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Real ice storm; Ang Lee’s attraction to the climax; magazine-cutout prep; MTA and Marlboro Lights anachronisms
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- The ice storm depicted was a real December storm.
- The director reportedly said the book moved him at the climax and the next-morning family reunion, and he gave the cast stacks of early-1970s magazine cutouts.
- The MTA did not exist yet, and Marlboro Lights were not introduced until 1977; menthols are judged period-plausible.