If you look up anti-establishment in the dictionary, there’s a picture of Snake Plissken.Ĭarpenter makes both sides of this moral, political argument look criminal. But party-lines aren’t really Carpenter’s style because the left gets as bad rap in this flick as the right, and what we learn this film is about is the same message that was so blatantly, and arguably more tastefully put across in Escape From New York, and that is anti-establishment. So unless John Carpenter thought Clinton might not have a shot, those salad days of the mid-90s weren’t really anything for a left-winger to be too upset about. Or even, do fundamental evils just simply run that deep because, looking back at 1996, the year this film was released, democrat President Bill Clinton was up for re-election against Republican candidate Bob Dole, and would go on to do a second term.
Or has Shout Factory, who’s had the 4K restored blu-ray release of this film planned for six months or better, tapped into some mystic juju that perfectly planted this thing into the mailboxes of everyone who pre-ordered in the final weeks of May of this year. Wave of the future.” Ringing any bells yet?Įither John Carpenter is some kind of modern Confucius or he’s secretly a writer for The Simpsons, because he pretty much nailed the themes of Spring 2020. Giving him 10 hours to track down Utopia and Cuervo Jones and retrieve the control unit, thus saving the United States and prolonging its questionable place in the global theatre lest he dies from the flu-like virus Plutoxin 7 subtly transferred to him on his arrival to Los Angeles. Obviously, because that’s the future that Communists want.Īnd since Snake did such a great job working for America 15 years ago rescuing the President from the New York island prison which simply held plain ol’ murderers, thieves, and drug addicts, Uncle Sam is calling for his help once again. Utopia has stolen a device for him that’s capable of sending a satellite generated electromagnetic pulse that will shut down all electronic devices in the world, sending the earth into a new dark age. We know he’s Communist because he’s dressed like Che Gueverra, clearly. Langer) is the new girlfriend of Communist party faction leader Cuervo Jones (Georges Corraface).
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Kennedy in 1963’s PT-109, coincidentally directed by Leslie Martinson who also directed the 1966 “Batman” movie starring Adam West- finds out his daughter Utopia (A.J.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the radical political spectrum, the President-ironically played by Cliff Robertson who portrayed John F. In John Carpenter’s cynical world, it makes a really great prison, complete with police wearing surgical face-masks and holding cameras next to their guns, for deportees, sinners, and yes, Muslims, guarded by a wall-sound familiar? This is all along the western seaboard, in an America lead by a fundamentalist right-wing Christian with bad hair who has given himself a lifetime term of office. coast, but this plot doesn’t capitalize on all that beachfront real-estate like Lex Luthor in 1978’s Superman: The Movie. Anyway, in the year 2000, a devastating earthquake at the San Andreas Fault breaks Los Angeles off the western U.S.
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