It's because he suspects the mom on the other end of the phone to be the shapeshifter Terminator, impersonating the mom.
So he makes up a fake dog name: the real mom would say something like "who's Wolfie?" but the shapeshifter Terminator assumes "Wolfie" is the name of their dog.
This is how he knows it's the shapeshifter Terminator, and not the mom. Agree they could have explained this better.
Oh, right! You must be one of those anime gays who enjoys when the villain spells out the entire plot for 10 minutes straight because you're too fricking moronic to get it.
>Agree they could have explained this better.
No, stopping the action to call attention to the galaxy brain move your character just did is insecure and condescending
The purpose of the scene is for john and the terminator to learn that his step parents are dead.
They do this in a clever yet simple way by having the terminator use the fake dog name to veryfy the step mom's identity. This also shows the terminator is smart enough to come up with these sort of stratagems on the fly.
The scene is good as it is. Te movie assumes the audience are paying attention and have more than two brain cells.
Anything else is unnecesary and brings the scene down to cater to morons.
Please bever write or direct anything.
he says Wolfie because it is the film showing us a glitch in the terminators. Same reason why we see the T-1000 start to mutate with whatever his body touches toward the end. The fact that the T-800 can't say the correct name seconds before he was told it shows us the flaw in technology, even with something as advanced as a terminator. thats the point james cameron was making here.
was /prog/ ever archived? he used to post on there sometimes. dude was full on insane, even if you agreed with him he'd snap and copypaste bible quotes at you
It's a funny scene when you think about it. Two Terminators having a chat over the phone - one pretending to be a little boy, the other pretending to be his mom.
No because if the good Terminator was killing innocent people it would make the audience not like him. It would also be out of character for John to not give an order like that.
Try to help some kid you think is being abducted. He has his goon beat you up and calls you names. John Connor was a bad person. I'm glad Skynet killed him
Black person
Max
This, although Arnold refers to him as Wolfie. Never understood that.
His real step mother would have noticed he used the wrong name
Max is pronounced 'Wolfie' in German
It's because he suspects the mom on the other end of the phone to be the shapeshifter Terminator, impersonating the mom.
So he makes up a fake dog name: the real mom would say something like "who's Wolfie?" but the shapeshifter Terminator assumes "Wolfie" is the name of their dog.
This is how he knows it's the shapeshifter Terminator, and not the mom. Agree they could have explained this better.
>they could have explained this better.
It needed no explanation. Anyone who didn't understand what he was doing is braindead.
They could have thrown in a line or something.
I think he says something like "your step mom is dead."
"How do you know?"
"Your dog's name is Max, not Wolfie."
Still leaves it up to the audience, just makes it clearer. Punchier too.
Did IQs just drop rapidly in the last century?
>Punchier too.
a nice touch, anon
Oh, right! You must be one of those anime gays who enjoys when the villain spells out the entire plot for 10 minutes straight because you're too fricking moronic to get it.
>Agree they could have explained this better.
No, stopping the action to call attention to the galaxy brain move your character just did is insecure and condescending
Then why have dialogue at all? Why not just have the Terminator show up and shoot the mom, on screen? It's character development.
The film is from 1991 my guy.
You're so moronic it's almost unbelievable.
The purpose of the scene is for john and the terminator to learn that his step parents are dead.
They do this in a clever yet simple way by having the terminator use the fake dog name to veryfy the step mom's identity. This also shows the terminator is smart enough to come up with these sort of stratagems on the fly.
The scene is good as it is. Te movie assumes the audience are paying attention and have more than two brain cells.
Anything else is unnecesary and brings the scene down to cater to morons.
Please bever write or direct anything.
>There are actually nighers who don't understand why he asked for a phased plasma rifle in de fowty watt range
Thank you for explaining that
i like how arnold asks john the dog's name to make sure he doesn't use the same one when it's very, very improbable
>Never understood that.
he says Wolfie because it is the film showing us a glitch in the terminators. Same reason why we see the T-1000 start to mutate with whatever his body touches toward the end. The fact that the T-800 can't say the correct name seconds before he was told it shows us the flaw in technology, even with something as advanced as a terminator. thats the point james cameron was making here.
Not a bad interpretation honestly.
>Hey, what's wrong with Max? I can hear him barking.
>Max is fine, honey. Max is just fine. Where are you?
>*hangs up* Hmm. Inconclusive.
>"hmmm..inconclusive"
>"I recommend we go over there and find out if your mother is really alive"
>You're not very experienced in protection are you?
>Of course not. I'm a Terminator. Now let's go.
Sneed
Janny
Black personman
N-
gone, but never forgotten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black person_(dog)
>be born a dog
>get a dumb name
>die
has anyone suffered more?
this dog has done more for the world than you ever will, homosexual
dude i'm not knocking the dog chill
Not only that the dogs gravestone was removed because it was offensive. RIP.
>Lax
>Hey, what's wrong with Poopie? I can hear him sharting.
T-1000
(only programmers will get this)
reddit tier. pic related is where fun begins.
really glad tdavis is getting recognition
was /prog/ ever archived? he used to post on there sometimes. dude was full on insane, even if you agreed with him he'd snap and copypaste bible quotes at you
it's Galleria
>THE GALLERIA!?
>*thud* Your foster parents are dead
It's a funny scene when you think about it. Two Terminators having a chat over the phone - one pretending to be a little boy, the other pretending to be his mom.
That is actually VERY funny.
Hey Vasquez
You ever been mistaken for being a foster mother?
You ever been mistaken for a T-1000 pretending to be a step mom?
For you
Anybody else wish we got more of just the Terminator and John? The dynamic kind of got ruined with Sarah.
I think Sarah was needed to bring the sober reality of the situation in, but yeah, I feel you. They were great.
>Bane
>Hey, you're a big guy...
>What?
Chilli bo Dilly
>Hey, what's wrong with Bidda de Bombado Boom Boom? I can hear him barking.
Bidda de Bombado Boom Boom is fine, honey. Bidda de Bombado Boom Boom's just fine. Where are you?
Blondi
woofy
Fax
>Hey, what's wrong with Letter. I can hear him writing.
Why didn't John interrupt Terminator and correct him?
HE didn't know the plan.
There was no easy money in it
>"No killing people"
>Blows off some old guy's knees and leaves him to bleed out in a parking lot at night
>"He'll live"
He mixed all major arteries
what was that about, anyway? was it to get a PG rating or something?
No because if the good Terminator was killing innocent people it would make the audience not like him. It would also be out of character for John to not give an order like that.
>No because if the good Terminator was killing innocent people it would make the audience not like him.
weren't they cops?
Given the film was R rated, no, it was not.
Screw you, you big meanie.
Try to help some kid you think is being abducted. He has his goon beat you up and calls you names. John Connor was a bad person. I'm glad Skynet killed him
Honorable mention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black person_(dog)
Twonks the Mighty
Why did Terminator ask John what the dog's name was beforehand? Was it worried it might guess correctly and ruin the trick?
Poochie
>Have the ability to perfectly replicate any human beings voice
>Decide to use the voice of a heavily accented Austrian
yes?
Dog.