Re: DAMTOYS CLASSIC SERIES: 1/4th scale Terminator 2: Judgment Day T-800（NO.CS001）
I also like what P. has said to me before that the way Arnie holds the gun and rotates just his upper body to direct the gun really conveys that he's a machine, especially with 'a damn minigun' he becomes a weapons platform.
yes, i'm quite sure that was the intention in the movie. weapons platform, sounds good.
same he was in T1 with two guns, representing ground Hunter-Killer interpretation with his two arms and only turning the upper body.
Lol does it really matter though? Still looks great.
i knew from the beginning that you didn't care, your question pointed directly to that - but was still lured into answering.
as for "does it even matter"...
it's like Cameron's alien queen versus Anderson's alien queen posing and moving.
AVP queen walked like a standart animal while Aliens queen had her limbs posed and moved in a very spider-y manner. posing mattered a lot in depicting the character - but i guess not for a lot of people.
i was glad to see it was mentioned as a significant difference at camerononline page though.
ALIENS Queen moved in a very unnatural manner. She would move the same arm forward as the forward leg, opposite most earth animals, and would raise her legs extremely high waving her hands like a maniac in different directions. She had this splayed leg walk that fitted well with an idea of a creature that spends all it's time hanging from the ceiling and it looked like it had real weight. Her legs have atrophied from lack of use. The original Queen looked like she could barely stand, as something that's spent most its life sitting down should.
The AVP Queen on the other hand had her feet in a straight line like a human being. She moved like a predatory dinosaur, and very fluid, like a large animal would do - leaned forward with the tail holding the balance, arms (now placed like human arms) ready to grab. Her leg movement was linear. She moves like a hunter. Whether it's good or bad, it does change the character from a very inhuman and unnatural creature into a traditional large predator.
they use a politically correct expression "whether it's good or bad"
anyway, same here with the terminator - he moves and wields weapons like a human cannot and would not, and that was much better than a "natural pose and movement a human would take".
I have made an alteration
nope, the statue is clearly bend forward. like those humans on Brian's photos.
which is, as i said, out of the character, especially for that particular event at Cyberdyne, where he does everything with a straight back, from walking to shooting, as i've shown above.
Knowing what a control freak James Cameron is, I suspect he had Arnold hold the gun up high like this to frame the shot with maximum face/gun on screen since it is a waist up close up and the scene is emphasizing the brutality of the gun with the gentleness of the promise not to kill.
...*working theory
only he held it like that even while walking to the window, before shooting. in a side camera view. so it was an intentional inhuman pose.
about 0:03-0:05.
