The Greatest Scenes of All Time on Instagram: "The Terminator was released on this day in 1984 so here’s the story of how Arnold got the part: Arnold hadn’t originally set out to play the Terminator — he was actually aiming for the hero, Kyle Reese. During a lunch meeting with James Cameron, Arnold began talking excitedly about the film, and specifically how he viewed the machine/assassin character. He laid out how the Terminator should move, behave, shoot blindly, never look down at his hand, b