Arnold Schwarzenegger makes us feel the enjoyment of watching a film, of guns, explosions and violence, all in the knowledge that the lights will come up and we can all go home.The Terminator is so viscerally enjoyable, so deftly crafted, so unexpectedly satisfying in its resolution, that there is the temptation to legitimise this pleasure by demonstrating that the film is good for you too, that it is a serious work, with grown-up ideas, respectable themes and a basically liberal political vision This is quite easy to do. You can claim that, like most of Cameron’s later films, it subverts what is meant to be a male genre by featuring a dominant, triumphant heroine. You could claim it is even anti-nuclear, anti-authority, even pro-gun control (one of the movie’s most enjoyable sequences features the cyborg buying guns: “Hey,” says the gunshop owner, “there’s a seven-day wait on those.” “Wrong,” says Arnie, and kills him) You could even argue that the film is a religious allegory. John Connor shares his initials with another redeemer of mankind, (as well as James Cameron). In this version, Reese is the annunciatory angel who impregnates Mary and gives her the glad tidings.

The terminator, meanwhile, is Herod, slaughtering every Sarah Connor it can find, and thereby the first born.Well, maybe. And James Cameron’s distrust of authority, his Darwinian tale in which humanity must earn survival by fighting for it, is also part of an American right-wing tradition, in which any authority from the tax man to the fire department is a form of creeping socialism.A lot has happened since The Terminator first appeared. It was one of the first big hits on video, and now it is being issued on DVD. There was a very enjoyable, much nicer sequel – made for 20 times the original’s budget – in which Schwarzenegger’s cyborg was more like Herman Munster than the killing machine of the first film.

And now, with Arnie’s career in decline, he is said to be planning a second sequel There have been vast technical advances But The Terminator still survives, still works “It’s a dark cathartic fantasy,” Cameron said. “That’s why people don’t cringe in terror from the terminator but go with him. They want to be him for that one moment.” It ought to be unforgivable The terminator kills so many innocent people. On the other hand, he is also the ultimate tall, laconic action hero who does what we would never dare to do in real life. Film is a kinetic medium and for 107 minutes, The Terminator is a movie that sets at least one part of our unconscious free.”All you need to make a movie,” Jean-Luc Godard once said, “is a girl and a gun.” The Terminator shows that sometimes you don’t even need the girl.’The Terminator’ (18) was released on Friday; a special edition DVD (£24.99) and VHS (£9.99) are out tomorrow; ‘The Terminator’ (BFI Modern Classics), Sean French. They came in their dozens from as far away as Merseyside and Somerset to stand in a frozen corner of the East End of London yesterday in the hope of a glimpse of three tired and emotional celebrities.

They came in their dozens from as far away as Merseyside and Somerset to stand in a frozen corner of the East End of London yesterday in the hope of a glimpse of three tired and emotional celebrities.
Once more last night, Big Brother was proving its ability to drive the British public to star worship beyond the call of duty. After seven days of diverting the nation with a mixture of flamboyant egos and, in the case of red-hot favourite Jack Dee, a bad dose of cosmic ennui, Celebrity Big Brother last night reached its climax.The Comic Relief one-off production of the show that turns the navel-gazing antics of captive contestants into a spectator sport reached its finale last night, as the centrepiece of Red Nose Day – and the focus of attention for a large gathering of frozen fans.By afternoon, a posse of brave souls had gathered in a biting wind at the high-security compound in Bow, where the last three “prisoners” were waiting to learn their fate in front of the battery of cameras which followed their every move since last Friday, mercifully excluding the communal toilet and shower.Deadpan comedian Dee, who spent much of his seven-day incarceration imploring viewers to vote him free only to emerge as the bookies’ tip to win the contest (10-11 odds on), spent much of the time chatting with Brookside actress Claire Sweeney (7-4) and former boy-band member Keith Duffy (9-4).For Erica Branson, 26, a ballet-shoemaker from Kettering, Northamptonshire, who was at her crash-barrier by 2.30pm, six hours before even the final eviction, it was all extra time to bask in the reflected glory of her idol, Duffy the former Boyzone musician.Shivering beside fellow fans from Somerset and Norfolk, she said: “I’ve watched every programme and I think he’s done brilliantly I felt I had to come and see the final programme for myself. It doesn’t matter about the weather, we just want to be part of it all.”Around the corner at Three Mill Studios, site of the Big Brother compound, the Claire Sweeney camp was also taking shape, with its dictum that ordinary should win.The roll call of those already evicted – former boxer and wearer of Louis Vuitton bumbags Chris Eubank, TV host Vanessa Feltz (damningly renamed “Fragile” by Dee) and newly-wed ex-Blue Peter presenter Anthea Turner – proved that the nation was not prepared to put up with pretentious celebrities even for charity, say Sweeney’s supporters.Graham Murphy, 22, who had travelled from Sweeney’s native Liverpool, said: “Claire is the most down-to-earth. If you look at the ones they had in there from the start – it’s the ones you’d buy a pint in the pub who stayed. The rest of them were a bit poncy, if you ask me.”The absence of a fan club for Dee, apart from the presence in the studio of his wife Jane, for whom he briefly escaped embrace passionately on Thursday night, was perhaps a further indication that the scowling humorist would emerge the victor.Channel 4, which broadcast the original Big Brother last year, giving the nation Nasty Nick, is happy.

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