'Terminator' Gets Archived
"I'll be back" now has a whole new meaning.The Hollywood Reporter posts that good ol' Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon be immortalized in DC not for his politics, but for his killing machine. The Library of Congress/National Film Registry has selected 25 films to be preserved in the registry. The choices must be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant, and James Cameron's 1984 film The Terminator leads the pack with its "ingenious, thoughtful script ... and relentless, nonstop action."
And it's a pretty interesting mix of films that will go along with Arnie. We're talking The Invisible Man, Deliverance, In Cold Blood, The Pawnbroker, The Killers, Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle, A Face in the Crowd, Sergeant York, Disneyland Dream, Flower Drum Song, Free Radicals, Hallelujah, The March, No Lies, On the Bowery, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, George Stevens WWII Footage, Water and Power, White plus silent films like The Perils of Pauline, One Week, So's Your Old Man, White Fawn's Devotion, and Foolish Wives.
Does Schwarzenegger fit right into this list? Are there others that should trump the Terminator? Sound off below!
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1-01-2009 @ 2:46PM
SlimPickins said...
Is "White" listed right before you mentioned the silent films a typo? I thought for a moment you were referring to Kieślowski's White, but didn't see it listed anywhere else as being inducted. Odd that they'd induct a foreign film for this anyway.
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1-02-2009 @ 5:11AM
Movie_Dearest said...
It's a typo, the film's full title is "White Fawn's Devotion".
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1-04-2009 @ 3:37AM
kevin said...
Its quite obvious to most that the 2nd was much better in terms of character develpoment, themes, action, anything really. It would be like 20 years from not archiving Batman Begins over The Dark Knight....
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1-05-2009 @ 8:35AM
Bill said...
I think John Carpenter's Halloween would be a better choice than Terminator. The Terminator essentially took the indestructible killer from slasher films and gave it sci-fi star power. But Halloween is up there with Psycho I think...maybe they've already archived that one. I honestly don't know.
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1-06-2009 @ 11:46AM
Astin said...
The truly awesome part of this is that Disneyland Dream is in there. It's a home movie from 1956 by Robbin Barstow that is viewable for free online. I think it's awesome that this is in the list.
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