Terminator: Can You End Yourself Beautifully?

How should we produce a recent sequel to a classic movie? Today's Hollywood generally has three magic weapons: let the stars that have been prosperous and now drooping old to return to the screen; let the minority and women uphold the political correct flag, become the protagonist of the new film; the story is not enough to gather the old wine in the new bottle, and copy the former mode.

This can be seen as a classic IP's frustration with the superhero cosmos movie. After all, the old actors are more popular and have the right expression of feelings than those who rewrite different stories. And political correctness also makes film critics dare not pick up their voices loudly, and at least scolds a mediocre thing.

Disney is the representative of the reopening of star wars, with King Kong and Jurassic Park. Today, it is time for the terminator to create the Hollywood digital wonder era with Jurassic Park. In fact, the terminator series is quite chaotic in its inheritance. After Cameron directed the classic terminator 1 and 2, third "Terminator: the awakening of the robot" almost changed the director's Schwarzenegger's bounced ticket, and finally paid thirty million dollars for the problem. But the third part of Schwarzenegger's performance regression is obvious, resulting in third word of mouth. With Schwarzenegger entering the political arena, without the appeal of Cameron's reputation, it is difficult to restart the sequel. Six years later, "terminator 2018" came on with almost new stories, which made it fall into the name of super IP, but no one was interested in it. As a result, the copyright of the film has been tossing several times until it falls into the hands of Megan Allison and annanbourne. So we have fifth and sixth parts we see today.

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At this point, the producer finally found out the lifeblood of the terminator, that is, Schwarzenegger is indispensable. The big guy wearing a leather shirt and a shotgun is the only one in the audience. Without him, the movie can not be renewed at all. So in the fifth "Terminator: Genesis", we finally saw the old governor with "dragon mother" Emily ya Clark. The contrast between the two of them was overshadowed by the male Jason Clark.

With this success, the latest Terminator: the dark destiny has played even more. In addition to the governor's "will be back", in order to strengthen the action show, the film side also sent the director of the dead Service Director Tim Miller to direct the film. In order to "return to her original heart", Cameron was found to be a part-time and screenwriter, and after 27 years, Sarah Connor Linda, once the most powerful actress, once again played Sarah Connor. In the film, she plays with two new generation actresses, Davies and Reyes, and the three leading roles of three women constitute the banner of political correctness. In the plot, the dark destiny salutes the classic in the most simple and crude way: the new film combines the first and second parts of the preface, so that Schwarzenegger and T800, the strengthened female warriors and the three Sarah Connor who kill the terminator will resist the new REV-9 terminator together to protect Dani, the future rebel leader.

While using the "three magic weapons" to complete the sequel, the Terminator: the dark fate also bears the function of criticizing the original, which is rare in sequel films. The terminator, with the core of powerful men saving women, is the representative of "straight male and patriarchal" movies, and this value has been out of date now. Instead of waiting for death to make the audience and the media condemn, it is better to start directly in their own movies. The most direct expression is Schwarzenegger's thorough adaptation in the film. His performance basically repeats the big stalks and important sections of the previous terminator. The focus of the film is placed on the female side - Grace and Sarah as powerful women to protect the weak female Dani. In the previous work, Sarah assumed the role of the Virgin Mary Maria, to give birth to boy John Connor and let him save the world. The dark destiny criticizes this point. Dani, a woman protected by herself, can save the world without giving birth to men.

However, the "terminator" series itself is built on the hard core strength of the steel and strong Han. The "feminization" of such a movie has paid the price of losing its original texture. Meanwhile, the three female owners have also blurred the individual image of the female in the film. All this made the dark destiny finally become an ordinary science fiction action movie with the shell of the terminator. In addition, Schwarzenegger is almost officially saying goodbye, and the terminator is really over. The reason for this is that the era of the strong male screen image that carries the terminator has ended.

In this way, perhaps the new female sci-fi action movies need not stick to the framework of terminator, and create a new classic like "the tower of Ali".