Hello everybody and welcome to yet another What You Probably Didn't Know About. As you can tell by the title I will be doing the 1984 action classic The Terminator. So enough of this intro let's get right into it.
1. The beginning of production had to be postponed for nine months, because Arnold Schwarzenegger was commitment to Conan the Destroyer (1984). During this time James Cameron wanted to be working but didn't have the time to do a whole other film so he took on a writing assignment; this turned out to be Aliens (1986).
2. While filming the final shot, a police car arrived. And the scene was being shot without a permit. One crew member told the police officer that it was his son's film school project and that they had just the last shot left. Then the excuse worked. No seriously the cop actually believed them.
3. In the beginning of the movie, Sarah Connor receives a message on her answering machine. The voice on that message is James Cameron himself.
4. The puppet of Arnold Schwarzenegger's face took six months to make.
5. Shots through the Terminator's vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operating system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: ] call -151* p this will give you the Terminator point of view.
6. The teaser trailer is narrated by Peter Cullen, best known for being the voice of Optimus Prime.
7. Wolfie (James Cameron's German Shepherd) can be seen at the Tiki Motel.
8. The Terminator's endoskeleton was very heavy and difficult to carry for Stan Winston's team. They later found that building a prop robot out of metal is realistic but not practical.
9. In the original script the Terminator was going to steal a car in the beginning of the film. In that scene the Terminator was observing an old woman getting into a car and as she saw the Terminator she would panic and put the car in reverse while hitting a trash can, correcting herself, put the car into drive then speed off. The Terminator then enters the car and then would mimic what the elderly woman did.
10. This is the only time in the Terminator franchise where the Terminator changes his hairstyle. When the Terminator breaks into an apartment in the self-repair sequence, his hairstyle is different compared to the one he had earlier. This is because he runs through fire caused by a car explosion where he's hair is burned. He also loses his eyebrows, and spends the rest of the movie without them.
11. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to avoid Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn as much as possible. His reason being The Terminator was trying to kill them not form connections.
12. Mel Gibson turned down the role of The Terminator, thinking he wasn't right for the role. After seeing the film he praised Schwarzenegger as the right choice.
13. O.J. Simpson was considered for the role of The Terminator, but the producers feared he was "too nice" to be take seriously as a cold-blooded killer (this was before he went on trail for murder by the way). Later in 1990 Dark Horse Comics printed issues using his likeness (again before he went on trail).
14. While shooting the film James Cameron often resorted to what he called "Guerilla Film Making" as a way to get around acquiring permits needed to film certain areas. This involved the production crew and actors to work quickly arriving at a specific location, shooting the scenes and leaving before the police arrived. As a result, some of the people seen in a few shots are actual everyday people completely unaware they are in a movie. This was also used for reshoots with Cameron even calling Arnold at 3:00am to meet him at a location in full costume to quickly reshoot a scene. This would explain why most of the film occurs at night.
That's going to do it for this installment of What You Probably Didn't Know About. Come back on August 27th for another edition and this time it's all about the 1976 classic Rocky.
3. In the beginning of the movie, Sarah Connor receives a message on her answering machine. The voice on that message is James Cameron himself.
4. The puppet of Arnold Schwarzenegger's face took six months to make.
5. Shots through the Terminator's vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operating system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: ] call -151* p this will give you the Terminator point of view.
6. The teaser trailer is narrated by Peter Cullen, best known for being the voice of Optimus Prime.
7. Wolfie (James Cameron's German Shepherd) can be seen at the Tiki Motel.
8. The Terminator's endoskeleton was very heavy and difficult to carry for Stan Winston's team. They later found that building a prop robot out of metal is realistic but not practical.
9. In the original script the Terminator was going to steal a car in the beginning of the film. In that scene the Terminator was observing an old woman getting into a car and as she saw the Terminator she would panic and put the car in reverse while hitting a trash can, correcting herself, put the car into drive then speed off. The Terminator then enters the car and then would mimic what the elderly woman did.
10. This is the only time in the Terminator franchise where the Terminator changes his hairstyle. When the Terminator breaks into an apartment in the self-repair sequence, his hairstyle is different compared to the one he had earlier. This is because he runs through fire caused by a car explosion where he's hair is burned. He also loses his eyebrows, and spends the rest of the movie without them.
11. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to avoid Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn as much as possible. His reason being The Terminator was trying to kill them not form connections.
12. Mel Gibson turned down the role of The Terminator, thinking he wasn't right for the role. After seeing the film he praised Schwarzenegger as the right choice.
13. O.J. Simpson was considered for the role of The Terminator, but the producers feared he was "too nice" to be take seriously as a cold-blooded killer (this was before he went on trail for murder by the way). Later in 1990 Dark Horse Comics printed issues using his likeness (again before he went on trail).
14. While shooting the film James Cameron often resorted to what he called "Guerilla Film Making" as a way to get around acquiring permits needed to film certain areas. This involved the production crew and actors to work quickly arriving at a specific location, shooting the scenes and leaving before the police arrived. As a result, some of the people seen in a few shots are actual everyday people completely unaware they are in a movie. This was also used for reshoots with Cameron even calling Arnold at 3:00am to meet him at a location in full costume to quickly reshoot a scene. This would explain why most of the film occurs at night.
That's going to do it for this installment of What You Probably Didn't Know About. Come back on August 27th for another edition and this time it's all about the 1976 classic Rocky.
State of The Project (Jun 21st - Jul 19th)
Jun 21st - Raiders of The Lost Media - Overwatch: First Strike
Jun 23rd - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review
Jul 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Jul 5th - A Look Back at Ant-Man (2015)
Jul 7th - Ant-Man and The Wasp Review
Jul 16th - What You Probably Didn't Know About The Terminator (1984)
Jul 19th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Star Wars: Battlefront III
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Jun 21st - Raiders of The Lost Media - Overwatch: First Strike
Jun 23rd - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review
Jul 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Jul 5th - A Look Back at Ant-Man (2015)
Jul 7th - Ant-Man and The Wasp Review
Jul 16th - What You Probably Didn't Know About The Terminator (1984)
Jul 19th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Star Wars: Battlefront III
NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU!
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