222 Terminator, The (1984)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
222 Terminator, The (1984)
- 'O.J. Simpson' (qv) was considered for the role of the terminator, but
the producers feared he wouldn't be taken seriously.
- 'Lance Henriksen' (qv) originally cast as the terminator, with
'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv) as the hero. Schwarzenegger read the script,
and asked to play the terminator instead.
- Just after the first scene in the nightclub TechNoir, we hear a police
radio report a ``two-eleven in progress at Bob's Liquor, corner of Third
and Cameron,'' an possible reference to director 'James Cameron' (qv).
- Shots through the Terminator's vision show Apple 2+ assembly code, taken
from ``Nibble'', a computing magazine. Other code visible is written in
COBOL.
- Schwarzenegger's voice is used in exactly 16 lines, with 17 sentences
spoken. The terminator has two other lines onscreen, one with the voice of
a police officer overdubbed, and one with the voice of Sarah's mother
overdubbed. There are also many lines with the voice of Sarah's mother,
and we learn that the terminator is actually saying them, but we don't see
it.
- Science Fiction author 'Harlan Ellison' (qv) filed a lawsuit against
Cameron, claiming that Cameron plagiarized several of his short stories,
namely ``Soldier'' and ``Demon With a Glass Hand''. Theo concept of
``Skynet'' could also have been borrowed from an Ellison short story called
``I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream''. Newer prints of the film acknowledge
Ellison.
- A scene in which a person picked up the CPU of the terminator after it was
crushed was filmed, but not included.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!'' (first)
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: in the future sequence, there is a
close-up of tank treads rolling over human skulls.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: when the Terminator approaches the
house of the first ``Sarah Conner'', it crushes a small toy truck.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: after the terminator kills Sarah's
friend, he walks over her walkman headphones.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: Sarah's burning photo turning into
Sara sleeping in Reese's arms.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]
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