The director celebrates the blockbuster's upcoming release on 4K Ultra HD.
The 1990s marked a pivotal time for cinema, as boundary-pushing visual effects were making it possible to tell stories in more believable ways than the CGI available in previous years, though the thrilling impact of practical effects allowed for a compelling mixture of cinematic sensibilities.
Jan de Bont: You never know that in advance completely, but that's what you hope to achieve. I think what I really was looking for is for actors that look like real people, that behave like real people, and would be able to have a really great connection as a team.
And it would that much, by the way. There are scenes that were not quite finished, or were not quite finished in a way that they were what I imagined them to be, and so you do the best you can and make it work. But the total integration of visual and such, that was key to me. If that didn't work, then, to me, you didn't get a really authentic feeling.
And then I needed some contemporary music, as well. That was a little bit of a combination of a music supervisor who let me listen to all those different tracks, and I picked the ones that I thought were the best suited. Eddie Van Halen, I got together with him and we got him to play, because I really wanted that guitar solo at the end of the movie. That he wrote, that whole piece, which is a really long piece, I think it was brilliant and so fitted the movie.
Along those lines, not just with Twister, but with some other '90s movies that were huge hits, you're seeing newfound interest in new audiences.
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