![]() Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of Escape from L.A. There are highly amusing little vignettes throughout, like during the opening moments where prisoners are offered the choice of being executed – “You now have the opportunity to repent of your sins and be electrocuted on the spot.” He also daringly, in light of the contemporary American political hotbed, presents a satirical vision of the US being run by a fundamentalist dictatorship. Kurt Russell back as Snake PlisskenĬarpenter also appears to have taken onboard criticisms made of Escape from New York, that he failed to credibly establish the background social conditions as to how Manhattan Island became a prison, and this time places much more detail into building up how L.A. landscape – travelling past the ruins of Universal Studios, Capitol Records and signposts to Mulholland Drive and Sunset Boulevard. The film gets much mileage out of its visions of the trashed icons of the L.A. are presented as an amusingly satirical exaggeration of the present, inhabited by hustling agents, crazed plastic surgeons, people selling maps to the homes of the stars and armed transvestites. taps into a satirical vein that the first film only glanced over. While all of this is the case, there is also a good deal more to Escape from L.A. Again Kurt Russell must go into the anarchic ruins of a big US city that has been transformed into a prison – the film having merely swapped the Eastern American seaboard for the Western again there is a ticking timebomb planted inside his body to ensure his cooperation this time he is not after The President but The President’s daughter and there is the same ending that involves the substitution of a tape/disc (although the sequel does make a clever play on the expectations of the substitution raised by the first film). To get it over with yes, there is a certain level on which the sequel is merely rehashing the first film. came with some disappointing advance word. Indeed, it took so long to mount the sequel that when it eventually arrived the film was only five months shy of the date the first film chose as its future setting.Įscape from L.A. Carpenter, Kurt Russell and producer Debra Hill had talked about making the sequel since at least 1986 and it finally emerged here with Escape from L.A. ![]() John Carpenter directed with a slick and exciting action pace and Kurt Russell gave the best performance he has ever given then and since. It was the one of the very first of the modern breed of sf/action hybrids. After months of long preparation the inmates had completed fashioning all of the gear they needed for their escape, This what Clint had really shown his acting by the Direction of Siegel! I love the entire detail structure of the movie and wud be on my favo's.i have almost watched it more than 15times!!and Will do too.Escape from New York (1981) was a classic. i wud love to explain in detail but then. All three had been incarcerated at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta when they first became acquainted with Morris, and John and Clarence were eventually sent to Alcatraz following a sequence of attempted escapes. Brothers John and Clarence Anglin were also serving sentences at Alcatraz for bank robbery, having been convicted along with their brother Alfred. Frank's accomplices in the "Great Escape" were equally well acquainted with the dark world of organized crime. Morris was credited by prison officials as possessing superior intelligence, and he earned his ticket to Alcatraz by building an impressive resume of escapes. He spent his formative years in a boys' training school, and then graduated. By the time he reached his later teens, Morris' criminal record would include a multitude of crimes ranging from narcotics possession to armed robbery, and he had become a professional inhabitant of the correctional system. From his infant years until his teens Morris was shuffled from one foster home to another, and he was convicted of his first crime at the youthful age of only thirteen. F L Morris had spent a lifetime navigating the prison system before his arrival on Alcatraz. The escape plan took nearly seven months to design, and it would necessitate the fabrication of clever decoys and water survival gear. ![]() In the movie entitled "Escape from Alcatraz" starring actor Clint Eastwood, Morris was accurately portrayed as the keen and brilliant mastermind of one of the most famous prison escapes in history. If there was ever an inmate who was destined to escape from Alcatraz, it was Frank Lee Morris.
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