And, this need for artful accurate big screen snow has been so intense that film makers throughout history experimented with everything and we mean everything.
Maybe instead of a magic snow bullet film makers will have to settle for a magical snow ball, a big bundle of little techniques that joyfully lob at our holiday movies to make them wintry wonderlands.
The answer is that the film makers know we always fall for a bandit, and Jagger is set to do for bold Ned Kelly what Brando once did for the arrogant Emiliano Zapata.