The T-1000 / Robert Patrick
* Michael Biehn was the first choice for the role of the T-1000, in a complete reversal of roles with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was now a hero. But this idea was abandoned as it was judged too confusing for viewers.
T-1000 Characteristics
Out of all the time-traveling terminators in the series, the T-1000 is the only one that doesn't have any first-person "terminator vision" moments. Robert Patrick mimicked the head movements of the American bald eagle for his role as T-1000 and when moving through a crowd, he patterned himself after a shark moving in on its prey.
After his fight with T-800 in the Mall and throwing him away in the street through the glass pane, T-1000 looks suspiciously at the silver colored dummy head, which is quite similar to his own when having his natural, liquid metal appearance.
Even though Robert Patrick got weapon training under technical expert Uzi Gal, director James Cameron was so amazed by Patrick's performance, particularly for the T-1000 shooting scene at the Galleria mall, that he used the actual footage shot, without speeding up the frame rate.
The badge on the T1000's uniform reads "Austin" (named after producer Stephanie Austin), although it is not fully visible in the film. Austin is also the name of Robert Patrick's daughter.
The T1000 tells the helicopter pilot to "Get out!". This is an interesting parallel to The Terminator (1984), in which the Terminator gives the same command to a truck driver under similar circumstances.
Special Effects of the T-1000
The T-1000 morphing effects cost $5.5 million and took 8 months to produce for a mere total 3.5 minutes appearance on the screen. The liquid metal CGI effects were rendered on a Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo workstation.
The effect of the T-1000 freezing and breaking up was achieved through prosthetics attached to an amputee and with Robert Patrick's real limbs buried underneath the set. Industrial Light and Magic's computer graphics department had to grow from six artists to almost 36 to accommodate all the work required to bring the T-1000 to life, which ultimately amounted to three minutes of screen time.
Sounds of the T-1000
In order to create the sound of bullets striking T-1000, sound designer Gary Rydstrom slammed an inverted glass into a container of yogurt creating a combo sound of hard edge and goop. When T-1000 is transforming and flowing like mercury, Rydstrom created its "metallic" sound by spraying Dust-Off into a mixture of flour and water, with a condom-sealed mic submerged in the goo.
The sound that the T-1000 makes when transforming was created by putting a condom over a microphone and dipping it into oatmeal. Sound designer Gary Rydstrom added some lion roars to the sounds of the tanker truck that the T-1000 drives down the freeway to add some extra menace.
For the sound of T-1000 passing through metal bars, Rydstom simply inverted an open can of dog food and recorded the close-packed food as it oozed slowly out. James Cameron's own screams are used for the death throes of the T-1000.
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The Terminator 800 / Arnold Schwarzenegger
* When John and the Terminator rescue Sarah from the hospital, the Terminator says to her, "Come with me if you want to live." Reese said the exact same thing to Sarah after the nightclub shootout in the first film.
* More explicit shots of the T-800 arm cutting scene were removed.
T-800 Characteristics
The name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator is the Terminator Series 800 (shiny metal endoskeleton) model 101 (Arnold's actual skin on that skeleton). The Terminator's "point-of-view" scenes at the biker's bar identify a Harley Davidson "Fatboy", and a carcinogen in the cigar smoke. The Terminator makes good on his promise to not kill anyone before he even meets John; even when he first tears up the biker bar, the only character the Terminator "kills" in the entire movie is the T-1000.
The Terminator loses its left arm, and hauls itself forward with its right. The same thing happened to the Terminator in The Terminator (1984). The make-up artists mixed KY jelly into Arnold Schwarzenegger's make-up for the Terminator in "normal" mode to give him a slightly synthetic look.
The photos of the 1984 attack were still shots of a re-shoot. James Cameron had a hallway set built, dressed Arnold Schwarzenegger in his original Terminator outfit and had him recreate one take, from which they took the pictures. (Check out Arnold's hair and facial structure to spot the telltale signs.) In the final scene, the lines "I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me in the steel" were looped by Arnold Schwarzenegger in post-production, because a test audience didn't understand why Terminator needed Sarah to help him commit suicide.
The scene where the Terminator restarts after being 'shut down' by the T-1000 was not in the script and was added during editing because James Cameron felt that the audience will not be able to understand how the Terminator returns to deliver the final blow against the T-1000. According to the Schwarzenegger book 'The Life and Times', Cameron contacted Arnold, who was to go visiting his friend Bruce Willis for Christmas holidays to come back for shooting that crucial scene. Ultimately, Schwarzenegger had to cancel his holidays and film the scene.
The Terminator is the only character to be listed in the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes and Villains as both a villain (for The Terminator) and a hero (for Terminator 2: Judgment Day). Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the only two actors to be on the list as playing a villain and a hero but Pacino played two different characters. 13 other actors and actresses appear twice or more but either all as heroes or all as villains.
T-800's Weapons
The Terminator uses the following weapons throughout the movie: - Colt 45 Auto - Browning 1887 Action Lever 10-Gauge Sawed-off Shotgun minus trigger guard - M79 'Blooper' Grenade Launcher - Hawk MM-1 37mm 12-shot gas grenade launcher - GE-134 37mm 600rpm minigun. The Minigun used in the Cyberdyne scene was so heavy that Arnold was in fact the only person on stage that could carry the gun. The movie's sound department had to slow down the sound of the gun firing to be able to hear separate shots.
The 10-gauge shotgun used by Arnold during the majority of the film is a six-shot Winchester Model 1887. It was invented by gun designer John Browning and was the first commercially successful repeating shotgun. James Cameron confirmed that it is a 10-gauge shotgun, not a 12-gauge, in the commentary. The sound used for Arnold's shotgun is actually two cannons.
Arnold's World
According to a biographical documentary, Arnold Schwarzenegger only agreed to do the sequel if his role is more family-friendly, hence the "No killing" rule written for his character. Arnold said during the making of this film that he would never play another evil character again, but he later played the villain Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin (1997). His young daughter screamed the first time she saw her father's face made-up to show the robotics appearing underneath the skin tissue.
The Terminator says "I need a vacation", which Arnold Schwarzenegger previously said in Kindergarten Cop (1990). This was not in the script, but ad-libbed. When the Terminator tells Sarah Connor about Miles Dyson and the history of Skynet, Arnold Schwarzenegger was reading his lines from a card taped to the car's windshield.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was given a slightly used Gulfstream III airplane (worth about $14 million) by producer Mario Kassar for accepting the role. Given Arnold Schwarzenegger's $15-million salary and his total of 700 words of dialog, he was paid $21,429 per word. "Hasta la vista, baby" cost $85,716.
Carolco studio executives were nervous and concerned when the original budget of $75 million ballooned up to $88 million, with more to come. In order to keep the budget manageable, they proposed to eliminate a few scenes, particularly the opening biker bar scene where the Terminator was introduced. They tried to get Arnold Schwarzenegger to persuade James Cameron to remove that scene, but Schwarzenegger turned them down, saying, "Only a studio guy would cut a scene out like that."
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