Escape from L.A. story
The rogue Snake Plissken is conscripted by the theocratic totalitarian government of the United States to extract top-secret material from Los Angeles, which has, by this time, been converted into an open air prison. It is the sequel to the 1981 film Escape from New York.
18 total · 8 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bioengineered human pathogen | major | Snake was made to believe that he'd been implanted with a genetically engineered virus, called the Plutoxin 7 virus, that would kill him within ten hours, unless he completed his mission. |
| lawless anarchy dystopia | major | The film is set in a near-future United States where Los Angeles served as a massive open air prison where convicted were basically left to fend for themselves. |
| lonewolf way of life | major | The story's antihero Snake Plissken was the kind of guy who wasn't looking to make any friends and called no man mister. |
| speculative weapon | major | Snake was sent to retrieve the remote control to a super weapon that consisted of a series of satellites capable of rendering all electronic devices anywhere on the planet useless. |
| technological risk to civilization | major | The film culminated with Snake remorselessly pushing a button that was calculated to set civilization back 500 years by rendering all electronic devices anywhere on the planet useless. |
| theocracy | major | The film is set in a near future where the United States is ruled by a theocratic president for life who has banned such "immoral" things as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, recreational drugs, red meat, firearms, profanity, atheism, non-Christian religions, and extramarital sex. |
| totalitarian dystopia | major | The film is set in a near future where the United States is a totalitarian state, ruled by a theocratic president for life. In this future United States, citizens who partake in such things as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, recreational drugs, red meat, firearms, profanity, atheism, non-Christian religions, and extramarital sex are stripped of citizenship and banished to the open air prison that is Los Angeles. |
| war | major | A now theocratic totalitarian United States was on the verge of being invaded by the combined forces of an alliance of third world nations. |
| aircraft hijacking | minor | Snake was shown video footage of the President's daughter hijacking the government plane Air Force Three and made a demand that people rise up and demand an end to her father's regime. |
| blood sports | minor | The revolutionary Cuervo Jones presided over a pitiful gladiatorial spectacle as if he were a Roman emperor. |