>Mr Oppen, I’m afraid to inform you that your creation, “Japmelter 3000 Megaladon Ultrakill” has been used in…an unexpected manner.

  • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml
    54·
    8 hours ago

    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.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        17·
        4 hours ago

        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.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
          7·
          4 hours ago

          I really agree. For genuinely talking about the senseless horror of those bombings, especially the callous afterthought that was Nagasaki, I prefer Dan Carlin’s podcast series.

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
        8·
        4 hours ago

        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.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          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.