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It has been almost 30 years since James Cameron made a feature film that was not in the world of Pandora, which can lead you to believe that it has lost contact with the real world. If you have seen “Avatar: The Way of Water” from 2022, it should be clear that Cameron is fully aware of what is happening on our planet. It is a film where the navies and societies are the bad guys, while the Aboriginal beings of Pandora are undoubtedly the heroes (although they are given to tribal disputes because, well, everyone has different ideas on the functioning of their world). If you got out of these two films thinking that Cameron is anything but a militant environmentalist, you were not paying attention.
With the exception of “real lies”, but confusing, but cruelly confusing, we can say safely that James Cameron is a humanist. “The Terminator”, “Aliens”, “The Abyss”, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”, “Titanic” and the films “Avatar” call on our conscience. And although Cameron has treated distantly from the questions of disparity and sexism of wealth, the subject that most alarms it is nuclear war. I was 11 years old when I saw “The Terminator” for the first time, and it made me fall on the side as a modestly budgetary science fiction / action film which tackled the only fear that could not be assured by my parents. I had seen “the next day”, “Testament” and the boldly disturbing blockbuster at this stage, and well understood that there was no surviving a large -scale nuclear war. But “The Terminator” was different. Yes, Reese (Michael Biehn) could not ensure that the Savior of humanity would survive a nuclear holocaust and defeat Skynet’s machines, but the confidence of steel of Sarah Connor at the end of the film made me want to fight this apparently inevitable future. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” doubled this feeling and offered a ribbon of hope that we could all understand the value of human life and not boring without thinking about our own extinction.
Cameron has not ceased to think of the nuclear war and to thank God for this. President Donald J. Trump is obsessed with nuclear weapons And seems eager to use them. Fortunately, Cameron, the man who made three of the most profitable films in the history of the film, keeps his eye on this particular ball. And he is preparing to shake all humanity with a functionality based on the next book by Charles Pellegrino “Ghosts of Hiroshima”. If you are wondering why Cameron would make a film on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki so shortly after Christopher Nolan won an Oscar charge for “Oppenheimer”, well, he thinks that this film has missed the brand in an important way. And it is impatient to thwart this misstep.
James Cameron thought that the Oppenheimer of Christopher Nolan was a bit of a moral cop
In a recent interview deadlyCameron discussed his plans to adapt “Ghosts of Hiroshima.” If you are excited for a new film Cameron which has not “avatar” in the title, pump these brakes. Although he says he has been thinking of this project for 15 years, he did not even start writing the script.
Pellegrino’s book, which the streets on August 15, is an extremely detailed account of what it was to be near Ground Zero for these two strikes, which, the crossed fingers, remain the only use of nuclear weapons in human history. The book describes the surrealist consequences of the bombing, where people set their hands for dear beings who had been vaporized; There was only their hot bones left. Almost all those who survived attacks died of radiation pain or cancer in a short time.
When asked by the deadline what he had to add after “Oppenheimer”, the free-birth reliably had this to say:
“Yeah … it’s interesting from what he stayed away. Listen, I like the cinema, but I thought it was a bit of a moral cop. Because it is not as if Oppenheimer did not know the effects. He has a brief scene in the film where we see – and I do not like bodies, but I did not move much. That he dodged the subject.”
Cameron then added: “I don’t know if the studio or Chris thought it was a third rail that they did not want to touch, but I want to go directly to the third rail. I’m just stupid that way.” Cameron’s vision for his adaptation of “Ghosts of Hiroshima” sounds as if it would face moviegoers with a flawless representation of what Pelligrino gleaned through interviews and research. It will be different from all the films he has ever made. And I hope it does not fall by the way, because we need one of the greatest filmmakers in my life to alert the world to the horrible consequences of a nuclear war. Because at the moment, people who control these arsenals are crazy, morons or both.
