Rediscover John Carpenter’s cult film with this superb Escape From New York Poster, the original title of New York 1997!
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Description of this Escape From New York Poster
New York 1997 is a 1981 American science fiction action film, co-written, co-scripted, and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton.
Set in the near future, 1997, the film’s plot concerns a crime-ridden United States that has transformed Manhattan Island, New York City, into the nation’s only maximum-security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the prison grounds. Former soldier and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell) has only 24 hours to rescue the President of the United States, after which, if he succeeds, he will be pardoned.
Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s as a response to the Watergate scandal. After the success of Halloween (1978), he had enough clout to begin production and shot it primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million. Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter on portraying Michael Myers in Halloween.
Released in the United States on July 10, 1981, the film received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing over $25.2 million at the box office. The film was nominated for four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Director. The film became a cult classic and was followed by a sequel, Los Angeles (2013), also directed and written by Carpenter and starring Russell.
In 2000, a massive earthquake struck the city of Los Angeles, cutting it off from the mainland while the San Fernando Valley flooded. Declaring that God was punishing Los Angeles for its sins, a theocratic presidential candidate was elected to a lifetime term. He ordered the relocation of the United States capital from Washington, D.C., to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia, and enacted a series of strict moral laws. Violators were given the choice of losing their U.S. citizenship and permanent deportation to the new Los Angeles Island, or repentance and death by electrocution. Escape from the island is made impossible by a containment wall erected along the mainland coast and a heavy federal police presence monitoring the area.
In 2013, the United States developed a superweapon known as the “Sword of Damocles,” a satellite system capable of targeting electronic devices anywhere in the world and rendering them inoperable. The President intends to use it to achieve world domination by destroying the ability of hostile nations to function. His daughter Utopia steals the system’s remote control and escapes to Los Angeles Island to deliver it to Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian Shining Path revolutionary. Cuervo has assembled an invasion force of Third World nations and plans to attack and reconquer the United States.
Facing deportation for a series of crimes, Snake Plissken is offered a chance at a pardon by traveling to the island and retrieving the remote control, a task a previous rescue team failed to accomplish. To force his compliance, the President has one of his officers infect Snake with a virus that will kill him within ten hours and promises him that he will receive the cure once the mission is complete. The President is unconcerned about the safety of Utopia, whom he considers a traitor.
Snake is given equipment and sent to Los Angeles in a one-man submarine. While exploring the island, he meets Eddie “Map to the Stars,” a con artist who sells interactive tours and one of Cuervo’s associates. Along the way, Snake is aided by Pipeline, a surfing enthusiast; Taslima, a woman deported for her Muslim faith; and Hershe Las Palmas (formerly Carjack Malone), a transgender woman and Snake’s former criminal associate. Eddie captures Snake and delivers him to Cuervo, who uses the Sword of Damocles to shut down Lynchburg in retaliation for Snake’s presence. Cuervo threatens to inflict the same fate on the rest of the United States if his demands are not met. Snake escapes and teams up with Hershe and his soldiers. The group flies by glider to the invasion staging area at “Happy Kingdom” in Anaheim. During a fight with Cuervo’s troops, Snake seizes the remote control, and Eddie modifies the remote control of his towers to match. Snake, Eddie, Utopia, Hershe, and a group of Hershe’s soldiers escape the island by helicopter. Eddie shoots Cuervo, who fires a rocket launcher and hits the helicopter before dying. Eddie jumps out as it takes off, and Snake and Utopia do the same over the mainland and let the helicopter crash after Snake warns the President of their approach.
At the crash site, the President and his officers discover that Snake and Utopia are both carrying remote controls and take the one Utopia is holding (unnoticed in her pocket), thinking Snake has switched them. As Utopia is taken to the electric chair, Snake learns that the virus infecting her only causes a severe case of the flu that clears up within a few hours. The President attempts to use Utopia’s remote control to neutralize an invasion force threatening Florida, but it only plays a recorded introduction to one of Eddie’s tours.
Furious, the President orders his officers to kill Snake on the spot, but Snake turns out to be a hologram projected by a miniature camera he had been given. Disgusted by the endless class warfare, he programs the real remote control and triggers all the satellites in the Sword of Damocles system, disabling all technology on Earth. Utopia is saved when the power goes out just before it is due to be electrocuted. Snake throws down the now-useless camera and lights a cigarette, then blows out the match and whispers, “Welcome to the human race.”