remember getting lost in St Louis in the late 90s trying to get back to Kansas from a Misfits show at Mississippi Nights club. It seemed like miles and miles of abandoned everything. At least the gunfire was not directed to our caravan. GREAT SHOW though. No Danzig, but what can you do
I’ve always loved this film. This time was really the beginning of the dark, gritty, post apocalyptic, dystopian films we’ve come to enjoy. It was also one of the first times where the “anti-hero” is the star of the film.
Escape from New York was originally advertised as a "gritty urban melodrama", (melodrama meaning the characters are bigger than life, in exaggerated situations) which is more accurate than an "action movie". There is action in it of course, but it is an escape movie first. Snake Plisskin is an escape artist, prison could not hold him, neither could New York. There are many scenes where Snake escapes from cannibals from the sewers (including an amazing shot where he carves a hole in the wall with a machine gun and jumps through), escapes from The Duke's henchmen, and helps the President escape from New York. At the end Snake once again walks away free after screwing over the state, escaping back into obscurity.
Forget her in this film - it’s Cannonball Run I remember her for. My childhood crush wearing spandex while driving my childhood crush car, the Lamborghini Countach.
Escape from New York is a dystopic Sci fi action film generally in the vein of the post-apocalyptic film trend of the 70s. Carpenter's film is generally a fairly lean actioner at times. It's a typical "mission" type of a film: a protagonist with skills is given a get out of jail free card if he is successful within a rigid time frame. Here the dystopia is limited to Manhattan and Snake Plisken gets injected thus giving him a personal stake in rescuing the President. It's rather basic fill in the blanks screenwriting but the direction by Carpenter is crisp and effective and the performances by Kurt Russell a n d Harry Dean Stanton among others believable enough. A solid action film.
It says a lot about Carpenter's ideologies/politics at the time. The whole "f**k the government and private corporations" attitude a lot of people had in the 70s and 80s.
@@edwardhannah8507 and it's an attitude that was handed to the feeble-minded masses by the similarly feeble-minded ronald reagan in the US, and by thatcher in the UK
I'll always love movies that are like comic books basically. i think most normal men/women do. Don't need me any 'Interstellar' or complicated brainiac movies, I need a dude with an eye-patch and a gravely voice, hot chicks firing smg's and a bunch of pink/green neon lighting on every scene and I'm good to go.
So you make it count when the time for action comes. And that's what Carpenter does. And this is closer to a Western than to Sci-Fi. I never understood why it was stuck with the "Sci-Fi" tag. Nothing Science Fiction about it. But I do love this film as well as most of Carpenter's films. I even enjoyed a few parts of Ghosts of Mars. A few parts.
"Bill Burr on a message from someone telling him well-known trivia."
It's up there with "Conan wrote the monorail episode". Jesus, really?
The movie that literally influenced every director and aspiring filmmaker after its release.
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@@davidrose647 the name’s plissken
And games. Look at Batman: Arkham City.
I watched Escape from New York (1981) last year for the first time and I thought it was an amazing Sci-Fi movie with a deep political story and themes throughout the film and a great performance from the legendary Kurt Russell.
I also watched another Sci-Fi film last year called Paprika from Satoshi Kon and that is also an amazing Sci-Fi movie that I highly recommend to anyone who is a fan of the genre.
Sound track is gold for this as
well .. I have the Dvd , vhs and movie poster as i’m a big fan of this since i was little
One of my favorites
My best friend in the 80's used to think they tattooed a question mark on pliskin while he was passed out before his big fight. as kids we never connected that his name was "snake" with the tattoo
I remember getting lost in St Louis in the late 90s trying to get back to Kansas from a Misfits show at Mississippi Nights club. It seemed like miles and miles of abandoned everything. At least the gunfire was not directed to our caravan. GREAT SHOW though. No Danzig, but what can you do
must’ve been on the east side
Sounds like a pretty bad show then
I’ve always loved this film. This time was really the beginning of the dark, gritty, post apocalyptic, dystopian films we’ve come to enjoy. It was also one of the first times where the “anti-hero” is the star of the film.
Damn good old skool film!!! Fun fact, It was only recently I found out it was an uncredited Jamie Lee Curtis that did the voice over at the start...
its actually EAST St Louis, which still looks like the locations in the film
Does it really?
@@dominysynclairYeah, it's well known by us midwesterners that you stay the fuck away from east st Louis, lol.
They might have filmed part of it in East St. Louis, but The Duke’s hideout is Union Station in St. Louis proper.
Majority was filmed downtown STL
Actually it still looks and feels like New York even though it’s East St Louis
Escape from New York was originally advertised as a "gritty urban melodrama", (melodrama meaning the characters are bigger than life, in exaggerated situations) which is more accurate than an "action movie". There is action in it of course, but it is an escape movie first. Snake Plisskin is an escape artist, prison could not hold him, neither could New York. There are many scenes where Snake escapes from cannibals from the sewers (including an amazing shot where he carves a hole in the wall with a machine gun and jumps through), escapes from The Duke's henchmen, and helps the President escape from New York. At the end Snake once again walks away free after screwing over the state, escaping back into obscurity.
See if you can find the novelization of it online. It tells you why Snake went rogue.
Yeah, and St Louis still looks like that today.....
The longest year I ever spent anywhere was the day I spent in St. Louis.
Without it we wouldn't have metal gear
Great movie just rewatched it a few weeks back
Bill Burr, Kurt Russell and John Carpenter... 3 of my favorite people.
Also, the staging area for the police was the Sepulveda Dam north of Los Angeles.
Best ever.
It's so fucking good
Good movie
Introduced the idea of the escape pod on Airforce one, before the movie Airforce One did it. Doesn't exist in real life but sounds like a good idea.
Dystopian future, meaning the present, meaning now 👍👍
Basically like the first purge film
I gotta have that car!
bro if u got lee van cleef in a movie and kurt russel - there's no way in hell it will be anything but awesome
Did Bill Burr say something ? I was too busy looking at Adrienne Barbeau !!!
Forget her in this film - it’s Cannonball Run I remember her for. My childhood crush wearing spandex while driving my childhood crush car, the Lamborghini Countach.
@@bungle3912 Yup !!!
@@bungle3912 in swamp thing from 1982 you see her boobs
@@bungle3912 She did have a lovely Countach
"Get a new President..."
President of what?
I guess the one that was going to perish in the inhuman dungeon of his own imperialist prison...
Escape from New York is a dystopic Sci fi action film
generally in the vein of the post-apocalyptic film trend of the 70s.
Carpenter's film is generally a fairly lean actioner at times.
It's a typical "mission" type of a film: a protagonist with skills is given a get out of jail free card if he is successful within a rigid time frame.
Here the dystopia is limited to Manhattan and Snake Plisken gets injected thus giving him a personal stake in rescuing the President.
It's rather basic fill in the blanks screenwriting but the direction by Carpenter is crisp and effective and the performances by Kurt Russell a n d Harry Dean Stanton among others believable enough.
A solid action film.
It says a lot about Carpenter's ideologies/politics at the time. The whole "f**k the government and private corporations" attitude a lot of people had in the 70s and 80s.
@@edwardhannah8507 and it's an attitude that was handed to the feeble-minded masses by the similarly feeble-minded ronald reagan in the US, and by thatcher in the UK
I'll always love movies that are like comic books basically. i think most normal men/women do.
Don't need me any 'Interstellar' or complicated brainiac movies, I need a dude with an eye-patch and a gravely voice, hot chicks firing smg's and a bunch of pink/green neon lighting on every scene and I'm good to go.
Escape from Earth PLEASE!
John Carpenter took some of the plot points of Escape from Earth and used them in his 2001 movie Ghosts of Mars.
It should be a classic just for the views of Adrienne Barbeau. 😏😳
FACTS
Before Rick Grimes. There was Snake pilssken
Dystopian = Bad……Utpoia(n) = Good. There ya go Bill.
It could have been Dubai. Can't blame the president, he gave them every opportunity, the Duke Ace number one just turned it into an open house prison.
Where’s the link he mentions?
Adrienne Barbeau 😛
Man, what’s with the Bill Burr kick? C’mon, man… let’s see what kind of opinion Paulie Shore has! 😉😎
He’s still out there weazing on his grindage, somewhere.
Sweating to the oldies now
That chick’s can distracted me the entire movie
It's funny that people call it an action film because there's very little action in it.
It's a solid barebones film that still holds up.
A lot of action for a 1981 sci-fi flick.
And still one of Carpenter's/Russell's best films.
More of an espionage film, Assault on Precinct 13 was more in the action vein.
So you make it count when the time for action comes. And that's what Carpenter does. And this is closer to a Western than to Sci-Fi. I never understood why it was stuck with the "Sci-Fi" tag. Nothing Science Fiction about it. But I do love this film as well as most of Carpenter's films. I even enjoyed a few parts of Ghosts of Mars. A few parts.
This movie in no way shape or form has held up.
Awful take. Keep your trash opinions to yourself.
Strongly disagree, this film along with Road Warrior and Blade Runner has held up extremely well.
Shut Your filthy mouth!
Bill doesn't know nothing about anything
I hated the movie because it’s so silly! 🤣
I always say someone needs to remake that movie and do the story seriously.
This movie is perfect
No
Maybe a Ryan Reynolds remake in Toronto?