Spike Lee Wishes ‘Oppenheimer’ Showed ‘What Happened to the Japanese’: ‘People Got Vaporized’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld Spike Lee has offered his thoughts on Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” calling it a “great film” but adding that he wishes it showed “what happened to the Japanese people.” “[Nolan] is a massive filmmaker… and this is not a criticism.
It’s a comment,” the filmmaker said, speaking with the Washington Post. “If [‘Oppenheimer’] is three hours, I would like to add some more minutes about what happened to the Japanese people.
People got vaporized. Many years later, people are radioactive. It’s not like he didn’t have power. He tells studios what to do.
I would have loved to have the end of the film maybe show what it did, dropping those two nuclear bombs on Japan.” Universal Pictures, the studio behind “Oppenheimer” did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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