Editing Escape from New York (section)

===Filming===
Carpenter and his crew persuaded the city to shut off the electricity to 10 blocks at a time at night. The film was shot from August to November 1980. It was a tough and demanding shoot for the filmmaker as he recalls. "We'd finish shooting at about 6 am and I'd just be going to sleep at 7 when the sun would be coming up. I'd wake up around 5 or 6 pm, depending on whether or not we had dailies, and by the time I got going, the sun would be setting. So for about two and a half months I never saw daylight, which was really strange."<ref name="Swires, Steve"/> The [[gladiatorial]] fight to the death scene between Snake and Slag (played by professional wrestler Ox Baker) was filmed in the Grand Hall at [[St. Louis Union Station]]. Russell has stated, "That day was a nightmare. All I did was swing a [spiked] bat at that guy and get swung at in return. He threw a trash can in my face about five times ... I could have wound up in pretty bad shape."<ref>[https://collider.com/kurt-russell-escape-from-new-york-capetown-film-fest-recap/ Kurt Russell Talks About Shooting ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK at the EW CapeTown Film Fest; Plus His Thoughts on the Remake|Collider]</ref> In addition to shooting on location in St. Louis, Carpenter shot parts of the film in [[Los Angeles]]. Various interior scenes were shot on a [[sound stage]]; the final scenes were shot at the [[Sepulveda Dam]] in [[Sherman Oaks]]. New York served as a location, as did [[Atlanta]], to use their [[Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority|futuristic-looking rapid-transit system]] (the latter scenes were cut from the final film).<ref>{{cite news|title=St. Louis Q&A|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|author=Berger, Jerry|date=February 5, 1995|page=17}}</ref> In New York City, Carpenter persuaded federal officials to grant access to [[Liberty Island]]. "We were the first film company in history allowed to shoot on Liberty Island at the [[Statue of Liberty]] at night. They let us have the whole island to ourselves. We were lucky. It wasn't easy to get that initial permission. They'd had a bombing three months earlier and were worried about trouble".<ref name="Osborne, Robert">{{cite news|last=Osborne |first=Robert |title=On Location |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=October 24, 1980 |url=http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/reporter801024.html |access-date=March 10, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317172451/http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/press/reporter801024.html |archive-date=March 17, 2007 }}</ref>

[[File:Escape From New York Wireframe.jpg|thumb|The simulated wire-frame effect]]
Carpenter was interested in creating two distinct looks for the movie. "One is the police state, high tech, lots of neon, a United States dominated by underground computers. That was easy to shoot compared to the Manhattan Island prison sequences, which had few lights, mainly torch lights, like feudal England".<ref name="Osborne, Robert"/> Certain [[Matte (filmmaking)|matte paintings]] were rendered by [[James Cameron]], who was at the time a special-effects artist with [[Roger Corman]]'s [[New World Pictures]]. Cameron was also one of the directors of photography on the film. As Snake pilots the glider into the city, three screens on his control panel display [[wire-frame model|wireframe]] animations of the landing target on the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings. Carpenter initially wanted high-tech computer graphics, which were very expensive, even for such a simple animation. The effects crew filmed the miniature model set of New York City they used for other scenes under [[black light]], with reflective tape placed along every edge of the model buildings. Only the tape is visible and appears to be a three-dimensional [[Wire frame model|wireframe animation]].<ref>{{cite video|title=Escape from New York (Special Edition)|date=2003|people=Atkins, Tom; Barbeau, Adrienne}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cracked.com/article_19140_8-movie-special-effects-you-wont-believe-arent-cgi.html|title=8 Movie Special Effects You Didn't Know Weren't CGI: Classic|website=Cracked.com|date=April 18, 2011 |access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref>