/lit/ - Literature

>>12638791
>conversely, why is that the T-800 handles its own death so well? the T-800 certainly appears to feel pain when it the T-1000 is ripping its guts out with a spear, or having its head slammed. it doesn't cry or scream, but we don't get the impression that any of this is *pleasant. ...
Again, to directory and storyboard decisions to make the movie appealing.
I like as much as the next guy to read infinite meaning it the way the art has turned out, and imply it says this and that. And from a post-structualist perspective there's some value to it.
But at the same time I try to keep a layer of rationality in the back of my mind and try to be away when the interpretations - even if I create or indulge in them - are surely just read into it and the reason the movie/book whatever is how it is comes from the creators thinking on what would visually or emotionally make for an interesting scene.
The T-800 when he gives the kid a thumbs up does so because at the end of the movie he's the almost human type good guy for the viewe, and you'll not end the movie with him killing himself while crying in pain for 3 straight minutes like Asuka in that Neon Genesis episode. Because that's a blockbuster and not an experimental deconstructive anime.