Carpenter's film arrived at a turning point. Science-fiction had reached new heights as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back landed in , while the action genre was right on the precipice of deciding what it would look like for the next, oh, two decades or so. In , we're still three years away from The Terminator turning Schwarzenegger into a mega-star and seven years removed from Die Hard flipping that paradigm on its head.
In that awkward mid-point, Carpenter plunks down Escape from New York , a deeply bleak dystopian film where the sci-fi runs pitch-black and the bloody action is led by a man who just spent a decade as Disney's biggest star. Though I mourn for the alternate timeline where Tommy Lee Jones has a snake tattooed on his stomach, Carpenter's decision to stick with Kurt Russell proved vital.
He can play this. He can play anything. Believe me, he can play anything. The idea of clean-cut The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes star Kurt Russell dirtying up his image is essential to the character, because the juxtaposition of image and reputation is Snake Plissken in a nutshell.
Russell worked himself into fantastic shape, but it's a swimmer's body, lean and mean in a way where the guy also cleaarly still downs pints. His hair is, not to mince words, absolutely goddamn gorgeous. Snake's voice, never raised above a smoker's growl, is such an obvious Clint Eastwood affectation that it borders on parody; it feels, unavoidably, like a Disney actor doing his best tough-guy impression, but that works for a character who is clearly striving to maintain an aura of " I don't give a shit " in every situation.
Snake Plissken is a man who adorned himself in the trappings of a badass until it became true. That iconic line, " call me Snake ," is just a little funnier—and a little sadder! But then there's the wonderful running bit across both Escape from New York —and its belated and tragically inferior sequel, Escape from L. People spot the guy through a telescope 50 feet away and say, " Oh shit, that's Snake Plissken.
Snake is a normal-looking guy molded by countless death-defying experiences and the cynicism of still being alive is baked into his personality. A lot of that also comes from Carpenter, who wrote the film in an aggressive "fuck the world" mindset after the Watergate scandal. That's what makes the character so unique, and why it might not have worked with someone more objectively badass than Kurt Russell: You look at Snake Plissken, his belly tattoo, his perfectly conditioned mane, his Dystopian Under Armour Chic outfit, and you think "this guy looks like he's trying very hard.
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Things to Do. Museum Blog. So why do pirates always wear eye patches? Or did they at all? The answer—courtesy of the Wall Street Journal and Mythbusters —may surprise you! Some assume pirates wore eye patches to cover a missing eye or an eye that was wounded in battle, but in fact, an eye patch was more likely to be used to condition the eye so the pirate could fight in the dark.
It takes an average human eye about 25 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to seeing in complete darkness—if a pirate was fighting on deck in the sunlight, then had to continue the fight under the deck where it is usually pretty dark, it could take too long for their eyes to adjust and for the pirate to be able to see. The eye patch could be used to prepare one eye to see in the dark, so when they would go below deck they could swap the eye patch from one eye to the other and see with the eye that has already adjusted to low light conditions.
This would allow them to instantly see in the dark. Mythbusters confirmed that this use of eye patches among pirates was plausible, but there is no recorded historical precedent for this fact.
So for now, keep on wearing that pirate-y eye patch—you're actually looking like one smart pirate when you do! Learn about the notorious Captain Kidd and figure out what happened to his sunken pirate ship. Search for clues and solve the mystery with a real underwater archaeologist in the National Geographic Treasures of the Earth exhibit. Build 1 Answer Is it possible to fulton a helicopter?? Build 5 Answers.
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Ryan Si 8 years ago 8 This topic, the uninitiated confusion between Solid Snake and Big Boss always reminds me of people thinking Link is actually Zelda. Terry-bogard 8 years ago 10 Even kojima calls big boss snake because he has no idea what he is writing. Metal gear solid getting remade?!
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