When the daughter of America’s autocratic president absconds with a weapon capable of EMPing any location on Earth back to the stone age, the feds bring in outlaw “Snake” Plissken. You probably already know the plot anyway, whether or not you’ve seen it. Counterculture dissidents in particular may find a few pearls of wisdom in the trash heap.īe it known that the rest of this post will include spoilers. Now best known as a notorious whipping boy of Pop Cult hipsters who deride its lack of originality and bad CG, Escape from LA may deserve a reevaluation. Or just watch Escape from New York, because both plots are almost exactly the same. Then add a find-the-MacGuffin plot crossed with a prison break caper and plentiful Western influences. Let’s talk about John Carpenter’s 1996 Escape from New York sequel/remake/parody, Escape from LA.įor an Escape from LA plot synopsis, reread the beginning of this post. Despite the construction of a wall on part of the southern border, a full-scale third world invasion of America looms. Meanwhile, mass immigration has overrun American cities, especially Los Angeles, with a plague of poverty and crime. The government uses an engineered virus purported to be lethal, but which turns out to be a slightly enhanced version of the flu, to coerce citizens. Citizens guilty of no crime are stripped of their rights and assets without due process and are exiled from society for retroactive violations of the new moral precepts. Federal law enforcement is tasked with prosecuting Americans whose speech and actions were tolerated before the election. As the front man for an extreme moralizing movement, he oversees the implementation of sweeping neo-puritanical directives to enforce his sect’s moral vision nationwide. In the early 21st century, an American presidential candidate wins a highly unorthodox election by leveraging a national disaster.
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