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Terminator

            Recent advancement in science has made it possible for the existence of artificial intelligence. We have come to rely on artificial intelligence to improve our quality of life and to protect us from our enemies. In the 80's the world was at a state of demise with the threat of Cold War. The result of Cold war with the new aged nuclear weapons would have resulted in annihilation of the human race at an apocalyptic proportion. We as citizens seem to have a love/ hate relationship with technology. We embrace technology when it is of benefit to us but at the same time we are quick to condemn it when it goes dire. We have to realize that technology is a creation of man. The creator has the ultimate control. The creator has the ultimate control up to the point of the invention of the technology but once it has been produced it can never be erased. For example, the creation of a bomb only resulted in designing more potent bombs. .
             Artificial intelligence and cognitive science is the lifeblood of science fiction films. The Science fiction films have always flirted with the notion that technology or machine could take over and replace the real world, as we know it and make the humans obsolete. In the movie directed by James Cameron The Terminator? and the sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day?, the concept of a machine destroying all traces of human being is the premises of the movie. These Two movies exhibit the cruelty of the technology and the nuclear fatalism. These two movies explore many aspects. We will examine the main themes present in the movie. The idea of artificial intelligence and their ability to have human like characteristics and the subject of feminism, which is ever present in both the movies.
             In the movieThe Terminator? the film's main theme is the idea of anapocalyptic struggle to save humanity from a world of self-aware computers and autonomous machines?. Sarah Conner learns about the danger that is in store for the future.


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1. The terminator micro reading

... from what the TV reporter is saying, which makes the audience empathise with her. Sarah is also feeling the same way as she can't escape the terminator. His voice is assertive when saying the victims name and he uses short sentences to keep the audiences attention. It also emphasises the fast pace of ... and Sarah has to shout as she phones the police. At the point there is a cut to a police car ironically shown driving off as the Terminator arrives at Sarah's friends house. This shows how unreliable the police are and that Sarah cannot find protection from them. There is then a brief es...

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2. Terminator

... His is not afraid of anyone. He walks slowly and if something gets in his way, he terminates it. This slow camera movement makes you fear the terminator, just the way the creators want you to. Lighting is another important part of the classical Hollywood style. Different forms of light help set the mood of ... the movie, and the mood of the character. For example, in the movie the terminator goes to the police station to kill Sarah Connor. When Sarah Conner is at the police station, the movie wants you to think she is safe. During ... this scene the police station is very bright. This ...

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3. Terminator vs The Conservative??

Terminator Vs. The Conservative? The California recall election has three major candidates for governor of California, Cruz Bustamante (Democrat), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican), and Tom McClintock (Republican). With Schwarzenegger and McClintock criticizing ... ...

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4. Guns in media

... causes for violence and aggression (The Causes of Aggression). Either way, the root of violent behavior does not stem from guns in movies. Big box office sensations such as the Terminator series and the Matrix utilize firearms as the main form of action. Because of this, large crowds were drawn to the stimulating action scenes, and thus, creating a big box office ... hit. The Terminator 2: Judgment Day grossed a net value of two hundred and four million dollars, as the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines grossed a total of three hundred and sixty six (Box Office Data for Terminator 3: Ri...

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5. Are WE Prediciting a Bleak New World

... apes (Planet of the Apes), upper class humans (George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) or maybe artificially intelligent robots (The Matrix and Terminator Series). Throw in the fact that these advanced being have enslaved the human race and you've got yourself quite a dystopia. It almost seems that we love ... every way, what is there to stop them taking over. The fact that they are boxes is obvious. So maybe The Matrix and The Terminator are warning us of giving computers any power. In War Games we are given the fear that a person could access the worlds nuclear weapons b...

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6. There is nothing new in cinema anymore

... out that he is "the one" to save humanity, and who will undoubtedly succeed. As well as "Terminator 2" and "Terminator 3" where the terminator is an old/primitive model who has to protect John Conner against a far more advanced terminator model. He defeats the other high-tech terminator and his mission is complete, John Conner is safe for now. The outgunned again surmount the impossible odds ... ...

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7. GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS: THE NEMESIS OF GREEN REVOLUTION AGRICULTURE

... risk to farmers. As GM food production widens, the reliance on farming lessens. One such method that farmers should worry about is terminator technology. This method entails the creation of infertile seeds. A possible future scenario is that as the terminator technology renders seeds sterile hundreds of millions of farmers who now save and share their seeds will be forced to purchase more ... expensive GM seeds and chemical inputs from a select few biotech firms. Dr. Vandana Shiva refers to such firms as "global seed monopolies."" In reference to terminator technologies, Dr. Vandana Shi...

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8. Arnold Schwarzenegger

... hero. The film grossed over 100 million dollars worldwide and as a result became a popular sequel, Conan the Destroyer. In 1984 James Cameron's futuristic thriller The Terminator was a huge hit and it was cited by Time Magazine as one of the year's Ten Best Films. The success of The ... Terminator put Schwarzenegger at the front rank of Hollywood stars. Over the next few years, he became known as an action hero mostly because of the ... to another comedy, Junior. In 1990, Schwarzenegger did a nice role in the futuristic action-thriller Total Recall. One of the greatest commercial succe...

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9. Does a Film Genre Change Over Time?

... which began to focus on cyborgs, clones and post-modern implosions in films such as "Blade Runner", "Planet of the Apes" and "The Terminator". Most Science Fiction films of the 1950s portrayed the human race as victims and at the mercy of hostile and unfriendly forces (aliens). These ... is very evident in other Science Fiction films of the time like "Westworld", "2001" and "Silent Running", as well as more recently "The Terminator" and "Blade Runner". The advance in technology over time provides a great influence to the Science Fiction genre. However, the genre tends to focus on ... th...

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