It's funny, there's a quote where he says, in Europe, he's considered an "auteur", I think. He's more highly regarded in Europe, and overlooked here in the US. And, in a weird way, I kinda love it. Not that I think Europe is necessarily better. But that he's so outside the Hollywood norm. I always thought of him as this weirdly "working class" director, if that makes sense. Like, he genuinely understands those themes, and because he and his cast lived it to some extent. Like They Live - Rowdy Roddy Piper admits he was homeless for a while, and using that experience. It's not as detached as Hollywood shit. It feels more like a "pure" Americana, in a weird way.
It's because at the time despite what Hollywood claims. Even to this day the so called Liberals working there have always been conservative with conservative values. All the sex and violence, in these films. The same sex and violence that got lauded by today's "Progressive" Hollywood and the patrons they exploit, was made as a means to protest and shatter censorship rules at the time. Even to this day, Hollywood believes that no one would want to see a movie that's heavily in sex violence political commentary that wasn't conservative or the fake liberal they advertise now. Guys like Romero, Carpenter, Sergio Leone, Argento, Cameron and the like said otherwise.
Someone on a previous posting of this video commented that they hear this song every time their In-laws pull up to the house to visit and I still laugh about it a decade later.
Given that the Duke was played by Issac Hayes, can you imagine if he rolled up like that, all dramatic, stepped out of his limo and said "Hello there, children!"
I saw this film in the theaters when I was a kid, but I was waaaay too young to appreciate it. This Tuesday, I get to rectify that. I'm seeing Escape from New York on the Big Screen at Alamo Draft House and all I can say is, "I want to meet the Duke."
You know what I've been saying would have saved the last of us 2? Just rewriting and renaming it "escape from new york" and just pretending they did a bad job at actually replicating the city. Seriously, the gameplay and style for it is PERFECT, the way you crawl around, only have a few weapons/items. It's a shame what happened to naughty dog because I can EASILY see a great escape from new york ripoff game(and who cares, let people call it a ripoff, so long as the content is good and the game isn't microtransaction scamcity fans will love it and pay) coming from their studios. Too bad they have to deal with NeIl DrUcKmAnN and his unholy warpath to the Oscar's( I mean come on, just look what a shitshow he's turned them into, it's pretty clear he's just derailed The Last of Us, and Uncharted into PURE AGENDA DRIVEN CRAP(like emotional manipulation using race and sexuality to berate those he hates irrationally and enflame rivalries in his own fandom) all for the sake of getting an HBO series(prediction: it sucks, gets shit fan ratings, and wins every award it possibly can because TLOU2 was simply Neil's way of saying "LOOK HOW GOOD I AM!!!! I LOVE DIVERSITY SO MUCH MORE, I TANKED A GAME DEVELOPING STUDIO JUST TO SHOW THE WORLD!!!!!") I got way carried away. But yeah, if you wanna daydream about an awesome EFNY game, my personal visions have the same engine and playstyles and menus and shit as TLOU2(as much as I hate the story of that game, seriously, excluding just the story the game is phenomenal)
Honestly, this movie still amazes me. Even though the "actual" New York is really just the decaying neighborhood of East St. Louis, it looks totally real and you'd never even suspect it was any other place. If this were done today, it would probably be a combination of location shooting, dressed to appear this way, green screen, and backlot/soundstages. However, East St. Louis at the time actually appeared the way they needed New York to look. There was very little the crew had to do to the location. I don't know if this movie gets enough credit with, not just how good the locations are, but, how this was all pulled off on such a minimal budget. Between the location shooting, to the ultra-realistic matte paintings, right up into the-then futuristic depiction of the United States, Escape from New York is an excellent example of what you can do on such a modest budget. I wish this was recognized more.
They shot this in a few different cities, including the 'boxing arena' which was actually in Los Angeles. (IIRC) the deleted trans-America subway scene was shot in Atlanta, Georgia.
John Carpenter co-composed the score with Alan Howarth, who worked on other Carpenter projects such as the second and third Halloween movies and Big Trouble in Little China.
Borgnine bobbing his head in the theater , to the music, has stayed with me since this flick came out in summer of 1981 here in the U.S. what a great and funny moment for him.
R I P Soul legend Isaac Hayes as A Number one The Duke of New York,Love that theme when he makes his entrance with his Chandelier clad limo ❤️ 41 years on Absolutely Epic ❤️I wanna meet the Duke , No one meets the Duke 😂🤣
Watching this movie after 2020 must feel like a fever dream because you have Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Harry Dean Stanton, Ernest Borgnine (Mermaid Man), Isaac Hayes (Chef), and freaking Junkrat from Overwatch all in the same movie.
When the cars come rolling around the corner to that beat, it reminds me of Batman '89 when the Joker's parade comes rolling down the street. Maybe Burton borrowed this part?
I don't know why but this movie really feels ahead of its time. Something about it's portrayal just seems so.. I don't know, modern? Maybe its just the state of the world right now that makes this so eerily prophetic in some way.
Looking at point 2:27 , I see 4 of my favorite actors/actresses. Not by any means my favorite movie, but still cool in it's day. I have no idea whatever happened to Ms. Barbeau, but she was great. She mixes well with the "gentlemen" actors and I pray she has fared well. The gentlemen have obviously done so. Bless the memories Mr. Borgnine and my fellow Kentuckian Harry Dean Stanton.
In case anyone was wondering, the Duke's pimp-mobile is a 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham with the new "downsized" 425 cubic inch engine, compared to the 501 cubic inch engines on earlier caddy models.
0:55 When you’re alone in the cereal aisle, and let out the nastiest fart of your life. Then every person in the store decides to come down that aisle.
Last year there was going to be a classic car show by me that I wanted to go to, but was canceled due to rain with no make up date at the last minute. So instead, I decided to run a few errands. As I was driving around a car was coming towards me in the opposite direction with two small chandeliers on either side of the front hood. I tried to find a place to make a quick U-turn, but it took a while. By the time I came back the opposite direction the car must’ve turned off somewhere. I figured that car had to be going to the show but must not have heard that it was canceled. I spent the rest of the day laughing and saying to myself ‘You’re the Duke - A #1!’ I hope whoever was driving the car sees this so I can give them a virtual high five for being boss ass cool! ✋😎☝️🗽🐍🧠👩🏻🚕🤴🏿
I’ve listened to this brilliant soundtrack for forty years now. And the music compelled me to put some drums on it (better late than never). If interested please have a listen 🤩👍🏻
My wife got mad at me when I wanted to hang chandeliers on the front fenders of our Subaru Cross Trek. I think that chandeliers hanging from the front fenders of our car will make it stand out from the rest!
And everywhere you went you'd have to cruise about 2 miles an hour like the Duke did here, otherwise you're gonna have a big tangled broken mess of chandelier pieces all over the place. So you'd better get that theme song Ready to cruise like the Duke.
whomever (set/prop designer) that had the idea of putting chandeliers on the hood of the dukes car - wow - genius.
That was the one thing I remember well from this movie. To this day I still have never seen anything like it.
I just watched this for the first time. Those chandeliers on the Cadillac had me off my chair and rolling on the floor 🤣
I’m surprised it didn’t catch on.
Very gangster like I love it
It was a parody of his custom Eldorado in the stax museum........gold plated with peacock blue paint
John Carpenter has to be the most underappreciated director in American cinema. I know fans appreciate him, but Hollywood just seems to overlook him.
It's funny, there's a quote where he says, in Europe, he's considered an "auteur", I think. He's more highly regarded in Europe, and overlooked here in the US. And, in a weird way, I kinda love it. Not that I think Europe is necessarily better. But that he's so outside the Hollywood norm. I always thought of him as this weirdly "working class" director, if that makes sense. Like, he genuinely understands those themes, and because he and his cast lived it to some extent. Like They Live - Rowdy Roddy Piper admits he was homeless for a while, and using that experience. It's not as detached as Hollywood shit. It feels more like a "pure" Americana, in a weird way.
STUPID HOLLYWOOD WOULD not know GUINIUS IF it crawled up its WOKE ASS- which it WOULD LIKE...
all of his films are classics or cult classics yet he never really benefited from the studio system. perhaps that's a good thing. he never sold out
It's because at the time despite what Hollywood claims. Even to this day the so called Liberals working there have always been conservative with conservative values. All the sex and violence, in these films. The same sex and violence that got lauded by today's "Progressive" Hollywood and the patrons they exploit, was made as a means to protest and shatter censorship rules at the time. Even to this day, Hollywood believes that no one would want to see a movie that's heavily in sex violence political commentary that wasn't conservative or the fake liberal they advertise now. Guys like Romero, Carpenter, Sergio Leone, Argento, Cameron and the like said otherwise.
It's cause he didn't have to have 20 camera angles at once for one single scene he's literally put everything on one shot and it felt more real imo
Someone on a previous posting of this video commented that they hear this song every time their In-laws pull up to the house to visit and I still laugh about it a decade later.
I CAN picture someone's Mother in law BEING A#1
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣left me in stitches 🤣😂
I read that too…I thought he said when his ex wife pulled up to pick up the kids, lol!
1:18 I love how the drum beat starts as soon as Snake starts to run.
sounds like the AC/DC song Soul Stripper.
John Carpenter is such a master composer imo. Seriously, the music here is just so freaking awesome in so many different ways!
Not only it's awesome, but that music also outrageously fits the madness and psychotic disorder of that duke 😂. RIP Isaac Hayes...
When Duke pulled up that was a Real O.G Moment...the style just killed it....
No doubt
With that music too. Makes him really sound like a Number 1
I think it somehow makes it sound like a scary boss battle is about to happen, I loved every moment of this scene.
Given that the Duke was played by Issac Hayes, can you imagine if he rolled up like that, all dramatic, stepped out of his limo and said "Hello there, children!"
😄
@@holidayinn4293 id die laughing
As Cabbie would say, "Oh! That would've been so fine!"
*Simultaneously*" Hey, Duke!"
And then started singing, “I’m gonna make love to you woman!”
I saw this film in the theaters when I was a kid, but I was waaaay too young to appreciate it. This Tuesday, I get to rectify that. I'm seeing Escape from New York on the Big Screen at Alamo Draft House and all I can say is, "I want to meet the Duke."
EVERYBODY KNOWS, You meet the DUKE your DEAD!!
That's "awesome!" (I bet you do, somehow, some "hope"- if you need The President, use "your wish!") He will come over and "make it 'true'!" 🤞 🤞
You can't meet the Duke! Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke.
Dude that’s crazy I saw it on Sunday night at the Alamo drafthouse …shit was awesome
How is this movie not a video game? Open sandbox NY with Snake Plisskin? I would preorder this NOW!
Well metal gear solid is the closest we will ever get to a Snake plisskin
actually they did a game on ps3 from the movie warriors! which had the same vibe!
Deus ex
You know what I've been saying would have saved the last of us 2?
Just rewriting and renaming it "escape from new york" and just pretending they did a bad job at actually replicating the city.
Seriously, the gameplay and style for it is PERFECT, the way you crawl around, only have a few weapons/items.
It's a shame what happened to naughty dog because I can EASILY see a great escape from new york ripoff game(and who cares, let people call it a ripoff, so long as the content is good and the game isn't microtransaction scamcity fans will love it and pay) coming from their studios.
Too bad they have to deal with NeIl DrUcKmAnN and his unholy warpath to the Oscar's( I mean come on, just look what a shitshow he's turned them into, it's pretty clear he's just derailed The Last of Us, and Uncharted into PURE AGENDA DRIVEN CRAP(like emotional manipulation using race and sexuality to berate those he hates irrationally and enflame rivalries in his own fandom) all for the sake of getting an HBO series(prediction: it sucks, gets shit fan ratings, and wins every award it possibly can because TLOU2 was simply Neil's way of saying "LOOK HOW GOOD I AM!!!! I LOVE DIVERSITY SO MUCH MORE, I TANKED A GAME DEVELOPING STUDIO JUST TO SHOW THE WORLD!!!!!")
I got way carried away. But yeah, if you wanna daydream about an awesome EFNY game, my personal visions have the same engine and playstyles and menus and shit as TLOU2(as much as I hate the story of that game, seriously, excluding just the story the game is phenomenal)
There was going to be a Snake Plissken game for the PS2. It got canceled.
Honestly, this movie still amazes me. Even though the "actual" New York is really just the decaying neighborhood of East St. Louis, it looks totally real and you'd never even suspect it was any other place. If this were done today, it would probably be a combination of location shooting, dressed to appear this way, green screen, and backlot/soundstages. However, East St. Louis at the time actually appeared the way they needed New York to look. There was very little the crew had to do to the location.
I don't know if this movie gets enough credit with, not just how good the locations are, but, how this was all pulled off on such a minimal budget. Between the location shooting, to the ultra-realistic matte paintings, right up into the-then futuristic depiction of the United States, Escape from New York is an excellent example of what you can do on such a modest budget. I wish this was recognized more.
Don't worry....It is!
It's time to leave New York soon, thanks to DiBlasio.
@@Arbaal It's been time to leave for a long time. Now it's simply more obvious to those who were asleep.
NY this car would have more rust....but the rest of the caddy looked wornout accurate
They shot this in a few different cities, including the 'boxing arena' which was actually in Los Angeles. (IIRC) the deleted trans-America subway scene was shot in Atlanta, Georgia.
Those chandeliers and their clanking kill me every time. LOL.
A lowrider Caddy with chandeliers: genius. This movie's got the post-apocalyptic look down to a tee. What NYC will look like in 30 years.
30 years? Try next week.
NOW
@@Gibson-zq7tbhe he exactly. I was thinking to myself: this cut-off prison doesn't look bad compared to some parts of modern cities.
What NYC looked like in 1981 you mean
@@discobean54 NYC was fucked up in 1981. I grew up in this crazy city. Everyone thinks it's crazy now but it was worse back then.
The Duke's entrance has more class than any presidential motorcade. Shout out to Adrienne Barbeau..
Absolutely. And yes, Adrienne really was something
Adrianne's tits would have stolen the whole movie if it were any other one
i always loved the soundtrack to this film. whoever did it must've been a big fan of 70s funk, kraftwerk and tangerine dream.
I think John Carpenter composed the music for the movie.
@@LB__1 You would be correct.
Director himself composed it, big man likes to make his own soundtracks
I think he also collaborated with someone else too
John Carpenter co-composed the score with Alan Howarth, who worked on other Carpenter projects such as the second and third Halloween movies and Big Trouble in Little China.
please god....dont let anyone ever remake this movie
They’re already planning it.
They don't need to. It's basically Real Life New York these days.
What an awesome quartet of actors! Plus Isaac Hayes?! Unreal.
You don't even know how badly I want to put chandeliers on my Challenger. I don't give give a shit how stupid it is, I fucking love it.
Same. And this song goes on repeat whether the passengers like or not.
Kromus, I cannot blame you!
A couple years after this hit the theaters I saw an exact replica rolling down bourbon st one night
I only have 2 words: ghetto-riffic.
I hate to say it but in Puerto Rico you see stuff like that all the time!
enrnest borgnine out acted all of them! what a believable actor!
Borgnine bobbing his head in the theater , to the music, has stayed with me since this flick came out in summer of 1981 here in the U.S. what a great and funny moment for him.
New York during Coronavirus
"What did I teach you?"
"You gotta have more cowbell."
"I can't hear you!"
"YOU GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL!"
Greatest character entrance of all time!
I hear a church bell at 0:37 - intentional or not, it adds to the atmosphere.
And Snake reacts to it. Little details like that are what make a great movie.
R I P Soul legend Isaac Hayes as A Number one The Duke of New York,Love that theme when he makes his entrance with his Chandelier clad limo ❤️ 41 years on Absolutely Epic ❤️I wanna meet the Duke , No one meets the Duke 😂🤣
R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton as Brain. 🙏🏻
Dudes car goes hard af. Shit's baller as hell.
Watching this movie after 2020 must feel like a fever dream because you have Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Harry Dean Stanton, Ernest Borgnine (Mermaid Man), Isaac Hayes (Chef), and freaking Junkrat from Overwatch all in the same movie.
I'm pretty sure Junkrats actor was born two years after this came out.
Saw this movie on my first date with my now husband. I LOVED Lee Van Cleef as Bob Houk.
This is one of those great movies.... if you don't think too hard about it.
When the cars come rolling around the corner to that beat, it reminds me of Batman '89 when the Joker's parade comes rolling down the street. Maybe Burton borrowed this part?
I got a stiff neck from bobbing to the beat.
this is a sick beat.
I got a stiff cock looking at Adrienne Barbaeu's tits.
John Carpenter should have hired Don Cornelius to drive the Duke's car. That would have been awesome!
I don't know why but this movie really feels ahead of its time. Something about it's portrayal just seems so.. I don't know, modern?
Maybe its just the state of the world right now that makes this so eerily prophetic in some way.
Not one bit of daylight in the movie and the score
predictive programming
There was one brief daylight scene.
The Duke was riding in the front passenger seat. He must be really secure in his power to do that
Badass intro... with a little "Crocodile Dundee" vibe.
barbeau had nice knockers
she had the best gazangas in hollywood at the time, by far.
Oswald's mom. hahaha
Dont cross the Duke, everybody knows that
Lmfao
“Your the Duke!!! Your the duke!!!!”
“Your number one....”
So sad that most of those great actors are gone
We no longer have to imagine this, NY is well on its way to becoming this.
Now that's how you pimp your pimpmobile. Putting chandeliers on the hood, and I think the Duke's Caddy is also a low rider.
0:58
Why do I hear Boss Music?
You can tell Harold Faltermeyer ripped this off for Beverly Hills Cop II
Stuttering John brought me here
Gageya
0:59 I wonder if it was intentional to have Snake notice cabbie before the others do
That’s a great catch and question.. tough to figure out
Looking at point 2:27 , I see 4 of my favorite actors/actresses. Not by any means my favorite movie, but still cool in it's day. I have no idea whatever happened to Ms. Barbeau, but she was great. She mixes well with the "gentlemen" actors and I pray she has fared well. The gentlemen have obviously done so. Bless the memories Mr. Borgnine and my fellow Kentuckian Harry Dean Stanton.
She was Oswald's mother on a few episodes of The Drew Carey Show in the late 90"s. And was still hot.
The soundtrack has that Bruce Dickinson-appropriate amount of cowbell...
the movie scared me back in the day, its a classic
In case anyone was wondering, the Duke's pimp-mobile is a 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham with the new "downsized" 425 cubic inch engine, compared to the 501 cubic inch engines on earlier caddy models.
In about 30 years or so this is what every major city in America will look like
This is like today's NY what a prophetic movie
They nailed L A too
This scene is A#1
1:29 Probably in the Top 10 of all time character intros in a movie, ever.
0:55
When you’re alone in the cereal aisle, and let out the nastiest fart of your life.
Then every person in the store decides to come down that aisle.
Imagine playin this flick in the 19 fifties? It freaked us out in the 80's.
Such a very awesome movie!
Last year there was going to be a classic car show by me that I wanted to go to, but was canceled due to rain with no make up date at the last minute. So instead, I decided to run a few errands. As I was driving around a car was coming towards me in the opposite direction with two small chandeliers on either side of the front hood. I tried to find a place to make a quick U-turn, but it took a while. By the time I came back the opposite direction the car must’ve turned off somewhere. I figured that car had to be going to the show but must not have heard that it was canceled. I spent the rest of the day laughing and saying to myself ‘You’re the Duke - A #1!’ I hope whoever was driving the car sees this so I can give them a virtual high five for being boss ass cool! ✋😎☝️🗽🐍🧠👩🏻🚕🤴🏿
I like the chandeliers on the car lol.
A shout out to Adrienne’s Barbeaus. 😈
Pimped out big time
Only time I saw such a pimped out ride.
I’ve listened to this brilliant soundtrack for forty years now. And the music compelled me to put some drums on it (better late than never). If interested please have a listen 🤩👍🏻
Oh this was a movie? I thought it was Eric Adams pulling up to Cithy Hall.
A #1 Duke of New York!!!
Colourbox Baby I love your way samples 'I wanna meet this Duke' & that makes it even more of an excellent music track
I crossed the Duke once. Once..
The music is next level class.
Isaac Hayes,great!
That woman actress, I forgot her name I think she passed away, but she had one set of perfect knockers
Adrienne Barbeau she is still alive. Back in the day she was also a body builder.
I want this to be my theme music when I’m driving in town.
Well... not everyone
Lady K, Da Dues Paya, Da potato...
You should check out all Kurt's and Capenter's movies with the commentary.
I always wondered why cable networks cut the part where the Duke grabs and pushes the arrow in his leg? Is it just too violent or what??
just the fact that the guy has chandeliers on the hood of his car is enough to intimidate me.
He makes a 64 Station Wagon look so cool.
Hammer Beat😎👍
A great film oh yeah!
a world without police 👮🏼 👮♀️ 👮♂️ 👮♀️👮♀️ 👮♀️ 👮♀️ 👮♀️ 👮♂️ 👮♀️
Fully defunded police town will look like this.
what a blue city looks like today
A number one!
Stuttering John has made this clip so embarrassing
One of my fav. Movies. & so cool when the "Duke" arrived. Does anyone know the Name from the "Song" which start at 0:59 ?
m.th-cam.com/video/enTBmx7XBLE/w-d-xo.html
@@richardlacey4923 Thanks a lot - searched for a long time for it. 😍
A good music when you can see arriving the principal of the school to your classroom
It's funny how they pimped the car out with lights and hydraulics but left those ugly windshield stickers on.
The way this country is going this is where we are heading
Creepy 👍
I love this music
\m/
I wanna meet the Duke!
My wife got mad at me when I wanted to hang chandeliers on the front fenders of our Subaru Cross Trek. I think that chandeliers hanging from the front fenders of our car will make it stand out from the rest!
And everywhere you went you'd have to cruise about 2 miles an hour like the Duke did here, otherwise you're gonna have a big tangled broken mess of chandelier pieces all over the place. So you'd better get that theme song Ready to cruise like the Duke.
And my mom and sister hate this movie,
but I loved it.
Duke Raz of CHAZ arrives.
It just occurred to me that they're wearing hats and sunglasses at night
I wonder if he's related to the Duke of Deland
So if they shot the guycwho made it to the end of the bridge, how was he able to draw up the diagram and pass it on?
What’s that song?
Arrival of the duke/ barricade
He's a good lead! 👍
I think the point they knew the duke was coming was actually when his theme kicked in.
I imagine this entry as the opening for an IRS recruitment video.
"IRS is a Number One."
The easter egg from Huntdown is now clear to me. :)
this needs to be remade!
please no
Yes but who would make such a good job of it & not ruin it maybe that idea will stay on the shelf
You’d have to cast 10,000 people in today’s society to come up with 20 cool people
So it can be filled with nothing but ESG score improving trash? no thank you.
What vehicle popular in movie taxicab sedan with lamps or wagon armored
8 who dislike this video crossed The Duke!
I wanna meet this Duke.
You can't meet the Duke! Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead!
I looked this up, because this is what LA is becoming today 2022 smh
we dont need.a metal.gear movie we have one
I came from "wall world" animated show because in EP 2 they mentioned this film