I'm Reese. Sergeant Tech-Com DN38416 | The Terminator [Open Matte, Remastered]

The Terminator (1984) [Remastered]
Scene: I'm Reese. Sergeant Tech-Com

Storyline: A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs.

Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator \ T-800), Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor), Paul Winfield (Lieutenant Ed Traxler), Lance Henriksen (Detective Hal Vukovich), Rick Rossovich (Matt Buchanan), Bess Motta (Ginger Ventura), Earl Boen (Dr. Peter Silberman)

Production Companies:
Hemdale
Pacific Western
Euro Film Funding
Cinema '84/Greenberg Brothers Partnership

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[augustday]

Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese does such an incredible job. There's a certain intensity, almost manic, in the way he acts. You really get the feeling that this is a man who's spent his entire life fighting the machines, he's laser-focused on his mission and won't let anything stop him.

[DanielRodriguez-fjyb]

That cop pretty much called for his own ambulance and didn't even know it. 😆

[wingz]

This is what every movie after T2 missed, you had the feeling there was real danger especially with the majority of the movie taking place at night.

[Guy-]

RIP Reese. He died like so many soldiers, not ever knowing if his mission succeeded.

[thCenturyMan]

Biehn was the best sci fi soldier of all time. That is his movie legacy.

[johnsmithee]

Just one of those nights where the Governor of California is chasing some people for evading taxes

[nicky]

I really wish they'd continued the films sequentially until it all ended with Kyle Reese going through the time machine bringing everything full circle to the beginning of the first film.

[Total_Recall]

'This is a mistake. I didn't do anything.' 'No, but you will.'

[Vdimdim]

I love how in the original Arnie looks and acts like an actual machine. If you look closely, in the scene where Arnie is trying to locate the vehicle Sarah's in, he doesn't just look around, it seems like he's scanning his surroundings for anything that might resemeble his target. He doesn't talk much in the original film either, unlike in T2, in which all he does most the time is shooting the shit with John, like he doesn't have anything better to do.

[SuperLeshina]

This scene gets even better when you watch it for several times.
A couple of things I noticed this time is how Kyle Reese is driving his car without his headlights off. It's incredible because it portrays how he's strategic and adaptable. Strategic because he's harder to spot this way (even to a point a cop has to flash his searchlight to identify it was him), and adaptable, which to me speaks volumes about the worldbuilding of this movie - he can see quite clearly in the night and moving fast at the same time because there were plenty of times when he had to drive cars in the ruins in darkness away from the HKs. If anything, the street lights make it seem like a cakewalk for him, because he definetly has seen way worse.
Which in turn builds a character - a soldier who has not known anything but war. All he says to Sarah are commands, his rank and his serial number, which doesn't make a lick of sense to her.
How Michael Biehn didn't make it in the big leagues is beyond me.

[DinsRune]

The thing that makes Reese great as a character is that he's freaking the fuck out the whole time.
Kyle Reese is on the verge of and/or having a nervous breakdown at all times, and that's really great.

[frankfarmer]

0:19 honestly, in my opinion this scene is pretty hilarious not because the terminator had bashed his head in, but the way the cop sounds before getting his head bashed in, that part never gets old 😂😅.

[jedimario]

I love the way exposition is handled here. There isn’t a calm back and forth with Sarah going “what is going on here?” And Reese explaining perfectly. Instead, they keep the fast paced, frantic action going on. Sarah, as a civilian, acts naturally by being visibly panicked and uncertain of the situation, and Reese keeps having his train of thought interrupted by the chase outside. He feels to be mostly in control of the situation, but it’s obvious by the way he’s speaking, the way he ignores explaining things that Sarah obviously won’t understand, and the swear visibly beading on his face that he’s also under a lot of pressure, trying to evade police, the terminator, and calm and explain the situation to Sarah, all in unfamiliar territory. All of this with quick cuts back to the action so the audience doesn’t feel as though things have suddenly become safe. Reese has to actually evade the cops long enough so he can hide and eventually explain things in more detail. It’s a lot of exposition, but it’s delivered slowly and in a natural way with what’s happening in the actual story.

[fahimalvi]

Kyle Reese to Sarah Connor: We have to get the chopper!!!!

[DeDasilva]

James Cameron is a genius! This movie for the year 1984 is way ahead of it's time

[SoldierOfFate]

Imagine what's going through Sarah's head right now during this sequence. Some giant Austrian in punk clothes tried to execute her with a .45 and Uzi and now some bum is literally kidnapping you and claiming that the former that tried to kill you is a cyborg from the future.

[OriginalBigRob]

Thanks, Flashback FM, now I have to go and watch this movie again!






For like the T-800th time!

[TechCom]

Tech-Com barely gets much recognition in most Terminator media, hence why I made a a Terminator Lore channel dedicated to it. It was simply a used once in this scene as well as in Salvation and yet it actually has a great significance to the mythos. Nice job using it in the title of the video.

[julkasteven]

I love the lovely detail of Terminator mimicking officer's voice. First time ever audience saw Terminator doing that.

[anubhavjha]

Arnold is like the great White Shark in this film. Unstoppable and Relentless. No one can stop him, the best you could do is escape.