The minigun that the Terminator (Arnie) uses in the Cyberdyne scene was so heavy that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the only person on set strong enough to lift it.
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Sarah Connor: Keep it under 65. We don't want to be pulled over.
The Terminator: Affirmative.
John Connor: No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative" or some shit like that. You say, "No problemo." If someone comes off to you with an attitude, you say "Eat me." And if you want to shine 'em on it's, "Hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
John Connor: Yeah. Or, "Later dickwad." If someone gets upset you say, "Chill out." Or you can do combinations.
The Terminator: "Chill out...dickwad."
John Connor: That's great! See, you're getting it.
The Terminator: No problemo.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - 30 trivia entries
Directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Xander Berkeley (add more)
The minigun that the Terminator (Arnie) uses in the Cyberdyne scene was so heavy that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the only person on set strong enough to lift it.
When the T-1000 tells a man in the helicopter to "Get Out," this is the same thing the Terminator says in the first film (1984) when he takes the 18-wheeler. It's also used in T3.
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Eddie Furlong was warned, at the very beginning of the scene where he rides out of the mall and the T-1000 is chasing him, that Robert Patrick could run exceptionally well. Furlong confidently said that Patrick wouldn't catch him. However, on the very first take, Patrick ran right up and tapped him on the shoulder. So if this was real life, the human race would be in trouble.
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While the characters were running around a hot steel mill, in reality the temperatures in the mill averaged only about 40 degrees. The actors had to be consistently spritzed with water to make it look like they were sweating.
Makeup artist Jeff Dawn has said that in order to give the Terminator (Arnold Schwarznegger) a look that set him apart from the other "human" actors, the makeup artists "mixed in a little bit of K-Y Jelly into the straight make-up, to give him that 'I'm different-looking but you don't know why' look...It's a sort of plastic-man appearance."
The scene in which the T-1000 commandeers the police chopper at Cyberdyne and, while still in his liquid metal form, orders the copilot out, was the first time a fully computer generated character in a movie spoke.
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The police computer which the T-1000 uses to locate John Connor's juvenile delinquent record was a functional mobile data terminal on loan from ElectroCom Automation. The prop was the subject of many crew members' inquiries of "Hey, can you look up my record for any outstanding warrants?" They were disappointed when they found out it was not hooked into any actual police databases, but had been programmed to simply display John's record.
Early in the movie after the chase, between Arnie and John (riding a bike) and T-1000 (in the truck), the truck explodes. Arnold then aims his Winchester, waiting for the T-1000, but he does not come out of the fire and Arnold puts the gun down without looking. The Winchester passes so closely from John's head that you can see it brush his hair. In another take, he actually got hit by Arnie - he's said so in interviews.
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When the 1000 robot follows them in the helicopter, we can clearly see that he has 3 arms when he is loading his gun with 2 arms and steering with the third. OK, it might be able to generate arms at will, but worth a look...
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Note that, even when running, T-1000 never breathes through his mouth. Breathing through his nose helped Robert Patrick make his character look mechanical.
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So that he didn't have to use a split screen, director James Cameron hired twins to play the security guard and his T-1000 double at the hospital. Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren was used in the scene where the T-1000 is disguised as Sarah, although as the focus is on the T-1000, in those shots Linda Hamilton plays the robot with her sister playing Sarah.
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In the shot where the SWAT van skids across the floor of the Cyberdyne main lobby and ends up with its back end against the elevator lobby, the tile floor was so slick that an industrial adhesive was sprayed all over the floor to allow for greater control.
An unknown Edward Furlong (John Connor) who had never acted before was discovered by casting director Mali Finn at a boys' club in Pasadena, California.
Jim Cameron once quoted "You can do anything to a terminator, but don't break his sunglasses, that really pisses them off."
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After the escape from the mental hospital, our heroes hide out at a gas station. The pumps at the station feature the logo of the fictional company Benthic Petroleum--the company that owned and operated the undersea drilling rig in The Abyss.
The battle rifles carried by the endoskeletons in the Future War segment were created by fitting a fully-automatic Calico 950 handgun, with a 100-round helical-feed magazine, into a fiberglass shell.
The film cleverly mirrors the original on many occasions, many of them are featured here but one of the more subtle ones is the way Arnie gets up after being thrown through the window in the mall. It is shot the same way and he moves the same way as when he is on the ground outside the Tech Noir Club in T1.
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Actors Robert Patrick (T-1000) and Joe Morton (Miles Dyson) would reunite more than 10 years later on Fox's 'The X-Files'. The plot of the episode is eerily similar to that of the Terminator: Joe Morton's character is given a second chance, going back in time one day at a time to stop a murderer from killing his wife, trying to clear his own name in the process. Very interesting similarity in themes.
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For the sound of T-1000 passing through metal bars, Rydstom simply inverted an open can of dog food and recorded the close-packed food as it oozed slowly out.
Throughout the 9 months of making the film, Edward's Furlong's voice had got deeper, so they had to artificially pitch his voice higher to ensure it maintained a constant pitch throughout the film.
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