Yahoo Movies Twisters director addresses surprising omission
Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has explained why the film omitted something many of us were expecting to see.
The film, which came out in UK cinemas a few days ago and in the US yesterday, is a sequel to classic 1996 disaster movie Twister. Unlike things like the new Ghostbusters films of the Star Wars sequels, Twisters is a standalone endeavour.
There are a few small callbacks, such a cameo from Bill Paxton's son, but the director explained to CNN that he explicitly didn't want to recreate or reference the original film's most famous piece of iconography.
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"Everybody wants the cow. They think they want the cow," he said. "But I promise you, you would be disappointed if there was a cow.
"Any time I talk to anyone about that original Twister they would say, 'Oh yeah, the big flying cow movie.' I felt like I would hate to make a movie, update it, and just hear, 'Oh yes, you made the new flying cow movie.' So that was it – that was the decision."
Another thing the film doesn't do is mention climate change, something a lot of weather-based disaster films do, which the filmmaker once again explained was deliberate.
"I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don't ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message," he said. "I just don't feel like films are meant to be message-oriented...
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"I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we're preaching a message, because that's certainly not what I think cinema should be about. I think it should be a reflection of the world."
Despite that, the film does touch on the issue of disaster capitalism, where people affected by natural disasters (or major economic crises) are preyed upon by corporations or individuals looking to make money from them.
Twisters is out in cinemas now.
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