Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Here’s a question any discerning film lover might have: wait, why is Lee Isaac Chung, the sensitive director of arthouse favourite and Oscar-winning drama Minari (2020), suddenly making a multiplex flick like Twisters , the new next-gen reboot of the 1996 disaster epic that gave us a flying cow? When he landed the gig, Anthony Ramos – who plays storm chaser Javi in the film – had the same thought.
“Yo, I asked him that,” Ramos says with a laugh over the phone from his home in New York. “‘Why did you choose this film? How did this happen?’ And he’s like, ‘Bro, I went through this stuff.’ And he really did.
” Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos star as a new generation of storm chasers in Twisters. Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon Look to the details and it makes perfect sense. As depicted in Minari – an autobiographical film about his Korean parents’ attempts to establish a life for their family in rural America – Chung grew up on a farm in Lincoln, Arkansas, just 12 kilometres east of the Oklahoma border, a state that bears the brunt of the US’s infamous Tornado Alley.
Under Chung’s deft hand, Twisters is mesmerising. It has no right to be this good. It plays as if Michael Cimino had the chance to make a rollicking geo-disaster film but wi.
