The opening of Terminator takes the audience to a desolate Los Angeles of the future. The editing is fast paced to create a feeling of displacement and turmoil. In the scene where Schwarzenneger faces the gang we see cuts from a switchblade, to actor, to hand, to villan falling, but what you do not see is the blade going into the antagonist. The editing creates the impression that the 'hero' is quick thinking and phyiscally powerful. Already the spectators/audience feel Schwarzenneger is superior in tact to those he will meet in the narrative.
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