Escape from New York (1981) [Part 2]

We just can't get enough of Snake Plissken here at Precinct 13,
so this week, Nick and Chris are back to continue our discussion
of Carpenter's 1981 classic Escape From New
York. This time around, we discuss the film's
casting (and what it might have been like without star Kurt
Russell), explore some thematic ideas that link
Escape to the previous entries in the
Carpenter canon, take a look at critics' opinions of the film
both then and now, and delve a bit further into the film's
cinematography, production design, pacing, and -- of course --
that rockin' synth score (sorry, RedLetterMedia, but we love
it!).