“I think it’s the same one, coming past again,” Bill tells Jo. By the end of the film, we have seen trees, TV towers, drive-in theaters, trucks, houses, barns and even cows sucked up by the Zone.
#Hark a vagrant wuthering heights movie
It’s a metaphor for Twister, a movie that chases tornadoes with such single-minded dedication that plot, character, dialogue and even your engagement all disappear into the Suck Zone – which is, we learn, that part of the tornado that sucks up everything in its path. “When you told me you wanted to chase tornadoes,” she tells him, “I thought that was a metaphor.” It is a metaphor, Melissa, but not for Bill’s dream. And Bill can’t wait to find another tornado. The next minute, she’s cowering in a pickup truck while tornadoes blow houses at her. One minute she’s engaged to handsome young Bill Harding, who has a promising career as a TV weatherman ahead of him. Its “human interest” story is pretty dumb. Twister, mercifully, has lots and lots of scenes with tornadoes. (No, I haven’t seen that movie.) The tornado itself will cover a multitude of sins. You can make your tornadoes as realistic or as surrealistic as you like: tornadoes are ordinary and bizarre. That’s just entailed by what it is to be a tornado. As long as your special effects are adequate, your tornado movie will be awesome. These movies have many things going for them, but that’s beside the point.
My favorite, though, is the “tornadoes over Los Angeles” scene in The Day After Tomorrow. That tornado scene turns into a birthing scene: Richard Gere falls out of the sky, wakes up in the desert, staggers into a peasant’s hut, and helps to deliver a child.
The best scene in The Wizard of Oz is the tornado scene.
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