Snake Plissken drawing

[rsine69]

[Joxcenia]

Very Nice!

[marysgurl1]

OMG, Rick......I love Snake!! Fabulous!!! (He was just on this past weekend....I was there, of course...NY & LA both....I was!!)

Now....how about one in that leather outfit??

[rsine69]

Actually I didn't much care for EFLA (It was heavily edded on TV anyway). But I did like how the opening sequence explained how LA became an island. I personally like the first one best. If you like the first one EFNY, I suggest you buy the special addition on DVD. Among the extras is the original 10 min. opening bank robbery sequence that got Snake caught and sent to NY. I'm thinking of drawing a color portrait of Romero someday. The Duke's right hand man from the first film.

[Mij]

I thought he was dead!!!

/sorry, couldn't help myself.

[marysgurl1]

Thanks, Rick....I'll be all over that. I think I do like the first one better....Borgnine, Barbeau, Pleasence....never have been a big Stacy Keach fan. I do love the tsunami wave-ride with Peter Fonda in LA, tho!! And I hate to even admit this, but I didn't realize Bruce Campbell was the Surgeon General til I saw his name in the opening credits this last time!! Once I saw his name, I knew immediately who he was in the movie, but I had never caught it the previous 10 times or so that I've seen the movie.

.....or taller.... too funny, Mij

[Phalon]

Really nice, Rick. Love the hair.

My nine year old, who aspires to be an artist when she's older, (I'm sure this'll change 80 million times in the next ten years), recently did a drawing to give as a thank you to someone for a gift she received. The woman wrote her a note back and said she'd keep the drawing and then present it to my daughter much later in life so she'd be reminded of her aspirations of youth, and how far she'd come.

It kind of reminded me of something I saw that you'd posted way, way back at the beginning of this board - a picture you'd done of your mother on a paper bag or something. You, I think, wondered why your Mom kept it, (moms keep everything, doncha know).

Pull it out, and compare with your recent work. And then smile.

[Mij]

Bit of trivia about the Escape movies, when Kurt Russell went to make Escape From LA, it was 15 years after he'd made Escape From New York. And he still fit into that same outfit he wore as Snake straight away. Not too shabby at all.

Bruce Campbell has a brilliant cameo in Escape From LA too

[rsine69]

Yeah but how did he get his Jacket back? If you remember, he lost it in the first film. Here's some more trivia. In the original opening bank robbery scene in the first film. Snake had a partner who gets killed off early. His name was Taylor and he was played by Joe Unger. In the finale version of the film without the original bank robbery seqence the character and actor's name still appears on the end credits. Some of the things I didn't like about LA....First the story was just a rehashing of the first. It was vertually identical. He even gets wounded on the exact same area on the exact same leg. Second... The second film seems to have some major inconsistancies from the first. In the begining of LA, it's mentioned that the United States Police force was formed in 1998. Yet the first film took place in 1997 and they already were in power. Also in the scene in LA were Snake and Hershy (can't spell her name correctly right now and I'm too tired to look it up) are discussing US currency, green backs vs blue backs, in the original opening sequence in the first film, paper money were no longer being used but was replaced by plastic cards. I too didn't recognize Bruce Campbell as the Surgeon General. I did like that scene though. In LA, the entertainment capital, image is more important then substance and it always amazes me that some people are so vain that they would spend thousands apon thousands of dollars to have themselves made over. The Surgeon General scene obviously pokes fun at people who do that to themselves in order to further feed their personel vanity.

[Mij]

rsine69 said:

Yeah but how did he get his Jacket back? If you remember, he lost it in the first film..... Some of the things I didn't like about LA..........

How he got his jacket back I have no idea, I was just more impressed that he Kurt could still fit into the tight outfight after 15 years without having to join Jenny Craig!!! LOL.

I think the first is superior, but (apart from Bruce's cameo which was very well done), I loved the part where Snake is facing 5 opponents & he says, "man's rules" or something like that & no one is draw until the tin he throws into the air hits the ground, his opponents watch the tin in the air which Snake proceeds to shoot them & then hisses out "draw" when it hits the ground... LOL. Love it.

[marysgurl1]

Was it not a new jacket in LA? I thought I remembered Stacy Keach going over all the new gadgets they were giving him & he picked up the jacket & made some sort of Plissken comment as he strode off.....?? Maybe I'm too tired this morning to remember trivia...

Mij....I can't ever remember a time when Kurt didn't look good in that leather...or his jeans or his Capt. Ron Speedo....

[rsine69]

Bankock (I know I'm spelling it wrong) rules. He was in the begining of LA wearing the jacket from the first film. Anyway, here's a site I found very interesting although when I tried to join their forum it told me that my email addy was banned. I can't figure it out. Anyway, the site has some very interesting tidbits about Snake including a timeline and comfermation that Snake's world exsists in an alternate reality judging by the timeline and details about what happened to his eye. www.snakeplissken.net

[marysgurl1]

Cool Rick! Off I go......

Thanks!