Terminator 2
The movie The Terminator, opens with a brief glimpse of a horrific future, one in which machines have taken over the planet and driven humans almost to the point of extinction. From this future, two men have traveled back through time to 1984 - the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a cyborg sent to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will lead the human resistance against the machines; and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), a soldier who has to stop the Terminator from succeeding in his mission. At first, the movie is careful not to make you too sure which of them is the real bad guy or exactly what they're up to, and part of its success lies in the slick exposition, which keeps the film tight and exciting. Under the credits, the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day opens with a similar scene of Los Angeles on a hot, sunny, summer day. It is soon learned that it is August 29, 1997 - pre-Holocaust. Cars are moving along on the freeway. Children are playing on swings in a sun-lit playground - a destructive, apocalyptic, unholy white light suddenly envelopes the scene and vaporizes everything - hotter than many suns combined. As a title card fades in: Los Angeles 2029 A.D., the camera pans from left to right over desola
te images of future death and destruction - blackened cars, skeletal drivers, a dark sky. The intense heat has dissolved and half-melted everything, including the bars of the jungle gym where the children were playing. In the smoking ruins, skulls lie on the ground amidst the ash-drifts - the camera lingers on the charred remains of toys, swings, and slides, and then pauses on one tiny skull, as a voice over of Sarah Connor. In the first movie, the Terminator served as the ultimate killing machine. The Terminator felt no, pity, no pain, and no remorse. It's programmed to kill and that is what it did. The Terminator was dispatched to Los Angeles in the past with a mission of killing Sarah Connor, the mother of humanity's greater leader against machine aggression in the future. The Terminator kills all the Sarah Connor's in Los Angeles in alphabetical order. In Terminator2: Judgment Day, the Terminator returns with a mission of protecting young John Connor. The Terminator was actually reprogrammed and sent by John Connor in the future to protect a young John Connor in the past. With proximity to humans the Terminator becomes more human with time and learns the value of human life. Lighting and camera angles also give the viewer an indication of good and evil. In the first Terminator movie, the majority of scenes in which Arnold Schwarzenegger is in, a lot of shadow effects are used to depict a dark character. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the night scenes in which the T1000 is present have a similar feel to them. The way in which both of the villainous characters turn their head or eyes to the camera is haunting. In Terminator2: Judgment Day, I noticed when the T1000 rode off in the police car at the beginn
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