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711. The Terminator (1984)
Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can’t even balance my checkbook!
This famous science fiction saga began as a simple slasher. An unstoppable killer from the future after a common girl of the eighties. However, the film eventually evolved far beyond the genre inaugurated by Halloween -641-.
All the themes of the film are summarised in the visionary soundtrack of Brad Fiedel. The insistent metallic hits make you feel the unbearable inexorability of both the mechanical killer and the terrifying future it represents. And yet there are also some chords of hope. The main theme, in fact, is a continuous struggle between the first ones and the second one.
Perhaps due to a low budget, this first instance of the saga focuses less on visual effects and devotes a much longer time to characterisation. Sarah Connor can be a compilation of all the existing female clichès (the Madonna, the Last Girl, the Action Girl) but Linda Hamilton does a great job and manages to convey the emotional whirlwind that a normal person would feel in such a stressful situation - summarised in the opening quotation. Kyle Reese as a survivor of an apocalyptic world is also an interesting character. Thanks to him, we observe several scenes of that future and we understand how it is to grow in an environment surrounded by death and destruction. It should be noted that such scenes are very rare in the following films (except for the fourth instalment set entirely in the future). Certainly, this is another incentive for this first film.
Finally, I think it is unnecessary to comment that Arnold’s interpretation of an unstoppable and merciless machine is perhaps the most successful of his career. Apparently, he was originally going to play Kyle before Cameron discovered his “potential”. Can you picture him in the sensual scenes with Linda?? By the way, if memory does not fail me, I think this is the only sex scene in the whole saga. Which gives you an idea how much more action-oriented the other films are.
In another vein, I think this is the first movie on the List which I’ve really felt the eighties: the music, the clothes, the hairstyles,… Well, that is, if we discard Mozart’s wig from yesterday. As I’ve said several times, science fiction films tell more about the time they were created than about the future they show. There is no doubt that each of Terminator’s instalments is a compilation of the fears of each generation. In the case of the eighties, the decade in which computers began to become popular, technophobia was one of the main concerns (not in vain, cyberpunk was a genre very popular at the time).
Undoubtedly, this picture continues to hold an incredible power of fascination.
8th February 2017
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