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It's not just a compelling shot. It uses the door frames that enter the viewframe to completely trick your brain: suddenly its not a door frame but the frame to the mirror. So, it's entrance doesn't immediately break the illusion.

Also the mirror has to be more than just bluescreen - there's distortion in it too as it moves.

The extended edition of Terminator 2 also has an impossible mirror shot -- and it achieves it with an almost hilarious solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTOK89w8h0

It's literally a window with Linda Hamilton's twin sister on the other side performing rehearsed/synchronized movements.

edit: just found out she passed away a few months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-RRixkRhI

https://movieweb.com/leslie-hamilton-freas-gearren-dead-term...

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It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that they had to do the shot this way so the camera wouldn't appear in the mirror. That is a great example of film making at its best: so immersive, you don't even notice they had to do something special to pull it off.

It took me several minutes too, but to get to a different conclusion: I didn't notice the lack of reflection you mention, what I noticed is that the real Arnie must be the one "inside" the mirror, while the one giving us its back is a fake. This way they could open the port-cover in the head in a single shot!

Terminator 2 also used another set of twins. When the T-1000 mimics the security guard, they're both seen on screen simultaneously in a couple of scenes. Not CGI but identical twin actors.

I'm impressed that the Terminator's CPU wasn't covered in thermal paste! How do they cool it?

It's future technology and runs on super low voltage I suppose.

Transistors have gotten more efficient, but that doesn't mean CPUs' TDPs have decreased. At least for desktop CPUs they've mostly stayed the same or even gone up: the Pentium 4 "PresHot" from 2005 had a system power consumption of 233W whereas the i9-10900k from 2020 has a package power consumption of 254W.

Probably using something other than synchronously clocked digital gates. Analog neural networks and the like:

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/consideri...

...or reversible computation...

https://cqi.inf.usi.ch/qic/80_Toffoli.pdf

https://calculemus.org/logsoc03/materialy/ConservativeLogic....

It’s an Apple M1.

Sir, come along this way - Apple would like to have a word with you - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-doe...

Superconductor-based technology, obviously

A resting human burns about 60w continuously. Can't speak for the Terminator but our solution is sweating, mostly.

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