Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

2:17 (137 min)

Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

France, United States

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Actors and characters

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Production

Carolco Pictures, Pacific Western, Lightstorm Entertainment

Release date

3 July 1991

Budget

$102 000 000

Revenue

$516 950 043

Director

James Cameron

Scenario

James Cameron

Composer

Brad Fiedel

Producer

James Cameron

All team (519)

Actors

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Terminator

Linda Hamilton

Sarah Connor

Edward Furlong

John Connor

Robert Patrick

T-1000

Earl Boen

Dr. Silberman

Joe Morton

Miles Dyson

S. Epatha Merkerson

Tarissa Dyson

Castulo Guerra

Enrique Salceda

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• The scene of the helicopter crashing onto the highway was filmed in only the third take.
• The film was the first in the history of cinema to contain key scenes based on computer animation.
• The video game John is playing in 'The Gallery' is 'Missile Command'. In this game, the player must stop missiles with nuclear warheads before they reach their target.
• During the motorcycle chase, Schwarzenegger rode a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy. This motorcycle became an exhibit at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee in 2014.
• During the climactic battle between the two cyborgs, the set was covered in rubber to prevent the actors (Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick) from getting injured during filming.
• The sound of a shotgun firing was used as the sound of two cannons firing.
• Around 200 different types of weapons were used during filming.
• In the action comedy "Last Action Hero" (1993), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film's poster is parodied. Sylvester Stallone is sitting on the motorcycle with a shotgun instead of Schwarzenegger. Additionally, Robert Patrick makes a cameo appearance as the T-1000 in one of the episodes.
• In one scene, the Terminator says, 'I need a vacation.' Arnold Schwarzenegger says the exact same phrase in the film 'Kindergarten Cop' (1990). This line was not in the script and is an improvisation by the actor.
• The computer effects for T-1000's transformation were created on Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo graphics workstations.
• After the hand-to-hand combat between the two Terminators in the technical rooms of the 'Galeria' shopping center, the T-800 flies out onto the street through a stained-glass window and falls onto its back. After lying in this position for several seconds, it gets up and goes back through the opening into the mall, similar to how the T-800 flew out the window of the 'Tech Noir' bar after Kyle Reese shot it with a shotgun and then began pursuing its target for elimination. The man who photographs the Terminator was played by the film's screenwriter, William Wisher Jr. He also played the police officer from whom the Terminator stole a car in the first film. This adds extra meaning to the scene, as it can be assumed that the surprise is caused not only by the Terminator's strange behavior, but also by the fact that the visitor recognizes him.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, during the filming of the movie, promised he would never play a villain again. However, he later broke this promise by playing Mr. Freeze in "Batman & Robin" (1997).
• The film features around 300 special effects, accounting for approximately 16 minutes of its total runtime.
• In the anime series *Black Lagoon* (2006-2011), a secondary character pursues the main characters, effectively recreating the chase scene of the T-1000 after the car. The effect is heightened by a joke from one of those fleeing: "She's a killer robot from the future, all we need is Schwarzenegger."
• James Cameron asked special effects creator Stan Winston to direct the teaser trailer. Cameron did not want the teaser to consist only of footage from the film. Having received $150,000, Winston created a video showing the assembly of a T-800 model in a futuristic factory.
• Linda Hamilton actually learned to pick locks with a paperclip.
• James Cameron tried to nominate Linda Hamilton for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but the Academy members disagreed.
• Until 2003, the film's opening weekend box office in the US was considered the most successful among films with an R rating ($52,300,000). This lasted until the release of "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003).
• Filming took place from October 9, 1990, to March 29, 1991, in California and New Mexico. Most of the scenes were shot in Los Angeles.
• Initially, Michael Biehn, who played the lead role in the first film, was considered for the role of the T-1000. This would have effectively switched roles with Arnold (the villain of the first film becomes the hero, and vice versa). However, producers were soon forced to abandon this idea to avoid confusing the audience.
• Three editing specialists were involved in the production of the film. This was due to the tight production schedule. As a result, each of the three worked on their own piece of the film, and these pieces were later merged together.
• Charlie Korsmo was offered the role of John Connor, but ultimately chose to star in the film «What About Bob?» (1991).
• The sound heard during the T-1000's transformation was created as follows: a condom was placed over a microphone, and this contraption was then submerged in oatmeal.
• To create the computer model of Robert Patrick as the T-1000, he was scanned by a special three-dimensional scanner while naked for 3 days, as a result of which he contracted bronchitis.
• When the Terminator shoots at the police cars from the laboratory window, the cylinder of the revolver rotates, but no ammunition is fed.
• Two takes were required to film the scene where the minivan crashes into the lobby of the Cyberdyne Systems building.
• While preparing for filming, Linda Hamilton, who played the role of Sarah Connor, underwent special military training under the guidance of former Israeli special forces operative Uzi Gal.
• While working on the film, the special effects team took into account Robert Patrick's injury, who played the role of the T-1000 cyborg. While playing soccer, the actor seriously injured his leg and subsequently developed a slight limp. Since the actor was limping, the computer graphics masters decided that the Terminator's gait should also be uneven.
• The light from the camera is reflected in Dyson's glasses, as he comes into Sarah's crosshairs.
• The minigun used in the film was so heavy that the only person on set who could lift it was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• In the gas station scene, you can notice a sign for "Benthic Petroleum". Benthic Petroleum owned the underwater drilling station in the film "The Abyss" (1989), also directed by James Cameron.
• The license plate of the car Sarah and John used to escape the psychiatric hospital changes six times.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger received a fee of $12 million for playing the main role in the film. He uttered approximately 700 words throughout the entire movie. Thus, each word spoken by the future governor of California was valued at $17,143, and his phrase 'Hasta La vista, baby' cost the film studio around $68,000.
• The scene of reassembling the shattered T-1000 used real mercury, which was herded into a single puddle using industrial hair dryers, with protective equipment and under the watchful supervision of specialists.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to star in the film on the condition that his character would not kill anyone.
• The scene in the canal where the roof of the truck is blown off appeared by accident. Cameron simply arrived on set and discovered that the truck wouldn't pass under the bridge, and decided to use this circumstance to create an additional spectacular scene.
• John's adoptive parents are named Todd and Janelle Voight. This means that if John had decided to take their surname, his name would have been John Voight.
• The film *Critical Mass* (2001) uses the company name "Cyberdyne Systems," as well as a significant amount of footage from *Terminator 2: Judgment Day* (1991), dedicated to the incident at "Cyberdyne Systems" and the subsequent escape.
• At the end of the director's cut of the film, Sarah Connor says that Michael Jackson turned 40 in August 1997. In reality, he turned 39 in 1997.
• The full name of the machine gun used by the T-800 is the XM214 Microgun – a multi-barrel rotating-block machine gun chambered in 5.56mm.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger also says the phrase "I'll be back" in the films "Twins" (1988), "The Running Man" (1987), "Commando" (1985), "Last Action Hero" (1993), and others, while in the films "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" (2003) and "The Expendables 2" (2012) he says the phrase "I’m back" ("I've returned").
• There are three versions of the film: theatrical (137 mins), director's cut (154 mins), and extended (156 mins).
• In the anime series *Aria the Scarlet Ammo* (2007), the head of the Edomae clan is a parody of the T-800.
• Judging by John's watch, he spent nearly an hour and a half (from 10:35 to 12:00) trying to dissuade his mother from killing Dyson.
• One episode of the series *The Simpsons* (1989) features a scene where Homer Simpson uses two golf clubs to cling to Ned Flanders’ departing car, just like the T-1000 when the heroes were fleeing the mental hospital. In the same episode, there is a scene where Homer walks through a hedge, just as the T-1000 went through the bars at the hospital. In another episode, two producers are destroyed in an explosion, but then reassemble from pieces, similar to how the T-1000 did after being frozen in liquid nitrogen, hinting at the inhumanity of these characters.
• Residents of the Lakeview Terrace neighborhood organized a protest outside the medical center when its name was changed to “Pascadero State Hospital for Criminally Insane.” However, the protest was immediately halted after the demonstrators learned that the hospital had been temporarily renamed for a film shoot.
• When John and the T-800 rescue Sarah from the hospital, the Terminator says to Sarah: "Come with me if you want to live." In the first film, Reese says the exact same phrase to Sarah during the shootout at the nightclub.
• Robert Patrick doesn't actually drive the truck – he sits on the right side, while a stunt driver hidden behind the lowered left-hand steering wheel does the driving. This was done so Robert could focus on his acting and not be distracted by driving. During editing, the image was flipped horizontally, so the T-1000 ended up on the left.
• The T-1000 says to the helicopter pilot: "Get out!". In the first film, under similar circumstances, the T-800 says the exact same phrase in the truck.
• The scene showing the laboratory containing the time machine was never filmed, as building the set would have taken too much time. Furthermore, this scene was not important for the plot's development. Sketches and drafts for this scene were later used in the creation of the space travel device in the film 'Contact' (1997).
• In the scene where John hacks the ATM, he uses an Atari Portfolio handheld computer.
• Scenes that were in the script but were not filmed: A conversation between Kyle Reese and John. Sarah is tortured with electroshock therapy. After studying the photos in John's room, the T-1000 concludes that after escaping from the hospital, John fled into the desert. The T-1000 follows. As the cyborg approaches, Salceda’s dog begins to bark, and he runs out with a gun, trying to shoot the T-1000, but misses. The T-1000 uses his finger, turning into a blade, and, piercing Salceda’s shoulder, asks: “Where is John Connor?” Salceda “sends” the T-1000, his hand gropes the ground, and next to some boxes he finds grenades. He blows himself up, hoping to kill the T-1000. The T-1000's head is blown off, but then it returns to its place through a boot - as in the episode of escaping from the hospital. Yolanda sees all this and hugs the child as the T-1000 approaches. He picks up the child and gets information from her about where John and everyone else went. Grant's Ranch. This part mentions Travis Grant, a “crazy former Green Beret” whom John remembers before his mother was captured. After Sarah, John and the T-800 escaped, the T-1000, disguised as Grant’s mistress, easily gets to him and gets answers to all his questions, after which he kills him. Dyson's Vision. Before Dyson died and activated the detonator, he had a vision of his family before the nuclear explosion turned everything to ashes. He sees his family running, and then - the sun. By means of morphing, it turns into the eye of the dying Dyson, which closes, and Dyson activates the detonator.
• Initially, a team of 6 people was planned to create the special effects related to the transformation of the T-1000 cyborg. However, the team subsequently increased to 36 people. Of the 137 minutes of screen time, about three minutes are the result of the efforts of this group of specialists.
• In the series "The X-Files" (1993-2002), Robert Patrick played an FBI agent. In one episode, Robert Patrick's character asks Agent Scully about a metallic man, to which she gives an answer subtly alluding to the film "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991).
• The T-800 shoots at police cars with a Blooper M79 grenade launcher.
• To film the scene where a helicopter crashes into a van, three helicopters and three vans had to be destroyed.
• When the T-800 emerges from the time portal, hair is visible on its body. In the next frame, it is already cleanly shaven.
• During the highway chase, both vehicles are disabled: the special forces van and the helicopter. Then, the T-1000 kills the truck driver and races towards the heroes, who narrowly manage to escape in time. The first part featured a similar scene with a car, a motorcycle, and a tanker.
• Stunt coordinator Joel Kramer played a cameo role – as one of the hospital guards.
• In the film "The Marine" (2006), one of the passengers in a car fleeing the main character (played by John Cena) addresses Robert Patrick's character, saying the pursuer is "like some kind of Terminator," to which Robert Patrick gives a characteristic look in the rearview mirror, a moment effectively underscored by the music.
• Cameron once had a dog named Wolfie. In the scene where the T-800 speaks to the T-1000 in the guise of John’s stepmother, he asks, “What about Wolfie, I hear him barking?” The dog’s actual name was Max.
• In the film's finale, at the steel mill, Sarah Connor, left alone with the T-1000, screams for John to run. Similarly, in the first film, Kyle Reese shouted at Sarah when the T-800 caught them at the factory.
• Edward Furlong was chosen from hundreds of candidates to play John Connor. Interestingly, he was invited to the audition after being noticed while standing in line to enter a club.
• Linda Hamilton wasn't the only one to play the role of Sarah Connor in the film. Her identical twin sister, Leslie Hamilton, was involved in the scene at the steel mill and played Sarah Connor as simulated by the T-1000 Terminator. Leslie also appeared in the mirror scene (which was only seen by owners of the extended version of the film released on DVD).
• Almost all of Edward Furlong's lines, who played John Connor, had to be re-recorded during editing. The young man was 13 years old at the time of filming, and his voice, like that of many teenagers at that age, was undergoing significant changes. The only scene that did not undergo re-voicing was the one in which John explains to the Terminator T-800 the reason why people cry. In addition, Edward changed visually. If you look closely, you can notice that he looks much younger in the desert than in the other scenes.
• When the T-800 throws the biker, a mechanical ramp can be seen underneath him.
• Sarah asks for a date with her son and tells the doctor she has been well-behaved for six months. He agrees. Earlier, he tells students that Sarah stabbed his knee with a pen three weeks ago.
• A young employee of "Cyberdyne Systems" who pesters Dyson with questions wears a t-shirt with a coat of arms stylized after the Russian Empire's coat of arms, and the inscription "When Russia was free, a goose cost three kopecks".
• Doomsday was set for August 29, 1997. This may echo the date of August 29, 1949, when the Soviet Union conducted the test of its first atomic bomb.
• When the truck falls into the canal, the truck's cabin windshields fall out, but seconds later the windshields are back in place and only cracked, revealing the T-1000 behind them.
• Initially, for the chase scene in the canals, Cameron wanted the truck to be a cab-over model – it looked more spectacular. That's how it appeared in the film's original storyboard. James then abandoned this idea in favor of a conventional cab Freightliner – reportedly because the first film had a scene where the Terminator runs over a similar conventional cab toy truck with the car’s wheel. It became a reference to the first part.
• The director's cut of the film contains many new scenes. Here are some of them: Sarah Connor dreams of a dream in which Kyle Reese appears. He tells Sarah that their son is in danger and she must save him. They kiss. Sarah wakes up. This is the only scene featuring Michael Biehn. This scene was present in several film trailers. Cameron cut this scene because he believed that viewers who had not seen the first part would be completely confused as to who Kyle is. Another scene in the hospital, which immediately follows Dr. Silberman showing Sarah to students. The doctor tells the orderlies to make sure Sarah has taken her medication. The deleted scene begins when two orderlies enter Sarah's room. They hit her with batons several times, then forcibly make her take pills. Then they hit the pain-writhing Sarah several more times. After the T-1000 kills John's adoptive parents, he goes out into the yard, approaches a dog, kills it, and rips off its collar. The dog's name is written on the collar - Max. The T-1000 realizes he has been tricked, as shortly before, the T-800 referred to the dog as Pup in a phone call. After killing the dog, the T-1000 goes into John's room and tries to find something that might tell him where John is. He walks around the room, feeling the objects on the shelves and walls with his hands, as if 'sensing' them. Eventually, he stops at a poster, looks at it closely, realizes there is something behind it, tears it down and finds a box containing photos and mementos of John. Most likely, using these items, the T-1000 will learn about the location in the desert where Sarah, John and the Terminator have gone. James Cameron decided to cut this scene because viewers might get the impression that the T-1000 is using 'X-ray vision'. At the abandoned gas station, Sarah and John talk to the Terminator about whether he can learn. The Terminator tells them that his microprocessor is switched to 'read-only' mode. Skynet did not want Terminators to be able to evolve independently. John asks the Terminator - can the processor be switched back. The Terminator answers - yes. After that, we see the Terminator telling Sarah what she needs to do to get to the processor. After Sarah manages to get the processor, the Terminator shuts down. Sarah puts the processor on the table, takes a hammer and tries to smash it, but John stops her. He convinces her that they need the Terminator. This is where we see the beginnings of John's future leadership. He says to Sarah: "How can I be a world leader if even my own mother won't listen to me?" Original ending of the film. 2029. Playground. Sarah watches John playing with his daughter. From her monologue, we learn that there was no war between machines and people, and her son became a senator. When two girls tell the T-1000 that John went to the 'Gallery', the T-1000 asks where it is located, and the girls are amused by his ignorance of things obvious to them - they giggle. This forces the T-1000 to justify himself: 'I'm like, new here...' When the T-1000, in the guise of hospital security guard Lewis, drags the corpse of the real Lewis into the storage room, a nurse asks him: "What's that, Lewis?" - "Just some trash" he replies. She continues to type something, and the T-1000 calmly drags the corpse to the storage room, where he takes the keys and gun from him. When the T-1000 approaches Sarah's room, he sees orderly Douglas with a battered face in the window, and he, seeing the guard, shouts that 'the damn bitch' Sarah escaped and demands his release. The T-1000, of course, ignores this request and continues on. A slightly more extended dialogue in the car during the escape from Pescadero. Sarah asks if the T-1000 can be destroyed, and the Terminator replies: "Unknown" (this episode was included in one of the film's trailers). To enter the hospital grounds, the T-800 shoots the guard and opens the gates. As the car passes the wounded guard, John says to him: 'Sorry...' The final dialogue between the T-800 and John was slightly longer. In response to the request to stay, the Terminator said to him: 'It has to end here. Or I am the future...'
• The voice of James Cameron himself was used for the dying screams of the T-1000.
• In the first episode of the first season of the American animated series "Mars Attacks!" (1993-1996), the Liquidator robot says "Hasta la vista" before chasing the main characters, and at the end of the episode, Drossel arranges for him to fall into molten metal, with the robot saying "I'll be back".
• At the end of the first film, Sarah blindly activates a hydraulic press from a control panel, similar to the one that crushed the T-800. At the end of the second film, Sarah also activates a lifting mechanism from a control panel, lowering the T-800 into molten metal.
• All weapons were provided for filming by Stembridge Gun Rentals, a company specializing in the manufacture of prop or film-adapted weaponry.
• At the end of the film, the T-800 limps on its left leg, having sustained injuries after falling from a liquid nitrogen truck. It likely received the same chassis damage as the T-800 in the first film after colliding with a tanker truck.
• Twin brothers Don Stanton and Dan Stanton were involved in filming a scene in the hospital. One of them played a hospital guard, and the other played the Terminator T-1000 copying him.
• The forced therapy scene (found on the special edition DVD) was filmed several times. The moment when Ken Gibbel hits Linda Hamilton with a baton also required many takes. In some of them, Gibbel unintentionally delivered real blows to Hamilton's body. Linda later got her revenge: in the scene where Sarah hits Douglas with a broken mop, the hits were real.
• The name of the explosive (polydichloric euthimal) used to blow up the Cyberdyne Systems building is exactly the same as the name of the drug in the film 'Strange Days' (1981).
• At the 29th minute of the film, when the T-800 shields John with his body, the T-1000 shoots him in the back, leaving bullet holes in his leather jacket. When the Terminator fight moves into a clothing store, and the T-1000 throws the T-800 into a glass display case, the bullet holes are no longer visible.
• After John Connor steals money from an ATM, his friend accidentally pulls a Polaroid photograph of Sarah Connor out of his backpack, a photograph that appeared at the end of the first film.
• Stan Winston and his special effects team spent countless hours reviewing documentary footage of nuclear explosions. After the film was released, several members of the 'Federal Laboratory for Atomic Weapons Testing' unofficially acknowledged that the film contained the most accurate depiction of a nuclear explosion ever shown in a feature film at that time.
• Among the weapons in the arsenal, one can see M60 machine guns, pump-action shotguns, a Mac-10 submachine gun, M4 and AK-47 assault rifles.
• Particularly brutal footage of the scene where Schwarzenegger's character cuts off his own arm was removed.
• It took five hours to apply the Terminator's makeup (as he appears at the end of the film) and another hour to remove it.
• Sarah lowers the T-800, pressing the 'Up' button.
• At the beginning of the film, when the T-800 enters a bar for clothes, he has a conflict with the bar patrons who are unwilling to give up their clothing. During the fight, one of them stabs the T-800 in the abdominal area with a knife, just as in the first film.
• In one scene, the T-1000 chases John Connor in a 1987 Freightliner FLA9642T truck.
• As in the first film, in the climax, while pursuing the main characters, the T-1000 climbs a metal staircase, trying to fulfill the task assigned to it.
• After destroying the laboratory, leaving John and Sarah in the elevator, the T-800 repeats the famous phrase from the first part – “I'll be back”.
• Approximately 300 kilometers of film stock were used for filming.
• The Terminator's full designation is 'Terminator Series 800 (internal metal endoskeleton) Model 101 (living tissue over metal endoskeleton).'
• This is the first film in the history of cinema to have a budget of 100 million dollars.
• Initially, British rock musician Billy Idol was supposed to play the role of the T-1000, but he was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in February 1990.
• Robert Patrick played the T-1000 in three more films. In "Terminator 2 3-D" – a short video shot for a stereo attraction. In the comedy "Wayne's World" (1992), where he rides up to the hero on a police motorcycle and shows him a childhood photograph, asking: “Have you seen this boy?”. And in the film "Last Action Hero" (1993).
• The metallic ringing in the main musical theme of the film was created by Brad Fidel hitting a cast iron frying pan against a microphone.
• The shockwave from the nuclear explosion, burning flesh from bone, has absolutely no effect on the little rocking horse.
• In the anime series *Maid Rosa* (2001), the manufacturer of the robot maids is listed as "Cyberdyne."
• The band Scooter borrowed the main musical theme from the film for their song "The Age of Love".
• In the film "The Naked Drummer" (2008), Fish, pursuing his bandmates, hooks onto a car and crawls along it using drumsticks, just like the T-1000 when the heroes were escaping from the mental hospital.
• The famous phrase 'Hasta la Vista, baby' was translated as 'Sayonara, baby' in the dubbed Spanish version.
• Eleven cameras were used to film the explosion of the Cyberdyne Systems building.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger preferred to receive his fee not in money, but in kind: he received a Gulfstream III aircraft as his payment.
• In February 2017, as part of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, a restored version was shown: the film was digitized in 4K resolution and converted to 3D format on the initiative of StudioCanal and DMG Entertainment. Cameron personally supervised the color correction, restoration, and conversion of the film to stereoscopic format.
• During the chase in the canal, almost immediately after the truck drives off the bridge into the canal, the reflection shows the light from the camera and even the silhouette of the operator when the truck is shown.
• The T-800 carries a "Winchester Model 1887" in a flower box. In the film “The Godfather” (1972), caporegime Peter Clemenza also carries a "Winchester Model 1887" in a flower box to kill Don Stracci. The same technique is used in the game “Hitman: Contracts”.
• In the scene where the T-800 cuts the flesh from his arm, you can see that the actor’s real arm is hidden under clothing in the stomach area. When his arm is crushed by a gear, his real limb is hidden in a black sleeve under a leather jacket. You can even make out the outline of a watch on it.
• In the scene where the T-1000 jumps onto a motorcycle from a building and into a helicopter, he breaks the helicopter's glass with his helmet and enters. In the next scene, the helicopter's glass is clearly intact.

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