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he's a hero
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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The thing that's great about it is that if you send your mind back to 19-whatever, you're part of a culture that knows Schwarzenegger's character as a terminator and largely respects cops. You think this boy has endangered John Connor. It's not until quite a bit into the film that you realize your assumptions have bamboozled you. My favorite part is when he looks at a silver mannequin briefly in the mall; it's a detail that can only be understood on subsequent views. (Though I have to assume the god awful trailer industry ruined this experience for actual audiences at the time. Sure the writers loved that.)
Yeah, the trailers ruined what could have been the twist of the century.
Watching the film, the audience shouldn't know that Arnold is the good guy until the scene in the hallway when both terminators find John at the same time. Arnold walks up to John menacingly, pulls out a shotgun, and saves him from the cop.
But the fucking studios were all about "Arnold's the hero this time" in the trailers.
I only saw the t2 teaser, it was a masterpiece. Basically the factory line assembly of the terminator robot. Spoiled nothing! And everyone wanted to see T2 ;)
I kinda agree with your point, but we already didn’t trust LA cops at this point, plus the movie came out a few months after the Rodney King beating. Plenty of cop skepticism by then, but maybe not as much when the movie was being filmed coincidentally.