Movie: Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Carolco,1991)Category: Movie Prop
Celebrity: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Description:
This is the Terminator's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) head appliance with peel back reveal of Endo brain chip cover used in the James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The movie continues the story with a cyborg identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) who must now protect her young son, Jon Connor (Edward Furlong) from a more advanced cyborg, who is made out of liquid metal. To prevent John’s death, Tech-Com send a reprogrammed Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to save Connor and help prevent Judgment Day by destroying Cyberdyne.
This piece was used by Arnold Schwarzenegger when Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her son John Connor opening up the Terminator's head to extract and reboot his CPU, giving him the ability to learn and adapt easier. To make the scene even more striking is the fact that you can see the front and the back of the Terminator, as a mirror on the wall appears to reflect everything that is happening. Normally, such an effect would be achieved using expensive post production effects and superimposing two separate shots together. However, for this shot, the filmmakers simply had a window with the set, Leslie Hamilton (Linda's twin sister), and Arnold Schwarzenegger where the mirror was and in the foreground they had an animatronic head of Arnie with Linda Hamilton performs emergency surgery on T-800. By carefully choreographing their movements, it looked like we saw a mirror and the reflection of the Terminator getting his head examined. This scene was cut from film release but included in extended edition. In my opinion this scene is actually key for the plot. It's a shame they had to get rid of it. This is why the terminator is able to learn from John Connor how to be more human.
The piece was used on Terminator's face reflected in the mirror at the background, and worn by Arnold himself. It was marked “left mirror” at the bottom by production indicating its use on the left side for this scene.
This left side head appliance has been realistically painted and detailed with small silver rubber sections resembling a metal endoskeleton with peel back reveal of Endo brain chip cover, helped give Arnold the allusion of a robot interior.
The piece is made of foam latex , as well as rubber and covers the left side of top of the skull. The skin features artificial wounds (created to look as though the skin was ripped off) which are detailed with fake blood. The plastic faux metal skull pieces display different shapes and indentations, as well as fake blood smears. Additionally, the hair, was made to match Arnold’s hair tone .
The back of the appliance have adhesive residue from where it was attached to the actor including hair possibly Arnold's own hair.
It features some wear from production use as well as age, including cracks in the paint and foam, but remain in overall good condition.
As a curiosity during a Q&A Schwarzenegger gave after a "Terminator Genisys" fan screening in New York on Wednesday, the actor was asked if there were any scenes cut from the film that he disagreed with the director about.While Schwarzenegger couldn't recall anything from "Genisys," he remembered an argument he and director James Cameron had over which scene should be cut in order to shorten the film's running time.
"There was a disagreement I remember on the second 'Terminator' because we screened the movie and it was two hours and twenty minutes," said Schwarzenegger. "And so I said to James Cameron, 'The movie's too long.' And he says to me, 'Why do you say that?' It just felt like to me at a certain point, okay, let's get it done."
After some struggle, Cameron decided to cut a scene in which Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and John Connor (Edward Furlong) have to remove Terminator's brain.
"It was shot in a very remarkable way with the mirror effect and all this stuff. And it was a three minute and thirty second scene." Schwarzenegger remembered.
There was just one problem: Schwarzenegger loved that scene.
"He says I'm gonna take that scene out to shorten the movie ... just to pay me back," said Arnold. "And, I said to him, 'No, no! That's one of my favorite scenes! You can't take that out!'" 'He says 'No, I have to, because that's the way we shorten the movie. Then I have to work on some other scenes,'""And so he took that scene out and we had a little fight about that. But then I had to let it go because we wanted to cut down the length of the movie." recalled Schwarzenegger.
Provenance: This piece was acquired from an individual who worked on the film. Comes from Profiles in History Lot.434 Dec 11th, 2008
The piece was used on Terminator's face reflected in the mirror at the background, and worn by Arnold himself. It was marked “left mirror” at the bottom by production indicating its use on the left side for this scene.
This left side head appliance has been realistically painted and detailed with small silver rubber sections resembling a metal endoskeleton with peel back reveal of Endo brain chip cover, helped give Arnold the allusion of a robot interior.
The piece is made of foam latex , as well as rubber and covers the left side of top of the skull. The skin features artificial wounds (created to look as though the skin was ripped off) which are detailed with fake blood. The plastic faux metal skull pieces display different shapes and indentations, as well as fake blood smears. Additionally, the hair, was made to match Arnold’s hair tone .
The back of the appliance have adhesive residue from where it was attached to the actor including hair possibly Arnold's own hair.
It features some wear from production use as well as age, including cracks in the paint and foam, but remain in overall good condition.
"There was a disagreement I remember on the second 'Terminator' because we screened the movie and it was two hours and twenty minutes," said Schwarzenegger. "And so I said to James Cameron, 'The movie's too long.' And he says to me, 'Why do you say that?' It just felt like to me at a certain point, okay, let's get it done."
After some struggle, Cameron decided to cut a scene in which Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and John Connor (Edward Furlong) have to remove Terminator's brain.
"It was shot in a very remarkable way with the mirror effect and all this stuff. And it was a three minute and thirty second scene." Schwarzenegger remembered.
There was just one problem: Schwarzenegger loved that scene.
"He says I'm gonna take that scene out to shorten the movie ... just to pay me back," said Arnold. "And, I said to him, 'No, no! That's one of my favorite scenes! You can't take that out!'" 'He says 'No, I have to, because that's the way we shorten the movie. Then I have to work on some other scenes,'""And so he took that scene out and we had a little fight about that. But then I had to let it go because we wanted to cut down the length of the movie." recalled Schwarzenegger.
Provenance: This piece was acquired from an individual who worked on the film. Comes from Profiles in History Lot.434 Dec 11th, 2008
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