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To the other myths that informed the earlier films are here added borrowings from Mad Max, the Second World War, the cold war and Star Wars. Los Angeles is a pile of rubble, Skynet has established its sulphurous headquarters in San Francisco and humans lead a primitive life in an arid wasteland, threatened everywhere by horrendous machines.Д«ands of resistance fighters are controlled by an international military command operating from an atomic submarine deep in the Pacific and receive aerial back-up from a tattered jet squadron. The time is 2018, 14 years after Judgment Day when Skynet launched its pre-emptive nuclear attack on Earth and dystopia has come to California. Like the second and third films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the makers of Terminator Salvation start in the middle of things, expecting us to be acquainted with all that has gone before the way schoolboys were once expected to know about Greek mythology. Sufficient indeed for Mark Rowlands, a professor at the University of Miami, to describe Arnie as 'the philosophical giant of Hollywood' in his lively book on exploring ideas through SF movies, The Philosopher at the End of the Universe Also, like the first two, there is a strong allegorical element of a theological and political nature, reflecting on the bomb and the teachings of the New Testament.

Schwarzenegger was again a benevolent cyborg and was once more to rescue John Connor, this time threatened by an evil female cyborg.ДЄs in the previous two movies, there is, along with the extreme violence and destruction, a lot of wit in the proceedings. This sequel was an even greater success than the original, but by the time the third film came out Cameron had moved on and up with Titanic and the journeyman Jonathan Mostow was assigned to direct Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003. He's been dispatched through time by the future John Connor. Seven years later in Terminator: Judgment Day, altogether more complex in its plot and hardware, Arnie becomes a good cyborg come to protect Sarah's son, John Connor (note the initials), and do battle with a superior but malevolent terminator. Meanwhile, the future human survivors send their agent, Kyle Reese, to protect her. The Terminator was a relatively simple story in which a future world dominated by a rogue artificial intelligence called Skynet sends an indestructible cyborg (Arnie) back in time to kill Sarah Connor, who will in due time bear the child destined to lead the resistance to Skynet. McG (hitherto known for music videos and the two Charlie's Angels features) was 15 when The Terminator appeared in 1984 to make the reputation of its writer-director James Cameron and turn Arnold Schwarzenegger into a major star.

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Anyway, movie franchises today are assuming greater significance than traditional business ones, and young directors like JJ Abrams, who has assumed control of the Star Trek brand, and Joseph McGinty Nichol (who styles himself simply McG), who's made the fourth Terminator movie, are probably in a better position than their contemporaries who've been promoted to manage General Motors dealerships.ДЄbrams was born the year Star Trek arrived on TV.

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Why did film critics start talking like film producers and use terms like franchise, player, gross? Probably because they wanted to sound like serious professional observers rather than literary dilettantes.

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W hen did Hollywood start using the word franchise to describe a series of movies? Presumably when the men in suits with business degrees took over the studios.

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