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At this year's Terminator: Dark Fate event at the SDCC Comic Con, producer James Cameron announced via video that Edward Furlong, the actor of John Connor in the previous game Terminator 2: Judgment Day, will also return to the sequel.
The 42-year-old was 14 when he starred in "Terminator 2," and was replaced in 2002 when Warner was preparing for "Terminator 3."
Depravity and wandering have also led to a rising star in the film industry falling into a bottleneck, and it is really regrettable that he has only played soy sauce in nameless films since then.
However, in the minds of "Terminator" fans, Edward Furlong's amazing appearance and mature acting skills that are completely incompatible with age have conquered countless people, and the beautiful teenager John Connor he created at that time is still irreplaceable.
And he and Schwarzenegger co-starred in the "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" has also become the most classic in the "Terminator" series, douban rating as high as 8.6, and the many classic scenes in the history of science fiction created by him are still talked about by fans.
Pigo will talk about this movie with you today, to reminisce about the beauty of Edward Fulong and the greatness of this film.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 丨1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Linda Hamilton / Edward Furlong / Robert Patrick / Al Bern / Joe Morton
In the first Terminator film, Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese eventually come together, but Kyle is killed for protecting Sarah, and Sarah gives birth to John Connor alone.
Growing up, Sarah had been telling stories about the end of the world and the fate of John's future as a savior, which made them turn away from her and consider her neurotic.
Sarah's craziest thing is action, she keeps creating terrorist attacks, trying to destroy all new technologies to prevent the end of the world.
Soon after, Sarah was admitted to a state psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with persecution paranoia, and John was sent to the Bertolds by the government for adoption because he had no one to take care of him.
Fast forward many years, John has grown into an unruly teenager in his teens, he is as playful, willful, rebellious, and disobedient as teenagers of the same age, but he is more mature than his peers, strongly independent, and even the high-end operation of hacking into the ATM machine to steal money can be easily done.
The arrival of the T-1000 shatters the peace of life, he is a Terminator composed of liquid metal, able to change into various forms at will, Skynet sends him back to assassinate the teenager John.
The Human Resistance sent a brainwashed and reprogrammed Terminator T-800 back to protect John.
The two sides simultaneously find John in a supermall, and a fierce battle ensues.
John then escapes on his motorcycle, and the T-1000 and T-800 follow, with a chase scene in the drainage ditch under the bridge as the first climax of the film.
Due to the extreme difficulty of shooting, many of these thrilling shots use doubles, and the face of the double can be clearly seen.
It wasn't until years later, in a Blu-ray disc, that Cameron, who was striving for perfection, replaced the face of the protagonist Arnold Schwarzenegger with CG.
Because of the appearance of the Terminator, John began to understand that his mother Sarah was not neurotic, and that what Sarah had said was true.
After learning that his adoptive parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertold, have been killed, a remorseful and anxious John decides to go to a state psychiatric hospital to rescue his mother.
The T-1000 also anticipated John's trip, where the two sides met again in a mental hospital, where T-1000, the first CG character in world cinema history, had the opportunity to be fully revealed.
It can become not only anyone, but also the floor.
Crossing the iron gate is also a piece of cake.
Notice that the pistol in the T-1000's hand in this shot is stuck by the iron door because it is solid, and Cameron's lens processing has always paid great attention to detail.
In the end, John and T-800 and their mother Sarah successfully escaped the T-1000's pursuit, and they decided to leave the city and go into seclusion in the suburbs, regrouping and preparing for another battle.
In the process, John resets the writing settings for the T-800, teaching him human dialogue, smiling, and playing, allowing him to gradually understand human emotions.
John, who lost his father's love since childhood, also unknowingly regarded the T-800 as his father, and after Kyle Reese's death, Sarah has been trying to find a competent stepfather for John, but she has become more and more aware that such a person is impossible to find until she meets the Terminator T-800.
There is a monologue in the movie: "Watching John with the machine, my mind suddenly became clear... The Terminator will never stop running, will never leave him, will never hurt him, will not yell at him, beat him up after getting drunk, or be too busy to be with him. It will always be by his side and will protect him until death. Throughout all the years that have come and gone, the man who will be John's stepfather... This thing, this machine, is the only one that meets the criteria. In this crazy world, it's a crazy choice. ”
The father-son relationship between T-800 and John is the core of cameron's story, in addition to the cool special effects and thrilling action scenes, the performance of human nature and the portrayal of emotions are the real core of the film, which is cameron's cleverness from ordinary commercial film directors, and it is also the greatness of this classic science fiction film.
Edward Furlong, who was only 14 at the time, was selected from hundreds of candidates, and the casting director felt that his temperament was perfectly in line with John Connor's setting. In the film, he is the focus of the whole story, and the core character that drives the development of the plot, and the opponent scene with Arno is also impressive, which is why many old fans of "Terminator" have always loved him.
To prevent the end of the world, John, Sarah, and the T-800 teamed up to destroy Cyberfar, the maker of the future artificial intelligence Skynet.
Another fierce battle with the T-1000 was fought in a steel mill, and the T-1000 was finally dissolved with boiling hot molten steel.
In order to completely eliminate artificial intelligence, the T-800 finally jumped into the steel pool and self-destructed.
Before leaving, he faced John in tears and uttered the touching words: "I now know why you are crying, but that is something I can never do." ”
The last shot with the thumb out is later paid tribute to Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.
There are three versions of the film, we all saw in the 90s were 137-minute cinema versions, and later Cameron cut a 153-minute special edition, and the final Blu-ray disc was the ultimate 156-minute cut version.
The latter two versions, which have Sarah living to August 29, 1997 (the date of the original "Judgment Day" of the end of the world) and witnessing humanity escape the disaster of Judgment Day, are also known as the "Sunshine Ending" version.
In fact, in 1996, Cameron also filmed a 3D interactive stereoscopic film "Terminator 2-3D: Battle of The Timeless Space", which explained the plot of skynet being destroyed.
But after he sold the rights to the indie production company Carolco for $1, those plots were ignored.
Looking at the 5 works launched by the entire series of "Terminator" so far, only "Terminator 2" has the highest achievements, and the sequels that follow are difficult to match.
Not only that, "Terminator 2" has reached an unattainable height from story to scene, winning four technical awards at the 64th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound and Best Makeup, and has become a science fiction action movie textbook, and people often compare it with those up-and-coming excellent science fiction movies.
On Douban, it was also selected into the Douban Movie Top250, ranking No.210.
Although it was not released in the mainland that year, it was like the enlightenment of the post-80s and post-90s childhood science fiction action films of Pigo's generation, a set of video tapes spread throughout the circle of friends, and repeatedly saw those English lines will be memorized.
Now that Cameron has regained the copyright, the sequel "Terminator: Dark Fate" not only ignored the plot after "Terminator 2", but also invited back Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong, the three "Terminator 2" stars, as an iron fan of the "Terminator" series, Pigo really wants to sigh, only Cameron can understand the hearts of our tens of millions of fans!
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