Are the distributors of Oppenheimer so tone deaf & greedy that they didn't see this coming? How many ticket sales do they really expect to profit from?
At any rate, these interviews confirmed everything I needed to know about this movie. My heart goes out to the Japanese people who have to deal with this stab at a sore wound. The people in the interviews handled it with way more tact than I would've. Imagine if Afghanistan made a film celebrating Osama Bin Laden and released it in New York City.
BBC: Oppenheimer has just been released in Japan - So what do people in Hiroshima think?
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Reply by wonder2wonder
on March 30, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Japan was defeated, occupied, and then politically, economically and socially reformed. Unfortunately, this humbling and humiliating re-education will continue as long as there is 'Pearl Harbor'. Hollywood might even consider a remake of the 2001 movie for its centenary commemoration in 2041. Perhaps the talented Sir Christopher Edward Nolan CBE will be interested in making this into another Award-winning billion dollar documentary film?
Reply by rooprect
on March 30, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Totally... it's like, how much do we have to twist the knife?? We frickin won, so give it a rest already. I think the saddest interview in the article above was the kid saying something like "The movie showed me that the American perspective is that the bomb was a good thing."
Truth be told, I think most Americans do believe the bomb was a good thing, and that it was necessary to "save lives" or whatever propaganda the movie pushes. Welp... I guess the winner always gets to rewrite history.
Coming soon... Sir Nolan's documentary on how "the slaves benefited from slavery" 😬
Reply by EenNederlandseJongen
on June 19, 2024 at 12:40 AM
i hope you got the news that at first it wasnt let go through by the japanese government but that they came back on their decision?
Reply by rooprect
on June 19, 2024 at 2:51 AM
No I didn't hear about that, but I'm glad. It gave the Japanese people the freedom to see it for themselves and see how Hollywood is cashing in on their darkest time.
I hope at least someone at Universal Pictures looked at the flop in Japan and maybe took a moment to figure out why.
Reply by EenNederlandseJongen
on June 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
hollywood aint cashing on their hardest time bro. we dont see anything from the attacks in hiroshima themselves. we see oppenheimer very remorseful and sad and even seeing some dark shit after the bombings. it haunted him til he died.
Reply by rooprect
on June 28, 2024 at 3:25 AM
That's exactly how Hollywood/Nolan is cashing in. The depiction you saw of Oppenheimer as a remorseful hero is 100% fiction. The real Oppenheimer never regretted cooking Japan and in fact went to his grave claiming it was necessary. His activism later against the bomb was because it suddenly dawned on him that USA might get hit by Russia after they got the technology.
So it's exactly like I said in the OP, suppose Saudi Arabia made a movie that portrayed Bin Laden as a hero, showing some fictional good side that makes audiences love him. Americans would be rightfully offended because it just aint true.