221 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
221 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Scenes in the screenplay but not filmed:
- Extended Future War sequence where the resistance won and enter
a SkyNet lab where they find the time-portal and a storage
facilities of Terminators. You also see Reese talking to John.
- Sarah's ECT where Sarah is fitted for electro-convulsive thearpy
and voltage is pumped into her.
- Salceda's death sequence. Sal's dog starts barking, Sal goes
out tries to shoot the T-1000 and fails. T-1000 uses the
pointed finger/sword trick to Sal's shoulder blades saying
``I know this hurts. Where is John Connor''. Sal curses him
and his hands searchs around the ground near some crates
that held grenades. He kills himself and hopefully the T-1000
with one. No luck. T-1000 head falls off but like the little
piece in the asylum escape sequence, it oozes back into his
boots. Yolanda sees this and hugs the baby as T-1000 steps
closer. T-1000 picks up the baby and gets the info from
her as where John and others had gone.
- Gant Ranch. This section was a longer version of Sal's and
refers to Travis Gant, ``crazy ex-Green Beret'' that John
mentions his mother seeing before she was caught. Longer
and has romantic notions between the two. After Sarah, John
& the T-800 left, T-1000 kills Gant as he did like with John's
``Mom''. Disguised as Gant's lover, he easily stepped up to him
and tortured him for answers before killing him.
- Dyson's Vision Sequence. Dyson, the creator of the new processor
had a dream sequence before he died and dropped the device on the
trigger. In it he saw a picture of his family before a nuclear
explosion turned it to ash. He sees his family running and then
a scene of the sun as it pulls back to reveal Dyson's dying eye
before he closes it and drops the book.
- Scenes filmed but not included in the theatrical release:
- Sarah Connor was to have a dream where Reese appears and warns
her that THEIR son is in danger. She has to save him, etc. They
kiss and then she wakes up. This is the only scene 'Michael Biehn' (qv)
was in, and appeared in some promotional trailers.
- Another hospital scene was cut that took place directly after the
pre-med students peer into Sarah's room. The doctor reminds the
orderlies to make sure she gets her medication. The cut scene was
of the staff coming in to give her the pills. They smack her in
the gut with their batton and force the pills down her throat,
then kick her while she's on the floor doubled over in pain.
- After the T-1000 kills John's foster parents, he ventures outside
to get the dog to shut-up. He reaches down and snatches the
collar off the dog, thus killing the dog. On the collar is
stamped the dog's name ``Max''. The T-1000 realizes he has been
duped by John (actually the T-800 imitating John's voice) by
calling the dog ``Wolfie''.
- After killing the dog, the T-1000 goes to John's room to try to
any clues as to where John might be. He stalks around the room
waving his arms and ``feeling'' things on the shelves, on the
walls, etc. He eventually stops in front of a poster, and
without feeling it, realizes there is something behind it. He
rips it down and finds a box of momentos (pictures, and the
like). This must be where the T-1000 figures out about the desert
compound that Sarah, John, and the T-800 head to after the
hospital. Director 'James Cameron' (qv) decided to cut it because it
made the T-1000 look to much like it had X-Ray vision.
- At the abandoned gas station, a scene involved Sarah and John talking
with the T-800 about learning. He tells them that his CPU was
switched to read-only before being sent out. Cyberdyne doesn't
want them to learn too much while on the own. John asks can it be
switched and he says yes. You then see the T-800's face in a
``mirror'' talking Sarah through the procedure. A puppet was used
for the foreground Sarah to work on and Linda's twin sister
Leslie was in the mirror mimicking Linda's hand movements. After
the CPU is removed, the T-800 shuts-down and Sarah places it on a
table. She picks up a hammer and tries to smash it to render him
inoperative. John stops her and says they need him. He starts to
show authority for the first time and says to Sarah, ``How am I
supposed to be a world leader if my own mother won't listen to
me?''
- While in the desert, John attempts to teach the T-800 to smile. He
tells him that he looks like a dork because he doesn't smile. He studies a
man on the phone and tries to copy him.
- The badge on the T1000's uniform reads ``Austin'' (named after producer
'Stephanie Austin' (qv)), although it is not fully visible in the film.
- A promotional trailer for the film included a scene not in the film: the
T800 being constructed.
- The T800's ``point-of-view'' scenes at the biker's bar identify a Harley
Davidson ``Fatboy'', and a carcinogen in the cigar smoke.
- The T800 carries a gun in a box of roses. Some of the soundtrack was written
by ``Guns 'n Roses''.
- For the truck scene, they modified a normal truck to hide the usual steering
wheel, and added a cosmetic steering wheel on the right side. In addition,
the truck had a mirror-image license plate and other necessary stuff.
- The T800's bike jump into the stormwater drain was performed by a stuntman
'Peter Kent' (qv). The motorbike was supported by 1-inch cables, so that
when they hit the ground, the bike and rider only weighted 180 pounds. The
cables were later digitally erased.
- More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed.
- SFX crew had to incorporate 'Robert Patrick' (qv)'s football-injury limp in
their animation of the T1000.
Next, they filmed the stuff with the T1000 pretending to be driving from
the right-hand steering wheel (wearing a mirror-image police uniform),
while the real driver was hidden under a black hood at the lowered real
steering wheel. For the final film, the scenes were flipped left-to-right
to make it all look right, and combined with footage shot with a normal
truck driving in the drain. This was done so that actor Robert Patrick could
concentrate on acting rather than driving. They accidentally caught a street
sign; after they mirror-imaged the scene, they digitally reversed the text on
the sign so it would appear correct.
- After throwing the T800 through the shopping center window, the T1000 glances
at a mannequin that is entirely covered with chrome. Reminiscent of Reese
shooting the T800 in the Tech Noir bar in "The Terminator (1984)" (qv).
- The T1000 tells the helicopter pilot to ``Get out!''. This is an interesting
parallel to "The Terminator (1984)" (qv), in which the T800 gives the same
command to a truck driver under similar circumstances.
- The T800 loses its left arm, and hauls itself forward with its right. The
same thing happened to the T800 in "The Terminator (1984)" (qv).
- The T1000 has at least three hands when it is flying the helicopter.
- 'Linda Hamilton' (qv)'s twin 'Leslie Hamilton' (qv) played the T1000 when it
was imitating Sarah Connor.
- Identical twins 'Don Stratton' (qv) and 'Dan Stratton' (qv) played the
hospital security guard and the T1000.
- The T-800 says ``I need a vacation'', which 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)
previously said in "Kindergarten Cop (1990)" (qv). This was not in the
script, but ad-libbed.
- Schwarzenegger said during the making of this film that he would never play
another evil character again.
- The cryo-truck ``Benthic Petroleum'', the name of the company in
"The Abyss (1989)" (qv), also directed by Cameron.
- A ``T800'' is a parallel CPU usually found running OCCAM.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!''
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: during the opening credits: the
cut from the playing children to the dark future.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: the terminator in the future crushes
a skull with its foot.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When the T800 and the T1000 meet for
the first time, the T800 takes the gun out of the flower box and walks over
the roses.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When Sarah, John and the T800 are
chased by the T1000 through the psychiatric clinic, the T1000 walks over the
sunglasses that the T800 had discarded.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]
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