The public met James Cameron 40 years ago thanks to Terminator (1984). The first (complete) film as director of the director of Titanic either Avatar has gone down in history as one of the great action and science fiction films, while the character of Arnold Schwarzenegger He is already an icon of cinema. The film swept the world, also in Spain, although The filming was not exactly easy.
Terminator was so successful in the cinemas that it was made several sequels of mixed success, although the original tape It remains one of the most remembered. Despite the popularity of the film, James Cameron has acknowledged in an interview for the British Film Institute that on set there was a lot of tension: In fact, it made such an impact on Arnold Schwarzenegger that the actor ended up targeting with a gun at one of the producers.
How Arnold Schwarzenegger pointed his gun at the producer
According to James Cameron himself, the filming of Terminator was being very stressful, since he timing It was going against them and the budget didn’t leave much room for improvisation. The tension was in crescendo until one day John Daly, one of the film’s producers, who lived a shocking episode with Arnold Schwarzenegger that will never be forgotten.
The first day the producer approached the set was the night the legendary Tech Noir club scene was filmed, remembers James Cameron. “John was standing next to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was dressed in the Terminator suit. He looked at him and with that Austrian accent said: ‘John, every time I see you you’re always smiling.'” A priori it could have been a friendly interaction, but it was quite the opposite.
At that time, Arnold Schwarzenegger He took out his Colt 45 automatic and he put it right under the jaw to the producer, while the actor The mercenaries I blurted out “Personally, I don’t like it,” in relation to the fact that he was always with a smile. The incident did not escalate, but it made John Daly did not appear on set again of Terminator.
Why was there so much tension on the set of ‘Terminator’?
James Cameron also recognized that, despite having a budget of more than six million dollars, the team of Terminator I had to juggle to be able to shoot all the scenes, and in fact some of them They recorded without the relevant permissions, like the final sequence: “A police car appeared and I told the officers that we were recording a tape of students,” confesses the director of Avatar.
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