Editing Escape from New York (section)

==Reception==

===Box office===
''Escape from New York'' opened in New York and Los Angeles July 10, 1981.<ref name="afi" /> The film grossed $26 million in American theaters in summer 1981.<ref name="thenumbers"/> Worldwide it grossed over $50 million.<ref name="Muir"/>

===Critical response===
The film received generally positive reviews. ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine wrote of Carpenter: "[He has a] deeply ingrained B-movie sensibility&nbsp;– which is both his strength and limitation. He does clean work, but settles for too little. He uses Russell well, however".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=A Helluva Town |magazine=[[Newsweek]] |date=July 27, 1981 |url=http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/newsweek810727.html |access-date=May 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319005440/http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/newsweek810727.html |archive-date=March 19, 2007 }}</ref> In ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, [[Richard Corliss]] wrote, "John Carpenter is offering this summer's moviegoers a rare opportunity: to escape from the air-conditioned torpor of ordinary entertainment into the hothouse humidity of their own paranoia. It's a trip worth taking".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Corliss |first=Richard |title=Bad Apples |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=July 13, 1981 |url=http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/time810713.html |access-date=May 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807232107/http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/time810713.html |archive-date=August 7, 2007 }}</ref> [[Vincent Canby]], in his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', wrote, "[The film] is not to be analyzed too solemnly, though. It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season".<ref>{{cite news|last=Canby |first=Vincent |title=''Escape from New York'' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 10, 1981 |url=http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/nytimes810710.html |access-date=May 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319004937/http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/nytimes810710.html |archive-date=March 19, 2007 }}</ref> On the other hand, in his negative review for the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'', critic [[Dave Kehr]], wrote "it fails to satisfy – it gives us too little of too much".<ref>{{cite news | last = Kehr | first = Dave | title = ''Escape from New York'' | newspaper = [[Chicago Reader]] | url = http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/3169_ESCAPE_FROM_NEW_YORK | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110806212356/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/escape-from-new-york/Film?oid=1067393 | archive-date = August 6, 2011 | access-date = January 1, 2021 }}</ref>

Christopher John reviewed ''Escape from New York'' in ''[[Ares (magazine)|Ares Magazine]]'' #10 and commented that "It is solid summer entertainment of unusually high caliber. By not pretending to be more than it is, but by also not settling for any ''less'' than it could be, ''Escape'' becomes an exciting, fast-moving drama, the likes of which we haven't seen in years."<ref name="Ares">{{cite magazine | last=John | first=Christopher | title=Film & Television | magazine=[[Ares (magazine)|Ares Magazine]] | date=September 1981 | issue=10 | pages=12–13}}</ref>

On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 86% of 72 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Featuring an atmospherically grimy futuristic metropolis, Escape from New York is a strange, entertaining jumble of thrilling action and oddball weirdness."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1006717_escape_from_new_york |title=Escape from New York |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref> {{Metacritic film prose|76|12}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Escape from New York |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/escape-from-new-york |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref>

===Legacy===
[[Cyberpunk]] pioneer [[William Gibson]] credits the film as an influence on his 1984 science fiction novel ''[[Neuromancer]]''. "I was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake 'You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad, didn't you?' It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF where a casual reference can imply a lot".<ref name="McCaffery, Larry">{{cite news |last=McCaffery |first=Larry |title=Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction |publisher=[[Duke University]] Press |year=1992 |url=http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html |access-date=January 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125090151/http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html |archive-date=January 25, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Popular video game director [[Hideo Kojima]] copied aspects of the film for his ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series. [[Solid Snake]] heavily resembles the character Snake Plissken. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', Snake even uses the alias "Pliskin" to hide his real identity during most of the game.<ref>'''SEAL''': I'm not an enemy. Calm down. My name is S... My name is Pliskin. Iroquois Pliskin, Lieutenant Junior Grade. (''Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'', Konami, 2001).</ref> [[J. J. Abrams]], producer of the 2008 film ''[[Cloverfield]]'', mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the [[Statue of Liberty]] crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for ''Escape from New York''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Commentary: Filmmakers enjoy laying waste to New York|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|author=Eberson, Sharon|date=January 4, 2008}}</ref> ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine ranked Snake Plissken number 29 in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = The 100 Greatest Movie Characters | magazine = [[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] | url = https://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=71 | access-date = December 2, 2008 | archive-date = November 7, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111107044417/http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=71 | url-status = dead }}</ref>