Russell isn't particularly tall, and Carpenter lets Plissken be not particularly tall there's a moment early in Escape from New York when the doctor who injects two explosives into Snake's neck, this dweeby man in a white lab coat, stands a good few inches taller than Snake, framing that feels inconceivable in a post- Vin Diesel/The Rock staredown world. The idea of clean-cut The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes star Kurt Russell dirtying up his image is essential to the character, because the juxtaposition of image and reputation is Snake Plissken in a nutshell.
RELATED: "I Know Kung-Fu": How 'The Matrix' Made It Cool For Action Heroes to Be Uncool "They said, 'Well, he’s just this Disney kid,' Carpenter remembered in 2016. Though I mourn for the alternate timeline where Tommy Lee Jones has a snake tattooed on his stomach, Carpenter's decision to stick with Kurt Russell proved vital. For the character of Snake Plissken, World War III hero turned criminal mercenary sent into the lawless near-future prison of New York City to rescue the president ( Donald Pleasance), rumors and reports indicate that financial backers AVCO Embassy Pictures were more interested in Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones. In that awkward mid-point, Carpenter plunks down Escape from New York, a deeply bleak dystopian film where the sci-fi runs pitch-black and the bloody action is led by a man who just spent a decade as Disney's biggest star. In 1981, we're still three years away from The Terminator turning Schwarzenegger into a mega-star and seven years removed from Die Hard flipping that paradigm on its head. Science-fiction had reached new heights as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back landed in 1980, while the action genre was right on the precipice of deciding what it would look like for the next, oh, two decades or so. Today, the Bumbling Badass torch is, oddly, primarily carried by the old guard Reeves reinvented it with weary efficiency in the John Wick franchise, while Tom Cruise-who is in this category, no matter how hard his energy rejects it-continuously tries to die for real on Mission: Impossible movies.Ĭarpenter's film arrived at a turning point. You worry for these beautiful, soft killers.
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Leaner, lighter, and constantly getting the absolute shit beaten out of them, you feel this category, of course, in the constantly-improvised antics of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, saying "I'm making this up as I go" before dismantling a truck full of Nazis you see it in the weaponized whirlwind flailing of Jackie Chan's untouchable career, turning falling down into an art form you obviously see it in the Arnie & Sly of the category, Bruce Willis' bleeding-foot cowboy John McClane you absolutely see it in the unexpected rise of Keanu Reeves, action star, whose characters in films like Speed and Point Break don't feel as much clumsy as they do boyish. On the other side, the Bumbling Badasses, with their roots stretching all the way back to Buster Keaton and his silent daredevil antics, using physical comedy to craft some of the most influential stunts of all time. RELATED: 20 Years After 'The Mummy', There Still Hasn't Been an Action Hero Like Brendan Fraser (You'll find a recent glaring exception in The Mummy-era Brendan Fraser.) You see their thread today most tightly woven around the works of billion-dollar earner Dwayne Johnson, the middle-aged ass-kickery of Liam Neeson, and 85% of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (including the people who did not enter the MCU a particularly large person). Despite lugging around an inconceivable amount of muscle, Man-Mountains don't automatically come with an obvious sense of sex appeal, because they are, by design, a little left of actual humans. The Man-Mountains are probably what you picture when you hear "action star," and by that I mean you picture Arnold Schwarzenegger between the years of 19, or possibly Sylvester Stallone around the time he gained enough mass to obtain his own gravitational pull in Rambo III these one-man-armies who strap a truly un-carriable amount of automatic weapons across their brick-wall backs and destroy entire cities singlehandedly the ones who owe an incredible amount of debt, if less in size than in attitude, to the charismatic emotional detachment of Western stars like Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson-who were often trying to do Toshiro Mifune, a man floating alone beyond categorization. Across decades, two primary categories have emerged in which most* action icons comfortably fit: "Man-Mountains" and "Bumbling Badasses."
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Before we get to Escape from New York, a brief but vital historical overview of Action Movie Men, and the miles of machismo left in their beefy, beefy wake.
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