James Cameron made his directorial debut directing the 1982 horror film "Piranha II:The Spawning" during the film's release Cameron devised the premise of his next movie from a fever dream he experienced in Rome,Italy. Soon thereafter Cameron developed the concept in collaboration with William Wisher Jr. He then sold the rights to the project to Gale Anne Hurd who at the time was working for New World Pictures on the condition that she will produce the film if Cameron himself directed it. Hurd managed to secure a distribution deal with Orion Pictures while Executive Producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of the Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in setting up the film's financing and production. Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally approached by Orion for the role of Kyle Reese a human sent from the future to protect a woman from a cyborg assassin which is The Terminator,however he agreed to play The title character after he befriended James Cameron. Filming of the movie took place mostly at night time on location in Los Angeles (the third largest city in the United States of America) but most of the shooting was delayed due to Schwarzenegger's commitment to "Conan The Destroyer" during which Cameron found some time to work on scripts for Rambo:First Blood II (with Sylvester Stallone) and a future James Cameron directed film "Aliens" The Special Effects which includes miniatures and stop-motion animation were created by artists Stan Winston and Gene Warren Jr.
Here's the plot of the story two men arrive separately in the city of Los Angeles in the year 1984 having time traveled from the year 2029 one is the cyborg assassin The Terminator(Schwarzenegger) programmed to murder a woman named Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). The other is a human soldier named Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) who is assigned to prevent The Terminator from killing Sarah. They both end up stealing clothes and weapons as a result. Now here's the part of the film that got explained see Reese informs Sarah that an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet created by Cyberdyne Systems will become self aware and trigger a global nuclear war to exterminate the human species. He then tells her that her son John will rise up and lead a gang of survivors in a resistance movement against Skynet and it's army of machines. On the verge of the resistance's victory Skynet sent a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah and prevent John from being born. The Terminator is a relentless killing machine with perfect voice-mimicking ability and a robust endoskeleton covered by living tissue that disguises it as a human. There was a point in the film where Sarah and Kyle have sex which lead to her conceiving John. Soon after the Terminator locates Sarah and Kyle and the chase was on again. Towards the end Reese got killed and Sarah managed to crush and destroy The Terminator with a hydraulic press. Months later A Pregnant Sarah travels through Mexico recording audio tapes to pass on to her soon to be born son John. At the gas station a boy takes a photo of Sarah and she bought it from him. It's the exact photograph that one day John will give to Reese.
With a Budget of 6.4 million to make,Defying low pre-release expectations "The Terminator" topped the American box office for two weeks eventually grossing $78.3 million at The Box Office. That film launched the careers of James Cameron as a Director and Arnold Schwarzenegger as a leading actor and action hero was solidified.
My Rating for this movie is a 90/100 Following the success of the movie we got a film franchise out of it along with a television series,comic books,novels and video games out of The Terminator. I ranked it #4 on my favorite movies of 1984.
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