[2:23:50]After the T-1000 falls in the molten steel and Arnold's "I need a vacation" line, John picks up the bag containing the endoskeleton arm which is flipping the bird in the direction of the now terminated T-1000. In these episodes the Robinsons meet a good Android named Verda who vows to protect Dr. Smith and the Robinsons from anything that threatens them. James Cameron was nervous about the entire concept of the T-1000 early in the scriptwriting phase. "It watered us down," he explains. They still had enough weight to feel authentic; but they were more operational." Drug and alcohol abuse followed, as did rehab. frontman, Blackie Lawless said that years later after this film was released, he ran into Robert Patrick and told him that he was originally going to play the T-1000, but was let go do to his height being 6ft 4in. It's theorized that the following installments of the franchise. (at around 1h 5 mins) For the scene where the Terminator tells Sarah Connor about Miles Dyson and the history of Skynet, [31:00] The original script did not call for the top of the heavy tow truck to be ripped off during the chase through the storm drain. A dinosaur model is shown on display at Cyberdyne: The $300 that John and Tim steal from the ATM would be worth $563.34 in 2019 when adjusted for inflation. It's perfect!' The "Molten" Steel pit in the steel mill, called "The Spoof Pit" by the crew, was composed of an unknown liquid illuminated by orange fluorescent lights with pieces of plastic floating in it to resemble authentic molten steel. During the opening battle sequence there is quick shot of a soldier running with a weapon that appears to be the "Smart Gun" used by Vasquez and Drake in director James Cameron's previous movie. When she tells him she doesn't think she can, Kyle insists "on your feet, soldier". Then another evil android threatens the robots and the Robinsons, and Verda, IDAK and the Robinsons all team up to kill the bad android. The puppet had a hinged fiberglass core that would spring open with the pulling of a single pin. (at around 1h 3 mins) The famous phrase; "Hasta la vista, baby" is translated to "Sayonara, baby" in the Spanish version of the film, to preserve the humorous nature. In the novel, the T-800 immediately self-destructs by stepping into the molten steel once the T-1000 has been destroyed. The T-1000 is directly or indirectly responsible for most (seven) of the deaths; the Terminator only injures people. The T-800 again replies, "No." Oscar winner for special effects Stan Winston was also the man who created the monsters in, James Cameron got into a debate with his editors about using George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" for when the Terminator appears decked out in his new leather outfit. Principal photography began on October 9, 1990 and concluded on March 28, 1991. The steel mill finale featured some of the more complex liquid-metal-man gags created by Winston's team, including the 'cleave man' suit worn by Robert Patrick, for shots of the T-1000 after the Terminator has sliced through his body with a steel rod. There was concern as to how realistic CGI would look when it came to the helicopter going under the bridge, so the pilot just did it for real. At one point, Terminator 2 's Edward Furlong was set to reprise his role of John Connor in Terminator 3, but he eventually lost the part to Nick Stahl. In The Terminator, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is targeted by a cybernetic killing machine from the future. The freeway chase near the end posed a few problems. Originally, Enrique was the leader of a militia, but James Cameron felt it was too dark and heavy for that part of the film. It also showed John Connor working as a Congressman. Pulling off the shot where the camera follows behind the T-1000 in a helicopter chasing the three leads in a SWAT truck involved both helicopters The one seen in the film and the one where James Cameron and his crew were filming swooping down to only feet off the road. When Schwarzenegger brought the steel rod down through the split line between Patrick's body and the appliance, the device sprang open. Nevertheless, they wrote the first part of the film so the audience wouldn't know, leaving ambiguity in Schwarzenegger and Patrick's characters until it's finally revealed about 30 minutes in. And it was like the fourth or fifth take! (at around 33 mins) To accomplish the scene in which the T-1000 slowly emerges from the fire. For actor Edward Furlong, working with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgement Day at the age of just 13 was a life changing moment that gave him a career. The opening credits sequence, showing Los Angeles burning in a nuclear fire, was originally conceived as part of a vision of a dying Miles Dyson. As demonstrated on. The steel mill finale featured some of the more complex liquid-metal-man gags created by Stan Winston's team, including the 'cleave man' suit worn by Robert Patrick for shots of the T-1000 after the Terminator has sliced through his body with a steel rod. The practical effects created ranged from T-1000 body "wounds," blade arms, to a progressively more battle damaged T-800 throughout the film. Early career, I remember it was crazy to me. The version to be remastered and re released in 3D was the original 137 minute theatrical cut, as the extended edition is not, In a more mundane example, when Silberman is showing other doctors around Pescadero and brings them to see Sarah, he off-handedly mentions that he's been "following [her] case for years". Most of the sounds coming from weapons in the film were upgraded in post-production to create a sort of 'hyperreality'; handguns would get the sound of higher caliber guns, while shotguns would sound like cannons. Actor Edward Furlong broke onto the scene at just 12-years old. I really looked up to Arnold throughout that whole movie. This was the highest-grossing movie of 1991. But we did take after take of that shot, and each time, some little thing would go wrong. The Terminator uses the following weapons throughout the movie: - Colt/Detonics 1911 9mm - Winchester 1887 lever action ten-gauge sawed-off shotgun, minus trigger guard - M79 'Blooper' Grenade Launcher - Hawk MM-1 37mm twelve-shot gas grenade launcher - GE-134 Minigun 7.62x51mm cycle rate geared at six hundred r.p.m. Edward Furlong today. And I don't believe that the audience, unless they're looking for it, will ever know when is it real or when is it Memorex?". Although they were all much improved and technologically far more advanced, the T-800 endoskeletons, Terminator makeups and Arnold puppets were challenges the Stan Winston Studio crew had met before. Actor Edward Furlong discusses his role in the Terminator franchise during a Days of the Dead panel [+] discussion. 962 of 1,001 found this interesting | Share this The Terminators seen at the beginning of the movie were fully workable animatronic models. James Cameron says on the commentary track, which was recorded in 2003, that he had just spoken with Schwarzenegger from the set of. By take twenty, I was thinking: 'God Almighty! This flowering mechanism was attached to a fiberglass chest plate worn by Robert Patrick under a prescored costume and was actuated by a single radio-controlled cable pin release. So its a very close thing to me and it was a little bittersweet doing it. Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by, According to Stan Winston "We had to design the makeup effects that made Arnold, himself, the actor, appear to be the Terminator when a certain amount of flesh was removed from his face and certain appendages were ripped off of his body and the revealing of the robotic aspect underneath him all of these things we learned from [The Terminator] to make them better, how to make them lay flatter to his face, how to make the illusion of the chrome underskull be more acceptable as a makeup, so it was not sitting out as far on his face as the makeup. The scene was filmed but was cut for pacing reasons, but it was supposed to explain a later scene where the T-1000 makes its way to Salceda's ranch, after Sarah, John and the T-800 have already left. "Nobody realized that was a puppet," Stan Winston commented. This forces the android to obtain the information from Enrique's wife by threatening her baby. Plus, just getting the look of the leg crashing down on the skull, how it shattered, how the camera pulled up, how the endoskeleton looked when it pulled up, getting the rod out in time -- all of that had to be coordinated. "Everybody assumed that was really Robert Patrick and that the hole in his head was done with CG. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The original script had the T-1000 search John Connor's room early in the film, and find pictures of Enrique Salceda's ranch. The CGI character from Cameron's previous film. The Terminator uses sunglasses as a visual representation of his change in character. As the movie progresses he loses the sunglasses as he transforms from pure killing machine to "more human". I went through a period where I was reading all of these biographies and I had just finished reading a Doors biography, Furlong recalled. And you have to be very precise. (at around 1h 40 mins) It took two takes to get the van crashing into the Cyberdyne lobby, and they sprayed adhesive onto the floor to stop the van from skidding too much. The scenes shot outside the mall were filmed outside of the Northridge Fashion Center in Northridge California. Although powerful, the sequence was thought to focus too much on a secondary character, so it was re-written as a much more harsh and factual death scene. John's foster parents' car is a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Benthic Petroleum was the company that owned the submersible drilling rig in, The liquid metal CGI effects of the T-1000 were rendered on a Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo workstation, using an early version of 'PhotoShop', created by visual effects artist, [1:50:00] As the Terminator's arm is being crushed by the gear at the steel mill, the initials "JC" for director, Filmed scenes not included in the theatrical release (all but two were restored in the Special Edition): Directly after the pre-med students peer into Sarah's room, the doctor reminds the orderlies to make sure she takes her medication. As a result, the full- body puppet weighed half the 100 pounds of the original. Dr. Silberman states that Sarah is 29 years old, which means Sarah was eighteen in 1984 and was born in 1965. "Yes," he said. Robert Patrick conditioned himself (this was all his idea) to fire his gun without flinching, and to fire and reload both and left and right-handed, since as a robot wouldn't be left or right-hand dominant like a human. He did this so much, her knees were bruised quite badly after the many takes it took to get the shot Cameron wanted. With this happy memory becoming his final thought, his arm lowers onto the switch. | All of this also showed that Sarah Conner was in danger of losing her own humanity and become a cold-blooded killer like the first Terminator and the T-1000. Stan Winston's crew built three final T-1000 puppets for the 'pretzel man' effect, which has the character blowing open after the Terminator has launched a grenade into his midsection. This is a clear tip that this T-800 may not have been programmed as before, especially when he gets the cool "Bad to the Bone" treatment. Although seemingly simple, the blades posed continual challenges to Stan Winston Studio artists and technicians since the vacumetalizing process revealed even the most minute flaws in their form. The actor The T-800's death sequence from the official novel: Terminator put his hand on John's shoulder. the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), made entirely And it was a big advancement over what we had done for the first Terminator." Terminator 2: Judgment Day earned $500 million in the box office. Edward Furlong and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991. Arnie's action colleague Dwayne Johnson would go on to play the leading man in a film based on the game many years later. Scenes filmed but not included in DVD or Special Edition releases: [1:40:00] The T-1000 tells the helicopter pilot, "Get out!" Created from a lifecast of Robert Patrick, the puppet head was made of foam rubber with a vacumetalized inner portion coated with Krylon Crystal Clear, suggesting the look of liquid metal. I kept thinking of that movie, said Furlong of the experience of portraying a child as an adult actor thanks to the de-aging. Likewise, the first image he had for the first Terminator was the T-800's endoskeleton walking through the flames of a burning truck. The people who get killed are (in chronological order): three soldiers, the armored truck driver and his gunner in the Future War; the cop on patrol who encounters the newly-arrived T-1000; a mall employee; Todd and Janelle Voight (the latter implied); Lewis the guard; the cop on the motorcycle (copied by T-1000 and therefore implied to have been terminated off-screen); Dr. Stan Winston Studio adhered shredded Christmas tree tinsel to Robert Patrick's body with adhesive, then sprayed it with fake snow to create a frosted look. 1999 (l to r) Edward Furlong, Guiseppe Andrews, James DeBello, and Sam Huntington star in the new [+] movie "Detroit Rock City." At one point, Terminator 2's Edward Furlong was set to reprise his role of John Connor in Terminator 3, but he eventually lost the part to Nick Stahl.In The The T-1000 kills his foster mother, Janelle (Jenette Goldstein), and takes her form. The T-1000 blinks twice throughout the entire movie. Funnily enough, that's the same response he gives in auditions now. Her donning the uniform of her hardened soldier lover is a very clever visual marker of how far she's come. According to James Cameron's brother, a Marine who served in Desert Storm, the grenade would have to spin seven times before it arms. James Cameron needed to capture two different angles: one from behind the helicopter and one in front of it. During the climax, after T-1000 has pushed the T-800's arm into the gears, the T-1000 can be briefly seen 'glitching'. But, for now, hes content to make the rounds on the pop culture convention circuit, where his attachment to projects like the Terminator franchise and films like Pet Sematary Two and Detroit Rock City (particularly memorable amongst the rabid fanbase of rock group KISS), will always leave him in demand amongst fans looking for a selfie or an autograph. Alternate Versions "That is one of the shots you always see from this movie," said Winston. But, in. That's what we need to do. Life is good. It was weird. We had dialogue and stuff originally like that at the table but it was a trip. Which the T-800 Terminator endoskeleton is put into a clear plastic mold of, It is hard to make out, but the object that the dying Miles Dyson (. He stated: "I remember sitting there once, high on E, writing notes for Terminator, and I was struck by Sting's song, that "I hope the Russians love their children too." | To pull that off almost three decades later, director Tim Miller utilized controversial de-aging technology on Furlong and the Connor character in the new film. The stunt was so obviously dangerous that the scheduled camera crew tasked with shooting the close-ups refused to take part in it. 2.8K Likes, 823 Comments. James Cameron came up with the film's plot when he was tripping on ecstasy. Also the minigun the T-800 uses to take out the police cars was modified to fire 2,000 rounds per minute. Among the T-1000 effects were appliances that would suggest the splash impact of bullet hits on the liquid metal man, first seen in an early sequence at a shopping mall, where the original Terminator fires on the T-1000. And that always really bummed me out, Furlong admitted of the circumstances which led to his losing the T3 role that would ultimately be given to actor Nick Stahl instead. (at around 25 mins) A character other than the Terminator says "I'll be back". "He's funny, but he's never not threatening," says James Cameron about Arnold Schwarzenegger during the scene where John Connor is realizing the T-800 has to do whatever he says. I think some of the greatest movies have come from people taking chances, the actor told Forbes in a separate interview. Sarah's recurring nightmare about the nuclear war, her aggressive behavior when she attacks Dr Silberman, her attempted assassination on Miles Dyson, freaking out when she meets the T-800, and her behavior towards John are possible signs that Sarah is suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), following her deadly encounter with the T-800 in 1984. "We did digital willie removal in this shot," says James Cameron when a naked Robert Patrick shows up. Later retcons and explanations simply posited that mimetic polyalloy is just that good at mimicking human flesh. In the original script, it was explained that the T-1000 traveled inside a flesh sac which it would shed immediately upon arrival; the officer on the scene would find the sac just before being killed by the T-1000. In 1999, the film's US television rights were acquired by Paramount Pictures, after parent company Viacom acquired full ownership of Spelling Entertainment Group, whose Worldvision Enterprises division had held the syndication rights to the Carolco Pictures library since 1992.