Assignment 4-2

My focus is on the movie Terminator 2. In this film the hero, is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The character Arnold plays is that of the terminator. The movie was made in 1991. In Terminator 2, it is the terminator's job to protect John Connor. Though a robot, the terminator risks his existence at all costs to protect John even when outmatched by the newer model T1000. Essentially, the terminator's job is to protect the good guy from the bad guy with a lot of action scenes in between. The terminator is a robot, so he can be forgiven for acts like stealing another man's clothes, shooting a security guard's kneecaps, and almost killing a group of guys threatening John. The terminator does as John says, because the terminator is programmed by future John to protect current John. The biggest question to the terminator's status as a hero is a lack of choice. With saving the world for now, a lack of choice can be forgiven. The date of the movie affects the status of the hero in that he is a robot. This is a time before the year 2000 when everyone is looking toward the future with a mixture of optimism and fear. This creates a sense of moral ambiguity, which is reflected in our hero.