Daily Dialogue — October 27, 2019

Daily Dialogue — October 28, 2019

Sarah Connor: [spoken, but silent] Go! Go! Just run! Go!

— Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), screenplay by James Cameron, William Wisher

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Nightmare. Today’s suggestion by Lois Bernard.

Trivia: Special effects guru Stan Winston and his crew studied hours of nuclear test footage in order to make Sarah Connor’s “nuclear nightmare” scene look as realistic as possible. A miniature Los Angeles was made to simulate the scene. Some of the materials used in the miniature that mimicked all the destroyed masonry were Matzos crackers and Shredded Wheat. After each take, it would take on average two days to set the model up to shoot again. In late 1991, members of several U.S. federal nuclear testing labs unofficially declared it “the most accurate depiction of a nuclear blast ever created for a fictional motion picture.” The special effects team members have stated several times that no other scene they ever worked on received such equal amounts of praise and emotional feedback from viewers.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Lois: “This is truly nightmarish… Not fun. I had this nightmare in 1979. Led me to become an anti-nuclear activitist. Not kidding.”