Escape from L.A. Page #3

Synopsis: In 2013, the United States president (Cliff Robertson) is exiling all citizens who don't conform to his hyper-conservative views to Los Angeles, which became an island after a huge earthquake. But, when the president's daughter nabs the detonator to her dad's apocalyptic weapon and sneaks into L.A. to be with the rebel leader she loves, the government taps commando-turned-crook Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to retrieve the young woman. And, if he doesn't succeed quickly, he'll be executed.
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
1996
101 min
514 Views


One glass left. The two men stare at it intently.

The salesman spins the light tube with more force than before. It

circles again and again, slowing down, speeding up, finally

stopping on the fat man.

The salesman begins yelling over the din of the crowd, shouting at

the fat man. The fat man reaches for the glass of clear poison.

His trembling fingers hover above it. Then he quickly withdraws

his hand.

The crowd reacts, boos, as...

The man with the eye-patch smiles. A slightly, cynical smile. And

without hesitation, he reaches out, grabs the glass of poison, and

drinks it down. The crowd surges forward, but the salesman stops

them with a sweep of his arm. All bets are off.

The two men stand from the table. Take several steps away toward

the end of the alley. Stand facing each other. Two gunfighters.

Flashes of the two men. A piece of a black military boot. A hand

positioned over a six-shooter. Mirrored sunglasses. A sweaty,

trembling lip. And the eye-patched man's one good eye, blue and

clear, staring - hard and calm as a sunny day...

The draw. It happens in an instant. The alley thunders with

gunfire. The guns buck and flash. Then silence. The two men stand

there for a beat, until one of them, the fat man, slumps, falls

face first into the alley, dead.

The crowd goes completely ape sh*t as SNAKE PLISSKEN emerges from

the shadows of the alley, holsters his guns, grabs his take of the

money...

SNAKE PLISSKEN. Long hair. A black eye-patch. A tight-lipped

grimace. The impression of coiled aggression and intense cynicism.

The toughest, most dangerous man on planet earth. A legend.

PLISSKEN strolls out of the alley into the crowd. He counts his

money, pockets it, as a cigarette girl approaches him. PLISSKEN

stops her, pays for a pack of cigs. As she eyes him...

CLOSEUP OF PLISSKEN'S ARM

... the cigarette girl touches him, pricks his skin with her

fingernail. A drop of blood appears.

PLISSKEN turns, stares after her, as the sound of helicopters

rises from above in the night sky. The crowd suddenly starts to

disperse.

Helicopter searchlights blast down on the street. PLISSKEN is

suddenly caught in the glare. He starts to move away...

KACLANG!

Out of the blackness above a huge steel net drops out of nowhere.

The net slams down on top of PLISSKEN, trapping him, driving him

down to the pavement with its weight... PLISSKEN struggles inside

the net as black figures - United States Police Force Officers -

rush toward him, grab the net, tightening it. More cops move for

him as we SLOWLY FADE TO BLACK...

SUPERIMPOSE:
"L.A. FRIDAY 1900 HOURS"

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Nick Castle

Nicholas Charles "Nick" Castle, Jr. (born September 21, 1947) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor best known for his role as Michael Myers in Halloween, directed by his friend John Carpenter. Castle also co-wrote Escape from New York with Carpenter. more…

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