Escape from LA
| Movie | |
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| German title | Escape from LA |
| Original title | John Carpenter's Escape from LA |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| script | John Carpenter Debra Hill Kurt Russell |
| production |
Debra Hill Kurt Russell |
| music |
Shirley Walker John Carpenter |
| camera | Gary B. Kibbe |
| cut | Edward A. Warschilka |
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Escape from LA is the 1996 sequel to The Rattlesnake from 1981 with a very similar plot to its predecessor, which is why it is sometimes referred to as a remake . Kurt Russell plays the lead again. The film opened in German cinemas on October 31, 1996.
action
Los Angeles , which became an island in 2000 after an earthquake-triggered flood, is a deportation zone for unwanted people or people who are seen as incapable of living in the “moral” America of the life-elected new theocratic president in 2013 .
The arrested " outlaw " Snake Plissken is again given the choice of either taking on a dangerous job or dying in agony within a few hours from an injected virus. He decides inevitably for the former.
Plissken gets the information that the president's daughter Utopia belonging to a satellite weapon prototype EMP - remote control has stolen and her Internet acquaintance, the Peruvian top terrorist of the Shining Path , Cuervo Jones, at the same time leader of the Mescalito Justice , the biggest and nastiest transition in LA, has brought. Utopia then called for an uprising against its “corrupt and lying” father and threatened to use the super weapon. Your friend is already preparing an invasion of the USA with fighters from South and Central America. The device should be brought back and Utopia should be shot, with a survivor of a five-person rescue team should first be contacted.
Snake receives, among other things, a weapon and ammunition, a portable, single-use holographic camera, a radio set as a wristwatch with a tracking chip and a readable almost 10 hours in which he must have carried out his mission in order to be injected with an antidote against the virus in time.
Snake arrives at the island in a one-man submersible. He only finds the last member of the rescue team dead. When asked about Cuervo Jones, he is directed to the shabby Sunset Boulevard , where Jones drives past with Utopia in an open convertible. Snake fights his way through the crowd shielding Jones from behind, but an attempt on them does not succeed. He meets Eddie, who has developed a talking city map on a CD and a player that looks very similar to the EMP remote control, but which stuns him the next time he meets and delivers it to Jones. Tied up, Plissken overhears a confidante informing Jones about the EMP device: that EMPs can be triggered from the ring of satellites orbiting the earth via the device's control CD, which cause all electrical devices to fail, all over the world World with the world code 666 or selectively or area-wise with additionally entered codes. Jones switches a picture-sound connection to the president and sends an impulse to his hometown.
Then Plissken has to throw 10 points in a hopeless game for his life on a basketball court, alternately on both baskets with 10 seconds time per throw, but he manages the impossible with one last throw across the entire playing field, which lands in the basket. The spectators in the arena are enthusiastic, Jones shoots the running away Plissken, Utopia is only little taken with her lover.
Snake ambushes Jones and snatches the case with the remote control; the pursuing Eddie hits Plissken with a shot in the leg, gets hold of the suitcase and gives it back to Jones. Shortly afterwards, Snake meets Eddie again, who after a tip he has received has to take him to Hershe, a transsexual and leader of a small gang he still knew as a man. She explains to him that the virus story is a known bluff. Using hang-gliders , grenades and automatic firearms, Snake and Hershe's gang fight from the air against Jones and his men who have been waiting on an open-air stage for a government-requested, bulletproof helicopter. On the ground, Snake Jones can snatch the EMP device and use Hershe's gang to hijack the helicopter. Utopia also takes refuge in the aircraft. Eddie shoots Jones, who can fire another grenade at the helicopter, with Hershe and her three remaining men burning in the back. Snake and Utopia make it to the mainland.
Snake lets Utopia jump off, which he puts a device into his clothing, then he lands the bursting, burning helicopter and appears in front of the president and his soldiers. They have already found Utopia and the device. With the self-staging, Bible-based words: “Because he loved his country so much that he gave up his own disobedient child”, the bigot sends Utopia on the electric chair, then he broadcasts - it is a few minutes before the invasion troops from Cuba and Mexico Reach the USA - in a worldwide broadcast an EMP impulse in Cuba. But Eddie's city guide sounds from the device. Plissken shows the original in his hand. The President lets fire at Plissken - in vain, because he has only projected his hologram. The President asks him: “We or they”, but Plissken only enters the world code, all the lights go out, the electric chair no longer works in the execution room - Utopia has been saved, technology and the world's standard of living have been thrown back.
background
- The actors Donald Pleasence and Lee Van Cleef , who played President and Police Commissioner Bob Hauk in the first film, The Rattlesnake , had died before the film was made.
- The song for the film was The One by White Zombie . The song did not appear on the film's soundtrack.
- The musician and actor Isaac Hayes , who plays one of the main roles Duke in the first part , has a brief appearance as the guard in the second part.
Reviews
“Obvious parodic elements are smothered between costly outward appearances and stereotypical action patterns. A film that only for a moment does justice to the fantasy of its design. "
“Actor and producer Kurt Russell was the driving force behind the remake of the 1981 classic ' The Rattlesnake '. An almost identical story, only about $ 43 million more expensive than the original. Unfortunately, director John Carpenter is rushing his great team (including Stacy Keach, Pam Grier, Steve Buscemi) through the urban jungle this time. "
“Like a large-scale comic, the film parodies the present and the vision of a future America, in which more individual life and freedom takes place on the prisoner island than in the regulated part of the country. [...] Above all, the staging of the crowd scenes is convincing and the use of digital technology fits seamlessly into the artificial design of a new world. The acting is good, especially by Kurt Russell. Light, colors, tricks and equipment offer exceptional viewing pleasure. Some overly drastic, ironic exaggerations (president's daughter, hospital) create boredom in this otherwise furious end-time film, which questions its genre with a successful final punch. "
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film was released under the title Escape from LA It was produced again by John Carpenter , this time with the help of Shirley Walker . But it was not more than a remake of the original film music, which was another negative point for the critics. The soundtrack was released at the same time as the film on the Atlantic label. In 2006 the soundtrack was re-released under the same title.
- Dawn - Stabbing Westward
- Sweat - Tool
- The One - White Zombie
- Cut Me Out - Toadies
- Pottery - Butthole Surfers
- 10 Seconds Down - Sugar Ray
- Blame (LA) Remix - Gravity Kills
- Professional Widow - Tori Amos
- Paisley - Ministry
- Fire In The Hole - Orange 9mm
- Escape From The Prison Planet - Clutch
- Et Tu Brute? - CIV
- Foot On The Gas - Sex Pod
- Can't Even Breathe - Deftones
Awards
Robin Michel Bush for the costumes and the film for Best SF Film were nominated for the 1997 Saturn Award .
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “valuable”.
Web links
- Escape from LA in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Escape from LA in the online movie database
- Escape from LA at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Escape from LA at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for escape from LA . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Escape from LA In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ a b Escape from LA In: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW)