Jim Cameron on people relating to the Terminator.
luke-jones
2012/04/03 20:56:16
"One of the 'shocks' of the film was that people related to the 'Terminator' so much.
And I think it's because there's an awful lot of pent - up rage and frustration and a lot of that frustration is because we're... you know, in a crowded urban society and job pressures and things like that and people don't - don't get to 'act out' these fantasies and we live in an age of weapons where you can't ...just 'punch' somebody without them pulling out a gun and 'shooting' you, you can't yell at somebody on the 'freeway' without them...you know, shooting you with an AK-47. So, there's a lot of - a lot of pent - up rage and hostillity and I think The Terminator was a 'release' for that.
I think that we're also reacting psychologically to this kind of 'dehuminization.'
Uh, we're programming ourselves to interact with 'strangers.'
And I think that that's why the kind of 'android' myth has become so popular, in recent years and - and in films, because it sort of 'answers' that question.
Or if 'nothing' else, it says "we have become 'so' dehumanized that a 'machine' could pass for human 'easily' in our society."
And I think it's because there's an awful lot of pent - up rage and frustration and a lot of that frustration is because we're... you know, in a crowded urban society and job pressures and things like that and people don't - don't get to 'act out' these fantasies and we live in an age of weapons where you can't ...just 'punch' somebody without them pulling out a gun and 'shooting' you, you can't yell at somebody on the 'freeway' without them...you know, shooting you with an AK-47. So, there's a lot of - a lot of pent - up rage and hostillity and I think The Terminator was a 'release' for that.
I think that we're also reacting psychologically to this kind of 'dehuminization.'
Uh, we're programming ourselves to interact with 'strangers.'
And I think that that's why the kind of 'android' myth has become so popular, in recent years and - and in films, because it sort of 'answers' that question.
Or if 'nothing' else, it says "we have become 'so' dehumanized that a 'machine' could pass for human 'easily' in our society."
The Terminator fans relate to the character as their game avatar.
Cameron needs to keep his leftist agenda out of American politics and spew his socialist crap to his fellow Canadians.
Rather than admit that people like fun action movies, he believes that people like the movie because, "it's showing how inhuman American society is." The guy is so left wing compared to the original film maker that I wonder if this James Cameron wasn't replaced with someone else. After Avatar, I honestly wonder what happened.
Change the "Paul is Dead Theory" into the Jim is Dead Theory.
Which do you think is more likely:
1) People really liked being criticized for being inhuman.
2) People like a fun creative action movie with Arnold Schwazenneger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn with strong special effects, good acting, an amazing plot, and unique music.
I honestly wonder if he came up with this, "American society is inhuman" theme after he made the movie (like Stan Lee's "the X-men were created to represent homosexuals" [later it actually was, but that wasn't his intent in 1963]). That isn't the meaning of the movie that I saw at all.
When I watch The Terminator, I find it to be a philosophical analysis of what it means to be a human and humanity's struggle to survive the worst situations. I don't see, "American society is inhuman."
I honestly think that the meaning of the movie has changed to him since he made it back in 1984. He had a huge political ideology change in 1985.