To DVD -Special features for "Escape from Newon Carpenter from Newouort". Director and leading actor, Kurt Russell, tell a fun story of mild trauma to the testicles. There is one scene halfway through the movie, you see, where the post-apocalyptic snake of Badass Snake Plissken (Russell) is forced by the evil Duke of New York (Isaac Chase) to fight the monstrous wrestler named Slag (Wrestor in real life Ox Baker) in the gladiatorial arena. Both the snake and slag are armed with baseball bats with nails and waste lids that serve as shields. Carpenter remembers filming the fight and noted that Baker, earlier for real -life wrestling matches, is being pushed a little hard. It was all Russell who could do to block Baker's aggressive strokes.

Obviously, Russell, tired of what he was actually fighting for his life, called on Baker aside between them and told him to pull his jerks a little better. To highlight his point, Russell came forward and slammed Baker directly to a very sensitive part of his anatomy. Baker hinted the hint and stopped hit Russell so hard.

The death blow in the "Escape from New York" competition was pretty brutal. The snake was able to work on the road behind the slag and swing the bat directly at the back of the skull. Since the bat was written with nails, the bat stuck deep in the slag and remained in place when the snake took his hands. To achieve this effect, a block of wood was tied to Ox Baker's head, and Russell was instructed to swinging a nailed bat directly into the block. Woulde hurt Baker, but he certainly won't kill him. Well, provided Russell does it properly. Yes, he actually revealed Ox Baker in his head. Fortunately, it all went according to plan.

Baker may have taken care of a trick, as Russell has already given him a warning. However, Russell would not play around at that moment and actually hit the wood block as it was assigned. Russell commented multiple times (to the fan conventions and the like) about how difficult the whole experience is. The wrestling ring was built at St. Louis Station, and it took three days to shoot. The day of the shake was a "nightmare". Russell said he really struggles for his life and that the garbage lid can hit him in the face at least five times. The actor was grateful that he was not seriously injured.

Some of the footage of the wrestling competition floated around the ring, a result of a Panaglyid Carpenter's fondum, which was Panavision's version on the stadium. These are branded names for a specialized type of body camera, dressed by cameras operator. The gauges allowed the operators to keep the giant film cameras stable as they walked through one scene and fired from every corner. In 1981, when "Escape from New York" was filmed, those types of shots were novels; Steadicams were not in common until they were "tied to glory" in 1976. Carpenter wanted to use Panaglyide on Halloween in 1978, and made his shots more ambitious for "New York".

The camera was locked, however, for the wood block shot. Ox Baker was required to stay perfect yet, as Russell drove his nail in his head and made sense - both for safety and visual clarity - to keep the image static.

Ox Baker died in 2014 at the age