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Find John Carpenter's cult film with this superb Escape From New York Poster, the original title from 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.
The film's plot, set in the near future of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States that has transformed the island of Manhattan, New York, into the country's only high-security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the prison compound. Former soldier and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell) has only 24 hours to go rescue the President of the United States, after which, if he succeeds, he will be pardoned.
Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in response to the Watergate scandal. After the success of Halloween (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed 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 as 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 Direction. 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 was flooded. Declaring that God is punishing Los Angeles for its sins, a theocratic presidential candidate is elected to a lifetime term. He ordered the United States capital moved from Washington, D.C. to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia, and enacted a series of strict moral laws. Violators are given the choice between loss of U.S. citizenship and permanent deportation to the new island of Los Angeles, 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 policing 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 dominate the world by destroying the ability of hostile nations to function. His daughter Utopia steals the system's remote control and escapes to the island of Los Angeles in order to deliver it to Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian revolutionary of the Shining Path. Cuervo has assembled an invasion force from 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 complete. accomplish. To force him to comply, 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 accomplished. The president does not care 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, an avid surfer, 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 her soldiers. The group flies to the invasion staging area at the Happy Kingdom in Anaheim. During a fight against Cuervo's troops, Snake grabs the remote and Eddie modifies 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, Snake and Utopia do the same over the continent 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 (slipped into her pocket without her noticing), thinking that Snake has swapped them. As Utopia is taken to the electric chair, Snake learns that the virus infecting him only causes a severe case of the flu that disappears 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 from one of Eddie's tours.
Furious, the president orders his officers to kill Snake on the spot, but he turns out to be nothing more than a hologram projected by a miniature camera that had been given to him. Disgusted by the endless class struggle, he programs the real remote control and triggers all the satellites of the Sword of Damocles system, thus deactivating all technology on Earth. Utopia is saved when the electricity goes out just before she is electrocuted. Snake throws away the now useless camera and lights a cigarette, then blows out the match and whispers, "Welcome to the human race."
