{"id":2525,"date":"2003-08-05T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2003-08-05T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T18:54:49","slug":"escape-from-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2003\/08\/05\/escape-from-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape From New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years we’ve been treated to a host of Escape Films: Jurassic Park<\/i>, Deep Blue Sea<\/i>, The Cube<\/i>, etc. The Escape Film — popularized by the classic Escape From New York<\/a> and epitomized by the forgotten No Escape<\/a> — is a subgenre of The Action Blockbuster, and typically features a band of plucky and determined men (although, as demonstrated by Alien<\/i> and Aliens<\/i>, occasionally women) trapped in a remote and inhospitable geographical location. The band must fight against impossible odds and a host of enemies to reach some far off haven of safety.<\/p>\n

Each of the characters in the Escape Movie has a distinct personality and skill set — The Hero, The Strategist, The Mechanic, The Wiseacre — and although they might not like each other, they recognize that they have to work together if they wish to survive. As the movie progresses, the team members are picked off one by one, with each fatality receiving a big, dramatic Death Scene. If the character is a good guy, his final moments involve sacrificing himself so that the others can go on; if the character is unlikable, however, he is usually attacked from behind just after betraying his comrades.<\/p>\n

By the time the final credits role, only The Hero remains alive. There’s usually some sort of fake-out at the end, where it looks like two people will survive, but then #2 inevitably blurts out “We made it!” and is immediately shot or eaten or vaporized by Final Bad Guy, who we thought was killed half an hour ago. The Hero, after bellowing a lusty “Noooo!,” engages Final Bad Guy in the biggest, most blowing-up battle of the entire film and, when victorious, wipes the blood from his forearms and rides off into the sunset.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Presidential Primary should totally be more like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent years we’ve been treated to a host of Escape Films: Jurassic Park, Deep Blue Sea, The Cube, etc. The Escape Film — popularized by the classic Escape From New York and epitomized by the forgotten No Escape — is a subgenre of The Action Blockbuster, and typically features a band of plucky and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}