As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.