>Mr Oppen, I'm afraid to inform you that your creation, "Japmelter 3000 Megaladon Ultrakill" has been used in...an unexpected manner.
>Mr Oppen, I'm afraid to inform you that your creation, "Japmelter 3000 Megaladon Ultrakill" has been used in...an unexpected manner.
I think the film would have been much "better" if we showed the horror and devistation that we caused. American media purposefully hides the death and destruction that we do, and paints ourselves as the good guys.
On the one hand, yes, it's different people. That said, this particular movie specifically chose to hide the damage to victims and solely focus on the emotions of the man who enabled the tragedy. I'm all for stories of people trying to redeem themselves, but deliberately ignoring the victims was a bad choice, imo.
One gripe I have with the film is that none of it focuses on the poor, mostly Hispanic, population that lived in New Mexico at the time. These people had their land taken from them (their sole source of generational wealth) and died of horrific cancers post-tests. I think most of history just pretends nobody lived out there.
Here's just one article about it
Really?
...Shit, I guess I need to actually see this film before I talk about it. I assumed it was mere Oscar-bait and just absorbed information about it osmotically. I wasn't even mad at them, just thought oh, they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne, of course they wanted him for their Oscar bait film.
Those are not the choices I would have made if I was telling a story about the guy who built the bomb. I would have probably drawn a lot more from sources like Barefoot Gen, myself.
they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne
You may ask yourself
Why the big bomb?
They're not supposed to melt the civilians.
You're conflating the people who did that and the people who made a movie, if you want to throw a "nukes are a war crime" party I'm already on the guest list, but your comment reads like you're talking shit about people who don't like nukes and didn't nuke anybody, are you confused about that?
Yes. Americans. I'm sorry you're having difficulty with this.
Excerpt from a GTA radio show that's a parody of Rush Limbaugh and maybe a little Alex Jones.
Y'know, I'm a man who believes in the American dream. I r-, I-I really do. And that dream is – I'm in charge, and if you don't like what I'm saying, then I'm gonna make a wise-crack, a-and drop a bomb on ya! That's it, that, for me, is the i-i-s the American dream, okay? And then maybe get a-a-a country artist to sing a song about it then have me walkin' around in slow motion. Th-Thats the fully realised dream, y'know then you could maybe make a movie about me doing that or we could do action figurines and then, myself making a movie about blowing the shit out of you while I make a wise-crack, y-I mean, the idea-the dream is endless. Truly.
greater toronto area or grand theft auto? i can see both
"Yellow Cake: The Movie"
Qwi backed off, straightening up again defensively. "Yes, of course. The Death Star was to be used to break up dead planets to allow direct mining of the heavy metals trapped in the core. The World Devastators would be autonomous factories combing asteroids or sterile worlds to produce a wide range of items without polluting inhabited planets."
Han snorted and rolled his eyes. "If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. Listen to their names! Death Star, World Devastator—that doesn’t sound like something for peacetime economic development, does it?"
Qwi scowled and turned her back on it. "Oh, what difference does it make?"
"They used it on a military base to show power and end the war ...right?"
Well, they were trying to hit military structures. But they were also aware it was going to hit a fuckton of civilian infrastructure.
They were also trying to end the war faster. The USSR had just joined and were making a lot of demands for Japanese territory immediately. The US wanted to avoid a repeat of the partitioning of Germany by having to give the USSR all of Hokkaido. They also weren't aware that Japan was already at the brink of surrender due to fog of war.
On the grey-er side of things, there was a growing sense of... callousness? Inevitability? on the US's side throughout the war. They started out proclaiming that they would only use precision bombing due to the invention of the Norton bomb sight. Only for that bomb sight to still be fairly inaccurate and had to switch to mass bombing. Eventually the US had escalated to firebombing Japanese cities, and the bombing of Tokyo was on par with the bombing of Hiroshima. The big difference was the span of time and number of planes/bombs involved. If the US hadn't developed the atom bombs then they would have just continued the firebombings with damage to Japan not being all that different.
Add to that the fact that there was a lot of decentralized manufacturing in Japanese cities including military manufacturing. Part of this was cultural, in that it was still normal to have your business be in the same building as your home. Some of this is technical, in that Japan hadn't really invested in assembly-line mass manufacturing yet. And some of this is strategic, in that a small bombing raid isn't able to take out all of your manufacturing, plus there's the factors of using civilians as human shields.
All that said, was there some sense of retaliation and racism against Japan that led to the use of atomic bombs? Yes. Was there also motive to use the bombings to scare the USSR? Also yes. Was a large part of escalation to fire bombing and atomic bombs driven by Curtis LeMay (who was a fucking monster and probably the worst person that Columbus, OH ever produced)? Abso-fucking-lutely and he continued to be a giant problem in the US military well after the war.
Rants aside, my overall point is that the atomic bombings weren't black and white given the context of the entire war. Anyone trying to push otherwise is either (most likely) ignorant or lying
Hiroshima was not a military target, that was a lie Truman told to try to smooth over the fact that he'd just committed a horrific war crime.
Two committees—the Target Committee and the Interim Committee—were convened to advise U.S. leaders on the atomic bomb. The prioritization of maximizing the bomb’s psychological impact on the Japanese population and leadership is the common thread that binds the recommendations of the two committees.
But the identification of military objectives by the Interim Committee was a rationalization meant to obscure the true aims of the Hiroshima bombing. The Interim Committee’s recommendation was an endorsement of terror bombing with a legal veneer.
At bottom, Stimson wanted to kill as many workers and their families possible.
I don't know where this "they tried hitting war infrastructure" myth comes from.
Same with the bombing in Germany. They literally rebuild German city houses in the desert, to figure out the best way how to blow off the roof and set the wooden structures inside on fire.
They measured fire brigade response times to stage the bombing in a way to hit the rescue efforts.
It was about demoralizing the civil populace, so of course it was never about military targets.
Well, they were trying to hit military structures.
The target was a random bridge in the middle of the town
It was sorta a military base. They did have POWs there.
Pretty much...
it works for every country who's committed war crimes and human rights violations, too
I mean the netherlands.
God this movie sucked.
Let's light a can of gasoline on fire, that'll be a good practical effect that represents the destructive power of nuclear weapons in a movie about the dangers of atomics!
I honestly didn’t even make it far enough through that snooze fest to reach that scene.
Was better than most movies that year. Kinda does say something about that year with movies tho
Oppie was only trying to stop Gojira. No-one knew then it would make him stronger than ever instead.
I should have called it Phallogoria
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Americans will melt 4 million civilians in a foreign country and then 20 years later write a movie about how bad it made them feel.
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