[This story contains spoilers for Twisters.]
Missed Feiniu tornado? You have a good relationship. Director Lee Isaac Chung said he didn’t initially realize it was an homage to the original film series.
“Oh my gosh, everyone wants to see a cow in this movie,” said a recent interview with hollywood reporter. He was skeptical about including something as literal and outlandish as the real cows that were swept away by a tornado in the 1996 film and were seen drifting gently in front of cars, so his visual effects team took matters into their own hands. this matter.
At the film’s climax, as an F5 tornado collides with the town of El Reno, Oklahoma, there’s a momentary image of a cow trapped in the storm… sort of. “This is the hardest to find,” Zhong explained. “I found it because I noticed some strange markings on a piece of flying debris. I said, ‘Can you freeze that? ” When we were doing the VFX review, I was going through the footage frame by frame, and sure enough, there was a cow on that thing.
It may not be what viewers were expecting, but shrapnel adorned with a flying cow image does appear in the film’s final scene – and is more animal-friendly and probably more realistic than the scene in the movie. tornado. In Jan de Bont’s original film, a CGI cow passes stars Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz and the late Bill Paxton Paxton’s truck windshield. The scene is enough for Gertz’s character to end the conversation with her ridiculously large cell phone.
Sending a real cow—or, rather, a VFX rendering of one—into the whirlwind was always a bridge too far for a spiritual sequel. Chung strives for scientific accuracy wherever possible in his Daisy Edgar Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos vehicles. “We try to describe all elements of tornado science as accurately as possible,” he said. “We really need to stretch ourselves. There’s science fiction in it. The idea of the experiment that Kate (Edgar-Jones) is trying to do with a tornado is very speculative, but it’s based on theoretical science.
Chung noted that Edgar Jones’ character attempts to destroy a tornado with an environmentally friendly chemical bomb, an experiment that’s still science fiction. But what about the formation of tornadoes, their impact on the landscape in the movie and all the talk about weather? This is obviously much more accurate.
As for the ending, the Oscar-nominated Kate seems to have finally made peace with her painful past and is ready to resume her storm-chasing life. to pain The director said he hopes the audience can relate to it.
“What I hope people take away from this has to do with fear, and in a similar way, with anxiety and trauma — which I hear people talk about a lot,” Chung said. “I personally have a lot of fears about my job and career. And from to pain This project also came with a lot of fear. So I hope the movie brings some emotion to Kate’s journey and how she struggles with it and how she gets through it.
tornadoHis film, which features a cameo from a winking cow, is currently playing in theaters.
