Recently, James Cameron announced interesting news: the return of the Terminator 2: Doomsday project is scheduled for next year. Actors who played cult images will again appear before the viewer, but this time in 3D.
Budget paintings and awards
The film was released in 1991, and at that time was the most expensive film in the history of mankind. The success of the thriller was truly overwhelming - its box office was ten times more than the first part. In addition, the sequel received four Oscar awards, while the original project did not receive a single nomination.
If we adjust for inflation, then today Cameron would spend about $ 178 million on the production of his brainchild. Note that for advertising, the director shot a teaser that did not include footage from the blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The actors gathered again on the set to shoot a separate video, for which we had to pay an additional 150 thousand dollars.
As a result, the thriller raised $ 520 million, despite the fact that it was assigned a rating of R. We remind you that in this case, underage viewers can attend a session only in the presence of adults.
Plot
About ten years have passed since the attempt was made to kill the heroine, which was portrayed by Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor). The army of cars sends in the 90s a new robot that is able to take on any guise. "Liquid metal" finds out where John Connor lives, and goes to liquidate him.
The young man comes to the aid of another robot - T-800, related to the machines of the previous generation. This image was taken upon by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The terminator, by the way, was distinguished by the fact that he did not kill anyone (he only wounded several characters).
The boy understands that all the “crazy” stories of his mother were true, and he asks his new ally to go to a psychiatric hospital in order to rescue Sarah. Gradually, John becomes emotionally attached to the robot and even teaches him certain skills inherent in ordinary people. Sarah, meanwhile, does not fully trust the car that arrived from the future.
How much is the word Schwarzenegger
Of course, the main star of this movie was Arnold Schwarzenegger. The terminator in his performance turned out to be quite colorful. Throughout the film, the actor spoke only seven hundred words. At the same time, his fee was $ 15 million. As a result, it turns out that one celebrity word could be estimated at around 22 thousand dollars. Although it is worth mentioning that in the original film the star pronounces 58 words, and for participation in the project he was paid 750 thousand dollars.
Note that only Schwarzenegger received 15 million - the second protagonist of the blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day was much less fortunate.
Edward Furlong earned for his role only 30 thousand dollars.
References to Lem and Russia
Attentive viewers could not help but notice that the colors of the Russian flag — red, blue, and white — were painted on the hood of the truck tearing off the bridge. We note one more remarkable fact: the T-1000 robot (Robert Patrick), which first spread across the floor and then assumed the appearance of a person, is described in detail in Stanislav Lem’s science fiction work entitled “Peace on Earth” - the book was presented in four years before the premiere of Cameron's work.
The director said that some scientists thanked him for the scene in which Sarah dreamed of a nuclear explosion. The luminaries of science noted that they first happened to see such a plausible version of this process on the screen.
Work on special effects
There are other aspects that are known for “Terminator 2: Doomsday”. The actors interacted not only with each other, but also with dolls that were used in some scenes with Schwarzenegger, as well as in the reconstruction of a nuclear explosion.
However, the fact of applying revolutionary special effects for that time is more interesting. For example, the scene when “Liquid Metal” comes out of the flame and gradually turns into a policeman is the first in the history of cinema, where an animated computer model of a person is shown at full height.
Twins in the movie
In conclusion, it is worth noting that other features are not alien to the film "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." Actors are one of the main secrets of this iconic movie. In four scenes in the image of Sarah Connor, it was not Linda Hamilton who appeared before the viewer, but her twin sister Leslie.
It was she who played the reflection of the heroine in the mirror when she opened the head of the T-800. Linda's sister also appeared in the frame at the moment when Kyle Reeves appeared in the woman’s dream, and during the nuclear explosion.
Also, the brothers Don and Dan took part in the filming of the sequel. The first played in the scene when the hero of Patrick killed his character in the hospital, a guard Lewis. Then Dan was also connected, depicting a robot who instantly assumed the shape of a murdered man.
Despite the abundance of action scenes, the plot killed a maximum of sixteen people, and the culprit of most deaths was the T-1000.