Terminator, or The Arche-Traveling Shot
Terminator, or The Arche-Traveling Shot
This chapter begins by discussing the interlocking nature of destruction in apocalyptic film. The way in which destruction is propagated on screen, like a wave that goes from thing to thing, shows how one thing refers to another, that is, the fabric of their relations with and references to one another; in short, what we call a world. That things hold onto one another, or thanks to one another, that they give one another support becomes clear when they start to collapse like a row of dominos. One finds the most striking images of this referring interlocking in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow, 2003). The chapter highlights a particular scene where the female T-X raises the crane of the truck she is driving during a car chase. Long before the twists and turns of the narrative that lead to the final holocaust, it is here, in this sequence that the nuclear holocaust of the movie's last images is being prepared.
Keywords: Terminator 3, destruction, apocalypse-cinema, apocalyptic film, apocalyptic genre
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