Chung’s last feature film, “Minari,” an autobiographical portrait of his immigrant family putting down roots on their Arkansas farm, cost $2 million to make, roughly what any single minute of “Twisters” cost.
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On the path of the tornado
On the path of the tornado: Inevitably, somebody gets around to saying that it looks like a bomb went off. But it doesn’t look like a bomb. A bomb is fire. A bomb is deliberation — a human hand and mind deciding where to plant it or drop it, when to set the timer or light the fuse. This isn’t that. This is the worst kind of random. The tornado crossed I-40 just south of Mayflower, wiping cars off the road and sucking wooden posts used to string a guide wire near the freeway out of the ground like rotten teeth. A red Volvo rig lay on its side on the southbound side of the Interstate, an even larger wrecker working to right it. A car, unrecognizable as a car, sat in the median…