The first and second parts of [Terminator] spent my childhood with me in repeated screenings. What always impressed me was the cold horror of T-8, played by Uncle Arnold, of scraping bones in the dark. , After T-1000 changed from a pool of liquid metal to a bad guy, he continued to rush to chase the truck and suffocate, and T-800 wiped the tears from little John's face and the last thumb.
[Terminator] wins in its purity. No one doubts why only two Terminators have been sent before and after Skynet for so many years. There will also be people like me who can’t figure out why the protector sent by John in the future world will always be better than him. The opponent's machine is N grades worse. In fact, Sarah or John, they are not so much like the Virgin and Child in Christianity, but they are clues, bridges, and a platform for direct dialogue between the present and the future, humans and intelligent robots. Humans are humans, and machines are machines. Just like the line in [Black and White Forest], "Black is black, and white is white." The hedge between two different races is often the most exciting and exciting. It is precisely because of the difference between the two that the part of T-800's attempt to interpret human emotions in [Judgment Day] is touching to this day.
What [Butterfly Effect] preached to us is that even a small change in the course of history is enough to cause a completely different development result, while the [Terminator] series is the opposite. The Terminator travels through time and space, trying to gently flap his wings to cause a storm in Central America, while the rebels also go back to the past and use the same fan to neutralize the strength of the former and eliminate them invisible. We know that John is alive in the future world, and considering that the parallel world is not the keynote of this series, and the John of the future world cannot disappear out of thin air because of his death in the past, so it can only be that the past John never did. Impossible to die. The torrent of history is irreversible. For the same reason, it is impossible for the human side to eliminate Skynet fundamentally by going back to the past and killing the nigger who developed Skynet, because Western religions believe that humans have original sins and sins. , Greed and desire are their nature, and this nature determines that Skynet will always come out. Zhang San is dead, Li Si will continue this unfinished business, and this logic is the [Terminator] series in After several years of silence, the proliferation of sequels renewed and broke the biggest obstacle.
Therefore, [Terminator 3], instead of drawing a perfect end to this classic series, it is possible to let it flow into the vulgarity of infinite foam soap. Because "I'll come back.", I always want to come back.
Since what should come will always come and what should happen will always happen, then John, the so-called savior and leader of future mankind, is actually just a spiritual symbol. So there is the hesitant and weak John of the third generation. He just got out of a woman's baby and hid under another woman's umbrella.
So compared to 2 and 3, John is thin and incomplete. Although the plot is amazing, it can also be said to be a rape of public opinion against people like me who don't use John as a symbol. In terms of special effects, the cold and glamorous Nordic model TX in 3 failed to break through the liquid metal T-1000 in 2, perhaps for the directors and screenwriters, what should the future of the [Terminator] series go? It is also an unknown number X.
After talking about [Terminator] for so long, I actually wanted to introduce "Terminator", which is the Fox TV series "The Terminator-The Sarah Connor Chronicles". [Terminator] is the first movie I watched in a cinema since I can remember, and the first season of "Terminator" is also the first American drama I watched completely.
From [Terminator] to "Terminator", it means that I may be able to watch this series with a more tolerant and entertaining attitude. In fact, the shrewdness of the screenwriter is that he does not want to challenge the ambition of the classics, but to avoid the edge and find another way, trying to convey something new to the audience that is different from the movie.
The greatest contribution of the series is that Sarah Connor becomes the protagonist of the story. Sarah is shrewd and capable, brave and great because of her mother's love, even including her manic and hysteria in her character and behavior. These factors make her plump and people in the movie. deep impression. Sarah's strength even forced the screenwriter to arrange a future mortal destiny for him in the third [Renaissance of the Machine] in order to save John from her shadow. In the drama series, Sarah interpreted by Lena Headey adds more wisdom and femininity to the movie version. The blue eyes, complex expressions, and more inner conflicts are even better than the movie version. I am not a feminist, but I think Sarah is the real protagonist of this battle between the present and the future. This is an accidental accident in the development of the [Terminator] series plot, but it is an inevitable result.
The second major contribution of the series is to save John from the quagmire of [Terminator 3]. John is weak because of his mother, but he can't and shouldn't be unbearable. This is the bottom line in my mind. And "Terminator Side Story" rectified his name and gave me confidence and hope for those who believe that John will eventually become the savior. Thomas Dekker is more like a high-quality idol than John in [Judgment Day], an obedient boy next door, but he did not become a vase decoration anyhow. The John in the series is rich, but the flaws are more than soft, and the courage is not enough. Of course, it is not that [Judgment Day] is in front. Such character interpretation is actually all right.
Unlike the movie, the series complicates what was originally simple and direct, giving it unlimited potential to become a soap opera. As mentioned earlier, [Terminator] is like [Black and White Forest], so to speak, "Terminator" is analogous to [Infernal Affairs]. From the terminator to the rebels, they have been given more sides. There is no obvious boundary between good and evil. The characters are always full of mystery, making the story full of suspense.
I don’t know why the crew chose Summer Glau as the Terminator Cameron, because she doesn’t have the kind of coldness that Terminator should have from head to toe, and she lacks the factors that stimulate male audience hormones in her appearance and body, which is not enough to create eyeball effects. . It can only be guessed that the screenwriter and director want to show us Terminators who are not like Terminators. Therefore, the villain Terminator will marry humans and will face Ellison’s mercy; and Cameron will no longer be able to walk like the monsters in [Terminator]. She will strike up a conversation with John, learn ballet, tease John, and even say Come out "I love you. And you love me." I can’t imagine what it would be like if robots have human emotions and ways of thinking. Can such robots be called robots? Are there any essential differences between them and humans? For them, humans are still non-self races? Is it necessary to eliminate it? From the episode, I seem to see a trend in which humans and intelligent robots merge in features. Perhaps in the end, the story will come to an abrupt end like the [The Matrix] trilogy. The two sides will each hit 50 boards. No one will be the winner, and the revolution will become a peaceful evolution.
Derek is another anomaly. This anomaly is relative to the [Terminator] series. In fact, this "alien" is more in line with human characteristics. Although his surname is Reese, he is more complicated and mysterious than his simple and passionate brother Kyle. This is related to the role he played in the previous family, and also to his experience in the future world. Compared to Cameron, Derek sometimes feels more ruthless. I think this is a character with a lot of potential to be tapped. He shouldn’t be a mere rebel. His modifiers should be added dangerous and unknowable. What’s terrible is that his identity is tied to the softness of Sarah’s heart. .
Of course, the existence of other character lines is purely to inject more bubbles into the soap opera.
After watching the first season, I feel that "Terminator" has a completely different temperament from [Terminator]. It is intricate and complicated, but too human. The story about robots should have been colder and cooler. However, the "Terminator Gaiden" shrouded in the aura of [Terminator] is still enough to attract me to continue chasing. After all, this was once a boy's childhood dream.
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