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Interesting facts from the movie, The Terminator
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Michael Biehn's character gets bitten on the hand by another character. This happens to him in every 'James Cameron' movie he's in - see Aliens (1986) and Abyss, The (1989).
O.J. Simpson was considered for the role of the terminator, but the producers feared he wouldn't be taken seriously.
Lance Henriksen was originally cast as the Terminator, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the hero. Schwarzenegger read the script, and asked to play the Terminator instead.
Just after the first scene in the nightclub TechNoir, we hear a police radio report a "two-eleven in progress at Bob's Liquor, corner of Third and Cameron," an possible reference to director James Cameron.
Shots through the Terminator's vision show Apple 2+ assembly code, taken from "Nibble", a computing magazine. Other code visible is written in COBOL
Schwarzenegger's voice is used in exactly 16 lines, with 17 sentences spoken. The terminator has two other lines onscreen, one with the voice of a police officer overdubbed, and one with the voice of Sarah's mother overdubbed. There are also many lines with the voice of Sarah's mother, and we learn that the terminator is actually saying them, but we don't see it.
Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison filed a lawsuit against Cameron, claiming that Cameron plagiarized several of his short stories, namely "Soldier" and "Demon With a Glass Hand". The concept of "Skynet" could also have been borrowed from an Ellison short story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". Newer prints of the film acknowledge Ellison.
A scene in which a person picked up the CPU of the terminator after it was crushed was filmed, but not included.
ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): "I'll be back!" (first)
Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [feet]: in the future sequence, there is a close-up of tank treads rolling over human skulls.
Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [feet]: when the Terminator approaches the house of the first "Sarah Connor," it crushes a small toy truck.
Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [feet]: after the terminator kills Sarah's friend, he walks over her walkman headphones.
Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [nice cut]: Sarah's burning photo turning into Sara sleeping in Reese's arms.
Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [nuke]
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