When Snake is escaping from the crazies just outside of Chock Full O' Nuts Diner, Snake breaks into an apartment and shoots the wall. When he breaks through it, the wall is Styrofoam. The little platelet hangs for a second or two. See more...
Directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Isaac Hayes, Kurt Russell (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-fi, Thriller
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Snake is supposed to bring the president back in the glider, but where would he sit? The cockpit was barely big enough for Snake to climb in alone. [Since all we see are close up shots of Snake in the glider, there could have been enough room behind him for another passenger.]
In the scene where Snake locates the wreckage of Air Force One, you see the right-hand side of the tail section bearing the star-spangled banner. The flag is displayed with the field of stars to the rear of the aircraft, the opposite way round from the way it is on the right-hand side of the real Air Force One. [This is NOT the Air Force One as it looks today or in 1981. This is the Air Force One of an alternate timeline where World War III has taken place and New York has been turned into a prison island. In this timeline someone apparently decided to turn the flag on the right side the other way around (so as to have the stars facing toward the rear).]
In various scenes, you can see the seal of the President on the right side of the plane. But when snake is walking by the wreckage, the seal is now gone. [When Snake walks past the wreckage, the portion of the plane's nose that has the seal is not visible at any time, but there is the suggestion of a round blueish insignia below and left of the cockpit fire. We can presume this is the seal.]
Corrected by John W Rosa
On the cover of "Escape From New York", if you look at the gun Plissken is holding, the gun has no carbine in it. [Whatever this means, it is NOT a film mistake.]
Near the end of the film, Snake and his companions arrive at the top of the World Trade Center, having run upstairs for most of the way, and they're not even winded. [They simply took a few breaks near the end of the climb.]
Brain tells Snake about a map he obtained indicating where all the hidden mines were on the 69th street bridge and Maggie adds that they obtained the map from a guy who got all the way across before the police shot him. How did Brain obtain this map seeing as how the guy was shot on the other side? [They obviously got their copy of the map from him before he made the crossing. The fact that he made it across is simply brought up as evidence that the map can be trusted. Where the original information came from is an open question.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the scene where snake kills the wrestler guy with a bat with nails in it. In one shot he falls on the ropes dead with the bat sticking in his back, then in another shot the bat is missing. [It could've fallen out.]
At the end of the film, when the good guys are escaping with the president on the bridge -- at the command center one of the officers finds out where they are and says to the commanding officer, "they are on the 69th street bridge". They were on the 59th street bridge, which connects Manhattan and Queens. [Throughout the movie the bridge is referred to as the 69th St bridge. Any NYer knows it doesn't really exist, but who says that in the movie world it wasn't built.]
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