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Truck driver James Cameron only started wanting to make a movie after watching George Lucas's Star Wars.
So he quit his job and went to Hollywood, where he worked hard for three years, studying film special effects techniques while writing scripts, and finally got a job as an artistic director in "Battle of the Century" and making those special effects models, when he was 26 years old.
Then, in 1981, at the age of 27, he made "Piranha 2: Reproduction", but did not have the final editing rights, and he began to learn to edit his own cuts.
Halfway through the filming of the film, he got a cold, and between sleeps he had a dream in which a mercury man who had traveled from the future to the modern day came to kill him, and when he woke up, he recalled the details of the dream and wrote the script for Terminator.
Cameron later admitted that he was inspired by the work of science fiction writer Harlan Allison, some of which came from the science fiction drama The Outer Limits episodes of "Soldier" and "The Devil of the Glass Hand"; the term "Skynet" came from his short story "I Have No Mouth, I Must Scream".
The Terminator was filmed at the end of 1983, and Arnold Schwarzenegger began filming after filming Conan the Destroyer.
As a science fiction film, it only cost $6.4 million in production costs, and the stunt shots in it were all shot as realistically as possible, and CG special effects were not used, which shows that although Cameron's later works are very expensive to invest, he himself is not a director who loves to spend money.
The mercury man from the future was unable to do it with the special effects technology of the time, so he had to give it up and replaced it with the Terminator T-800 designed and produced by special effects master Stan Winston, a machine killer wrapped in fake skin, and the idea of "Mercury Man" was later used in the sequel.
The film takes place in 1984, but it was on August 29, 1997, when a global nuclear war broke out and 3 billion people died at the same time, a day that became known as Judgment Day.
The artificial intelligence "Skynet" ruled the world, and among the humans appeared a leader, John Connor, who led the human race against the rule of the Skynet robots, known as the savior.
In 2029, Skynet invented the time machine and sent Terminator T-800 No. 101 back to 1984 to assassinate John Connor's mother, Sarah Connor.
When John Connor learned of this, he also sent his soldier Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, landing in Los Angeles, USA.
Because the time machine cannot transmit inorganic bodies, none of them carry weapons, and the T-800's skin is also the skin and muscle tissue of pseudo-real people.
There were three women in Los Angeles named Sarah Connor, and T-800 found them according to the addresses in the phone book and killed them one by one.
Killing the first two goes well, but the third is the real target.
When T-800 finds her place to live, Sarah leaves home for a bar, leaving her girlfriend and girlfriend's boyfriend at home to pick up a bento for her.
Kyle, having obtained the specific address that John Connor had told him, went straight to Sarah's apartment and followed her to the bar.
At this point, the T-800 also rushed to the bar, and he approached Sarah to "end" it.
Fortunately, Kyle rescued Sarah in time, and the two escaped from the bar together.
Kyle and Sarah get into a car, while the T-800 grabs a police car, and the two engage in a car chase on the street.
It is said that these car chase scenes are filmed at normal speeds, and the clips are fast-forwarded in the later stages to have the effect of flying cars.
They both end up crashing, but when the police arrive and surround Kyle and Sarah, the T-800 is missing.
Kyle and Sarah are taken to the police station, where sarah is suspicious of what Kyle said and his identity, and the police do not believe that Kyle is a fighter who has traveled back from the future to protect Sarah, as the T-800 that is pursuing them cannot be found, and the police all think that he is a neurotic.
While the T-800 was dealing with his broken right and left eye at this point, this section is taken separately because the entire clip was shot in plastic models, and Stan Winston and his special effects team devised a complete program to seamlessly combine the actors and plastic model limbs.
When the T-800 was ready, he found the police station, and after confirming that Kyle and Sarah were in the police station, he left the classic line: "I'll be back."
This phrase has appeared in several sequels, and was listed in the American Film Academy's Top 100 Film Lines, ranking 37th on the list, and 95th in the 2007 Premiere Magazine list of lines.
While the T-800 is a robot without any emotion, there's a bit of humor to say "I'll be back" here.
Because after he finished speaking, he walked out of the police station, returned and drove in, and turned the police station upside down.
Then the T-800 killed people in the police station, and the police panicked, killed and injured countless people, and there was nothing they could do about him.
Kyle and Sarah escape from the police station, hiding in a hotel in preparation for the final showdown that awaits.
By this time Sarah has also eliminated her concern for Kyle, and she finally believes that Kyle is a warrior from the future and sent by her son John Connor to protect her.
The feelings of the two who have been together for a long time also quickly warmed up, and finally came together.
The T-800 quickly found their hiding place, and Kyle and Sarah fled in a car.
The T-800 is in hot pursuit.
There was a car accident on the way, Kyle and Sarah's car was destroyed, so they had to get out of the car and run, while the T-800 changed to a tanker truck and chased it from behind.
But the two still had bombs in their hands, so they used the bombs to detonate the tanker truck.
This shot is also the highlight of the film, although it looks burning, it is shot with a scaled model.
One of the close-up shots can clearly see the steel cable used to tow the model car.
But the explosion footage of this kind of live-action shooting is still better than the current CG special effects screen.
The T-800 burned the flesh in the explosion, revealing the steel bones in it, and his goal was still only one, that is, to end Sarah.
This shot of rebirth is very shocking, leaving the audience with lingering dreams.
They fled to a factory where Kyle fought the T-800 head-on and died of his wounds.
The T-800 was eventually squashed by Sarah's start-up hydraulic press.
Sarah survived, and unexpectedly, she soon found out she was pregnant, and it turned out that the father of her soon-to-be-born son, John Connor, was none other than Kyle Reese, a warrior from the future.
If John Connor hadn't sent Kyle Rees back to protect Sarah Connor, he wouldn't have been born himself, and time would have formed a closed loop here.
But in fact, this is just an illusion, time travel can not violate the "grandfather paradox", so this John Connor born to Kyle Rees should have been different from the original John Connor (the father is not the same person).
In the abridged footage of the movie, it is actually explained that the police found the T-800 stumps and chips left at the scene.
These were all foreshadowing for the sequel, which later had a corresponding plot in Terminator 2.
Due to filming technology and insufficient funding, Cameron made "Terminator" into a cult film with a strong personal style, which was in stark contrast to the atmosphere of "Terminator 2".
But the horror atmosphere of the rough picture and the strong metallic texture of the T-800 impressed the audience.
Movie Week magazine has selected the most collectible films of the 20th century, and Terminator is at the top of the list with the highest number of votes.
Later, in 1991, Cameron teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to release Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which is still a textbook for sci-fi action movies.
In 1996, Cameron recalled his original crew to make a stereoscopic film called Terminator 2-3D: Battle of the Dead Space, as the end of his Terminator series, an interactive entertainment project placed in the playground.
But then Cameron sold the film rights again, so we saw Terminator 3: The Awakening of the Machines in 2003, Terminator 4: The Salvation Army in 2009, and Terminator 5: Genesis in 2015.
But because the time span of these sequels is very long, there is no continuity between the movies, and it is a story that crosses, so that the timeline becomes very chaotic, and even the creator himself has not figured it out.
In addition, there is a very poor quality TV series called "Terminator: Sarah Biography", which made a sci-fi action movie into a Qiongyao-style romance drama, and was cut off after only two seasons.
Thankfully, Cameron has now taken back the rights and is going to release Terminator: Dark Fate this year, and the film will ignore the last three of Terminator 2 and directly connect with the story of Terminator 2, which makes fans excited.
As a die-hard fan of the "Terminator" series, Pigo has always loved it for ten minutes, and he still remembers that when Pigo was a child, the first movie he watched in the video hall was this one, which was eye-opening!
Hey, writing about this Pigo looking back on our domestic science fiction films over the years, it is really popular, but let's keep trying!
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