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The Terminator: 10 Behind the Scenes Stories of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece

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Tim Molloy

The Terminator Came to James Cameron in a Dream

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The Terminator came from a dream that I had while I was sick with a fever in a cheap pensione in Rome in 1981. It was the image of a chrome skeleton emerging from a fire. When I woke up, I began sketching on the hotel stationery,” the film’s writer-director, James Cameron, told the British Film Institute.

“The first sketch I did showed a metal skeleton cut in half at the waist, crawling over a tile floor, using a large kitchen knife to pull itself forward while reaching out with the other hand. In a second drawing, the character is threatening a crawling woman. Minus the kitchen knife, these images became the finale of The Terminator almost exactly.”

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