''The Terminator'' is a 1984 science fiction film action film which became the break-through role for former Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger. Directed by James Cameron, the premise of the movie is that a cyborg (living tissue over an android skeleton) the T-800 (played by Schwarzenegger), has been transported time travel from 2029 A.D. to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor (fictional character) (played by Linda Hamilton). At the same time a man, Kyle Reese (played by Michael Biehn), is sent back to protect Connor from the cyborg. Issues raised by the film include time travel, Predestination paradox, and artificial intelligence. The sequels to the movie, ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', further developed the story line and explored the ethics implications of machine intelligence as well as what it means to be truly human. ==Cast== *Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator *Michael Biehn Kyle Reese *Linda Hamilton Sarah Connor *Paul Winfield Lieutenant Ed Traxler *Lance Henriksen Detective Vukovich *Bess Motta Ginger Ventura *Earl Boen Dr. Peter Silberman *Rick Rossovich Matt Buchanan *Dick Miller Pawnshop Clerk *Shawn Schepps Nancy *Bruce M. Kerner Desk Sergeant *Franco Columbu Future War Terminator *Bill Paxton Punk Leader *Brad Rearden Punk *Brian Thompson Punk ==Plot== A young woman, Sarah Connor (fictional character), finds herself pursued by a relentless killer for reasons completely unknown to her. She is eventually approached by Reese, who explains that in the future, an artificial intelligence called "Skynet" will be created by Armed_force software developers to make Strategy decisions. The program becomes sentience, in the panic the humans attempt to destroy skynet. In the interest of self preservation skynet seizes control of most of the world's military hardware (including various highly advanced robots), and launches an all-out attack on human beings. However, a man named John Connor eventually leads the human resistance to victory, only to discover that in a last-ditch effort Skynet had researched time travel and sent a robotic killer back in time in the 1980s to destroy John Connor's family before he can be born. John Connor, of course, is Sarah's future son, and he sends back a trusted assistant (Reese) to protect his mother at all costs. The plot is summed up by these lines spoken by Reese, who tells Sarah Connor: :''"Listen! And understand! That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!"'' The key difficulty in Reese's mission is that the Terminator is a powerful machine of an extremely durable construction that can sustain a considerable amount of damage. Since the time travel mechanism precludes the traveler from carrying non living matter outside the being's body, Reese arrived unarmed; and the small arms of the 1980s that are available are simply not powerful enough to affect the Terminator; a full barrage of police gunfire doesn't even affect it. Furthermore, a Terminator's organic covering, when intact, makes it indistinguishable from an organic being to a casual observer which makes the task of convincing anyone of that time that this assailant is actually an extremely advanced machine, and not being written off as crazy, almost impossible. As it ultimately turns out, Reese, of all humans, was sent back in time for a special reason--he is John's father. During the course of the film, Kyle and Sarah fall in love, and have sex. At the movie's end, Reese is dead at the Terminator's hands, and Sarah is the one who finishes it off. The last few minutes of the movie show Sarah, already pregnant with a son, deciding that she will one day tell John that his father was the man he himself sent back in time. ==Inspirations== Some aspects of the story were sufficiently similar to two episodes of the TV series ''The Outer Limits'' — both episodes written by Harlan Ellison — that Ellison pursued legal action against Cameron. Cameron settled out of court and acknowledged Ellison's work in the film's credits. The episodes in question were called "Soldier" (which involves a specially-trained man sent back in time to assassinate a rival) and "Demon With A Glass Hand" (concerning a time traveler who suffers memory loss and relies on a computer chip implanted in his body to give him information about his mission). There is also some similarity between the concept of Skynet and the evil intelligence featured in Ellison's short story, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". The subject matter of both films seem to be inspired by the writing of Philip K. Dick. His story Second Variety features a post apocalyptic world where enemy robots wear rubber skin to pose as humans. In the film, Reese mentions an older series of Terminator (the 600 series) which had rubber skin and were easily distinguishable from actual humans. A similar plot of a killer machine sent back in time to change history was seen in a fairly obscure film from 1966 entitled ''Cyborg 2087''. ==Legacy== The "first" feature film for director Cameron (he had been replaced on the unsuccessful ''Piranha II: The Spawning''), this movie was a surprise Box_office hit. It established Cameron as a talented action director. He would then go on to produce a string of successful action movies, continuing with ''Aliens (1986 movie)'' in 1986. Schwarzenegger had already starred in the hit film ''Conan the Barbarian'' and its successor, ''Conan the Destroyer'', but ''The Terminator'' made his name a household word. It is still considered to be one of his best roles. ==Trivia== A pair of Documentary about the film, which appear on the DVD version, have a number of explanations of various issues about the movie. One popular story is that originally Schwarzenegger was going to be offered the part of Reese, the hero, but as a result of a lunch meeting, both he and Cameron independently realized that he would be better suited to play the part of the title character. Gale Ann Hurd, however, claims that Arnold was never considered for Reese's part. [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/movies/terminator-faq/] The film was originally scheduled to be shot in Spring, 1983 in Toronto, but Dino DeLaurentis chose to option Schwarzenegger to film ''Conan the Destroyer'' and as a result, this film had to be placed on hold for a year, and filming began in March of 1984 in Los Angeles, California. A sequel, ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991) was also directed by James Cameron, and again starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, with Edward Furlong as the young John Connor. Linda Hamilton's "softer" twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearran, appears in the film in the scene where Sarah is remembering playing in the park with John. She also appears in the scene where the T-1000 is impersonating Sarah. A further sequel, ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', was released on July 2, 2003, again with Schwarzenegger, but with Nick Stahl as John Connor and Kristanna Loken as the model T-X (Terminatrix). ''Terminator 3'' was directed by Jonathan Mostow. Dark Horse Comics has the comic book rights to the story, and in addition to movie adaptations has released a number of original sequels. Of all the actors to appear in the film, only Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese) and Earl Boen (Dr. Peter Silberman) would later appear in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. However Biehn's scenes were cut from the final theatrical version of the film. Only Arnold and Earl Boen appear in all three films, with Boen making a humourous cameo appearance in T3 as a trauma counseller himself traumatised by his experiences in T2. ==External links== * *[http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65885,00.html Wired.com ''More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty''] 1984 films AFI 100 Thrills Dystopian films Science fiction films Terminator Fictional cyborgs Apocalyptic science fiction films
Was it really an Arnie vehicle from the outset? He has hardly any dialogue, and is only in the action sequences, with Hamilton and Biehn on screen far more, and doing most of the acting. Sure, its since been repackaged as a star vehicle, but prior to that he'd only been in the Conan movies and various projects related to his status as a bodybuilding champ. I think a better description is it was the film that *made* him a star, since a monosyllabic killing machine is a role he was born to play...User:GWO You're probably right in this respect. I'll amend accordingly. User:sjc The middle sentence of the entry originally read: "The pretext of the movie is that a cybernetic construct, the eponymous Terminator (played by Schwarzenegger), has been ported back in time from a future where the world is ruled by computers, (who are bent on eliminating the last traces of mankind), to eliminate the mother of a child that the computers perceive may be a threat to their superiority." That sentence seemed a bit too long to me. -- I have that tendency sometimes, mea culpa User:sjc. Also, why is the Terminator "eponymous"? What people, place, or institution was eventually named after it? --KQ -- er, eponymous doesn't necessarily have to have something named after it in English usage, it is only American dictionary definitions which seem to be quite so strict. It can simply be used for referentiality in English. But then English is a very inflexible language and quite unlike American :-). User:sjc ---- :"highly intelligent and articulate" While this is important information, it is also a description that I think plenty of people would disagree with (I'm not one of them). How could we rephrase this? I don't know, which is why I left the text alone. But I do think it needs to be changed. --User:LMS try this for size User:sjc ----------- I would like to revisit the issue of this moving "making him a star". Conan was his first big star vehicle and was also widely successful. Perhaps re-wording this to "was his break-through role". Many millions of people knew who he was outside of body-building because of Conan made several years earlier. User:Lestatdelc 22:30, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC) == User's home page == I have removed http://home.kc.rr.com/technoir since it is just a link to the anon contributors own site. - User:TextureUser Talk:TextureUser:Texture 03:19, 24 May 2004 (UTC) ==Cyborg or Android?== A point of detail. While the Terminator may have a "living" skin covering, I would argue that the Terminator is in fact an android rather than a cyborg. The design itself was created artificially from scratch from a factory, not from an existing humanoid organic base like for instance Seven of Nine in Star Trek - it has an alloy endoskeleton, there is no heart or "brain", there is no blood in the innerworkings and it has no organic metabolism throughout its body. Its skin is created artificially. The later T-1000 and T-X series of Terminators were explained as having "liquid metal" skins. What do you people think? I myself believe the Terminator should be called an android. User:Iam 22:58, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) :Well, he refers to himself as a cyborg, so he definately is one in the film's universe, maybe that world has a different definition. User:Boffy b 01:15, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC) ==Page move== What was the purpose of the page move? User:Cburnett 06:27, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC) :This movie isn't named ''The'' Terminator. It's just Terminator. Plain and simple. Even the front cover indicates this. There's no ''The'' on the front cover. Like any other movie that shares its name with a word, the move has resulted in (year movie) after the name. For instance, check Equilibrium (2002 movie) and you'll understand what I mean. This is just wikification. :User:EliasAlucard|User talk:EliasAlucard 06:01, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) ::It's generally not done to include the year when only one movie is named that. So Terminator (movie) instead. It's also expected that you fix the double redirects (SkyNet) and change the links to avoid the new redirect. As of now, there are only 2 links pointing to the actual article. User:Cburnett 04:48, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) :::What about Equilibrium then? It's only one movie and has the year in the name. :::User:EliasAlucard|User talk:EliasAlucard 11:10, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) Same thing, it should be at Equilibrium (movie). User:Cburnett 01:24, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC) According to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005N5S5/qid=1114383915/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-4493152-3549668?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/ the movie IS actually called "The Terminator" rather than just "Terminator". --User:Micpp 23:09, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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''The Terminator'' is a 1984 science fiction film action film which became the break-through role for former Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger. Directed by James Cameron, the premise of the movie is that a cyborg (living tissue over an android skeleton) the T-800 (played by Schwarzenegger), has been transported time travel from 2029 A.D. to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor (fictional character) (played by Linda Hamilton). At the same time a man, Kyle Reese (played by Michael Biehn), is sent back to protect Connor from the cyborg. Issues raised by the film include time travel, Predestination paradox, and artificial intelligence. The sequels to the movie, ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', further developed the story line and explored the ethics implications of machine intelligence as well as what it means to be truly human. ==Cast== *Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator *Michael Biehn Kyle Reese *Linda Hamilton Sarah Connor *Paul Winfield Lieutenant Ed Traxler *Lance Henriksen Detective Vukovich *Bess Motta Ginger Ventura *Earl Boen Dr. Peter Silberman *Rick Rossovich Matt Buchanan *Dick Miller Pawnshop Clerk *Shawn Schepps Nancy *Bruce M. Kerner Desk Sergeant *Franco Columbu Future War Terminator *Bill Paxton Punk Leader *Brad Rearden Punk *Brian Thompson Punk ==Plot== A young woman, Sarah Connor (fictional character), finds herself pursued by a relentless killer for reasons completely unknown to her. She is eventually approached by Reese, who explains that in the future, an artificial intelligence called "Skynet" will be created by Armed_force software developers to make Strategy decisions. The program becomes sentience, in the panic the humans attempt to destroy skynet. In the interest of self preservation skynet seizes control of most of the world's military hardware (including various highly advanced robots), and launches an all-out attack on human beings. However, a man named John Connor eventually leads the human resistance to victory, only to discover that in a last-ditch effort Skynet had researched time travel and sent a robotic killer back in time in the 1980s to destroy John Connor's family before he can be born. John Connor, of course, is Sarah's future son, and he sends back a trusted assistant (Reese) to protect his mother at all costs. The plot is summed up by these lines spoken by Reese, who tells Sarah Connor: :''"Listen! And understand! That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!"'' The key difficulty in Reese's mission is that the Terminator is a powerful machine of an extremely durable construction that can sustain a considerable amount of damage. Since the time travel mechanism precludes the traveler from carrying non living matter outside the being's body, Reese arrived unarmed; and the small arms of the 1980s that are available are simply not powerful enough to affect the Terminator; a full barrage of police gunfire doesn't even affect it. Furthermore, a Terminator's organic covering, when intact, makes it indistinguishable from an organic being to a casual observer which makes the task of convincing anyone of that time that this assailant is actually an extremely advanced machine, and not being written off as crazy, almost impossible. As it ultimately turns out, Reese, of all humans, was sent back in time for a special reason--he is John's father. During the course of the film, Kyle and Sarah fall in love, and have sex. At the movie's end, Reese is dead at the Terminator's hands, and Sarah is the one who finishes it off. The last few minutes of the movie show Sarah, already pregnant with a son, deciding that she will one day tell John that his father was the man he himself sent back in time. ==Inspirations== Some aspects of the story were sufficiently similar to two episodes of the TV series ''The Outer Limits'' — both episodes written by Harlan Ellison — that Ellison pursued legal action against Cameron. Cameron settled out of court and acknowledged Ellison's work in the film's credits. The episodes in question were called "Soldier" (which involves a specially-trained man sent back in time to assassinate a rival) and "Demon With A Glass Hand" (concerning a time traveler who suffers memory loss and relies on a computer chip implanted in his body to give him information about his mission). There is also some similarity between the concept of Skynet and the evil intelligence featured in Ellison's short story, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". The subject matter of both films seem to be inspired by the writing of Philip K. Dick. His story Second Variety features a post apocalyptic world where enemy robots wear rubber skin to pose as humans. In the film, Reese mentions an older series of Terminator (the 600 series) which had rubber skin and were easily distinguishable from actual humans. A similar plot of a killer machine sent back in time to change history was seen in a fairly obscure film from 1966 entitled ''Cyborg 2087''. ==Legacy== The "first" feature film for director Cameron (he had been replaced on the unsuccessful ''Piranha II: The Spawning''), this movie was a surprise Box_office hit. It established Cameron as a talented action director. He would then go on to produce a string of successful action movies, continuing with ''Aliens (1986 movie)'' in 1986. Schwarzenegger had already starred in the hit film ''Conan the Barbarian'' and its successor, ''Conan the Destroyer'', but ''The Terminator'' made his name a household word. It is still considered to be one of his best roles. ==Trivia== A pair of Documentary about the film, which appear on the DVD version, have a number of explanations of various issues about the movie. One popular story is that originally Schwarzenegger was going to be offered the part of Reese, the hero, but as a result of a lunch meeting, both he and Cameron independently realized that he would be better suited to play the part of the title character. Gale Ann Hurd, however, claims that Arnold was never considered for Reese's part. [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/movies/terminator-faq/] The film was originally scheduled to be shot in Spring, 1983 in Toronto, but Dino DeLaurentis chose to option Schwarzenegger to film ''Conan the Destroyer'' and as a result, this film had to be placed on hold for a year, and filming began in March of 1984 in Los Angeles, California. A sequel, ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991) was also directed by James Cameron, and again starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, with Edward Furlong as the young John Connor. Linda Hamilton's "softer" twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearran, appears in the film in the scene where Sarah is remembering playing in the park with John. She also appears in the scene where the T-1000 is impersonating Sarah. A further sequel, ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', was released on July 2, 2003, again with Schwarzenegger, but with Nick Stahl as John Connor and Kristanna Loken as the model T-X (Terminatrix). ''Terminator 3'' was directed by Jonathan Mostow. Dark Horse Comics has the comic book rights to the story, and in addition to movie adaptations has released a number of original sequels. Of all the actors to appear in the film, only Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese) and Earl Boen (Dr. Peter Silberman) would later appear in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. However Biehn's scenes were cut from the final theatrical version of the film. Only Arnold and Earl Boen appear in all three films, with Boen making a humourous cameo appearance in T3 as a trauma counseller himself traumatised by his experiences in T2. ==External links== * *[http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65885,00.html Wired.com ''More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty''] 1984 films AFI 100 Thrills Dystopian films Science fiction films Terminator Fictional cyborgs Apocalyptic science fiction films
Terminator (movie)
Was it really an Arnie vehicle from the outset? He has hardly any dialogue, and is only in the action sequences, with Hamilton and Biehn on screen far more, and doing most of the acting. Sure, its since been repackaged as a star vehicle, but prior to that he'd only been in the Conan movies and various projects related to his status as a bodybuilding champ. I think a better description is it was the film that *made* him a star, since a monosyllabic killing machine is a role he was born to play...User:GWO You're probably right in this respect. I'll amend accordingly. User:sjc The middle sentence of the entry originally read: "The pretext of the movie is that a cybernetic construct, the eponymous Terminator (played by Schwarzenegger), has been ported back in time from a future where the world is ruled by computers, (who are bent on eliminating the last traces of mankind), to eliminate the mother of a child that the computers perceive may be a threat to their superiority." That sentence seemed a bit too long to me. -- I have that tendency sometimes, mea culpa User:sjc. Also, why is the Terminator "eponymous"? What people, place, or institution was eventually named after it? --KQ -- er, eponymous doesn't necessarily have to have something named after it in English usage, it is only American dictionary definitions which seem to be quite so strict. It can simply be used for referentiality in English. But then English is a very inflexible language and quite unlike American :-). User:sjc ---- :"highly intelligent and articulate" While this is important information, it is also a description that I think plenty of people would disagree with (I'm not one of them). How could we rephrase this? I don't know, which is why I left the text alone. But I do think it needs to be changed. --User:LMS try this for size User:sjc ----------- I would like to revisit the issue of this moving "making him a star". Conan was his first big star vehicle and was also widely successful. Perhaps re-wording this to "was his break-through role". Many millions of people knew who he was outside of body-building because of Conan made several years earlier. User:Lestatdelc 22:30, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC) == User's home page == I have removed http://home.kc.rr.com/technoir since it is just a link to the anon contributors own site. - User:TextureUser Talk:TextureUser:Texture 03:19, 24 May 2004 (UTC) ==Cyborg or Android?== A point of detail. While the Terminator may have a "living" skin covering, I would argue that the Terminator is in fact an android rather than a cyborg. The design itself was created artificially from scratch from a factory, not from an existing humanoid organic base like for instance Seven of Nine in Star Trek - it has an alloy endoskeleton, there is no heart or "brain", there is no blood in the innerworkings and it has no organic metabolism throughout its body. Its skin is created artificially. The later T-1000 and T-X series of Terminators were explained as having "liquid metal" skins. What do you people think? I myself believe the Terminator should be called an android. User:Iam 22:58, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) :Well, he refers to himself as a cyborg, so he definately is one in the film's universe, maybe that world has a different definition. User:Boffy b 01:15, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC) ==Page move== What was the purpose of the page move? User:Cburnett 06:27, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC) :This movie isn't named ''The'' Terminator. It's just Terminator. Plain and simple. Even the front cover indicates this. There's no ''The'' on the front cover. Like any other movie that shares its name with a word, the move has resulted in (year movie) after the name. For instance, check Equilibrium (2002 movie) and you'll understand what I mean. This is just wikification. :User:EliasAlucard|User talk:EliasAlucard 06:01, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) ::It's generally not done to include the year when only one movie is named that. So Terminator (movie) instead. It's also expected that you fix the double redirects (SkyNet) and change the links to avoid the new redirect. As of now, there are only 2 links pointing to the actual article. User:Cburnett 04:48, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) :::What about Equilibrium then? It's only one movie and has the year in the name. :::User:EliasAlucard|User talk:EliasAlucard 11:10, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) Same thing, it should be at Equilibrium (movie). User:Cburnett 01:24, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC) According to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005N5S5/qid=1114383915/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-4493152-3549668?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/ the movie IS actually called "The Terminator" rather than just "Terminator". --User:Micpp 23:09, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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