Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning
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| German title | Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning | ||
| Original title | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1991 | ||
| length | Theatrical Version: 137 minutes Special Edition: 153 minutes Ultimate Cut: 156 minutes |
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| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | James Cameron | ||
| script | James Cameron, William Wisher |
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| production | James Cameron | ||
| music | Brad Fiedel | ||
| camera | Adam Greenberg | ||
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Conrad Buff , Mark Goldblatt , Richard A. Harris |
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Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (Original title: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ) is a science fiction film by James Cameron from the year 1991 and the continuation of the movie Terminator from the year 1984th
Terminator 2 , also known simply as T2 , was the first film to cost over $ 100 million to produce. He grossed around $ 520 million worldwide.
action
A Terminator of the type T-800 (Model 101) - an android and the same model that was commissioned in the first part of the Terminator film series to kill Sarah Connor before the birth of her son John - has been reprogrammed by the resistance movement of the future and been sent back through time . His mission is to protect ten-year-old John Connor, the future leader of mankind in the fight against the machines controlled by the artificial intelligence Skynet.
Opponent of this "good" Terminator is a successor to the T-800, a T-1000, which has the task of killing John Connor. The T-1000 is made of liquid metal and can therefore change its shape almost at will and is therefore decisively superior to the T-800. He can take on the shape of any person he has touched and transform his body parts into cutting and stabbing weapons.
The T-800 arrives naked in the present and first goes to a bar frequented by motorcycle rockers. After a physical argument with some guests, it appropriates clothing, a weapon and a motorcycle. The T-1000, on the other hand, kills a policeman after its arrival in the present, takes the form of a policeman and seizes its pistol and police car. With the help of the police computer, the T-1000 learns the address of John Connor's foster parents.
The T-1000 tracks down John in a Los Angeles mall. But the T-800 shows up on the spot before the attacker gets a move on and gives the victim a head start by stopping the T-1000 with a duel. However, the T-1000 asserts itself and attaches itself with a heavy lorries the boy on his moped refuge, on the heels. The T-800 rescues John during the subsequent chase through the city and a flood protection canal on his Harley-Davidson and puts the T-1000 out of action for a short time.
The T-800 tells John who he is and what the T-1000 is and what role the boy will one day play as an adult. By calling John's foster parents, he and John find out that they are already dead. Since it is one of the mission parameters of the T-800 to obey John Connor's orders, he complies with his instructions not to kill any more people.
At the boy's request, the Terminator takes the boy to the Pescadero State Hospital to free John's mother, who has been held there for several years. She tried to blow up the Cyberdyne computer factory after she was chased by a Terminator ( in the first film ) and she realized that Cyberdyne was doing various work in the field of artificial intelligence in the war between humans and machines decisive could be useful to the latter. The T-800 encounters Sarah as she is trying to escape again. The woman is initially shocked when she suddenly faces the terminator. After she has been told the truth, the Terminator, assisted by John, helps her escape.
The T-1000 also appears in the clinic and attacks Sarah, John and the T-800 while they are fleeing in the elevator and later with a police car. Eventually he is able to be taken down and treated at a remote gas station for Sarah's wounds and the damage to the T-800. John removes a blockage in the neural network from the main processor of the terminator , which prevented the T-800 from developing more in the way of a human .
When Sarah asks the T-800 about the details of the coming conflict between humans and machines, the Terminator explains how and when the Skynet computer program will develop its own awareness that a certain Miles Bennet Dyson, head of the department for special projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation that took responsibility for the project and that Cyberdyne would be the largest supplier of military computer systems during the coming war.
The trio then equips Enrique, a longtime friend of Sarah's living in Mexico, to destroy Cyberdyne. Sarah, who falls asleep while John and the T-800 select weapons, is caused by the terrifying dream of an atomic bomb detonating over Los Angeles to drive off alone to kill Dyson. However, John wants to prevent this and follows her together with the T-800. The Terminator indicates the possibility of averting the war by killing Dyson, but rebounds with John, who insists that this will not lead to anything and that a person should not be killed even under such circumstances.
Sarah reaches Dyson's house first and tries to ambush him, but only slightly injures him. When she tries to murder him in the presence of his wife and child, she collapses in despair. John and the T-800 arrive, treat Dyson and calm his family. Dyson learns what role he and Cyberdyne will play in the future and that they will be responsible for the deaths of more than three billion people.
As it also turns out, the bulk of Dyson's work rests on what remains of the first T-800. Dyson decides to break off his research and to resign from his employer, and also makes up his mind to completely destroy the Cyberdyne company with his visitors so that no one else can trace back and continue his work.
After the arm and main processor of the first terminator are recovered from Cyberdyne's vault, the T-800 incapacitates the police officers entering the building and their colleagues waiting outside without killing any of them. However, Dyson is badly hit by the police and blows himself up along with the material from his work.
The T-1000 chases Sarah, John and the T-800, who flee in a stolen emergency vehicle, with a police helicopter and a tanker into a steel mill . Liquid nitrogen flows out of the overturned tanker . He freezes the T-1000 and breaks it under a shot of the T-800 (with its famous saying “Hasta la vista, baby!” ). But due to the heat, the T-1000 merges again and attacks the T-800, which is severely damaged in the process, but can restart itself with the help of an emergency generator . The attacker tries to approach John in the form of his mother, but the real Sarah shows up and prevents this. When the T-800 hits the T-1000 with the last grenade from its M79 grenade launcher , it tips backwards into a steel melt and is thus finally destroyed.
At the direction of the T-800, the remains of the original Terminator are also thrown into the melt, destroying the technology and programming that would lead to the creation of Skynet. The T-800 recognizes, however, that its own body and its own chip also pose a threat to humanity and therefore it must also be destroyed. Acting against John's will for the first and last time, he says goodbye to him and his mother, who let him down into the melt on a chain, because he cannot terminate himself.
In the last scene of the film, the camera drives along a dark highway at night. You can hear an epilogue spoken by Sarah Connor :
“ The unknown future is rolling towards us. And for the first time I look at her with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a terminator, can learn to appreciate the value of life, then maybe we can too. "
Chronological classification
The exact time period in which the events of Terminator 2 take place is not explicitly mentioned in the film. There are several scenes that can serve as clues but contradict each other. The Terminator explains in one scene that Cyberdyne Systems would be the largest supplier of military computer systems three years later. Together with the information that the day of the end of the world will take place on August 29, 1997, the film plot can only take place in 1994 (or earlier).
However, this contradicts another scene in which the T-1000 uses a police computer to determine the address of John Connor. The age and exact date of birth of the wanted person appear on the computer screen. He is ten years old at the time of the film and was born on February 28, 1985, which means that the film can only play between February 28, 1995 and February 27, 1996.
During their first conversation, the T-800, sent back in 2029, tells John Connor that he reprogrammed him 35 years in the future and sent him on his mission. Thus, the film takes place in 1994.
Sarah is led by Dr. Silberman referred to as a 29-year-old patient, according to the script, she is said to be 19 years old in the first Terminator film , which is set in 1984. So Terminator 2 would have to play in 1994 or 1995. In the third installment of the series , however, John tells that he was 13 when the T-1000 was supposed to kill him - that would mark 1997 as the period for Terminator 2 .
Another indication of 1997 can be found in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles . In episode seven (The Hand of God) of the first season, Sarah Connor steals a videotape from FBI agent Ellison. On this is a recording that was recorded on June 8, 1997 in the sanatorium. In a later conversation with John, Sarah explains, “June 8th, 1997… It's the day I broke out of there. The day you came for me, I was coming for you. "
In the book Terminator 2 it can be read that the dispatch of the T-1000 is the final act of Skynet, because the rebels penetrate the headquarters of Skynet (battle scenes at the beginning of the film) and are about to shut down. There is only one copy of the T-1000, and according to calculations it would have the power to decisively influence the future for itself, possibly even against the interests of its builder. Skynet therefore only used this option as a last resort.
publication
Terminator 2 - Reckoning Day came to German cinemas on October 24, 1991. On August 29, 2017, the film was shown in a 3D revision in Austria and Germany.
Different versions
Over time, Terminator 2 - Reckoning Day has been released in different versions across a variety of media. In addition to the theatrical version, a so-called special edition was released on laser disc in 1995 . The version is also known in Germany as the Director's Cut and was released in 2001 on DVD and later on HD DVD and Blu-ray . With this edition, the film has been expanded to include numerous details that primarily provide deeper insights into the motivations of the protagonists. Since the Special Edition was released on DVD, almost only this version has been used for television broadcasts here in Germany . Older broadcasts only ever showed the theatrical version.
In 2009 the Ultimate Cut was released exclusively on Blu-ray , which contains two additional cut scenes and thus offers an alternative ending, which is like a happy ending and equalizes all sequels. Despite this alternative ending in the script, which was also present in the novel for the film, James Cameron decided at the time to cut out the scene because it allows the film to end too positively. Instead, Cameron preferred the uncertain ending with a view of the dark highway towards the future. The Ultimate Cut is the Easter egg hidden and must have the number sequence 82997 are unlocked using the remote control.
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“A story of violence and survival staged with the greatest amount of trick technology, which enforces its brutal actions with the surprising postulate of a more humane world. An interesting variant of the martial killing and extermination films, the possibly intended cathartic effect of which is doubtful. "
"The sci-fi spectacle of the perfection king James Cameron is one of the masterpieces of the genre."
"The single most powerful image of nuclear devastation in American popular cinema."
"The most powerful image of nuclear destruction in popular American cinema."
Awards (selection)
The lavish film was nominated for numerous awards , mainly in technical areas , including six Academy Awards, four of which it won.
- Best sound editing: Gary Rydstrom , Gloria S. Borders
- Best sound mix: Tom Johnson , Gary Rydstrom , Gary Summers , Lee Orloff
- Best make-up: Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn
- Best visual effects: Dennis Muren , Stan Winston , Gene Warren Jr. , Robert Skotak
- further nominations:
- Best editing: Conrad Buff IV , Mark Goldblatt , Richard A. Harris
- Best camera: Adam Greenberg
- Best note: Lee Orloff, Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers
- Best visual effects: Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak
- further nomination:
- Best production design: Joseph C. Nemec
- Best science fiction film
- Best Director: James Cameron
- Best Actress: Linda Hamilton
- Best Young Actor: Edward Furlong
- Best special effects: Stan Winston
- further nominations:
- Best Screenplay: James Cameron and William Wisher Jr.
- Best Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Best Supporting Actor: Robert Patrick
- Best make-up: Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn
- Best movie
- Best Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Best Actress: Linda Hamilton
- Most wanted actress: Linda Hamilton
- Best newcomer: Edward Furlong
- Best action sequence
- further nominations:
- Best villain: Robert Patrick
- Best film song: " You Could Be Mine " by Guns N 'Roses
James Cameron received the 1992 Bradbury Award from Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the script .
music
The soundtrack was composed and produced by Brad Fiedel, who already set Part 1 to music. Robert Townson was executive producer and Brad Fiedel and Ross Levinson did the mixing. The purely instrumental CD with a playing time of almost 54 minutes was released in 1991 by Varése Sarabande ( Transfer Supervision from Tom Null), in Germany via Colosseum records. One reviewer judged the soundtrack to be " emotionless and brutal ."
In addition to the soundtrack, the following pieces can be heard:
- Guns N 'Roses - " You Could Be Mine "
- George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "Bad to the Bone"
- Dwight Yoakam - "Guitars, Cadillacs"
various
- Industrial Light & Magic was responsible for the digital effects (which only last a few minutes) .
- In 1996 James Cameron shot a short film with John Bruno for Universal Studios for the attraction T2 3-D: Battle Across Time . This is based on the Terminator films and pretends the visitor is at a screening by the development company Cyberdyne . Events on the screen, which were filmed with the original actors Schwarzenegger, Hamilton, Patrick and Furlong, seem to alternate seamlessly with events around and in the auditorium. The film was James Cameron's first exposure to 3D technology.
- As a result of the feature film, several "Terminator-2" video games were released for many different game consoles and the arcade in the early 1990s .
- The chess game “Chess Wars” (DOS) and a T2 entertainment kit (Windows) with screensavers of animated terminators, background images, sound effects and short video clips have also been released for the PC .
- Of Williams , there is a T2 pinball machines , which the most popular pinball machines ever counts.
- John Connor uses an Atari portfolio to manipulate ATMs or security access. All product features and nameplates can be seen in the film ( product placement ).
- In 1992 Robert Patrick made a cameo as the T-1000 in the comedy Wayne's World , as well as in 1993 in Last Action Hero .
- The tanker truck is called "Benthic Petroleum", the same name of the oil company at Twister (tanker truck) and The Abyss (operator of the supply ship and the undersea drilling station).
- The name of the rest area that the Terminator, John and Sarah Connor drive to is Cactus Jack . As already called Western - Comedy Cactus Jack in the Schwarzenegger the role of "Schönchen stranger" from 1979, took over.
- In The Simpsons ( season 5, episode 16 ), the scene is parodied in which the Terminator T-1000 holds onto the back of a car with its metallic hooks: Homer Simpson uses two golf clubs instead.
- The episode Smart Metal from the television series The X-Files (Season 8, Episode 9) alludes lead actor Robert Patrick to the T-1000 in the film.
- Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren appears in two scenes: Once as Sarah's reflection (only in the Director's Cut) and once as T-1000, who copies Sarah Connor.
- Also in a scene in the psychiatry when the T-1000 is copying a police guard, twins are used instead of special visual effects, Don and Dan Stanton .
- In December 2015 it was announced that a re-screening of the film in 3D was planned. The 3D conversion was carried out by the Californian company StereoD . The new version was premiered at the Berlinale 2017 and shown in cinemas on August 29, 2017, exactly 20 years after “Judgment Day”.
- On the website www.dieseher.de , Terminator 2 is referred to as the film with the most errors in cinema history. The number of errors is given as 136.
- According to Robert Patrick , singer Billy Idol was originally supposed to play the role of the T-1000. Presumably he had to decline the role because of a motorcycle accident.
synchronization
The synchronous work was done by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Ronald Nitschke , who also has a speaking role in the film.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
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| Terminator T-800 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Thomas Danneberg |
| Sarah Connor | Linda Hamilton | Joseline Gassen |
| John Connor | Edward Furlong |
Marius Clarén , Ricardo Richter (new scenes) |
| Terminator T-1000 | Robert Patrick | Ronald Nitschke |
| Dr. Peter Silberman | Earl Boen | Jürgen Thormann |
| Dr. Miles Bennet Dyson | Joe Morton | Hubertus Bengsch |
| Tarissa Dyson | S. Epatha Merkerson | Heike Schroetter |
| Enrique Salceda | Castulo Guerra | Miguel Levin |
| Tim | Danny Cooksey | Sebastian Schulz |
| Janelle Voight | Jenette Goldstein | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Todd Voight | Xander Berkeley | Michael Christian |
| Douglas | Ken Gibbel |
Gerald Paradies , Frank-Otto Schenk (new scenes) |
| Kyle Reese (only in the Director's Cut ) | Michael Biehn | Joachim Tennstedt |
Sequels
In 2003 the film series continued with Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines . In June 2009 Terminator: The Redemption, the fourth part, was released in cinemas. On July 9, 2015, the fifth part Terminator: Genisys was released in German cinemas. On October 24, 2019, Terminator: Dark Fate, a sixth film, was released in German cinemas. In terms of content, this only connects to Terminator 2 and ignores all other films.
literature
- Ulrich Bähr: The determiner. Nun and enlightener, machine and human, B-movie and blockbuster - the transformations of a film material . In: Eckhard Pabst (Ed.): Myths - Mothers - Machines. The universe of James Cameron . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-933598-71-0 , p. 44-70 .
- Randall Frakes : Terminator II - The novel for the film . Bastei Lübbe Verlag , Bergisch Gladbach 1991, ISBN 3-404-13382-X , p. 265 .
- Christian Krug: Morphing Matters. Digital material in “Terminator 2” (1991) . In: Sigrid G. Köhler u. a. (Ed.): Prima Materia: Contributions to the transdisciplinary materiality debate . 2004, ISBN 978-3-89741-144-9 , pp. 317-340 .
- Michaela Krützen: The perfect father and the ideal son. Two machine people in the film . In: Machine Worlds (Neue Rundschau) . 114th year, no. 2 . Fischer, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-10-809053-1 , pp. 36-46 .
- Theo Ligthart: Terminator ...: about the end as the beginning . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85165-607-5 .
- Peter Sloterdijk : messengers of violence. On the metaphysics of action cinema. Using the example of James Cameron's "Terminator 2" . In: Andreas Rost (ed.), Images of Violence, Frankfurt / M. 1994, pp. 13-34, ISBN 978-3-88661-153-9
- Stephan Zöller : When the terminator chases the savior. Religious elements in popular entertainment films . In: Thomas Luksch, Hermann Würdinger (Hrsg.): First the human. Explorations and perspectives for a contemporary teaching of faith . Don Bosco, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7698-1191-7 , p. 176-187 .
- Eckhard Pabst: The best of all possible worlds. James Cameron's "The Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". In: Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lemke, Willem Strank (eds.): Action! Classics of popular cinema. Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2014, pp. 60–79
- David Foster Wallace : The fun of it. All essays. Cologne 2018. pp. 681–690.
Web links
- Terminator 2 - Judgment Day at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Terminator 2 - Judgment Day at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Terminator 2 - Judgment Day at Metacritic (English)
- Terminator 2 - the day of reckoning in the online film database
- Roger Ebert Review (English)
- Comparison of the theatrical version and the special edition of Terminator 2 - day of reckoning at Schnittberichte.com
- Entry in the German terminator wiki
- Terminator - headfirst into bankruptcy at TV Spielfilm
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning . In: BFI .
- ↑ Release certificate for Terminator 2 - day of settlement . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; Director's Cut).
- ↑ Björn Becher: Keep waiting: 'Avatar 2' will not be finished until the end of 2018 In: filmstarts.de, March 10, 2017.
- ↑ Schnittberichte.com Terminator 2 , accessed on July 12, 2015.
- ↑ a b Terminator 2: Judgment Day at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed September 19, 2014.
- ↑ a b Terminator 2: Judgment Day at Metacritic , accessed September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema - Terminator 2 - Reckoning Day .
- ^ Andrew Bartlett: Nuclear Warfare in the Movies. In: Anthropoetics 10, no.1 (Spring / Summer 2004). Kwantlen University College, 2004, accessed April 15, 2009 .
- ^ Christian Clemmensen: Terminator 2 - Judgment Day. In: Filmtracks.com. Retrieved on May 23, 2008 (English): "emotionless and brutal"
- ↑ cf. Peter Holm: Terminator 2 - Judgment Day. (No longer available online.) In: Music from the Movies. Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 23, 2008 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Terminator 2: Judgment Day Easter Egg - Rest Stop. www.eeggs.com, April 23, 2000, accessed January 1, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b Terminator 2: Fun Fact # 1. www.filmfunfacts.de, March 26, 2015, accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Top 20 films. www.dieseher.de, accessed on January 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Billy Idol Almost Played the T-1000 in 'Terminator 2,' Robert Patrick Says. August 17, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Terminator - 2nd day of reckoning. In: German synchronous card index. Retrieved May 23, 2008 .
- ↑ Release dates . In: IMDb.com. Retrieved on: March 30, 2015 (English).