Twisters doesn’t mention climate change to avoid feeling preachy

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Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung says he avoided any mention of climate change to keep the movie from feeling too “message-oriented.”

Though Universal’s Twisters is set to drop as the US deals with a massive heatwave, wildfires, and the aftermath of multiple deadly storms, the movie goes out of its way to avoid mentioning climate change because its director didn’t want to make audiences uncomfortable. It would have made sense if Twisters — a film about storm chasers studying a spate of unusually powerful and destructive tornadoes — worked climate change into its story.

” But when you consider how scientists have found that the conditions that create tornado-producing storms are more likely in a warming world, Twisters’ avoidance of the phrase “climate change” feels like shying away and then some.

 

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