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Brad Fiedel’s score, mechanical pulses that creep and scream, carries the rest of the scene. All while “Burnin' in the Third Degree” by Tahnee Cain & The Trianglz plays in the background, warning of impending doom.Īnd then, it all explodes into gunfire. The entire sequence in the film, with the Terminator crushing the hand of the bouncer (“Hey, that guy didn’t pay!”), seeing Schwarzenegger's eyes scanning through the smoke, moving through the ecstatic crowd looking for Connor, seeing Connor dodge his gaze through sheer luck, watching the red lights of the club appear on her face, and then those lights becoming the red light of the Terminator’s gun (why does a cyborg need a scope? Because it looks cool, obviously). The whole film has elements of style and efficiency throughout, but Tech Noir is where James Cameron truly began to find himself as a director. They meet in the wonderful Club Tech Noir, perhaps the zenith of ‘80s locales. These questions are answered eventually with words, but Cameron chooses to provide an easy image at first: they’re at war. UniversalImagesGroup/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The film elevated Schwarzenegger into the next level of celebrity.
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