NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 25 - Twister (1995) & The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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It's disaster movie week! DeVaughn Taylor from the Specter Cinema Club Podcast joins Mike to discuss Jan De Bont's TWISTER and Roland Emmerich's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
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| 0:00.0 | Through the 1970s, the 1970s, the disaster movie became one of the biggest, most popular new genres of film. |
| 0:29.6 | Big budget disaster movies like airport, earthquake and the Poseidon adventure, with their ensemble casts of character actors and huge spectacle, |
| 0:39.7 | dominated the box office. In the 1990s, with the dawn of CGI, these films made a comeback. |
| 0:47.3 | In 1996, Stephen Spielberg and his company Amblin were working on a new big-budget disaster movie |
| 0:53.7 | about tornadoes. |
| 0:55.6 | James Cameron, Robert Semeckis, and Spielberg himself were all at various points attached |
| 1:00.5 | to direct the film, but the job went to Jan de Bont, director of speed and the fearless |
| 1:06.8 | cinematographer of Frank Marshall's roar. |
| 1:10.6 | Twister became one of the biggest grossing films of 1996, second only to Independence Day, |
| 1:16.6 | directed by Roland Emmerich, another director who specialized in big disaster movies and huge giant spectacle. |
| 1:25.6 | A few years later, Roland Emmerich would go on to create a natural disaster film to rival |
| 1:31.5 | Twister in terms of its scale and spectacle, a film about global warming bringing about |
| 1:38.8 | a sudden, unexpected ice Age. |
| 2:05.6 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror, and we discuss Jan de Bunt's Twister and Roland Emmericks the day after tomorrow. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munser and as ever I am your host. |
| 2:10.8 | In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror |
| 2:14.7 | genre, one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time. |
| 2:23.5 | We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting back in horror, |
| 2:26.3 | and this is part 25. |
| 2:31.9 | In this week's episode, as that intro suggested, we're delving into the world of disaster movies to talk about Twister from 1996 and the day after tomorrow from |
| 2:36.9 | 2004. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific. Give yourself a big popcorn treat and watch |
| 2:43.9 | these films before you listen to our discussion. So joining me to discuss these films, |
| 2:49.1 | I've got a brand new guest with me. So excited to have him here. |
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