If you let this go by, there won""t be nothing safe around here, our cattle, our homes, not even our women folks.There""s Lucy over there." After Ethan gives Ben his war saber, Aaron asks about his brother""s whereabouts, but is given an evasive answer:Aaron: How was California?Ethan: California? How should I know?.Its pioneering technical work, often the work of Griffith""s under-rated cameraman Billy Bitzer, includes many techniques that are now standard features of films, but first used in this film.The Architect grimly retorted that without humans, "there are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.