IdleRich
IdleRich
Same in the sequel where they keep going referring to something he did in Cleveland which I believe (I wasn't really watching to be honest) is never explained further but it adds nicely to the mythology.WG: Yeah, like Escape from New York never made it big, but it's been redone a billion times as a rock video. I saw that movie, by the way, when I was starting "Burning Chrome" and it had a real influence on Neuromancer. I was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake: "You flew the wing-five 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.
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But I came in and I was flicking through the channels and I saw a crowd of camp leather guys shouting and I thought "I bet that's The Warriors or Escape from NY or something" and I wasn't far away.
Someone was moaning about the first Mad Max lately but I think it does that aesthetic but far more gritty and it's more successful. The film is slow but the moments that matter seem more real than most of those camp things to me. The first Mad Max is not camp like all those.