This revisionist noir film was thefirstproduction of legendary Paramount Studios head (and ex-actor) Robert Evans, a flamboyant Hollywood figure who later in 1994 published a juicy autobiography,The Kid Stays in the Picturethat was made into a documentary film in 2002...They""re inventing new Terminators, new ways of killing us.Skynet is planning something big.But the Resistance is planning something bigger.This is John Connor.If you""re listening to this, you are the Resistance."After jump-starting a vehicle at the observatory, Marcus"" dangerous plan (as opposed to Kyle""s idea to join up with Resistance forces to the East), was to travel north, even though the machines controlled the entire northern sector up to San Francisco.Only one of the three survives physically intact, but all of them emerge irrevocably changed.This ambitious drama displays the reasons for the protagonists, all believers in the American dream, to leave home for the conflict overseas: to test and prove their manhood, to show their friendship-solidarity, and to demonstrate their patriotism, etc.Chewie""s nose led him to the remains of an animal carcass on a pole - it was a trap, and the group was snared in a large net and hoisted high into the air...Sure, yes, yes, he""s a millionaire, you know, like all the Yanks.But he""s eccentric.Oh, he is eccentric.What till I show ya...His bag to sleep in, a sleeping bag, he calls it.The song, equating Sean Thornton (or his grandfather who ""died in Australia...in a penal colony"") with the wild colonial boy Jack Dugan, continues:At the early age of sixteen years, he left his native home.