Sundays always call for a treat. This one I feasted on John Carpenter's 1981 hit Escape from New York. Things I had forgotten since I last saw it about 10 years ago:
- It starts with terrorists hijacking Airforce One and crashing it into a Manhattan skyscraper - Isaac Hayes is The Duke - It has fantastic green wireframe 3D graphics - which were not created with computers, but with models, reflective tape and blacklight - It had an epic poster, that clearly inspired a little scene in the recent Cloverfield - The president survives the plane crash in a big orange protective egg
Here's the trailer, including 3D plane crash:
And here's Robert Johnson & Punchdrunks playing the theme in Stockholm 2002:
