[Movie Script]Escape From New York

John Carpenter's Escape From New York

written by John Carpenter and Nick Castle

transcript by Anjela F. Conner

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FADE IN



CARD -- 1988

FADE IN SECOND CARD -- The Crime Rate in the United States Rises Four

Hundred Percent.

VOICE

In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent.
GRAPHIC -- Line-graphic of New York, MANHATTAN ISLAND highlighted.
VOICE

The once-great city of New York becomes the one maximum-security prison

for the entire country.
GRAPHIC -- MANHATTAN ISLAND lights up.  The word "Prison" is added.
VOICE

A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline,

across the Harlem river, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline.  It

completely surrounds Manhattan Island.
GRAPHIC -- The containment wall is added to the line graphic with the

tag "Containment Wall".
VOICE


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