#ONE EYE SNAKE ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK MOVIE#
The thing that puzzles me the most about this is that the movie was only ninety-nine minutes long. It's still a great movie, but there was a lot to be desired in fleshing everything out. This left me with the disorienting and disappointed feeling that I had just watched a sequel, for which the original does not exist. Further, things just happen in this movie that make no sense, and why these things are happening, and more broadly why certain things are the way they are in the world of this film are also never explained. Very little is revealed to the viewer, and there are an absolute plethora of references to events and character histories that are never explained. In this light, Escape from New York is one of the most notable films I can think of that could benefit from a good movie novelization, because it is a lean movie. Some are even based on an older version of the script than was used to produce the final film, resulting in the novelization being slightly or even wildly different than the movie, its own unique experience, and at the very least this often results in some "deleted scenes" that didn't make it into the movie being present in the novelization, which is pretty cool if you're a fan of the film and want something more. As novels, they are longer, and have the opportunity to flesh out characters and events from the movie in more detail, to add character backstories and additional context that didn't make it into the finished product. Many are nothing more than the film's script, copied and pasted, tidied up a bit, and put into the past tense to form a "novel".īut some movie novelizations are more than that, and can be quite enjoyable and worthwhile to read. By extension, you've probably also thought: "Why does Ethan read movie novelizations sometimes? Aren't those complete garbage and of no literary value whatsoever, pumped out in ten days by washed up authors on a shoestring budget at the behest of some massive movie-making conglomerate to shamelessly make a few more bucks off the movie they're releasing?" In many cases I would say that yes, that's exactly what they are.
If you follow my reviews, you no doubt will have seen that I sometimes read movie novelizations.
"One person could move around unnoticed." "We'd never even find enough of him to bury." "We could never get in there with troops," he said over his shoulder. Hauk stopped pacing and stood, staring at the map, his hands at parade rest behind him. "He's waiting on the other end of this line to hear from us." "One person could move around unnoticed." "Have you got so "The Vice President," Prather answered, and rested his hand on the red phone. "We'd never even find enough of him to bury." "Then, what?" "One person could get in," he said. "He's waiting on the other end of this line to hear from us." "Will he be cooperative?" "What have you got in mind?" Hauk stopped pacing and stood, staring at the map, his hands at parade rest behind him. "The Vice President," Prather answered, and rested his hand on the red phone.
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