![]() Turns out there’s a real Snake Plissken somewhere out there… Too perfect to pass up, especially since Carpenter is fond of heroes with snake tattoos. Cool huh?īut you know what’s even cooler? According to the director, John Carpenter, he had a friend of a friend who knew a guy named Snake Plissken who was described as a “high school tough guy” who had a tattoo of a snake. ![]() Same characteristics: the eyepatch, the badass appeal, the stealthy outfit complete with gadgets and weapons, and even the name to boot. However, in the Metal Gear Series, the character who has the code name Solid Snake goes by the name Iroquois Pliskin in the second Metal Gear Solid Games. The premise is the same, with missions of sneaking in and out of places, not to mention the character Snake. I literally can see the resemblance of Metal Gear Solid to this film. A man of few words who doesn’t play around. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going, and there’s no one tougher than Snake. But here’s the catch, everyone is always looking out for themselves… With his new-found allies (if you can call them that), Snake continues on his mission to retrieve this important individual. The way I see it, Brain is given that name for a reason, and sure enough he has got the goods and knowledge to be seen as a man worthy of recognition. Escaping to a different part of town, Cabbie takes Snake to meet Brain (Harry Dean Stanton) and his lovely squeeze, Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau). Whenever John Wayne tells someone his name the reply is “I thought you were dead.” How did a supposed dead man get involved with the government anyway? Strange… Well, Cabbie pulls up in a cab (which would explain the name), and off they go! But not before running into a pack of rabid, carnivorous Crazies who lay hidden away in the sewers until late nightfall. The line “I thought you were dead” used throughout the movie is likely taken from Big Jake (1971). Upon his arrival, he finds Cabbie (Ernest Borgnine) who claims Snake is a dead man. I do wonder how they were able to evacuate the city though, and how long it must’ve taken. But given the circumstances, quite an interesting idea. Simple right? But could you imagine what that would be like? Manhattan, still intact, but scattered pieces everywhere, covered by the filth of swine and the criminally insane, while police helicopters encircle the perimeters not a pretty picture. Have police forces on all sides patrolling. A simple solution was brought to solve the dilemma… Devote an island entirely to the guilty criminals of all the United States. The time is 1997, and the crime rate has risen 400% in the USA, causing a stir for those trying to keep the order. Whether he likes it or not (which he doesn’t), Snake Plissken (starring the dashing Kurt Russell) must make the deadline, or else… With only 24 hours to burn, there’s no time to waste. Sent in by Hauk (starring Lee Van Cleef, from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) on behalf of the United States Government, he must overcome all odds to rescue the President of the United States. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s… Snake? Cruising in on a glider aircraft, a convicted robber arrives into Manhattan, NY, on what seems like an ominous night. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Producers: Barry Bernardi, Debra Hill, Larry J. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. ![]() Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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