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As a big fan of Escape from New York (and many other films shot in the Big Apple) I was quite excited recently to visit New York for a short break and see some of the locations used from some of my favourite movies.
One location I visited was from the film Ghostbusters, the fire station on the corner of corner of Varick and Moore in Tribeca. The fire station isn’t one of the usual sightseeing spots in NY, such as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building, but it’s no less spectacular and meaningful. There’s even a sign from Ghostbusters 2 inside the building on the wall.
While I was there I also visited the scene of the World Trade Center, where Snake landed near the beginning of EFNY. That was pretty eerie.
One gripe I did have with New York however was the hotel we stayed at. Even though it was just off Park Lane (which admittedly could mean anywhere) the rooms were extremely small. The rooms were so small in fact that they didn’t even have their own bathrooms – these were shared by everyone on the floor.
That’s perhaps the main difference between the UK and New York; whereas in NY everyone is living on top of each other and space is at a premium, in many areas in the UK you can find hotels with rooms the size of banquet halls. Indeed, in some of the more traditional areas of the UK, such as in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire, you’ll find hotel rooms that are in keeping with the traditional ideas of Britain. Some Cambridge hotels that I’ve stayed in for example put our hotel in New York to shame.
Of course, Snake Plissken never visited Cambridge… he went to Cleveland.
One of the things that struck me about Escape from New York, and the way that Snake was able to walk through various buildings within New York when he was being chased by the gangs, was that he never encountered any form of home security left over by NY’s previous inhabitants. Sure, New York had been a top security prison for many years, but considering the level of security employed by many New Yorkers, you’d think something would have been left over by residents such as an alarm system, or form of security lighting.
New York, even before it became a prison in Escape from New York, was a dangerous place with a fairly high crime rate, and with so many security products being implemented by ADT New York must have been awash with alarms, sensors and CCTV cameras by the time Snake Plissken was dropped into the city to rescue the president from the Duke of New York.
It’s surprising actually that you never see security systems left on in any post-apocalyptic films, such as Mad Max or The Postman. Considering that the films themselves show the eventual degradation of society, where people become increasingly distrustful of others and hostile towards strangers, you’d think there’d be more in the way of alarm systems.
Of course, you’d probably get alarms going off all the time if that was the case, and nobody would take a blind bit of notice about them; just like they don’t now actually.
Here’s one of the many posters for Escape From New York, featuring Kurt Russelj on the cover and the Statue of Liberty head behind him. This is one of our favourite posters.
For those that have been asking, because I know it has been a source of much debate, Jamie Lee Curtis, the star of Halloween, was indeed in Escape from New York. She was uncredited and played the Narrator/computer voice.
You can read it for yourself here at IMDB.
I watched Death Proof last week on DVD as I was sent a pre-release check disc. What is Kurt doing? He must have thought that working with Tarrantino would mark his big comeback like it did for Travolta, but whoa.
That film is dreadful. It’s 45 minutes of Hollyoaks standard acting and dialogue, followed by 4 brutal and sudden murders, another 30 minutes of awful chick flick dialogue, a car chase and a beating. Then it ends?
A seriously messed up film by a messed up guy.
We just wanted to apologise for the lack of updates on Escape From New York lately, but we’ll have some interesting stuff to add shortly. We’ve uncovered some high res film still for example, including this one.
We’ll have a lot more like this soon so keep posted!
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