“You can’t legislate morality, man! Everybody’s gotta be free, bro! Like, who are you to tell me what’s right and wrong? Good and evil are, like subjective.”Īnd the Christians that these proto-coomers saw as the main opposition to getting their rocks off warned, “Unless you can objectively define the good, freedom has no meaning. ![]() It’s the old lie you used to hear constantly from Pop Cultists, usually of the Boomer-to-Gen X variety. He and his wife had already remade Washington in their image by then, cementing the real bifactional establishment that rules us now.īut still, better keep an eye on those Christians! If they get power back, they might make laws based on their morals, which means no more fun! It’s mind-boggling now, but that was near the end of Bill Clinton’s first term. You know–the Moral Majority types who’d already faded to irrelevance when Escape from LA came out in 1996. When the movie started on that footing, I expected the rest of it to be a running commentary on how intolerant and square those uptight Christians were. No more free love, street drugs, or rock ‘n’ roll. Installed as dictator for life, he turns the US into a fascist theocracy where strict morality is enforced by law. The president who forces Snake into service is a spittle-flecked Christian fundamentalist. The movie’s setup, as shown in the opening infodump, goes pretty much as you’d expect from a pre- Ground Zero flick written by libertine Boomers and produced in Hollywood. Only if he infiltrates the penal colony of Los Angeles–rendered an island by a 9.6 magnitude earthquake, retrieves the weapon, and executes the president’s seditious daughter, will they give him the cure. ![]() The government compels Snake’s cooperation by infecting him with a virus they say will kill him in a matter of hours. When the daughter of America’s autocratic president absconds with a weapon capable of EMPing any location on Earth back to the stone age, the feds bring in outlaw “Snake” Plissken. You probably already know the plot anyway, whether or not you’ve seen it. Counterculture dissidents in particular may find a few pearls of wisdom in the trash heap.īe it known that the rest of this post will include spoilers. Now best known as a notorious whipping boy of Pop Cult hipsters who deride its lack of originality and bad CG, Escape from LA may deserve a reevaluation. ![]() Or just watch Escape from New York, because both plots are almost exactly the same. Then add a find-the-MacGuffin plot crossed with a prison break caper and plentiful Western influences. Let’s talk about John Carpenter’s 1996 Escape from New York sequel/remake/parody, Escape from LA.įor an Escape from LA plot synopsis, reread the beginning of this post. ![]() Despite the construction of a wall on part of the southern border, a full-scale third world invasion of America looms. Meanwhile, mass immigration has overrun American cities, especially Los Angeles, with a plague of poverty and crime. The government uses an engineered virus purported to be lethal, but which turns out to be a slightly enhanced version of the flu, to coerce citizens. Citizens guilty of no crime are stripped of their rights and assets without due process and are exiled from society for retroactive violations of the new moral precepts. Federal law enforcement is tasked with prosecuting Americans whose speech and actions were tolerated before the election. As the front man for an extreme moralizing movement, he oversees the implementation of sweeping neo-puritanical directives to enforce his sect’s moral vision nationwide. In the early 21st century, an American presidential candidate wins a highly unorthodox election by leveraging a national disaster.
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