Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) tries to comfort his fiancée Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz) in Twister (1996).
The Big Picture It’s hard to stand out from the eccentric personalities in 1996’s Twister when there’s Bill , the tornado whisperer who can sense the right conditions for a funnel cloud, Dr. Jo Harding , who blames an F5 for targeting her family during childhood, and their fearless team of storm chasers who drive into the storm, not away. One character that doesn’t fit in among this batch is Dr. Melissa Reeves , who is at odds with pretty much every character.
Bill is still married to Jo, the leader of a group of storm chasers, and she didn’t invite him to Oklahoma to hand over signed divorce papers. It’s the active season of tornado alley, the perfect conditions to test out Dorothy, the scientific instrument Bill and Jo had worked on to gather data from inside a funnel.
Dr. Melissa Reeves Is an Audience Surrogate The character’s inexperience helps to pull out the exposition, letting viewers learn about the Fujita scale, a destruction tier to rate tornadoes. Storm chasing isn’t for the light-hearted though, unpredictable weather needs people who stay alert to the changing conditions and not lose their cool, risking their team or partner’s life. Dr.
'Twister' Contains Elements of Screwball Comedy Close “You know, when you used to tell me that you chased tornadoes,” Melissa tells Bill when he finally comforts her, “deep down I always just thought it was a metaphor.” Right after she missed crashing into Jo’s truck, he brings her to the front lines of the waterspouts.
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