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Weather in Films
ChristopherJ
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Which films do you enjoy the weather in? – not necessarily as the focus of the film, but captured incidentally to the story. I enjoy the the chilly autumn weather in First Blood, and the similar overcast weather in Jumanji. Then there's the brilliantly sunny autumn weather in Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry.
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Pale Rider (another western) springs to mind, as does Paris, Texas. More recently the underrated Skelton Key caught southern humidity very well.
Weather often goes hand in hand with location - both The Thing and The Shining benefit from their snowed-in isolation.
There must be loads more.
Bit nippy, but they had coats.
"Track of the Cat" is probably the only colour movie which looks like black and white, apart from Robert Mitchum's shirt. Very odd movie.
The Crow
The Ice storm
Jurassic park
The weather plays a big part. Different weather is used in each fight sequence.
Colour is also important.
The fight between nameless and sword was in pouring rain.
The red fight was in heavy winds (caused by the the character's martial arts skills IIRC)
Because that's exactly what happens in real life, right? ;-) No one dashes to find shelter / fight with an umbrella
Melancholia (2011) and Confessions (2010) - both use weather (as well as colour and motion) to empathise an emotion or mood.
Do the Right Thing (1989) - it uses the heat of a summer as a measurement of emotions in a local neighbourhood. It's slowly revealed that the day it all breaks is the hottest day that summer. Absolute Beginners (1986) did the same thing, but Do the Right Thing executed it better, I think.
When Andy escapes in The Shawshank Redemption the rain really fits the mood for it and made quite the iconic moment.
I just love the snow/Ice scenes from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
surely in La Rayon Vert ..... the weather is the main character in film !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Ray_(film)
http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/cielbleu-rayonvert4.htm