Summary
Warning! This article contains spoilers for TwistersTwistershad an opportunity to pay homage to the original film’s drive-in cinema scene, but didn’t take the chance. The new film does stand on its own, with a bunch of newcharacters inTwistersintroduced. The movie also puts somefun spins on the originalTwisterscenes, althoughthe same film playing at the movie theater was not one of them.
There are some furtherEaster eggs to the originalTwisterin the new movie, but the film also sets up a lot of new storylines and hasn’t tried too hard to be exactly like the original. This paid off, asTwisterssurged past a major domestic box office milestone. However, the movie theater scene is one scene where it feels like therecould have been more reference to the originalTwisterscene.
Twisters Puts A Fun Spin On The Original Movie’s Most Iconic Tornado Scene
Twisters puts a fun spin on the original movie’s most iconic tornado scene, helping the sequel stand out independently from its predecessor.
Twisters Missed The Chance To Use The Shining In The Movie Theater Scene
Frankenstein Played During The Twisters Cinema Scene
In the originalTwister, there is a big tornado scene at a drive-in cinema. The movie screen plays one of the scarier scenes fromThe Shiningas a tornado hits. By setting one of the most action-packed scenes inTwistersinside a cinema, it would have been theperfect callback to the original movieto haveThe Shiningplay in this cinema as well. Instead,Frankensteinplayed.
On both occasions,the films playing at the cinema draw links to what is happening in the film itself.InTwister, the tornado destroys the screen right when Jack Torrance axes the door down inThe Shining, and theFrankensteinreference highlights the idea that the tornado is a monster that was born. They are both great links to the tornado films, but not using the scene fromThe Shiningseems like a wasted opportunity.
Twisters' Movie Scene Was Still A Good Tribute To The Original Movie
The Twisters' Movie Scene Draws A Resemblance To The Twister Drive-In Scene
TheTwisterscinema scene does still feel iconic.It’s a tense scene, with chairs coming loose and the cinema screen flying out, exposing scared citizens to the tornado. This could have been the perfect moment to useThe Shining, and have Jack Torrance coming after his family at the same time that the tornado is coming after people.
Chung told the podcast he originally wanted to useJawsin this scene.
On theFade to Black podcast, director Lee Isaac Chung revealed that he did want a different movie to play on the cinema screen, but it wasn’tThe Shining.Chung told the podcast he originally wanted to useJawsin this scene, but producerSteven Spielberg and Chung eventually choseFrankenstein.It is not clear whetherThe Shiningwas ever on the table to be used inTwisters.
It was still pretty fun to have the movie theater scene inTwistersat all, as it does serve as a reminder of the original scene. Whileit could have been even better to catch a glimpse ofThe Shining,it also feels that by not doing it,Twistersbecomes more of a stand-alone film that doesn’t try to rely too heavily onTwister. By creating scenes like this as nods, and still have their own unique choices, is exactly whyTwistersis a powerful sequel.
Source:Fade to Black podcast
Twisters
Cast
A follow-up to the 1996 original film Twister, Twisters is a sequel set years after the original, said to be fast-tracked by Steven Spielberg and Mark L. Smith, with Frank Marshal as producer. Little details exist about the film, but Helen Hunt is expected to reprise her role as Jo, with the film likely to pay homage to the late Bill Paxton.
