The Plot
When the famous movie magazine "Movie Week" selected one of the most collectible movies of the 20th century, this movie ranked first with the highest number of votes. The movie was actually a science fiction film that was shot 11 years ago, which is a big news in the year 2000 when computer special effects technology has been quite perfected. But the movie's status as number one was not justified by the strong American style of individual heroism and the excellent balance of the movie and the perfect special effects.
On July 3, 1997, at the end of the 20th century, Skynet, a global advanced computer control system developed by mankind, went completely out of control, with a large number of robots having a will of their own, treating mankind as an imaginary enemy and launching nuclear bombs to all corners of the earth, killing billions of people. The remaining humans, led by a man named John Connor, banded together and fought the powerful robots with limited resources and weapons, and gradually turned the tide of battle. The robots try to recover by sending the T-800 robot killer back to 1984 in 2029 to kill Connor Sarah, John Connor's mother, who had not yet been born. When John Connor learns of this, he sends human soldiers back to 1984 to protect his mother. After a fierce battle, the T-800 is defeated, and the robot sends the T-1000, a more advanced liquid metal man, back to 1997, before the nuclear holocaust, to kill John, who is only 13 years old, and sends the T-800, which has been modified to become a human assistant, to protect his childhood self. After a dangerous and tense chase with the T-1000, John and Sarah finally believe that the T-800 is no longer the ruthless machine killer that it was 13 years ago. In order to change the fate of mankind, John, Sarah, and the "Terminator" find the researcher of the Skynet system, Morse Dyson, the technical director of the Saber Corporation, and destroy all the information about Skynet. In order to change the fate of mankind, John, Sarah and the Terminators find the researcher of Skynet, Morse Dyson, the technical director of Saber, and destroy all the information about Skynet, and in the ensuing battle, finally destroy the T-1000 completely. The year after its premiere, the film won four awards at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992: Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Recording and Best Costume.
In all fairness, the plot of this movie is not very complicated and twisted, and even just a few words can also say a general, this kind of robots to destroy human subjects is not too new, but it is this simple plot, but presented to us an incomparably shocking audio-visual enjoyment, the film's director and screenwriter is the Hollywood genius James Cameron (James Cameron), whose father is an electrical engineer and mother is a painter, and whose father is an electrical engineer and mother is a painter. His father was an electrical engineer and his mother a painter, which seems to have created his artistic genius and leadership skills. In this movie, Cameron uses a slightly cold but not dark picture style to narrate the story, from the beginning of the T-800 appearance to the tavern robbing clothes of a wonderful scene that shows people the robot's great power and perfection, the only difference with the previous episode is that this T-800 only hurt and not kill people, from another point of view also for it was John Connor transformed by the ambush left. Even so, the T-800's moves are cool to the extreme, simple but effective, and can make people lose their ability to resist in the shortest possible time. After grabbing a black leather suit, the T-800's negotiation with the tavern owner also signals that there is cold humor in the film's style, which is a big difference from the horror and cold style of the first episode. The film has a slightly metallic blue color, which may be a sensory association to keep people from forgetting that this is a story about robots!
The T-1000 is a brand new character that is one of the highlights of the movie. Like the T-800, it is a cold-blooded killer who sees everything as an obstacle except for the order to kill John, which it can destroy within its own power, and its ability to shape-shift at will is no different than that of a hawk or an eagle. Compared with human beings, its ability to transform as it pleases is like the comparison between an eagle and a chicken, its hands can turn into sharp blades and spikes, and its body can turn into any person it has touched, and the object it imitates will inevitably be killed. In its several encounters with the T-800, the latter never got the better of it, and by the end of the movie it was so shattered by the T-1000 that it had to rely on what little backup power it had to get away with knocking the T-1000 into the steel water, and self-destructing by throwing itself into the water.
The success of T2, in addition to the director, but also with Schwarzenegger and Patrick's wonderful interpretation is absolutely inseparable. As a robot, people of course try to create them into the most perfect image, whether it looks like, head, or body, etc., and Schwarzenegger's perfect physique and tough appearance is of course the right choice for the T-800, and his performance in the movie is not just a big guy who knows how to show off his muscles, on the contrary, Schwarzenegger's performance is accurate and spot on, evocative and wonderful, and he has made a great impression on a man who doesn't know much about human feelings but gradually understands human nature. Schwarzenegger's performance is accurate and brilliant, portraying a robot that doesn't know much about human emotions but is gradually learning about human nature. Patrick as the T-1000 liquid metal man, absolutely everyone who has seen T2 left an unforgettable impression, this robot and T-800 is very different, he does not talk much, but the body language is daunting; he kills people like stepping on ants, but with the general sense of the killer there is also a fundamental difference, because it kills people are often a fatal shot, never wasted useless movements, and will not be too much to show off their hands, this like playdough can be transformed like a robot, is really too impressive.
Edward Furlong, who played Little John, also gave a good performance, basically bringing to life a young boy who was rebellious at heart but still childlike and kind. A decade later, in the midst of the planning for T3, he was still originally playing John, but sadly now he was so drugged up and out of touch that he was eventually dropped from the show.
Linda Hamilton, on the other hand, brought to life the image of a tough and determined femme fatale who would later marry the film's director, James Cameron.
Too much discussion of T2's plot and characters seems to be uninspired, and it's never just the plot and characters that make T2 appealing, it's its perfect balance and use of cinematic montage. First of all, there is no big jump in the cut of the camera, which will not give people a sense of obvious plot disjointed, in addition to concise lines will allow the audience to transfer the main attention to the screen, increasing the attractiveness of the story, of course, since it is a sci-fi theme of the action movie, of course, there is no shortage of computer stunts, the computer stunts of the film only accounted for a small portion of the whole film, compared with some of the stunt blockbusters nowadays Some of the less pathetic, but the emergence of each stunt shots will make the audience bright, the so-called "stunning", from the beginning of the metal skeleton robot, to the T-1000 shot after the wound of self-healing, through the barred door and transformed into other people, and the head of the shot in two, and then to the T-800 tore off the skin of the right hand to reveal the metal skeleton, and then the head was hit to reveal the metal head. to the later head shot revealing a metal skull and infrared electronic eyes, all of them are done so well that they are appreciated, and even now, more than a decade later, when we look back on these computer effects shots, they don't feel outdated or out of date, which is what makes her so appealing. All in all, this is a movie that really knows how to use digital effects affordably and effectively, and is a wake-up call for those money-burning movies that abuse computer effects simply for the sake of stunts. Of course, this is inseparable from Hollywood special effects master Stan Winston, who has designed and produced stunt props for numerous famous movies, among them AI: Artificial Intelligence, Brave Game 2, Jurassic Fantasy Park, Interceptor Demon Island, Alien 2, and so on. Having the four-time Oscar winner for Best Makeup on board is part of the weight of the film's huge success.
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was released to rave reviews and was once voted the best movie sequel in the history of cinema, ending the history of movie sequels generally being inferior to the first. The movie earned more than $516 million at the box office on a budget of less than $100 million, making it a true success.
With more than a decade gone by, the box office title has changed hands, with Terminator 2: Judgment Day slipping from No. 1 to No. 43, but it's worth noting that there are only four movies made before 1991 (the year of T2's release) that ranked ahead of Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Star Wars Episodes II and III and Ghost in the Shell. Episodes 2 and 3 of Star Wars and Ghost in the Shell, not to mention the director of the world's current box office champion Titanic (Titanic) is also the director of this ghost director: James Cameron, the global revenue of this film has reached 1.835 billion dollars. The later Cameron was married to Linda Hamilton, who played John's mother in T2.
The success of T2 has also led to the development of a number of related movie industries, from computer games to cultural shirts to tourist attractions, making T2 not just a movie but a living miracle. The audio-visual products about T2 are also new every year, from the theatrical version to the special edition, to the platinum version, the director's cut ......, without exception, have become the collection of T2 fans. The success of T2 represents the promotion and penetration of the typical American culture around the world, and of course, it also reflects the deep concern of human beings: will human beings be destroyed by their own creations? Will they be destroyed by the robots they create?
[Edit]Highlights
-The T-800 was taught a famous line by John in T2, "Hasta la vista, baby," which has been widely recited by fans. It means "until I see you, baby", which translates to "see you later, baby" in the movie.
-Edward Furlong was chosen from hundreds of candidates and was spotted by the casting director while waiting in line to enter a club.
- Over a million feet of film were shot and developed as soon as the movie was ****ed, and the version we end up seeing is far less than 1% of it.
-The amazing thing is that the "Cipotine System" and "Skynet" are real. Searching the Internet, one can find 8,000 connections to the "Cipotin System", which is actually a multimedia computer. Skynet, on the other hand, has 14,000 connections, and there are many Internet services or sites called Skynet.
-A woman walks into a biker bar during the filming of the movie, thinking it's a real bar, and ignores the trucks carrying the sets and the cameras and lights. When she saw Schwarzenegger standing in the bar, dressed only in boxer shorts, she asked him what was going on, to which Schwarzenegger replied that it was hosting a "men's strip night."
-Director Cameron's brother, a soldier in the opening credits, and DVD producer Lin Fan, a clerk at Sipertine Computers, make cameo appearances. Arnold's financier guest stars as one of the doctors who visit Sarah. The fat cop in the helicopter who is ordered to jump from the T-1000 is named Chuck Tamburro, a technician at T2. Mike Muscat, who plays a guard at Westpointe, is an action trainer for Edward Furlong, who plays John. And the smiling Sarah holding the baby in the nursery of Sarah's dreams is actually played by Leslie Hamilton, the twin sister of Sarah's character Linda Hamilton. The two of them also worked together in the T2 finale, with Linda playing the fake Sarah that the T-1000 morphed into and Leslie playing the real Sarah. In T2, the fat cop in the hospital is killed by the T-1000, and the scene shows the T-1000 transforming into the fat cop look-alike, and it's not a computer stunt to have the two in the same frame at that point, as they're also twins, who starred in the Vietnam War film Good Morning Vietnam.
-In the movie's plot, "human-only teleportation" doesn't mean "human-only teleportation"; the T-800's epidermis is made up of living tissue, and as a whole, the T-800 is actually a real person. So it can be teleported. As for the T-1000, DVD producer Lin Fan explains that 1) since the T-1000 is made up of living molecules and "decorated", it can produce enough organic matter to pass scrutiny and travel through the time tunnel. 2) The surface of the liquid metal killer's body can mimic the structure of flesh, creating a "human skin. "human skin" to pass scrutiny.3 Don't ask why.
-Edward Furlong had most of his voice redubbed, as he was in the middle of a voice change at the time of filming, and his child's voice was only retained when he was discussing "why people cry" with the Terminator, which Cameron thought was better to keep as it was a more dramatic scene.
-More than 200 weapons are used in the movie. The shotgun blasts in Schwarzenegger's hands actually come from a cannon.
-The sound of the T-1000 when it transforms was sampled by wrapping a microphone around it and dipping it in cereal.The screams of the T-1000 when it dies were dubbed by director Cameron.
-This was the first movie in history to have over $100 million invested in it.
Great dialogue
1. John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
John: We can't make it, can we? People, I mean.
The Terminator: it's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
The Terminator: it's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
2. The Terminator: Why do you cry?
The Terminator: Why do you cry?
John Connor: You mean people?
John: You mean humans?
The Terminator: Yes.
The Terminator: Yes.
John Connor: I dont' know. we just cry. you know, when it hurts.
John: I'm not sure. You know, when it hurts.
The Terminator: Pain causes it?
The Terminator: does pain cause it?
John Connor: No, it's when there's nothing wrong with you, but you cry anyway. You get it?
John: No, not really, when you're not feeling well, you cry too. You get it?
John: Not really.
The Terminator: No.
The Terminator: don't get it.
3.The Terminator: Stay here, I'll be back!
The Terminator: Stay here, I'll be back.
[edit]Gangster Shots
- At the beginning of the first episode, the robot army used laser weapons, in the second episode, they instead used regular firearms that fired bullets.
- Schwarzenegger's first appearance, when the director uses a subjective point-of-view shot to show the T800 observing various things, automatically gives relevant information in front of his eyes. When he sees an '80s Ford LTD, it says "Plymouth Sedan".
-Schwarzenegger appears in the movie, goes to a bar to "borrow" some clothes, gets burned on the chest by a pool player, and in the next shot, the wound is gone. the T800 is not a T1000, it doesn't have the ability to repair itself, and the wound he gets in the end credits didn't grow back on its own.
-Before John comes out, his foster mom picks up the newspaper on the front lawn, which is wet because a sprinkler just went by. She then took the newspaper back and put it on the table, where it had dried.
- The police show Sarah a photo of Arnold massacring the police station back in the day, and note that Schwarzenegger's head is shaped the way he looked in Terminator 2, and in the previous episode, Schwarzenegger's hair was longer (and harder to see).
- Shortly after the beginning of the movie, the camera follows Chief Engineer Dyson through Cyberdyne Computers, where everyone is wearing dust suits and masks, except Dyson, who doesn't have to wear anything and can walk around without anyone bothering him yet.
- In the first chase, the T1000 drives the truck off a bridge, the windshield comes off in the bumps, and in the next shot, the glass comes back.
-Same scene as earlier, when the truck lands, we see that at least one of the axles is broken, but in the following scene, the car is actually still driving fast.
- When the T1000 chases John's motorcycle in the truck, it flips over a couple of small sedans on the road, and if you pay attention, you can see that there's no one in the sedans.
-When John and Schwarzenegger steal the car to pick up Sarah, pay attention to the shot where Sarah opens the door to get into the car, and you can see the entire film crew in the door glass.
- When Sarah breaks the doctor's arm, she says, "There are two hundred and fifteen bones in the human body, and this is just one of them." But, as Earthlings, we only have two hundred and six bones.
Director's confession
1. The director complained, not without glee, that the second episode's opening-credit spectacular was so expensive to film that it used enough money to reshoot a first episode. Oh, it's that war scene with those naked T800s rampaging through a futuristic world. It also featured a grown up John. That dude also shows up in the edited out peaceful ending as John who becomes a U.S. Congressman.
2. Remember that bar when Arnold appeared? It was actually right across the street from where Rodney King, a black man, was beaten up back in the day. It was actually across the street from the spot where Rodney King, a black man, was beaten up. Those of you who are a little older will remember that the US had a huge riot that swept the country over this.
3. Arnold and the Liquid Metal T1000 meet in a firefight in the hallway of a big shopping mall, and the Asian guy who gets killed in the middle is played by a Japanese guy. This guy is a close friend of the director's who flew all the way from Tokyo so he could die honorably in the film.
4. The guy with the camera who keeps taking pictures of Arnold as he fights his way out of the mall seems to be the producer of the film.
5. Arnold's cool gun (the one that loads with a one-handed spin) is actually specially made, with an enlarged trigger ring that allows the gun to spin freely in Arnold's hand. Once, Arnold held it wrong and almost spun his finger off.
6. In that chase scene in the river canal, there was supposed to be no shot of the truck's roof being cut off. But after arriving at the field unexpectedly found a bridge is too low, simply temporary design of this scene. The roof of the car was chipped off before filming.
7. The shot of the truck flying from the ground to the riverbed actually scrapped the truck used for the shoot, and the truck for the later chase was a different one. So it's no surprise that there are a few bloopers.
8. Linda Hamilton as Sarah. Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor. Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor would not have been the crazy one, it was the actress who strongly urged it.
9. Remember the head of the asylum, the psychiatrist who was a key character throughout the Terminator trilogy, appearing in all three films? In the first episode, he goes to the police station to interrogate the resistance fighter (aka John's dad, I think his name is Reese) who has come to save Sara, and to comfort Sara, and escapes with a brush with Arnold in front of the police station. The psychiatrist, who is still the police department's only psychiatrist in the third episode, is scared off by Arnold as he comforts the heroine at the cemetery.
10. The janitor Arnold knocks over when he enters the asylum is the film's weapons consultant.
11. Remember the fat guard who was taken out by the T1000 changing into his own likeness and then using a sharp weapon that his fingers turned into? That scene actually got a pair of twin brothers to pull it off. Pretty corny magic trick I guess!
12. The crazy guard with the glasses (the salty one with the tongue on Sara) gets beaten up wildly when Sara goes on the run. That scene was horrible because actor Linda was in a real fight and the unlucky actor's screams carried four blocks away. This was all because there was also a beating scene when Sara came out. It was the guard who beat up Sara, but the dude was too merciful to go down on a woman and beat her up so badly that the effect wouldn't come out right, and the scene was continually reshot and Linda kept falling over and over and over again, resulting in a knee injury. Linda is pissed, and the consequences are dire.
13. Sara uses a syringe against Dean's neck to threaten the guards. The blue liquid in the syringe is drawn from a white plastic bucket. It was labeled detergent. In the old American concept, any blue liquid is not to be used for injection.
14. The entire crew argues over whether or not to have teenage John shoot the T1000. The final shot we see is having John load the gun. This is because the director believes that having a child point a gun at another human being is intolerable. This reminds me of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", I wonder what level it will be rated in the US when it is released?
15. There's a scene where Arnold learns to smile as a human being as T800, the teenage leader, and the odd family of the leader's mother, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, pass by a gas station on their way to the border. It was cut from the movie version. If it hadn't been cut, it would probably have caused audience complaints of discomfort. (I've never seen such a horrible smile.)
16. The scene in the desert where he meets Sara's comrades was actually filmed on the first day of the movie, so the actors could get a feel for it.
17. The mother and little girl at the amusement park who appear in Sara's dream about Judgment Day are actress Linda Hamilton and her own daughter. Hamilton and her own daughter. And the houses and cars that were destroyed like paper were made of paper. After the movie was released, the director received a letter of thanks from scientists at a nuclear weapons research institute. The letter thanked the film for its contribution to the fight against nuclear weapons by realistically recreating a near-realistic nuclear war scene.
18. The names of the chemicals written on the yellow barrels that the actors push to destroy Skynet's facilities at the computer company that built Skynet are actually unknown even to the director himself. They come from another movie by a friend of the director. Those names look cool.
19. The Gatling machine gun that Arnold is holding is actually a real gun, meant to be mounted on a helicopter or a car for use. The rate of fire was 6000 rounds per minute. It was reduced to 2,000 rounds for the actual shot because the effect of the tongue of fire was more intense that way.
20. Arnold finishes strafing and casualties appear in his eyes. Notice how it's 0.0. It's 0.0. It seems like there will be deaths of 0.1. I was going to use Casualties: 0, but that's not going to work. But that would have been lame. The third episode had a similar shot with the corny '000' number, so it really varies a lot from director to director.
21. The scene where Arnold interrupts n cops with a pistol and a tear gas launcher at the bottom of a company building looks cool, but there was a big problem when making the UK version. Because there is a gang called **** (sorry, can't really remember the name) in the UK that specializes in breaking people's legs with guns. The production company was worried that it would create bad associations for British viewers.
22. The computer company scene was filmed in a rented building. The final scene with the big explosion looked spectacular, as if it had destroyed the whole building. In reality nothing was damaged. The only extra expense was a three hundred dollar water bill. The crew couldn't turn off the fire hoses that were turned on because of the flames.
23. Remember that cool shot of the T1000 turning into a viscous liquid that seeps into the cabin through a hole in the helicopter's glass window? We're talking about the pilot who jumps out of the plane. He's actually the stunt pilot for this movie. He's flying the helicopters that appear in those shots. That's a great stunt pilot. There's also a scene later on where an airplane flies under a bridge. There was a big debate and the crew didn't want to shoot such a dangerous shot. Finally the director himself talked to the guy and he said, I'll think about it. It turned out to be pretty perfect. The dude died in a helicopter accident, but the pilot wasn't him.
24. The driver on that tanker truck that was used for the chase at the end was one of the camera assistants for the movie. It was taken out by a T1000. This last dude is famous. He was rescued after a day because his helicopter fell into a crater.
25. The liquid nitrogen that leaks out of the tanker is real liquid nitrogen, because there is no substitute for it.
26. The shot of the T1000 getting out of the car with glittering ice crystals is Christmas sequin crumbs.
27. Shot of the T1000 slowly condensing into a whole at high temperatures, the partially melted shot in the front was taken with solid mercury on a hot plate.
28. The final location was not a real steel mill, it was an abandoned steel mill converted. The steel flowing inside is actually milk.
29. The shot of Arnold being hit by the T1000 with a heavy hammer and broken was shot with a dummy. The director said that Maria would be angry if she actually let Arnold go home tattered after the scene.
30. The slowly dimming red light in Arnold's eyes as he is run through the body with an iron bar is a nod to the first episode.
31. the iron needle that turns into a finger when T1000 threatens Sara is real. It was filmed at a staggered distance so as not to hurt the actor, who was not actually in a straight line with the iron needle.
32. Well, the second twin of this movie makes an appearance. When the T1000 takes the form of Sara to trick John, the real Sara appears from behind. At this point, the fake Sara standing in front is played by Linda. Hamilton, while the one in the back, is Linda's sister Leslie.
33. The furnace of steel that takes out the T1000 and Arnold at the end is just plain old water, with intense lighting underneath.
34. The movie was supposed to end with a nuclear war not breaking out and Sarah in her old age, watching adult John play with his grandchildren in the park. The director decided that Linda's old age makeup was atrocious and didn't quite match the younger Sarah in the movie. So it was removed. It was changed to the current ending of the movie: a dark highway with constantly flashing yellow lines and Linda's narration. Personally, I still prefer this ending. But when the ending was made, it was only two days before the movie was officially finished, and the production crew was scattered all over the place. So the director took a piece of footage from the scene in the movie where the people are driving to destroy Skynet and added a voice-over to fix it. Because there are only a few dozen seconds of footage available, the length of the lines must be controlled very accurately.