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Kurt Russell knew Snake was going to be a successful character before the film was even finished with primary shooting. A veteran of combat against the Russians in Leningrad, Plissken is qualified to fly the Gullfire glider, an expert at both armed and unarmed combat, and the ultimate BAMF survivalist. Army Special Forces lieutenant who was the youngest man decorated by the President, with the implication that he earned the Medal of Honor, along with two Purple Hearts during his military service. Indeed, Snake’s entry onto the silver screen initiated a new generation of antiheroes who lived by their own rules and their own code of honor. Kurt Russell’s portrayal of Snake marked a clear departure from his usual family-friendly characters in Disney cinematic fare.

As a forcing mechanism, Hauk orders his medical detail to secretly place two small explosive charges in Plissken’s bloodstream that will explode if he fails to make the deadline (nice pun, eh?)

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“Snake” Plissken a deal: save the President (Donald Pleasence) in under 24 hours and receive a full pardon. Police Commissioner Bob Hauk, played by the legendary Lee Van Cleef, offers recently captured bank robber S.D. Set in John Carpenter’s dystopian vision of the future, Escape from New York is the story of a one-man rescue attempt to save the President of the United States from a maximum security penitentiary located on Manhattan Island. Manhattan Island Maximum Security Prison, Summer 1997Ĭostume Designer: Stephen Loomis Background “Snake” Plissken, “cycloptic cynic ’80s cyberpunk” as one reader eloquently described Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981) Vitals

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