Chapter 290: The New Terminator Overture

This is an ordinary American middle-class family is an ordinary morning, the husband is in the washroom shaving in the mirror, the wife is constantly urging the two daughters to quickly pack downstairs to eat breakfast. The TV in the living room is broadcasting the morning news, and the husband has deliberately turned up the sound so that even though he can't see the picture in the washroom, he can still hear what the news is saying.

"Terminator 4", the Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, has been attracting a lot of attention from fans since rumors began to circulate at the beginning of the year, and Warner, in conjunction with MGM Studios, announced yesterday that the film had officially begun shooting. According to the producers, Terminator 4 will continue the story line of its predecessor, about a brutal war between humans and robots that takes place in a futuristic world."

"As we all know in the previous films in the Terminator franchise, there has been a debate in the media about the 'pseudo-protagonist' surrounding the film's star, John Connor, and in Terminator 3, the character started to make a name for himself in the Terminator franchise because of Felix Lim's casting as John Connor came to prominence, and in Terminator 4, Felix Lim will be the rightful protagonist."

"Of note, British actress Kate Beckinsale will also continue to star as John Connor's girlfriend in the film, which will be her 5th Hollywood collaboration with Lin, and along with that comes yet more speculation about their true relationship. According to statistics, several popular Hollywood actresses, including Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox, have worked with Lin Ming Yang for several times, and Felix Lin was voted as the male movie star with the highest index of Hollywood's screen raunchiness in Entertainment Weekly's latest together magazine."

"In addition to the strong cast of leads, the film also has an amazing supporting cast, even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has gone into politics, announced recently that he will be making a cameo appearance in the film as the robotic T-800 to fulfill his own promise of that classic line from the series, 'I will be back! '. It is reported that Schwarzenegger did not receive any pay for this cameo, and his press spokesman said in an interview with the media that Arnold's role in the movie was not much, and that the free cameo could be considered as a kind of payback for the enthusiastic support of the movie fans over the years."

The only sound heard in the washroom was the clattering sound, the husband was holding a razor in his hand, but his face was a thoughtful expression, obviously the news just now had aroused his interest in no small way.

It was at this moment that his wife's voice rang out in the kitchen, abruptly interrupting his thoughts.

"Tock, turn down the volume on the TV news, will you? Martha and the girls can barely hear what I'm saying upstairs, do you want me to race the TV at the top of my lungs?"

He stammered out a "hmmm", grabbed the remote control he'd left on the toilet seat, and pressed it to the living room with a distant finger, and the TV screen went black, and there was no sound.

"Daddy, why did you turn off the TV?" His youngest daughter, who had just turned six, appeared in the doorway of the washroom wearing pink pajamas and holding a stuffed animal.

Tock rubbed his youngest daughter's hair on her forehead, "Lisa, you should go change now and be a good girl and go eat breakfast!"

The youngest daughter replied weakly, "But my sister said she was listening to that news..."

"Martha?" Tock froze, the mention of his eldest daughter, who was in a period of youthful rebellion, filled him with a headache, "There's still half an hour to go, if she doesn't go to breakfast, she'll be late for school again!"

"Dad, I've never been late for school!" Carrying a satchel and biting a piece of bread in her mouth, her eldest daughter passed by the door of the washroom and yelled at her father in dissatisfaction.

"Bye sis!" The youngest daughter said goodbye to Martha in a good-natured manner, a good behavior that drew her sister to crouch down and give her a kiss on the cheek.

"You can sit and finish your breakfast before you go!" Tock could tell at a glance that his daughter was getting ready to go out.

"Then I really should be late!" Martha shrugged at her own father and turned around, ready to leave.

"Martha!" Tock called out to her from behind, "It seems like it's been a long time since we've watched a movie together as a family because I've been so busy with work..."

"And?" The daughter looked at her father with both hands in her pants pockets and a cool expression on her face.

"I grew up watching the Terminator series of movies when I was a kid... I believe that because of Felix Lin, you'll also like this movie a lot, so let's go see the premiere together when this movie comes out!"

"I have no problem with that!" The fact that her father took the initiative to make such a request warmed Martha's heart, but it didn't show on her face.

"I want to go too!" The youngest daughter suddenly jumped out, pouting and eyeing her father.

That's when his wife, Lily, came over with a plate of pizza, "What are you guys discussing here?"

The youngest daughter immediately confided, "Daddy's going to sneak his sister to the movies!"

Martha gave her father a somewhat sympathetic look, "As far as I know, none of the Terminator franchise has ever been a G-rated movie for children in matters...the school bus is about to arrive at the door, so I'll go first!"

The wife, Lily, also looked at her husband, looking as if she agreed with her eldest daughter's words.

Tock helplessly squatted down and looked at his youngest daughter with a serious face, "Lisa, you're not allowed to watch a movie like that now, wait until you're older...how about this, on Sunday Daddy takes you to the amusement park?"

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Schwarzenegger's decision to make a cameo appearance in the movie was unexpected by the media, zero pay to act in addition to let the producers know that they can't keep their mouths shut, more movie fans were infected by Arnold this kind of "dedication" attitude, for a time, his popularity in the California governor's office rose by as much as 3%, which is Schwarzenegger is considered to be helpless in the midst of an accident! This is also a surprise for Schwarzenegger in the midst of the helplessness.

Schwarzenegger's role in the movie is not much, he has less than three days to basically complete their own shooting. The crew advanced this scene, which should have been filmed at the end, in order to give him special care. During the period he and Lin Mingyang have a lot of rivalry, the two in the scene outside the scene are unspoken to maintain a kind of amazing "tacit understanding", and the director of the Baruth directly pretends to act as if they do not know anything, which makes Schwarzenegger's heart is very stable.

The first trailer for the movie was released half a month after the start of filming. The whole video is only 1 minute long, with fragmented images, making it impossible to speculate on the plot, but the classic main theme of the Terminator series is already exciting when it is played, and the simple and powerful title is a preview of the new Terminator trilogy that will begin in this movie.

The release of the video completely shatters many of the previous depictions of the content of this trailer that have been circulating on foreign websites. The trailer opens with a continuation of the classic opening of the Terminator series, driving down a highway, followed by the crushing of a human skull, and replacing the Terminator's alloy footplate with the rumbling wheels of a machine. With that, viewers hear the cool voice-over tones of John Connor, the future leader of the world's resistance, played by Ming-Yang Lin, and the machines can be seen in the mottled imagery capturing the humans...all in a post-apocalyptic dystopia.

Everything in the movie is conveying the same message to the audience that the protagonist, John Connor, is in the future, yet this future is not the one that his mother, Sarah, has always portrayed to him; a brutal war has begun and the future of mankind is uncertain.

At the end of the video, John Connor and the team he is leading suddenly hear the sound of engines and turn around to see machine monsters emerging from the water. In a flash, the subtitle "The Future Opens" becomes "The End Opens" at the end of the trailer, and the main title of the movie is "Terminator: Salvation". The main title of the movie is "Terminator: The Savior", which leaves a lot of suspense at the end of the movie.

The video premiered globally on YouTube and received more than 10 million views that day, along with speculation about the content of the video, from Hugo Weaving's T-500 to predictions of the final boss, the robots featured in the film have once again become the center of attention.

This gave Baruth a chance to make a solo appearance in front of the media, and I have to admit that even though the guy is a novice, he still has a bit of a big director's demeanor in front of the media, talking about the film that's being made in the middle of shooting that's also a set of things.

"More than twenty years ago, a sci-fi movie 'The Terminator' with an investment of only 5 million dollars became a milestone in sci-fi cinema under the joint collaboration of James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger. While the last three episodes of Terminator have been dominated by the plot of humanity's non-stop fight against mechanical killers from the future, the movie I have in my hands is finally starting to go head-to-head with a showdown between humans and robots in a post-apocalyptic world."

"Previously I had been wondering just how this movie should be interpreted so that the audience wouldn't feel like it was a carbon copy that kept repeating the successful patterns of the past. I was worried about that, but when I saw the script, I knew that all those worries were unnecessary.Felix has constructed a pretty exciting story that breaks away from the framework set by the past few movies, expands even more, and leaves the audience with a lot more to think about. I don't think it's a sci-fi movie that's purely about visual excitement, there's a lot of reflection on the future of society and some philosophical ideas about self-existence, and I think it's very rare for that to be in a commercial movie."

"The story that the movie tells revolves entirely around the protagonist, John Connor, focusing on how he rallies the surviving humans to form the Resistance and eventually their leader. Through this movie, I think a lot of viewers can learn why he has the destiny of having to be the leader and how he becomes the person he has to be...I think the Terminator series, even though it's developed a three-episode story, a lot of people don't really know these details yet, and a lot of fans would definitely like to see what kind of struggles and Hesitation. In the movie Connor just loves Nyan Glory to personally validate and defend what is the right choice, and some people might think it's a little weird to do that, but to me it was one of the most exciting parts of my time making Terminator: the Savior."

While Baruth was in the middle of his talk, a reporter on stage had already put his hand up in the air, which forced Baruth to stop himself and let the pressed reporter ask his question first.

"The positioning of the film, since it is a science fiction film, too much focus on the growth of the protagonist will not dilute the robot as a clue?" This reporter didn't go easy on Bruce and came up with a tough question.

Baruth immediately responded after a brief moment of stupefaction, "In the post-apocalyptic world, the relationship between robots and humans has risen from an individual conflict in the beginning to an overall war, so the movie has both the robots chasing the protagonist that inherited from the previous film, and a brand-new scenario of a large-scale confrontation between humans and robots. These plot settings will be throughout the protagonist's entire growth process, and the classic robot T-800, which appeared in the past three episodes, has become a thing of the past, and in its place are more new robots of different shapes."

"These robots all have a different look and maneuverability than their predecessors, and they will pose a big threat to the Salvation Army. All the robots in the film are the result of non-stop discussions together with the entire movie production team, and the movement but the combination of physical models and computer special effects filming, the texture of the robots will be very realistic, I believe the audience will have a refreshing feeling, and they are all visually striking in the film, which can be said to be a purely high-efficiency killing machine."

"Now that the T-800 is a thing of the past, what about Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger's cameo role in the film?" A reporter keenly caught the break in Baruth's words and followed up with a question.

"Well..." Schwarzenegger's role as the T-800 is the final big boss, which the producers did not announce to the public, but prepared to leave it as a suspenseful question to be answered in the movie. This reporter's question was a bit difficult for Baruth.

"Mr. Schwarzenegger will play a very important and familiar role in the film, about his role position because it involves spoilers, it is not convenient to disclose to you here, but his performance is definitely not a glimpse, the degree of excitement will certainly not let you down!"

Baruth played a slippery trick and sidestepped the question, about which he was very tight-lipped, and the reporters used every means possible and froze without asking a single question from his mouth.

The more unclear the issue, the more interested the reporters. The producers of the news covered more tightly, there are inevitably omissions, in the Baruth not long after the interview with reporters, about the classic robot T-800 and the protagonist of the film John Connor's relationship has been rumored in a number of versions. Some say that the T-800 will continue to serve as John Connor's bodyguard and fight alongside him, while others say that the relationship between the two sides is hostile, and that the plot of the first episode of The Terminator in which the protagonist is being hunted by the T-800 will be reproduced in the film... There are many different opinions, but it's just that the concept of a war movie is preconceived, and most people didn't expect that the final showdown would take place between the pairing of John Connor and the T-800. Connor and the old T-800 pairing.