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In an interview with Deadline which focuses on Cameron's Ghosts of Hiroshima project, Cameron calls Nolan's Oppenheimer film a moral cop out.
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DEADLINE: You say this could be your lowest-grossing film because of the subject matter. How surprised were you that Christopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer grossed almost $1 billion and won seven Oscars? Clearly people are interested in that whole splitting of the atom.
CAMERON: Yeah…it's interesting what he stayed away from. Look, I love the filmmaking, but I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop out.
Because it's not like Oppenheimer didn't know the effects. He's got one brief scene in the film where we see — and I don't like to criticize another filmmaker's film – but there's only one brief moment where he sees some charred bodies in the audience and then the film goes on to show how it deeply moved him. But I felt that it dodged the subject. I don't know whether the studio or Chris felt that that was a third rail that they didn't want to touch, but I want to go straight at the third rail. I'm just stupid that way.
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DEADLINE: You say this could be your lowest-grossing film because of the subject matter. How surprised were you that Christopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer grossed almost $1 billion and won seven Oscars? Clearly people are interested in that whole splitting of the atom.
CAMERON: Yeah…it's interesting what he stayed away from. Look, I love the filmmaking, but I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop out.
Because it's not like Oppenheimer didn't know the effects. He's got one brief scene in the film where we see — and I don't like to criticize another filmmaker's film – but there's only one brief moment where he sees some charred bodies in the audience and then the film goes on to show how it deeply moved him. But I felt that it dodged the subject. I don't know whether the studio or Chris felt that that was a third rail that they didn't want to touch, but I want to go straight at the third rail. I'm just stupid that way.
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Mike Fleming Jr: Why James Cameron Is Hellbent On Making ‘Ghosts Of Hiroshima’ Japan-Set Movie That Will Bring Nightmare Look At A-Bomb Blasts
Read a Q&A with James Cameron about why he is hellbent on making 'Ghosts Of Hiroshima' movie that will bring nightmarish look at WWII-ending A-bomb blasts.

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