Is James Cameron Gonna Make An Atomic Bomb Movie?
Many Hollywood insiders are of the belief that James Cameron is tinkering around with the idea of making a movie based on the Atomic Bomb droppings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The rumors started after it was revealed that Cameron had visited Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a 93 year old Japanese man who was the only person to survive both US attacks.
Yamaguchi, I’m sad to report, died three days ago.
It sounds to me that Cameron is at least thinking about producing such a movie but as for directing it, well, that will probably be a long way off as it is thought that he is currently working on a sequel to Avatar and an adaptation of Manga classic Battle Angel Alita.
Personally I would love to see Cameron tackle such a sensitive subject matter. A movie like that would almost certainly garner him Oscar attention in much the same way Titanic did and bring much needed exposure to what went down back in ’45. Heck, he could even recycle the plot device of having a survivor recount their experience.
Hopefully we’ll hear something official soon. This movie needs to be made.
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Fresh off decades of highly lucrative, soft porn
franchise slum New World Order you-genocidal
agenda pre-programming, Cameron thinks he can
find easy moral and psychological relief by resurrecting the genuine WARTIME horror of Hiroshima.
ESP. hilarious as RED China halocaust denial and
enabling Hollywood have, once again, ‘mysteriosly
overlooked’ BOTH the 20th Anniversary of the
Tiennamen Massacre –AND the staggeringly important 60th Anniversary of the KOREAN WAR
—even as MILLIONS upon MILLIONS are suffering…
LOL
There is already an excellent movie on the subject-”Hiroshima”. I have watched the entire movie several times on cable (Showtime). The movie Hiroshima is the most comprehensive (from historical records, military & political status at the time, & personal interviews inside Japan) film made about this tragic time in world history.
The greatest generation that fought and died for our freedom in WW II is passing away at a rate of nearly 2000 a day. Some people without any knowledge of the events of those days and along with a few historians have waited for these voices to be silent so their revionist version could not be challeged by the veterans that were actualy there.
I am afraid that Hollywood would turn this into a political football for their own agenda leaving out the complex nature of the events that lead up to the decsion. The fact that Japanese military hardliners were in control and wanted every man, woman and child to stick to the code of Bushido, die in the defense of Japan in a mass genocide, or the last minute military coup to remove the Emperor and prevent him from surrendering even after the the atomic bombs were dropped would narley be mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(film)
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing.
A combination of dramatisation, historical footage, and eyewitness interviews, the film alternates between documentary footage and the dramatic recreations. Both the dramatisations and most of the original footage are presented as sepia-toned images, serving to blur the distinction between them. The languages are English and Japanese, with subtitles, and the actors are largely Canadian and Japanese.
Mr. Cameron,
I do hope that you make a movie on this event. But I also hope that you show the Navy men (like my dad) that were involved in the early Atomic explosions in the South Pacific. My dad told me that when they blew up Bikini Island the crew was on the main deck of the ship. The crew were amazed that the sea and ship filled with a fine “snow like material” that they many years later learned was atomic fall out. This also happended at Anawetac (Sp?) Island. He was also involved in a third island blow up but I can’t remember the name of it now.
So, Mr. Cameron, show what happened but show what happened to our fathers as well as the Japanese families with this most devasting event.
My father has now passed but suffered many effects from his war years, being the “Best and the Brightest” for our country.
This is a really horrendous idea. There are some things that just shouldn’t be exploited by Hollywood. Hopefully Cameron has a little humanity left.
I think it’s a good idea because it will show how horrendous the event actually was. I trust Cameron to not sugar coat it. What happened back then, whatever the reasons, was sickening and I think we have become numb to it while the Japanese still live with the effects now, all these years later.
A Jim Cameron movie is the only way that the events of ’45 can be brought to the mass public’s consciousness.
For too long we’ve brushed that day to one side and filed it under “something that needed to be done” but honestly, in my opinion, we all died that day and this thing that we call humanity is just a facade that we cling to to make us forget that we’re basically just animals.
That day back in ’45 proved that. That our troubles escalated to the point where dropping an atomic bomb was the only way we could get out of a war showed how far we have yet to grow as a race.
There were no winners that day, only losers and victims.