Really glad Villeneuve will be directing the new nuclear weaponry film instead of Nolan. DV is for instance stopping with Dune Messiah, on its cautionary note about the pain and suffering from following messianic military leaders.
DV's films like Arrival have shown pathos, grief, heart and soul as well as technical artistry. DV's sensibility and who he is as a man will hopefully do justice to the subject matter that Nolan, for all his directorial experience and filming proficiency, imo would not internally have to give.
The production team and DV ought to consult w/ you Greg, and hope they will. You best depict the awareness I've had about Hiroshima and Nagasaki since I was a girl living in Tokyo with a Japanese nanny from Nagasaki whose entire family was obliterated in an instance. As if Hitler hadn't already surrendered and the Russians weren't already prepping to mop up in Japan as needed after their long regional rivalry.
People in the US sadly have so little grasp of WWII facts involving nukes, the fault of our public propag... I mean educational system, and Nolan's movie and its Oscar/precursor success (credit excellent actors) didn't help improve that situation. As you so well know, just another in a long line of misleading articles and movies, as though Oppie's personal ambiguity and angst at the end replaced the presidential/top military decisions to drop both nukes on Japanese women and children.
But taking a hard look at our own national character as being all too perfectly imperfect has never been the American way in my lifetime. (Not that I think other countries like Germany wouldn't have initiated first strike if they'd had the bomb first, but to keep holding the US as though blameless for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians after Hitler surrendered is, in a word, asinine, and we ought to do better.
Really glad Villeneuve will be directing the new nuclear weaponry film instead of Nolan. DV is for instance stopping with Dune Messiah, on its cautionary note about the pain and suffering from following messianic military leaders.
DV's films like Arrival have shown pathos, grief, heart and soul as well as technical artistry. DV's sensibility and who he is as a man will hopefully do justice to the subject matter that Nolan, for all his directorial experience and filming proficiency, imo would not internally have to give.
The production team and DV ought to consult w/ you Greg, and hope they will. You best depict the awareness I've had about Hiroshima and Nagasaki since I was a girl living in Tokyo with a Japanese nanny from Nagasaki whose entire family was obliterated in an instance. As if Hitler hadn't already surrendered and the Russians weren't already prepping to mop up in Japan as needed after their long regional rivalry.
People in the US sadly have so little grasp of WWII facts involving nukes, the fault of our public propag... I mean educational system, and Nolan's movie and its Oscar/precursor success (credit excellent actors) didn't help improve that situation. As you so well know, just another in a long line of misleading articles and movies, as though Oppie's personal ambiguity and angst at the end replaced the presidential/top military decisions to drop both nukes on Japanese women and children.
But taking a hard look at our own national character as being all too perfectly imperfect has never been the American way in my lifetime. (Not that I think other countries like Germany wouldn't have initiated first strike if they'd had the bomb first, but to keep holding the US as though blameless for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians after Hitler surrendered is, in a word, asinine, and we ought to do better.
Forty years later surely.