Twisters was surprisingly good for a late reset of a divisive disaster film released in 1996. Many would even argue that it was one of the most effective box office of summer 2024. However, a great point of discussion was and remains that damn final without a kiss.
Spoilers ahead: The characters of Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell are clearly flirtatious throughout the movie and especially towards the end. After the dust has settled and some round trip, Kate (Edgar-Jones) decides to stay with Tyler (Powell) and continue chasing more tornadoes. The state of their relationship is left ambiguous, but you only know that the hot ones have for each other, and the omission of a traditional and super romantic kiss was strange (or at least that is what most people say).
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During a question and answer session with director Lee Isaac Chung, it was revealed that no, Steven Spielberg of Amblin was not the person responsible for cutting the kiss (who shot) despite all those rumors that circulated for months. Actually, it was the process of the trial public, which tells everyone once more than the filmmakers and the studies should not trust the projections of evidence. You can see the clip here.
For those who want the fast and written version, here is the complete appointment:
“That was not true. We film it. Spielberg also wanted the kiss. He said: ‘I hope this works!’ We tried the movie, and we were just discovering that it was super polarizing … Normally, I mean you are not a coward … but this was difficult. There was a giant team involved, the studies, all, and there were many people who doubted if there should be a kiss in this movie … but it wasn’t Spielberg. He is a romantic like me.
His answer was clean and direct, but am I the only one who scratched his head on how “many people” was not apparently in having a kiss in a fairly romantic movie? What is happening? It is true that Hollywood’s largest box office successes have been largely without sex in recent times, but we could be cooked if such a simple act of love is also handled with gloves. If you think Twisters needed a kiss to conclude everything, it is not so, if you think about the biggest questions and implications of Chung’s comments.
Of course, I feel that the most ambiguous end of the movie for the two characters works well, but I see the point of the Pro-Kiss crowd and I would not have imported a much more traditional Hollywood ending for a movie that is Very traditional otherwise.
