Midnight Express - I'm Healthy, I'm Alive and I'm Free

[camasirci]

America do anything to brainwash people

[balukk]

believe me. better to be jailed in turkey than in United states.

[Dirtymofort]

3:12

the package of a man who escaped from a Turkish Prison

[BOGZASV8MA]

great movie

[pineapple1969]

A shock you were arrested? You were a drug mule dude.

[openedup09]

Foolish confidence and at twenty.It was more like cockiness.He got caught but found a survivalist second chance.People get a little to comfortable and when put in a situation where it could be pure survival.Is he a hero?Well if you ask him.He would probaly give you an humble answer.I can guarentene it would not be a cocky response.Never mind how Turkey or any other country deals with this but lessons learned can be brutal.

[MOONST0MP]

@openedup09 He wasnt 20, I know it says here he was but in his book it cleary says he was 23 years old when he was arrested at the airport.

[1975Aspen]

This looks like an old clip from the 1970's when it may have been true. Now, the US has 25% of the world's prison population and is aiming to turn 1 in every 3 persons into an informant (worst estimates on East Germany were 1 in every 6.5 persons). Private prisons and $0.21/hr. labor is fueling this police state. Look up gang stalking, Cointelpro, targeted individuals, Monarch II (pt twelve) on YouTube.

[HUSKY57887]

I bet if Billy had'nt tried "pass through" the inspection,I bet he would have made it.

[ozzie4uk]

What did he want a fucking room with a view and in house service.... he tired to smuggle drugs out of turkey hes lucky he has his life if it was in an aran country he woul dhave had been executed... Fucking prick

[thegirl44]

Muhammadans trying to ban freedom of speech, again. Colour me surprised;

In HOLLAND, of all places, Turkish representatives tried to ban Midnight Express.

[ironroad18]

They would have easily taken a bribe or payoff, the military government in Turkey was known for their corruption. However they wanted to make an example of him because he was an American.

He was an idiot for doing such, yet there still westerners doing similar idiotic stuff in foreign countries. Worse there are a travelers who are having things "planted" on them

Unless you know the ins and outs of their system and or you carry local favor you are screwed.

[twcatube]

Yes, lots of people are "killed" by a bit of hash. Right. Get a grip, dude.

[Daniel1The1Polski]

@octopus18T i have to agree with you , that is true

[rockybalboa233]

read the book.

[tickman1]

I like chutney with my turkey.

[kimnotyze1983]

narcotics are good turks bad?

[gerardolipe1122]

the entire movie on my channel subtitled in Spanish

[joelsttn]

Octopus, Did you know that Billy Hayes was pardoned by the Turkish government. How else could he have returned there a few years ago to speak about his time there.

[kamakioriginale]

30 years for 2 k haschisi? fucking mongol

[hamjamnspamalot]

lol....the real Billy Hayes with a blonde afro

[maur64]

this idiot taped 2 ks of hash to his body and tried to smuggle it to the US ...he was a moron

[mwmaxw]

he admits himself that what he did was stupid but in those there wasn't a lot of security and he thought he could get away with it. He didn't diserve to be beaten and put in jail for so long

[medhavinimai]

check out an irish movie called "song for a raggy boy ".

[MOONST0MP]

Why does it say Billy was 20 years old? In the book he says he was 23 when he got aressted? how can they get this wrong?

[jammo2006]

What happend to Max? was there a max? does anyone know?

[2300SKIDOO]

I think people get upset because the premise is based on an actual incidents, the thing is that the liberties that have been taken play up the violence and denigrate Turkish people and there great culture. Being a Canadian, i can see both perspectives, the American can do no wrong we rule the world crap attitude, ect. However the Turkish systems sentencing him to life after already handing down a reasonable sentence was overkill-not to mention the prison conditions.

[Andre2010]

I dont get this: why didnt the real hayes admit right after the movie release that it was a complete exaggeration? Why wait til 1998to do that?

[KATSLAPPER1]

GET OVER IT !!! its a fuckin movie people !!!

[AetusLeucocephalus]

Every civilized person get disgusted by Hayes' treatment in turkey. What nobody can understand, is why the Turks here try to defend the barbaric behavior of the Turkish Oficials. It looks like nothing has changed in that country since then. SHAME!

[NESHero]

Hayes himself has said that the movie over dramatised the whole thing, ( im not Turkish btw, im Australian) but i have nothing against Turkish people, jail in united states is prolly worse then Turkey.

[NESHero]

I aint Turkish but this movie just fiction, but BASED on a true story, this is not the real turkey.

[KutasusWielgus]

IT is the real turkey!

[TURKUAZZY]

you are lying or an idiot to say this!

[Aarontlondon]

So many Americans like you are SO deluded through ignorance and lack of knowledge!

You must know the film was based on a true story but is really fiction! It falsely depicts all Turks as barbaric.

So many Americans don't know a thing about the world further than the coasts of California and Maine. Have you been to Turkey, or seen Turkish prisons, I think not! Did you consider the 25% rape rate and brutality in American prisons before you judged the prisons of countries abroad?I think not!

[sarcoptscab]

I got arrested in WASHINGTON DC for driving without license. DIDN'T EAT for 53 hours, slept in cold jail in winter and didn't make a phone call. My family opened a file on FBI, posted "missing person" posters. Called about 30 hospital. I saw 300 people in jail , 100 for traffic court. Only me and one guy has blood on him were white others were black or Spanish. See the discrimination. %100 of the drivers were black in the US?

[armoniamg59]

Do anyone think it is the same in Guantanamo?

[Turksarebarbarians]

"Do anyone think it is the same in Guantanamo?' Do you want us to believe the guys in Guantanamo got there for hiding a little hashish in their turbans?

[joeyandphyllis]

Well, due process has been denied the prisoners at Guantanamo, so we don't actually KNOW why some of them are there....it's no different.

[josesaverio]

sorry, but have you ever seen the film?? there is one boy arrested because he has stolen 2 candles!

[azmhyr]

the thing is that he was not raped in the jail.

[1timealco]

that's what he says.

Nearly all men who have been raped deny it ever happened.

[olha29]

he was never raped but he agreed on sexual relations to other inmates

[AmbientMusic]

Not raped. They got it on willingly, at least in the movie version. Oh my.

[erkekler]

As an American who speaks Turkish and lived in Istanbul, I can tell you this movie was extremely biased and in no way accurately reflects the character of the Turkish people.

Billy Hayes later regretted the distortions of Oliver Stone and Alan Parker.

[Turksarebarbarians]

"As an American who speaks Turkish and lived in Istanbul, I can tell you this movie was extremely biased and in no way accurately reflects the character of the Turkish people." I would rather think the movie is about the oppressive Turkish legal and political system, not about what you call the "Turkish people". Turkey's political system is backward, inhumane and tyrannical as Billy's fate shows.

[Alkob]

...great movie about the Turkish jails and the human rights violation...piece of art by Alan Parker and Oliver Stone no matter what Turks say...

[hpolat]

Alkob, apparently you are an Armenian (your name sounds like it) and this movie happens to be Armenian Greek production, of course you will describe it as "great" where I think it is a comedy movie, it is obvious that the movie did everything to make the Turks look bad. If it wasn't one sided movie, if they didn't pick uglies characters possible, if they didn't show the women dressed like in Iran and at least be a little bit objective then I would give credit.

[hpolat]

But It is funny that some of the characters would speak Armenian since nobody understands it and everybody thinks it is Turkish, also some of the Armenian's Turkish accent was really hilarious.

[wainscoat]

Besides the fact that Midnight Express is a racist movie, it's also technically really bad. The directing is weak, the script is too sentimental and the acting is unconvincing, only Brad Davis manages to play a good role. Giorgio Moroder's soundtrack is the only good thing really.. The movie is simply dated. Better prison movies; The Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, Escape From Alcatraz, Papillon, Birdman of Alcatraz..

[lovebunnykaz]

i love this film what a great drama.....in the film brad davis looks kinda hot at da begginnig but da end he looked horrrible in the mental jail.

[scalanovia]

That's a one-sided narration of one's own ex-perience in his own perspective.Five years in jail for smuggling in a foreign country sounds more fair than getting killed by smart missiles in your home country.Hope Oliver Stone will make a movie about the life of a prisoner in Abu Gurayb.First watch the video by "alinur" and decide.Why did Billy not write in his book what he knows today?

[wranglungur]

He didn't get 5 years, he got life.

[kvbrock82]

he got 5 years... extended to 40 on appeal when he was approaching the end of his 5 years.. thats what broke him

[gialupa]

Oh my god! It seems that since I've put this video on youtube I've threaten the integrity of Turkish people. I repeat that I like Prison Break movies, that's it. In Turkey U.S. or anywhere. What do you want? Tell me clearly. Do you want me to delete it? Later don't talke me about censorship... IT'S JUST A MOVIE. BRUCE WILLIS DIDN'T SAVE THE WORLD LIKE IN ARMAGEDDON, IT'S FICTION.

[sozogul]

gialupa,

Please read your own newspaper Corriere Della Sera about this intentionally created lies. as an Italian, you sshould show your reaction to this bs, if you have Roman blood in you!! By the way, what is it to do with NY sstreets with Midnight Express??? I bet on that Istanbul is much safer than NY.

[Indio156]

sozoqul says Istambul is safer than NY? I live in NYC, born and bred. As a WOMAN, I would say, without a doubt, NYC is safer for me. I don't know how it would be for men.

[ChristoDiablito]

Amazing. I read a lot of criticisms of the Us for being terrorists on other youtube sites. I am afraid I have to agree. But we have only been doing it for about 400 years. I think the hosts of billy have a few more thousand years of doing so....just like most countries who oppress their own population and their neighbors.

[Indio156]

So ChristoDiablito, you think its GOOD to have prisoners live in those conditions? Just because they were "doing it for 400 years"? It's good to beat a mans feet, just b/c of tradition? You must be kidding, or maybe you are from Greece, where they also do that sort of thing in prisons. The man BROKE THE LAW. I totally AGREE he should've been busted. But the torture and sleeping in inhumane conditions is another thing entirely!

[hypnofan35]

Someone's rights are always getting pissed on. Usually when you cannot strike back in kind. Our consititution did not include native americans or slave labor. There weren't any such thing as rights when i was a kid. That was Kenosha USA. Just cause stuff is accepted does not mean it's true or right.

[phille22]

Great movie.

[topraka]

Just reported by AFP:

"Billy Hayes, the American whose ordeal in a Turkish jail provided the basis for the 1978 "Midnight Express," has returned to Turkey in a bid to mend fences over the damage the movie caused to the country's image abroad. "Hayes said that the image the movie created of Turkey and Turks was not fair to them or to his experience." Search for "AFP and Billy Hayes" to find the rest of the article online.

[sozogul]

Gianluca,

Unfortunately, even this film is biased, full of lies just like the midnight Express. If you really want to learn what really happened to Billy hayes, you need to watch interview I gave the youtube link.

[bertalampa]

herkes oraya yorumlarını eklemis film hakkında gercekligi hakkında ama turkler kufurler yagdırmıs....

cok yazık biras daha akılcı olalım

all the wiewers add some opinions about this film.. good or bad it is not important.. but turks write only vulgar....what a pity.. we need to be more clever

[gialupa]

OK. We have understood your point of view. This is not a contest about which nation is best described. It's a fictional story about imprisonment, but based on real events. Now, you seems to act as if a Native American had to describe John Wayne's movies...

[gialupa]

This is a story of a young man who lose 5 years of his life for behaving as a stupid, and now he realizes that nothing is like freedom. Until you're healthy alive and free, all of your problems are easier to fix.

[gialupa]

This story could have been located in Italy, U.S.A., Switzerland, Japan, Sweden or wherever in the world. It's not about the nation, it's about the path of growing of people when they face prison and loss of freedom.

[gialupa]

See this movie: "Brubaker" starring Robert Redford. It was shot in 1978, I guess. So during the same year of "Midnight Express". Now I don't think that U.S. people is disappointed by this movie. Maybe nationalists are...

[gialupa]

In Italy, always during those years, a wonderful movie was shot: "Detenuto in attesa di giudizio", translated "Prisoner awaiting judgement" starring Alberto Sordi, a great italian actor. It showed the ugly situation of Prisons and Justice in Italy. So the point is: there's no nation better than others, ther's no system of laws better than others, when prisoners are put in prisons as animals.

[gialupa]

Look, I've read the book and saw the film. The story in the film is different in order to create more pathos. But this was based on real facts narrated by Billy Hayes. Uh, the screenwriter is Oliver Stone...

[glypa]

american think they´re beyong law. And when they make crimes in foreign countries, they probably think they will be unpunished. And in almost all cases, they are set free...unfortunately. And when an american really gets punished by a crime, they make films to show the world how foreign countries are crude and unfair. THis is really ridiculous. I like the movie, but what´s behind it, is really shameful.

[Evo2396]

thanks my friend i was really wondering if someone understood the real thing.wats more is all the actors i mean most of them have armenian accent.kurdis,armenian and greek actors play in this movie.i think ure a wise person so this movie is jus a stupid movie which is made to discredit turkey.while usa has many prisons in many countries in which there re lots of bad things goin on they ve no right to say these bullshits..take care!

[varieta]

this is pure fucking bullshit..

you western world think everything you see on your TVs and everything said there are true.. this was a movie directed by a director full of hatred and prejudice..

wtf was he expecting in a prison full of criminals??

[gialupa]

All right. But 30 years for hashish, is too much... This is the central pivot of the movie. This is not a documentary about prisons in Turkey. Prisons are always bad, it's normal.

[Evo2396]

in usa there re some ppl who is sentenced for 392 years 458 years wat re u talkin about? and in usa if the punisment of merijuana was 30 years 150 million of the population wud be in prison.. haha prisons re always bad :s no Öcalan is in a prison which is equal to a 5 starred hotel;(öcalan is a terrosist Kurdis terrorist) in usa merijuana punishment is low coz ppl re addictive to that.pls dont be such a looser and put these videos.dont hate turks;)u ll never be hated as long as ure good wit us

[gialupa]

I hate Turks ?! So now you're able to know everything about me? I really don't understand you. This is a making of a movie, that's it and nothing more. You know, I'm Italian, but I'm not disappointed if someone shows us in a movie.

[gialupa]

You can appreciate that movie or not. It's quite different to hate a country. Generalize a people for its government or politicians is useless. By the way, don't think I'm also disappointed with Turks for Ali Agca shooting at Pope Wojtyla.

[NewGuyyy]

Ali agca is still in prison...like almost 30 years...

[jhangirk]

Informative & insightful!