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Friday, May 22, 2009
How Old School Effects Brought Schwarzenegger's T-800 Back From 1983
From Popular Mechanics:
How the new Terminator Salvation movie used 25-year old props to recreate the T-800. Warning, spoilers ahead.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger's face appears onscreen in Terminator Salvation, it's precisely as it should be: wide, menacing and trapped in 1983. If the first three Terminator films were a flipbook portrait of an action star entering middle age, the fourth installment resets the iconic actor's cinematic clock with a climactic fight scene that blends the latest digital effects with a prosthetic prop that's been shelved for a quarter-century. The result is the resurrection of the killer robot that launched a franchise—and a feat of time travel that's worth the price of admission.
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