I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

On the subject of Terminator (1984)....



The fantastic theme music was written and performed by composer Brad Fiedel. To create the iconic clangs of the film’s percussive theme, Fiedel recorded samples of himself banging frying pans together and then layered in synth melodies underneath using Prophet 10 and Oberheim analog synthesizers. While blending the two together, Fiedel looped the rhythmic clangs a split second off the foundational synth melody, and made a propulsive theme that was slightly off. When he put together sheet music for the score he later found that his little mistake made the time signature of the theme into an impossible 13/16 at three plus three plus three plus two plus two. When he would complete the score for the sequel, Fiedel made things a little more plausible and used an updated 6/8 time signature.

Schwarzenegger only has 58 spoken words throughout the entire movie. Technically, The Terminator says more than Arnie's 17 sentences, but one is an overdubbed voice of a cop, and the other is in Sarah Connor's mother's voice, when the Terminator was trying to trick her.

James Cameron says that he got the idea when he had a nightmare of a metallic figure coming out of a fire. However, a writer for the TV series "The Outer Limits" said that Terminator was a ripoff of an episode he wrote in 1964 titled "Soldier" and that was an adaptation of his own short story from 1957 called "Soldier From Tomorrow." Ellison and Orion Pictures came to an out of court settlement for an undisclosed amount of money.

The studio originally wanted Kyle Reese to have a robot dog as a sidekick in the movie.

The studio also wanted OJ Simpson to play The Terminator. Cameron rubbished this idea because he thought he comes off as being too nice to play a remorseless killer.

Sting was offered the role of Kyle Reese, but was committed to star in David Lynch's Dune so that never happened. Bruce Springsteen was one name bandied about, even though he had no acting experience.

Arnie wanted to change the line "I'll be back" because he wasn't able to pronounce "I'll" properly. He suggested he say "I will be back" but Cameron shot this down. They did ten takes and used the best "I'll be back."

The scenes in the movie where Linda Hamilton is running to escape the Terminator were shot last. This was because she broke her ankle before shooting.

If you own an Apple II, and you enter "] call -151 *" p at the basic prompt, you get The Terminator's view.

The Polish word for "terminator" translates to "apprentice." The name of the movie was changed to "The Electronic Murderer" for Polish viewers.

The first movie to release a soundtrack was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

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The estimated value of the boots that Neil Armstrong was wearing when he made that small step for man is in the 100's of millions, but unless someone manages to track them down, it's moot. They're floating in space, since bringing them back to Earth was considered a contamination risk.

Not quite C. They're sitting on the moon. Well the overboots are(they attached on top of the built in boot). Along with the bulky backpacks and a few other items they were left behind after the EVA/moon walk because of weight/space savings, the rest of their suits came back with them. When they pushed their gear outside the seismometer they left on the moon to record moon quakes picked up the thumps when they landed. When Neil heard this he radioed back that you can't get away with anything. Their suits that they did come back with were covered in dust from the moon's surface.



The moon dust was a bit of a problem. It's very fine and it got everywhere and caused some astronauts lung irritation. The lunar spacesuits were used until Skylab in the 1970's. With few enough changes along the way, the biggest came when they flew with the moon rover buggy and the suits needed to be changed so they could stay outside for longer and that they could bend more at the waist so they could sit in their car.

Moon boyracer. Earlier.



At one point when a mudguard snapped they fixed it with gaffer tape. Of course they did. There is no record of WD-40 being used on the moon, which comes as a shock.