Midnight Express is a 1978 American/British prison drama action adventure film from Columbia Pictures, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer. I went berserk a few times. Hayes: From day one. I read about a guy in West Virginia somewhere who was fucking a hole in a bench, in a park. They now have a felony on their record. My agent said, “You know what, why don’t you save that for your second book.”. Half of the prison population in this country is in for consensual crimes. Hayes: I’d send them out; they’d send them back with yellow rejection slips. Midnight Express is a 1978 prison neo noir drama film directed by Alan Parker, produced by David Puttnam and written by Oliver Stone, based on Billy Hayes' 1977 non-fiction book Midnight Express.It stars Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, Peter Jeffrey and John Hurt.

They followed me around for four days. Not many realize the role writing played in his Turkish adventure, described in his 1977 internationally bestselling book Midnight Express and depicted in the Academy Award–winning movie of the same name. He said, “Wait, stop, stop. [15] Charles Champlin, of the Los Angeles Times, was positive, writing that the film 'has a kind of wailing, arid authenticity and enormous power. However, later versions of the team did use the film's theme by Moroder as their entrance music. They’re hiring actors to recreate stuff. It got me beaten. I didn’t want it easier. Then to suddenly have to bring some order to it—I realized I just can’t do this alone right now. I learned a lesson. “Who is this?” And she said, “Well, let’s see if you can guess. This article is about the film. A few days later, Billy wakes up in Sağmalcılar Prison, surrounded by fellow Western prisoners Jimmy (an American who is in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), Max (an English heroin addict), and Erich (a Swede, also in for drug smuggling), who help him to his feet. Many of his anecdotes are recapitulated in the other features, so little knew is learnt. You wouldn’t believe this guy. The production notes stated: "There is no doubt that Midnight Express will provoke national and international controversy, not only because of what actually happened to Billy (Hayes), but also because it continues to happen to others today. Dragged himself to Puna, which is where the institute is, and never left. The original Turkish prison could not be used due to Turkey's refuse to allow filming. Most of the villains are fictitious, and for example, the brutal showdown is a complete invention by the filmmakers. Rumpus: Was writing such a part of your trial? It’s like smoking in jail. He seizes the opportunity to escape by putting on a guard's uniform and walking out of the front door.

Excuse me. At the time, Dupont, with his chemicals and big tree farms. But don’t be putting people in jail for pot. You liked my legs.” “Tess!” The most beautiful legs. Then, in 1974, Billy finds out 53 days before he is due for release, that his sentence has been overturned by the Turkish High Court in Ankara after an appeal by the prosecution. Billy says that he bought the hashish from a taxicab driver and offers to help the police track him down in exchange for his release. Literally, I was on that same list. Prison, you know, twenty-four hours a day, telling you, “You’re a loser. Hayes: I’d still be procrastinating about doing this. [2] This was part of Billy’s actual escape. I’d still be saying, “Yeah, sooner or later I’m gonna do it.” It forced me to do it economically, and more so, once Hoffer got involved, he kept me writing. Disenfranchisement, fear of the outsider. They’d want to look at me. It holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 7.7/10. I hated the courtroom speech, and little things, like the yoga bit with Brad. In the epilogue, it is explained that on the night of October 4, 1975, Billy successfully crossed the border to Greece and arrived home three weeks later.

When I finally turned my escape switch off, that period in prison for me was amazing. Hell, OUR nation lacks a truly fair judicial system; again, this is controversial? Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). It’s your choice, whether you’re a victim or not. No one can access it, meaning you have no record here, essentially. But that’s what he did. Rumpus: You reread Papillon when you were there, after the escape, right? Turkish government officials greatly resented the portrayal of their country in this movie, and made this known to the media in general after the movie's release. If we don’t get caught nobody says that. I was able to put some of it into the book, but Julian was saying, “This is too much. The film grossed over $35 million worldwide against budget of $2 million. Billy Hayes: Hayes: Walking the wheel. Every country had a story about the American in Turkey who now has a life sentence. When Billy Hayes is arrested in this movie, he is with his girlfriend, but in real life, Hayes was alone when he was caught. Midnight Express is a 1978 prison neo noir drama film directed by Alan Parker, produced by David Puttnam and written by Oliver Stone, based on Billy Hayes' 1977 non-fiction book Midnight Express. Stalag 17 when I was really young. In the film, that passage is replaced by a violent scene in which he unwittingly kills the head guard who is preparing to rape him. When the Columbia Pictures studio executives found out about it they went berserk. Rumpus: It’s maybe why you have that positivity you do. It’s me, her, and her husband. Billy goes with the police to a nearby market and points out the cab driver, but when they go to arrest the cabbie, it becomes apparent that the police have no intention of keeping their end of the deal with Billy. The film was released on October 6, 1978. Hayes: It was the zeitgeist of the time, the ‘70s. The scene in which Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) bit the tongue out of a fellow inmate upset the crew so much that they all walked off the set, leaving director Alan Parker to shoot it with his two actors. Billy Hayes: During his first night in holding at a local jail, a freezing-cold Billy sneaks out of his cell and steals a blanket. Midnight express.” This was my literary agent, Julian Bach. Hayes: Even Alan Parker has said that he feels he was politically naïve…because he made a movie about hope and fear and struggle and all that stuff, but you don’t see any good Turks in the whole movie, and there’s all sorts of iconic images—you know, beatings taking place amidst Muslim symbolism. They only give you a fifty-five-minute slot. He speaks, like, nine languages.

Hayes: Next thing I know, he’s down, his face is bleeding. Various aspects of Billy Hayes' story were fictionalized or added to for the movie.

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