Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Figures
Form & technique
- Sarah Connor's dream sequence of the nuclear attack on Los Angeles
Tropes
- The T-800 learning to smile and adopting paternal behaviors
- The T-800's exposed endoskeleton arm
- Sarah Connor's muscular physique and militant behavior
- The T-1000's liquid metal, shapeshifting abilities → The Postmodern Collage
- The CGI rendering of the T-1000
- John Connor's role as savior of humanity
- The surrogate family unit of Sarah, John, and the T-800 → The Hyperreal Mirage
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