Arnold Schwarzenegger is currently on everyone’s lips again. A few days ago, his first big action series, FUBAR, started on Netflix. In addition, the streaming service released the three-part documentary Arnold, which deals with the Hollywood star career busy – a treasure trove for exciting anecdotes!
In the documentary, Schwarzenegger also talks about the shooting of the first Terminator film. The badass sci-fi actioner from 1984 was largely responsible for Schwarzenegger’s career advancement in the dream factory. Especially with one striking sentence he has immortalized himself in film history: “I’ll be back.”
“I’ll be back”: Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals the original version of the most iconic Terminator quote
A sci-fi moment for the ages and a quote that is still in use almost three decades later and has become an integral part of pop culture. However, we almost did another version heard the famous phrase. The script originally said “I’ll come back” But Schwarzenegger didn’t want to say that.
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Director and co-writer James Cameron then wrote the version we all know (“I’ll be back”) and instructed Schwarzenegger to keep the sentence as simple as possible. For the former bodybuilder this one seemed too casual. A machine would rather use the words “I want to be back” answer.
Although this train of thought is understandable, Cameron reacted with drastic words. Schwarzenegger recalls the conversation: “Are you the author?”Cameron is said to have asked, whereupon he started with a “No” answered. Cameron’s reaction: “Then don’t tell me how to fucking write.”
Cameron was right. “I’ll be back” has less machine character than the less dynamic “I want to be back”, which Schwarzenegger proposed. Presumably the moment would be with the formal variant though never become so iconic. In the German synchro, the sentence became mit “I’ll be back” translated.
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