Twister ( Honcho Townside Jeep J-10 ) 1982
Twister
Twister is a 1996 American disaster drama film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.
Twister grossed $495 million worldwide and became the second-highest-grossing film of 1996; it sold an estimated 54.7 million tickets in the U.S. The film was met with a mixed critical reception, receiving criticism for its screenplay and praise for its visual effects and sound design. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound, but lost both to Independence Day and The English Patient respectively.
Theme Tune
If I mistreat you girl, I sure don’t mean no harm.
Well, I’m a motherless child; I don’t know right from wrong.
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where’d you stay last night?
Well, you didn’t come home till the sun was shining bright.
Had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.
Well, he’s had a lot of women, gonna let my ham bones burn.
Well, I did more for you, girl, than your daddy ever done.
Well, I give you my jelly, he ain’t give you none.
When you see two women, always running hand in hand.
You can bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one’s man.
I’m going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair.
And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here.
Cast
Helen Hunt … Dr. Jo Harding
Bill Paxton … Bill Harding
Cary Elwes … Dr. Jonas Miller
Jami Gertz … Dr. Melissa Reeves
Philip Seymour Hoffman … Dustin Davis
Lois Smith … Meg Greene
Alan Ruck … Robert ‘Rabbit’ Nurick
Sean Whalen … Allan Sanders
Trivia
Halfway through filming both Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were temporarily blinded by bright electronic lamps used to get the exposure down to make the sky behind the two actors look dark and stormy. Paxton remembers that ‘these things literally sunburned our eyeballs. I got back to my room, I couldn’t see’.To solve the problem, a Plexiglas filter was placed in front of the beams. The actors took eye drops and wore special glasses for a few days to recuperate. After filming in a ditch that contained bacteria, Hunt and Paxton had to have hepatitis shots. During the same scene, she repeatedly hit her head on a low wooden bridge because she was so exhausted from the demanding shoot that she forgot not to stand up so quickly. Hunt did one stunt in which she opened the door of a vehicle that was speeding through a cornfield, stood up on the passenger side and was hit by the door on the side of her head when she let it go momentarily. As a result, some sources claim that Hunt got a concussion. De Bont said, ‘I love Helen to death, but you know, she can be also a little bit clumsy.’ She responded, ‘Clumsy? The guy burned my retinas, but I’m clumsy … I thought I was a good sport. I don’t know ultimately if Jan chalks me up as that or not, but one would hope so’.
Trivia
After Bill Paxton died, Spotter Network choreographed 200 storm chasers to spell out “BP” with their GPS tracker blips on a radar display to honor him. This kind of tribute had only been done five times before, and it was the first time it had been done for someone who wasn’t a storm chaser.
Info
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (North America) Universal Pictures (International; through United International Pictures) |
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Release date
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May 10, 1996 |
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Running time
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113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $88–92 million |
| Box office | $495.7 million |
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Quote
Jo: [cow flies by in the storm] Cow.
[cow flies by in the storm]
Jo: ‘Nother cow.
Bill: Actually I think that was the same one.
Dusty: ‘The Suck Zone’. It’s the point basically when the twister… sucks you up. That’s not the technical term for it, obviously.
Bill: Jo. Things go wrong. You can’t explain it, you can’t predict it. Killing yourself wo’nt bring your dad back. I’m sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past, and look what you got right in front of you.
Jo: What are you talking about?
Bill: Me, Jo.
Trivia
The film was used as the basis for the attraction Twister…Ride It Out at Universal Studios Florida, which features filmed introductions by Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.
A recording of a camel’s moan was slowed down and used as the sound of the tornado.
The reason the characters react to the TV screens going blank and showing only static before the tornado hits is because, in the days before digital TV, it was discovered that a tornado generates a signal that will override and blank channel 2 on TV sets. Digital TVs do not react this way.
Quote
Joey: [Discussing at Meg’s on the tornadoes they have seen so far] No, that was a good size twister. What was it, an F3?
Bill: Solid F2.
Melissa: See, now you have lost me again.
Bill: It’s the Fujita scale. It measures a tornado’s intensity by how much it eats.
Melissa: Eats?
Bill: Destroys.
Laurence: That one we encountered back there was a strong F2, possibly an F3.
Beltzer: Maybe we’ll see some 4’s.
Haynes: That would be sweet!
Bill: 4 is good. 4 will relocate your house very efficently.
Melissa: Is there an F5?
[Everyone goes dead silent]
Melissa: What would that be like?
Jason ‘Preacher’ Rowe: The Finger of God.
Melissa: None of you has ever seen an F5?
Bill: …Just one of us.
[Looks upstairs, indicating Jo]
Trivia
On May 24, 1996, a tornado destroyed Screen #3 at the Can-View Drive-In, a drive-in theater in Fonthill, Ontario, which was scheduled to show the movie Twister later that evening, in a real-life parallel to a scene in the film in which a tornado destroys a drive-in during a showing of the film The Shining.The facts of this incident were exaggerated into an urban legend that the theater was actually playing Twister during the tornado.
On May 10, 2010, a tornado struck Fairfax, Oklahoma, destroying the farmhouse where numerous scenes in Twister were shot. J. Berry Harrison, the owner of the home and a former Oklahoma state senator, commented that the tornado appeared eerily similar to the fictitious one in the film. Harrison had lived in the home since 1978.
QUIZ 1
The instrument package used in the movie, ‘Dorothy’, is actually a homage to the instrument pack real tornado researchers attempt to place in the paths of tornados. What is it called ?
A. W.I.Z.A.R.D
B. Hickory
C. T.O.T.O
D. Yellow -1
Press for Answer
C. T.O.T.O
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QUIZ 2
A recording of a what animal was slowed down and used as the sound of the tornado ?
A.Elephant
B.Walrus
C.Camel
D.Whale
Press for Answer
C.Camel
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QUIZ 1
The instrument package used in the movie, ‘Dorothy’, is actually a homage to the instrument pack real tornado researchers attempt to place in the paths of tornados. What is it called ?
A. W.I.Z.A.R.D
B. Hickory
C. T.O.T.O
D. Yellow -1
The TOtable Tornado Observatory (nicknamed ‘TOTO’ after the dog in the film The Wizard of Oz—where in a tornado is a key plot element) is a large, instrumented barrel-shaped device invented in 1979 by engineers Dr. Al Bedard and Carl Ramzy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL) and Dr. Howard Bluestein, meteorologist at the University of Oklahoma (OU). NOAA’s objective was to place the TOTO directly in the path of a tornado, where it could, theoretically, record valuable information about the tornado’s structure.
QUIZ 2
A recording of a what animal was slowed down and used as the sound of the tornado ?
A.Elephant
B.Walrus
C.Camel
D.Whale
A recording of a camel’s moan was slowed down and used as the sound of the tornado.A jet engine from a Boeing 707 was also used to generate wind in some scenes. With a very loud and bass-heavy surround channel, this film was notorious for destroying surround speakers in theatres worldwide.
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