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The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James
Cameron, written by Cameron and the film's producer Gale Anne Hurd, and starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. It was filmed in Los
Angeles, produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures.
Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from the year
2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, played by Hamilton. Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a
soldier from the future sent back in time to protect Sarah.
Though not expected to be either a commercial or critical success, The Terminator topped
the American box office for two weeks and helped launch the film career of Cameron and
consolidate that of Schwarzenegger. The Terminator was followed up with a sequel in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991 which was also directed by Cameron. In 2008, The
Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the American
National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically
significant".
Plot[edit]
On May 12, 1984, two beings from the year 2029 arrive in Los Angeles: one is a
Terminator T-800 Model 101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a cyborg assassin programmed
to kill a young woman named Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton); the other is Kyle Reese
(Michael Biehn), a human resistance fighter sent to protect her from the T-800. After the
Terminator kills three gang members, a gun-shop manager, two other women named
"Sarah Connor" listed in the telephone directory, Sarah's roommate Ginger (Bess Motta),
and her partner, it eventually tracks its target to a nightclub. Kyle shows up and saves
Sarah from the Terminator's attack, and the two escape.
Kyle explains to Sarah that in the near future, an artificial intelligence defense network
called Skynet will become self-aware and initiate a nuclear holocaust of mankind, also
explaining that he himself was born after it. He mentions that Sarah's yet-to-be-conceived
son John will rally the survivors and lead a resistance movement against Skynet and its
army of machines. With the Resistance on the verge of victory, Skynet has sent a
Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born, as a last-ditch effort to avert the
formation of the Resistance. The Terminator is an efficient killing machine with a
powerful metal endoskeleton, but with an external layer of living tissue that makes it
resemble a human being.
Kyle and Sarah are again attacked by the Terminator who then steals a police car, leading
to a car chase. Their cars eventually crash into a wall. Kyle and Sarah are caught by the

police, but the Terminator lets them leave. Kyle is questioned by criminal psychologist
Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen) who concludes that he is paranoid and delusional. Sarah is also
questioned by Lieutenant Traxler (Paul Winfield) and Sergeant Vukovich (Lance
Henriksen) about the events that happened. Soon after, the Terminator attacks the police
station, killing many police officers, including Traxler and Vukovich, in its attempt to
locate Sarah; however, Sarah and Kyle manage to escape and seek refuge in a motel,
where they also assemble some pipe bombs. Kyle confesses that he has long been in love
with Sarah; John had inexplicably given him a photograph of her shortly after he met
John. Sarah reciprocates Kyle's feelings and they have sex.

Later that night, the Terminator tracks them to the motel and Kyle and Sarah escape in a
pickup truck. In the ensuing chase, Kyle throws pipe bombs at the Terminator in an effort
to destroy it. Kyle is wounded by the Terminator's gunfire. Sarah manages to knock the
Terminator off its motorbike but loses control of the pickup truck, which flips over. As
the Terminator gets up, it is struck by a gasoline tanker truck that drags it a short distance.
When the truck driver gets out of the truck to see what happened, the Terminator kills
him, hijacks the truck, and resumes the chase. Kyle slides a pipe bomb on to the truck's
fuel trailer causing a massive explosion. The Terminator emerges from the burning truck
covered with flames and collapses, seemingly destroyed.
The Terminator, with its clothes and flesh covering burned away, suddenly rises up and
continues to pursue them into a factory. Kyle attacks the Terminator with a metal pipe but
it knocks him down. Though dazed, he jams his final pipe bomb into its abdomen,
causing an explosion which apparently destroys it; the explosion kills Kyle and injures
Sarah. Now a one-armed, legless torso, the Terminator resumes its attempt to kill Sarah.
She leads it into a hydraulic press which crushes and finally deactivates it. Sarah is later
taken out of the factory by an ambulance as Kyle's body is taken away. The authorities
are also seen analyzing some of the components of the Terminator.
Several months later, a pregnant Sarah is traveling through Mexico. Along the way she
records audio tapes which she intends to pass on to her unborn son, John. She debates
whether to tell him that Kyle is his father. While stopping at a gas station, a small boy
takes a Polaroid photograph of her which she purchasesthe same photograph that John
will later give to Kyle. Sarah then drives on toward approaching storm clouds.
In Rome, during the release of Piranha II: The Spawning, director Cameron grew ill and
had a dream about a metallic torso dragging itself from an explosion while holding
kitchen knives.[3] "My contemporaries were all doing slasher-horror movies," Cameron
said. "John Carpenter was the guy I idolized the most. He made Halloween for $30,000
or something. That was everyone's break-in dream, to do a stylish horror movie.

[Cameron's nightmare] was a very slasher film type image. And it really was the
launching pad for the story."[4] When Cameron returned to Pomona, California, he
stayed at Randall Frakes' home where he wrote a draft for The Terminator.[5] Cameron
later stated that his influences while writing the script were 1950s science fiction films
and episodes of The Outer Limits as well as contemporary films including The Driver
and The Road Warrior.[6][7] To translate the draft into a script, Cameron enlisted his
friend Bill Wisher, who had a similar approach to storytelling.[8] Cameron gave Wisher
the early scenes involving Sarah Connor and the police department scenes to write.[8] As
Wisher lived far away from Cameron, the two communicated script ideas by recording
tapes of what they wrote by telephone.[8]

Cameron's agent hated the idea for The Terminator and told him to work on something
else. After this, Cameron fired his agent.[8] The initial outline of the script involved two
Terminators sent to the past. The first was similar to the Terminator in the film, while the
second was a liquid metal cyborg that could not be destroyed with conventional
weaponry.[9] Cameron could not think of a good way to depict this robot, stating that he
"was seeing things in his head that couldn't be done with existing technology."[9][10] The
story of the cyborgs in the film was cut down to a single robot idea.[10] The liquid metal
Terminator would be revisited with the T-1000 character in the 1991 sequel Terminator 2:
Judgment Day.[11]

Gale Anne Hurd bought the rights to The Terminator from James Cameron for one dollar.
[12]
Gale Anne Hurd, who had worked at New World Pictures as Roger Corman's assistant,
showed interest in the film project.[8] Cameron sold the rights for The Terminator to
Hurd for one dollar with the promise that she would produce it only if Cameron was to
direct it. As a producer, Hurd had suggested edits to the script and took a screen writing
credit in the film. Cameron has stated that Hurd "did no actual writing at all".[12]
Cameron and Hurd had friends who worked with Roger Corman previously and who
were now working at Orion Pictures part of MGM. Orion agreed to distribute the film if
Cameron could get financial backing elsewhere. The script was picked up by John Daly
at Hemdale Pictures.[13]
Cameron wanted his pitch for Daly to finalize the deal and had his friend Lance
Henriksen show up to the meeting early dressed and acting like the Terminator.[13]
Henriksen showed up at the office kicking open the door wearing a leather jacket and had

gold foil smothered on his teeth and fake cuts on his face and then sat in a chair.[13]
Cameron arrived shortly after which relieved the staff from Henriksen's act. Daly was
impressed by the screenplay and Cameron's sketches and passion for the film.[13] In late
1982, Daly agreed to back the film with help from HBO and Orion.[13][14] The
Terminator was originally budgeted at $4 million and later raised to $6.5 million.[15]