New Film ‘Twisters’ Deliberately Avoids Preaching About Climate
Hollywood loves to lecture audiences on so-called ‘climate change’
Screenwriters routinely insert eco-lectures into films and TV shows. Sometimes entire plots revolves around Al Gore’s passion (“Snowpiercer,” “The Day After Tomorrow”).
There’s even a new metric by which films must be measured – introducing the Climate Reality Check.
But, and this is something of a susprise to many, ther recent film Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 Helen Hunt/Bill Paxton smash, keeps the focus on escapism.
No PowerPoint lectures or Greta Thunberg cameos.
CNN thinks a weather-related movie without ‘climate-change’ talking points is newsworthy. The far-Left site has a point.
“It” actor Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Fresh“) star as storm chasers who may have bitten off more than their weather balloons can chew.
“Twisters” Director Lee Isaac Chung told CNN [it] avoids any clunky spiels or ‘climate change’ lessons. He wants everyone to enjoy the film, not just Blue State dwellers.
He dropped the truth bomb on the most unsuspecting place possible.
“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like it is putting forward any message,” Chung told CNN.
“I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented…
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.”
Shocking, no?
The Hollywood Reporter notes the wisdom behind Chung’s approach. The site calls it, “a reflection of studio caution during polarized times when looking for a summer movie hit.”
Oddly, Hollywood journalists haven’t cited that rationale in years past. The culture has been divided for some time, so the timing can’t be to blame.
Hollywood studios have had no problem thumbing their collective noses at select demographics. Nor have stars held their tongues over the past decade.
Now, suddenly things are changing. In particular:
- The Biden economy
- Inflation
- Dueling industry strikes
- Streaming red ink
- Box office blues
Studios can no longer afford to alienate large swaths of moviegoers.
Twisters is the latest proof of that new normal.
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I imagine tornadoes have been around even before mankind was invented. If global warming was a factor, we would see many more stronger whirlwinds and in places not accustomed to seeing them. But we don’t. When Hollywood preaches global warming, I never watch. They are mostly idiots anyway.
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