The orginal vision or spark for Cameron creating the Terminator was him seeing an endoskeleton walking through large flames with the fire reflecting off of its body in a dream he had. Then later he sketched the technical stuff or details with Stan Winston. Actually I suppose Winston is equally responsible for all the inspiration they have had on the nation's army or goverment. Perhaps we are seeing the beginning of the real life Skynet.
^ ya i saw it on E! once that this whole thing for TERMINATORstarted when james would have these dreams about endo skeleton chasing him or something. it really haunted him. The questioned was asked to stan winston i remember that is it possible for machines to become self-aware, and he dismissed it saying that machines can never do that. but1 neverknows, i how ever believe its just sci-fi and it should b treated that way, the idea could sound realistic, however it wont happen. end of discussion
(next thing i know2morrow on news... machines taking over mankind haha)
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