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James Cameron makes bold declaration on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’

‘Avatar’ director shares his thoughts on ‘Oppenheimer’ movie

By Web Desk
June 29, 2025
James Cameron makes bold declaration on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
James Cameron makes bold declaration on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’

James Cameron has recently made lashed out at Christopher Nolan for avoiding the aftermath of Japanese bombing in a blockbuster movie, Oppenheimer.

In an exclusive interview with Deadline, the Avatar director said, “I love the movie-making, but I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop-out.”

Cameron, who is currently working on his project, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will showcase the “devastation” of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s nuclear weapon that struck Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

The Terminator director pointed out that the “the choice to keep ‘Oppenheimer’ locked within its protagonist’s perspective was a misstep, and one that sidesteps the full weight of the bomb’s real-world consequences”.

“Because it’s not like Oppenheimer didn’t know the effects. He’s got one brief scene in the movie where we see — and I don’t like to criticize another filmmaker’s movie,” noted Cameron.

However, the Titanic movie-maker claimed that there’s only “one brief moment where he sees some charred bodies in the audience, and then the movie goes on to show how it deeply moved him”.

Meanwhile, Cameron declared he felt “it dodged the subject”.

“I don’t know whether the studio or Christopher felt that that was a third rail that they didn’t want to touch, but I want to go straight at the third rail,” concluded the director.

For the unversed, Oppenheimer created history as the movie earned 13 Academy Award nominations.