Fellow Film Aficionado Dave Anderson joins me as we watch James Cameron’s seminal 1984 B-Movie Masterpiece, The Terminator. On the surface there seems to be something bold and original going on. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a role you can understand, Linda Hamilton is our female hero in a time of hypermasculine film, and a high quality in film production hides the bottom dollar spent to shoot this cyborg killer tale. Underneath lies a weave of movie homages from Metropolis, Blade Runner, and Alien to explore socio-economic themes on our minds in the 1980’s, big government, big business, and our deep seated fear that technology is double sided blade that’s just a little bit sharper on one side. The Super 70 Podcast is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, and my website at www.thatdylandavis.com. All music on The Super 70 Podcast is provided by Rozalind MacPhail whom you can find on SoundCloud. Works Cited Sean French. The Terminator BFI Modern Classics. 1996.
