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Evan 08:53 am UTC 05/22/21 |
In reply to: | Terminator: The Musical? - rockfenris2005 03:12 pm UTC 05/12/21 |
Very entertaining to read. > > Meanwhile the world is left wondering what a Cameron "T3" > would have been like (I love the idea I once read on IMDB > that Linda Hamilton could play a new Terminator sent back > to kill John, and to make him weaker and more vulnerable > she resembles his dead mother Sarah. Imagine that and > Skynet nuking everyone at the end. I came up with the part > where the new Terminator's death would mirror Sarah's > nightmare in the second movie. That's how she'd die. She'd > get caught outside as the bombs start going off, and > instead we see the endoskeleton when the nuke blows off > her skin. That bit's sometimes cut out of the TV versions > of T2.) > > I thought a *lot* about a Terminator musical. I see it > like a "My Fair Lady" type of story, Liza Doolittle > transforms into a flower seller on the corner of Tottenham > Court Road, to a lady who one of the characters even > thinks is royalty. > > In Terminator, it's about Sarah's transformation from a > young uni student, living in a flat with two of her > friends, and she works at the local burger joint---"Look > at it this way. In a hundred years, who's going to care?" > (which btw is my favourite line from the "Terminator" > movies and not "I'll be back" or any of the others haha). > Suddenly there's this person killing off people with the > same name, all in the same area, which starts to freak her > out. Only she has no idea what's about to happen which she > can barely even come to terms with. > > She goes from serving burgers and chips to the mother of > the leader of the resistance, the man who leads the > world's survivors in the war against Skynet which has > destroyed the world, and sent machines back in time to > kill his mother before he's even been born. > > The transformation is complete, when Sarah finally kills > the machine and says "You're terminated, fucker" and she's > never the same person again. In that moment, the Sarah > that we knew at the start of the story no longer exists. > > Meanwhile you've got this time travel love storyline with > Kyle Reese, whose life experience up to this point, is > basically hell on earth. It's sort of like the premise for > the musical "Brigadoon". There's this town that appears > once every one hundred years, and they've only got that > one day that they spend together. Sarah basically spends a > night with Kyle, who's been sent back from the future to > protect Sarah, and then he dies. He gets killed by the > Terminator. > > What I realized though was that the Terminator wouldn't > sing. Everyone else would, but not the Terminator. a) the > Terminator is a machine. He's not even a he. It's > incapable of emoting, therefore you can't turn that into a > song. It wouldn't fit with the character, and b) the > contrast with the Terminator not singing and everyone > around it having a song, would make it more intimidating. > All we would get are the famous lines: "Nice night for a > walk", "I'll be back", and all of that. > > I also worked out where the first act would end, which > would be the shootout at the cop station. Not just because > it's a big action piece, like the falling of the > chandelier in "Phantom" for example, but that's the moment > where Sarah accepts, for once and for all, that Kyle's > right and that only he can really protect her. > > > This is a pretty perfect comparison. By the time they got > > to the Bat sequel they not only had a gigantic budget but > > they also were seasoned pros who knew how to utilize > > technology better. You can tell from listening to Bat II > > and watching Terminator 2 that both Jim’s must have had a > > blast. > > > > O a side note, I seem to remember that you wrote a > > Terminator musical years ago with the song, “Sarah Conner, > > You’re A Goner.” | |
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