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
The control of mise-en-scene is often much stronger in science fiction- action films than other genres, primarily because they attempt to present images that do not or cannot exist in the real world. This control is evident in these movies especially in Terminator 2: Judgment Day with the digital manipulation of images. A fight ensues, in which the Terminator violently rips the heart out of one of the men who try and resist. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the night scenes in which the T1000 is present have a similar feel to them. The texture of The Terminator, (the dirty, dark, but highly complex world we see) places this film and others showing a dark and littered future, as opposed to a future that is (for good or ill) white, shiny, neat and aesthetic. The Terminator's alphanumeric readouts calculate body outlines to estimate and analyze which one of the customers is deemed suitable for leather clothing and boots. When the Terminator is incarnated in 1984, he is first shown kneeling nude in front of a garbage truck with ominous music in the background. 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. The Terminator films work because they take on a gritty tone, places the action in a realistic setting and is heartless with its characters. He scans his surroundings without any emotion, and his computerized brain registers the results of a digitized, electronic scan of the Harley-Davidson motorcycles sitting outside a bikers' hangout called The Corral. " The Terminator walks up and demands his attire - and bike. He is a replica of the Terminator model T-800 from the original film - with a muscle-bound frame and a perfect physique. Electrical arcs of blue-white light snap and spark behind two parked tractor-trailers in an all-night truck stop. The Terminator repeats what the men say.
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