Episode 21: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses how the evolution of technology influences filmmaking, whether or not an "every-person" still exists in film language, and why Sarah Connor's transformation is important.

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LFTS video on Aliens vs. Terminator 2: https://youtu.be/4x9mplwN3Lo

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and this is Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.0	Today we are talking about Terminator 2 Judgment Day, the 1991 film directed by James Cameron,
0:15.0	written by James Cameron and William Wisher.
0:17.0	I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand. Hello, everyone.
0:21.6	Writer Brian Bittier, and editor Alex Coyos.
0:26.6	Hello.
0:27.6	So we're talking about Terminator 2, but I literally just saw the first Terminator like last night.
0:35.6	For the first time ever?
0:37.8	Yeah.
0:39.9	I don't know why this continues to shock me.
0:40.5	It really shouldn't.
0:41.7	It's from the 80s too.
0:43.2	Like, you should be prepared for this. It's from the 80s.
0:44.4	T.T. was in the 90s, so it passed the Michael test.
0:47.0	Like, so barely.
0:48.6	Like, the early 90s were basically the 80s.
0:51.6	There was something just better about them.
0:53.4	I don't know.
0:54.8	Oh, my God.
0:57.3	So it was really interesting seeing it that way.
1:01.3	And I had heard so much about the original Terminator as you do.
1:07.2	And mostly I had heard about it via like old TV shows I would watch.
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