John Carpenter & Debra Hill on "Escape from New York"

Interview with director John Carpenter and producer Debra Hill on their film "Escape from New York" (1981).

[@matuloco]

Nice to hear from Debra Hill as well, I think her role in helping John achieve his vision is often under appreciated. They made an amazing team.

[@christopherbell4543]

I feel like Debra was the glue that held everything together John's most iconic work was done with her by his side.

[@robzilla730]

Always great when you have a partner you just click/vibe with whatever the gender. I love smart, resourceful women.

[@kejiri3593]

I saw Escape from New York recently on DVD and saw this interview. So sad to hear such a kind person like that dying. One year after this interview. Really appreciate her work!

[@walterwhite1]

She died of colon cancer many years ago. Have some respect 🫡

[@johngoras73]

Never heard Eastwood was supposed to be Snake. I heard the studios wanted Bronson. Thankfully, we got Russel, who was perfect in the role.

[@thepowerstation2702]

Debra Hill May Your Soul Rest in Peace Always 🙏 ✌️ ♥

[@burningmisery]

Gotta love Debra Hill 🤘❤🤘

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

John and Debra are probably the most ambitious and creative people to ever make films.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

These 2 are an amazing team and made some truly amazing films together.

[@SpecimenX-9000]

Imagine being the real life inspiration for snake plissken

[@mrhax4464]

Every on you meet thought you were dead.

[@michaelpaul9208]

I still can't believe that she's been gone 18 years now

[@nickycotton6137]

JC you absolute legend.❤. Halloween, Big Trouble In Little China and THIS = easily among most watched film/S. Can't believe it was done on that budget! + Fair-Play Debra Hill.👍

[@anthonydesroches8897]

The bridge they bought and used still stands and u can walk on it. It is not in st. Louis but granite city, illinois on the Mississippi river at the Levi

[@jimbo8743]

I was wondering where that was 👍

[@colonelkilling2425]

Great movie! A huge part of my childhood. It helped shape my young mind.

[@donlarocque5157]

When I saw the movie at theater, I told my sister that was Ox Baker. I remember watching wrestling in Michigan.

[@mikesilva3868]

Love this movie ❤

[@user-wj5ur4dh2h]

My favorite John Carpenter flick.

[@youtube-ventura]

Best. Movie. Ever.

[@robertpacho9955]

I wish i would of saw this at the movies in 1981

[@onlyme219]

Forget Halloween, this movie was so much more

[@vincecommando7575]

John Carpenter said got it right, anything made by people is severely open to becoming problematic. Perfection for all of us is nothing more than a point of view. Not many of us can comprehend everyone's different views of perfection. But there are various popular ideals that so many of us can grasp. Which many us these ideals as guidelines in our daily lives. Can we all unanimously agree with ideals? Of course not, mostly because so many of us highly value our individuality of separating ourselves from everyone else. The downside is so many people the world over do evil things that make the rest of us question our own freedom. Politicians love that cause those types of situations make us place so much faith and power with them. So ask yourself these questions here and now. How valuable is your freedom? Are willing to sacrifice your freedom for what politicians tell you is for the greater good of the world? After you answer those questions you will know who you are and what you stand for unapologetically.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Yeah but he's dead wrong because Authority comes down from God. What we do here, and how we twist it is of little consequence, it's a God made construct. It's an objective reality.

[@vincecommando7575]

@@EQOAnostalgia Even if that's is true. Don't trust those in positions of power too much. As we have seen lately so many people out there abuse their positions. All in the name of their own hidden agenda. Not all laws and rules are for our own well being. So many are designed to keep the general public down. Not to paint all of them with that brush. Just beware of authority and how much of a bearing it has in your life.

[@James-nl6fu]

No 👎 matter how bad life is. Some guy like "Snake 👦 is going to be "Badder". Love ❤️ it.

[@craigshields8806]

Why are some parts blurred?

[@mthomas1973]

Why wasn't there a scene in the movie of the Statue of Liberty head in the street, just like the poster?

[@jamessullivan4391]

Because that was a poster to advertise the movie, you jack wagon!

[@mrhax4464]

Holy crap, I’ve seen both so many times, and never thought of that. And yes it was just promotional material.

[@mousetreehouse6833]

​@@mrhax4464 Cloverfield corrected that oversight! 😂

[@UchronianKing]

John Carpenter has done many great cult movies. Even James Woods starred in one called 'Vampires'!

[@thedarkknight7287]

There is no one else who could have played Snake Plissken but Kurt Russell. I could not see Tommy Lee Jones playing him, he is just not intimidating at all. This movie would never have become a cult classic with Tommy Lee Jones as the main character. John Carpenter, the late Debra Hill, and Nick Castle brought this movie to life and it has stood the test of time as depicting the first anti-hero in motion pictures. I also have to say the soundtrack created by Carpenter for this film was pure brilliance.

[@kellyborchers3561]

Debra Hill’s closing words are really on point!!!

[@Jay-wk9xj]

Yeah proved she's a short sided moron politically... Libertarians are like grown toddlers.. the whole philosophy is If I want to do it. I will and f*ck everybody else... Oh besides my roads and schools and everything else. I don't want to pay for..

[@AlexJEdits]

Call me Snake...

[@robzilla730]

Snake. I thought you were dead.

[@ace9924]

Kept you waiting huh?

[@mrhax4464]

The names Plissken!

[@oskar_oskarewicz]

"Anything that's constructed by man is... it perhaps may not be perfect". Wrong. His movies for sure are. Assualt, Halloween, The Fog, Espace from NY, They Live, The Thing. Perfect movies.

[@robzilla730]

Great point

[@EQOAnostalgia]

The Fog kinda sucked.

[@donlarocque5157]

Look up a short sci-fi called Eight o'clock in the morning. It's what he got the inspiration for They Live.

[@mrhax4464]

Snake, I thought he was dead…………………………. And taller. Yeah I like the sequel too, I’m allowed. It’s just a fun film.

[@user-rt9zq8rs9k]

RIP Debra Hill . Sad , her movie CLUE is only now thought of as a really good film .

[@davebooshty299]

Whats with the Blurry Parts? A Rights Issue at times?

[@tqsuited]

Maybe to help avoid copyright detection algorithms, break it up into smaller unedited sections.

[@chrisgardiner2215]

Did you hear what Debra said at 12:50? She is 100% correct in that government no matter the size cannot legislate morality..... But that is what they are trying to do in 2020

[@robzilla730]

It's the democrats who are today's fascists.

[@1971mav]

That's the churches job. Telling you what is moral while doing some of the most immoral shit around.

[@chrisgardiner2215]

@@1971mav All churches of the "world" are immoral, starting with the whore of Revelation 13 and 17.. that woman being the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH... The harlot who has MANY DAUGHTERS.. The harlot is also the LITTLE HORN of (Daniel 7)

[@123rockfan]

Last time I checked, laws against murder, rape, theft, etc is legislating morality. Humans make up rules to benefit society and other people. So your argument makes no sense. Legislating people to have equal rights, so they don’t get discriminated against, makes absolute sense. Also, churches preach about wanting to legislate their own version of morality based on the Bible. Are you against that?

[@123rockfan]

@@robzilla730 if you think supporting issues such as single payer healthcare, and being anti war, anti corruption and anti-drug war, is “fascist”, then I think you’re brain dead.

[@briansimerl4014]

Libertarian Snake Plissken.

[@wade6523]

How prophetic that NY and LA actually turned into these places.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

They did, and not by conservative policy like they seemed to think... but the very liberal policy they champion here.

[@tonymanero5544]

Manhattan millionaires pay for all the government checks in your separatist woods.

[@alexanderrosales7675]

​@@EQOAnostalgia L.A used to be worse though, Crack and Gangs in the 80s was alot worse than homeless camps. The Police corruption like the rampart scandal was also systemic throughout the LAPD. The crime rate is lower now than it was when i was growing up.

[@alphabarre9096]

Are you sure on that? Right wing nut jobs and their fixation with NY and LA, lmao.

[@trezndawg4240]

I wish John would have shown how/ why Snake Plissken was sentenced to Manhattan Prison! 😡

[@barryglenister792]

I have seen the unused footage he robs a bank with another guy and they escape on the subway but get caught and his friend gets shot in front of snake its on KZbin look for the outtakes 😊

[@trezndawg4240]

@@barryglenister792 yes, I've seen that footage, which was awesome. I just wish he would have included it in the movie, in addition to how some of the prisoners on the island knew or had heard of him.

[@numba2bvi]

Snake wouldn't wear "the mask"

[@stuartmcluvin4794]

Do you wanna hear irony? John is obviously anti right wing and caters for that in some of his movies but today if he wanted a post apocalyptic scenario he would film in democratic controlled states :)

[@robzilla730]

Totally. Democrats are today's fascists/communists. Trump was actually more Plissken like than Pleasance. But because he was white and Republican AND mainstream media told us to hate him. He actually gave a fuck about the country.

[@stuartmcluvin4794]

@@robzilla730 booooooom truth bombs :)

[@1971mav]

@@robzilla730 The only person Trump cares about is himself.

[@robzilla730]

@@1971mav so who does Biden care about then?

[@jamessullivan4391]

True.

[@Solaar_Punk]

It's a shockingly bad film

[@lonestar6709]

Still gutted about Debra Hill. Died way too young. A great producer and wonderful person.

[@unitedamericans8587]

Debra Hill,RIP was a great producer!!! She did great work with Mr Carpenter!!!

[@ZyKLonBē]

John Carpenter has wrote so many classics. Halloween, The Fog, They Live, The Thing. Assault On Precinct 13, seriously this guy is a genius.

[@sampson3121]

he didn't write The Thing. well at least he wasn't the original writer.

[@teufeldritch]

@@sampson3121 Yea his "The Thing' is a remake of a old 50's movie.

[@ZyKLonBē]

Yea you’re right. I was thinking probably in terms of writing the screenplay not what it was actually based on..

[@sampson3121]

@@ZyKLonBē he made the best version. he's a great writer director for sure

[@chupasaurus]

@@sampson3121 Don't forget that he is the king of synths!

[@alexsaucedo8032]

Love this movie. Oldie but GOODIE. A solid fuckin 10. One of my favorites

[@wesleyjohndelaney106]

John Carpenter is a legend! The worlds he created shaped my life through the years

[@vallieri72]

One of the best movie ever. If today's movies had to have the same "yield", they would all be masterpieces.

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

One of the BEST post apocalyptic films made... without giving too much away during the scenes it says A LOT about the direction everyone thought society was going.... and may still go :)

[@mutatedgenome]

OMG I watched this sooo many times on HBO as a kid. Love it to this day.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

great classic movie

[@robsmoviecollection3715]

A great movie! I was too young to get into the theater to see it when it came out so I had to wait years but when I finally saw it I wasn't disappointed.

[@Kthomasritchie]

Escape from New York and Assault on Precinct 13. Two of my all-time favourite movies.

[@LeroyKinkade]

Brilliant film.

[@stevee.asherhouseofasherpo8367]

You're the Duke!...

[@SGTRIP-dh7fz]

This was really cool! Thanks for the upload. Plissken.. Plissken.. What are doing? Playing with myself...I'm going in!

[@scl1332]

“Everything constructed by man may not be perfect” that’s probably why my toilet keeps flooding

[@robzilla730]

Try a plunger homes.

[@marksoquetjr4693]

Awesome movie! Love the soundtrack as well. I thought Kurt Russell sounded like Clint Eastwood.

[@gipsyavenger9829]

Classic Carpenter movie and Kurt Russell is perfectly cast. Snake: " I'm looking for somebody" .

[@buckaroobanzai7063]

Snake cares a little. At least. He didn't like that the president didn't care about the lives of the people who died rescuing him. Snake destroyed the real tape because of it. So Snake cares on some level.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

That's right, the key is anti-HERO, he's still a hero, anti just denotes that he's not your standard paragon of righeousness, an anti-hero is still the hero at the end of the day. I just think John likes to take the piss with people who like good guys, he's a bit of an edgelord like some of his fans with goats for avatars and 666 in their name.

[@joeshil4140]

Love you Debra.

[@d.bcooper7819]

Now I’m dying to see the first reel!

[@andrewgaughen9310]

It was put on the Shout Factory Blu to the best of my knowledge. It neat and cool, but you can see why it wasn't necessary to the film. Slowed things up.

[@mojorizen7]

It's included on the 2003 Collectors Edition DVD 2 disc set

[@robins5314]

It's on KZbin.

[@tommy1138]

Snake Plissken? I heard he was dead"

[@jimwalker1064]

every time a character says that, they end up getting killed in the film

[@KEVINTHEWS]

"We needed to find a place that looked post-apocalyptic..." so, we went to Detroit...

[@robzilla730]

Detroit, Seattle Portland Minneapolis

[@tqsuited]

So they went to yo moma's house.. they needed a real trash location

[@interstellar1962]

Thanks for the upload, but why did you partially blank out a couple of clips?

[@filmSCHOOLarchive]

Copyright Issues.

[@interstellar1962]

As in issues with those two scenes specifically, or you just had to do it a couple of times anywhere to avoid getting removed. Just curious in case I upload any. 😊 Have subscribed, you have some good material, love these behind-the-scenes vids.

[@filmSCHOOLarchive]

Especially with those scenes.

[@69johndz]

What's with the blurred out sections?

[@DamienDrake]

That's what I was going to ask.

[@craigrivers82]

My guess is to avoid a copyright claim

[@SteveBueche1027]

How did they pull off that spiked bat to the head shot?

[@robzilla730]

Usually they film something like that in reverse.

[@tqsuited]

The guy had a piece of wood attached to the back of his head, so the bat would strike only that part and attach to that. The camera angle does not show the back of his head of course.

[@DSilvergun]

This was recorded in 2019?

[@filmSCHOOLarchive]

2004

[@joeshil4140]

Non debra passed away around 2005 2006

[@MrOvo1231]

wonder how he lost his eye

[@bigguy1164]

Shaving

[@Pazuzu82]

Back in nam

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

...this one time in band camp.....

[@DamienDrake]

Much like Scarface, while eating...

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

Boating accident...with a guy named Captain Ron.

[@jasondorman3739]

Carpenter is a genius movie wise and music wise. He really needs to team up with Russell one more time before it's too late. Then again every remake from hollyweird of Carpenter movies have been complete shit.

[@robzilla730]

I don't wanna see a 70 year old Snake hobbling around like Harrison Ford do8ng another Indiana Jones. Either recast or just put it to rest

[@victorvictor8587]

Soon You’ll be Able to Shoot Any Scene in New York you May Have to Wear a Protective Suit .

[@jamescarter3196]

Huh?