CNN Has Their Knickers In A Twist Over New Twister Movie Not Mentioning Climate Doom

I do have to ask, is anyone interested in the upcoming Twister movie? Maybe it will be really good, but, the previews do not interest me. It seems focused too much on action, rather than plot and the people, as the original did. Anyhow, CNN is big mad

You won’t hear about climate change in ‘Twisters.’ Here’s why

Like its titular tornados, “Twisters” blasts through a lot in its 122-minute runtime. A summer blockbuster with a surprising amount of brains to match Glen Powell’s brawn, it features subplots that are signs of the times – disaster capitalists; the Faustian bargain between scientists and financiers – and a deluge of imagery portraying lives and livelihoods threatened by nature’s awesome power. But two words you won’t hear from any of its characters are “climate change.”

“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung explained in an interview with CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”

To his credit, there is some scientific justification for the omission, too. Generally, scientists are the least certain about the connection between tornadoes and climate change as it’s unclear how warming temperatures are changing storms themselves or the outbreaks.

So, of course CNN tries to Explain that tornadoes are getting oh so much worse and it is your fault. Except, they are not getting worse.

“We’ve never seen tornadoes like this before,” says Javi, Anthony Ramos’ entrepreneurial storm chaser, in one scene. He goes on to convince old friend Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) to join his research team, promising “We can save lives.”

In the film, ever-more destructive tornados carve up increasingly urbanized areas of Oklahoma.

It’s a movie. Things have to be bad, much like the Tommy Lee Jones movie Volcano, which was in Los Angeles, mini-series like 10.8 (about an earthquake), and more.

“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,” said Lee. “I think it should be a reflection of the world.”

In other words, he doesn’t want to get all preachy and have stuff that will drive the paying public away. He just wants a fun film that makes a lot of money. Who wants an action film that gets all preachy? I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a blockbuster. If CNN wants one with all sorts of climate doom preaching, they can fund it.

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