Hey guys, Expendables III is coming out in just a few days.
Sly, Arnold, Dolph, Kelsey Grammer, for some reason.
The gang is all back.
Ha, just kidding.
We don't care about that movie at all.
Let's talk about an Arnold movie franchise that is way better than the Expendables,
not counting this, or this.
Here are seven things you didn't know about Terminator.
>> Probably.
>> James Cameron has money to burn nowadays.
After all, he made the top grossing film of all time.
Twice.
But before directing 1984's The Terminator he was a nobody in Hollywood.
He'd been fired, rehired, then fired again off of Piranha II and
then he got stuck in a holding pattern trying to get The Terminator made while
Arnold Schwarzenegger was busy filming Conan II.
The conflict pushed him to force production from the summer of 1983 into
the spring of 1984.
In the mean time, Cameron was so broke, his car had been repossessed, and he was
surviving on coupons that his mom would mail him for buy one get one Big Macs.
He'd eat one, and then, save the other to eat the next day,
which is terrifying, because the shelf life of a Big Mac is about 35 minutes.
But, he put the downtime to good use, storyboarding the entire movie himself,
and he even did some color panel Obviously, things turned around for
him after Terminator's release.
And we're guessing he hasn't eaten a day-old Big Mac since.
If he has, that's just really, really sad.
(Sound) Terminator 2 is one of those
sequels where it's just so good you kind of feel a little guilty for
maybe liking it more than the original.
I mean, come on, just look at that gun flip.
So cool.
What you may not know, is that they had to build a special gun with a larger lever on
it so that Arnold could do that super cool gun flip.
In fact, one day on set, he picked up the wrong gun, tried to flip it over, and
nearly broke three of his fingers in the process.
And he needs those fingers for fondling his female staff.
Am I right?
Yeah, you're totally right.
No, I'm just kidding.
Let's move onto the next (Sound) Explosions and
gun fights and car chases and twins.
(Laugh) That's right, there are twins in Terminator II and
there are actually two sets of them.
Seth Stewan is able to take on other characters forms after touching them in
this scene where he turns himself into the Security guard,
they actually just cast twin brothers.
It saved them the cost of doing special effects to achieve the same shot.
The other twin we see in the film is actually Linda Hamilton's
twin sister Leslie.
In the surgery scene, the reflection in the mirror is really Leslie,
and they used.
Used a dummy head for Arnold here.
Yeah we had a hard time telling which was was the dummy Arnold 2.
Hey that's enough out of you.
Okay, all right, we'll move on.
Later on when the T 1000 takes on Sarah's form Linda's sister helped out again.
Here we see Linda in the foreground with Leslie in the back,
then they switched to Linda in the background to continue the the sequence.
By the way in this other scene were Sarah/s is playing with baby John Connor,
that's actually Linda Hamilton with her real son, Dalton.
Boom, bonus thing you didn't know.
(Sound) Special effects are critical in
Terminator.
But you may not know that one important effect in T2 was digital wang removal for
the T-1000's arrival scene.
However, without even looking that closely,
you can still see Robert Patrick's junk.
I guess the company that James Cameron hired to erase that dong just
didn't do a very good job.
Too busy dicking around probably, am I right?
Dicking around?
It's really his balls, but you get the picture.
(Sound) Let's jump back to Terminator One.
Did you know that Linda Hamilton's ankle was broken during filming?
She broke it shortly before production began,
which is exactly what you don't want to do when you're playing a character who spends
almost the entire movie running.
The production had to shift the schedule around so that all the running scenes took
place later on after she'd had a bit of time to heal.
Once they got to those scenes, they still had to wrap it daily so that she could do
the best she could running with the broken ankle and torn ligaments.
Clearly, she's a freaking badass which actually segues perfectly
into our next thing.
(Sound) Not only did Linda Hamilton get into crazy
good shape for T2.
She took her role so seriously that in the scene,
where she's trying to break out of the mental institution,
she refuses to allow production to fake this shot of her picking the lock.
She insisted on learning how to really do it, and
she does successfully pick the locks and free herself for real in this scene.
For the film´s release in England,
they actually wanted this scene cut from the film.
Because they didn't want People to see a plausible method of picking
locks demonstrated.
Sure this is totally fine but lock picking, no completely inappropriate.
(Sound) >> I'll be back.
>> The terminator is arguably the most iconic role of
Arnold Schwarzenegger's entire career.
What most people don't know is the T800 was originally envisioned as an everyman,
who could vanish in a crowd and hide in plain sight.
The exact opposite from a six foot two, 230 pound Austrian guy.
In fact, Arnold was up for the role of Reese originally.
However, Arnold wanted to play the Terminator from the very beginning.
He felt that the bad guy was the cooler guy in the script.
Luckily, after meeting James Cameron for lunch,
they both knew that Arnold will make a great terminator.
Seven years later, when they were working on T2,
Arnold was afraid to turn the T-800 into a good guy and
didn't like the idea that his character wouldn't be killing people.
So he negotiated with James Cameron and
Terminator 2 co writer Bill Wisher who is right there holding the camera by the way.
That The Terminator would stop killing only after Jon Connor tells him to and
he would still get to squeeze in some kills before that.
The final script which Cameron and Wisher had only seven weeks to
write convinced Arnold that turning The Terminator into a good guy would work.
Yeah, we say that it turned out okay.
>> Hasta la vista, baby.
> > That's it for this time around.
But there are a ton of other awesome Terminator things that we didn't have time
for in this episode.
So, hit the thumbs up if you want us to do a part two.
After all, there's another Terminator on the way next year.
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