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I call it, "A glitch in the Matrix"
Once a week, my platoon would have a pickup game of flag football. I had speed, but the rest of my skills as a reciever were subpar to the point that my platoon sergeant once commented that throwing the ball to me was riskier than taking a bus in downtown Jerusalem.
Our reserve center wasn't too far from Kennedy Airport, and back when the concorde flew, it was like clockwork that every morning at 8 am, a deafening roar would come from above as it took off and flew directly over the reserve center. This morning was different, though. Five minutes after the concorde took off, a second one came roaring overhead (which never happens), and then reality changed.
It was a career game. On defense, I tipped three passes and caught an interception for a touchdown. On offese, I was like Randy Moss, just pulling down everything that was near me. David Tyree's helmet catch was nothing compared to what I was doing that day. The highlight of my day was when a pass appeared to have been overthrown to me in the end zone. I jumped up in a crowd of defenders and pulled down an amazing touchdown pass with one hand. I was an unexplainable human highlight reel.
The next morning, everything was back to normal and I was once again my old unathletic self, dropping passes and being as risky as a bus ride in downtown Jerusalem.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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