#OPENING SONG BAR SCENE TERMINATOR 2 MOVIE#
The institution of the movie is closer to Los Angeles. The ‘Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane’, where Sarah Connor is incarcerated, has nothing to do with Pescadero, which is a small California fishing town between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Terminator 2: Judgment Day film location: ‘Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane’: Phoenix Academy, San Fernando Valley With a sense of thrift that would gladden his old mentor ( Cameron is a graduate of the Roger Corman school of moviemaking – at age 23 he handled the special effects on the Corman-produced Battle Beyond The Stars), the twisted bikes, burned-out cars and blackened cinders used as dressing are charred debris from the Universal Studios Hollywood fire of 1989, when a disgruntled security guard torched the famous backlot.įontana also proved useful in providing a destroyed LA for Independence Day. The opening ‘future war’ is reprised, using the ruins of a demolished steel plant at Fontana, on the outskirts of San Bernardino, Route 10 east of Los Angeles.
James Cameron took the opportunity to revisit ideas from the first Terminator movie on a grander scale. Some years on from The Terminator, and future resistance hero John Connor ( Edward Furlong) is an eleven-year-old, farmed out to foster parents in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Reseda (don’t go looking for ‘South Almond Avenue’ – it’s fictitious), while Mom Sarah ( Linda Hamilton) is banged up in a maximum security asylum.Īt $94 million, T2 was the most expensive movie ever (the original Terminator, came in at a neat $6 million).
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