Yes i have been hit by the movie bug and unfortunately i have decided to write yet another post on movies. To be precise movies that were never made on real life stories. It was by accident that i came across the movie called " The man who knew infinity" based on Ramanujan's life. A man who lived for only 32 years and rewrote laws of mathematics in such a short span of time.
This kept me wondering, have the movie industry prodigies covered everything that could have been ever made. Its true we are able to see a lot of new genre fiction and quality work over the years, Something that really amazed me was the picturisation of "Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Fortunately i have some really good movie buff friends who ensure that quality movies are made available as and when it releases.
Over the last few months, thanks to the increasing spare time available, i have been able to watch some really good movies from international legends like "Citizen Kane" to all time classics like Life is Beautiful, 12 Angry men, Cinema Paridaso and more. Some of you might find these movies to be an achievements of an amateur movie buff, but iam really taking an effort to increase my knowledge in this arena.
No this post is not to brag about my fetish for long forgotten Black and white movies, its about some real life incidents or stories that were never made into movies. There might be several reasons to this, lack of commercial viability, lack of importance or it could even be that the movies were made and i never came across them. If the last one is the case please forgive my ignorance and consider it as yet another blabbering of a wannabe blogger.
The first case which i believe should have been given immortal life through the reels of a movie is a true story adaptation of an ordinary citizen of Hiroshima/Nagasaki's perspective and experience of the only ever nuclear bombing done. Now that evil axis is no more relevant and Japanese people are concentrating more on Technology and development this story is something that should be told.
If Pearl Harbour based on the American oppression could have made such a good plot, undoubtedly Hiroshima can have a lot to tell. It is not the first time a foreign perspective movie was made with foreign actors and made it big in Hollywood, look at the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima". The movie could portray the suffering, trauma and horror of a nuclear attack. It could act as a precedent to any Lunatic tyrant to stop firing the next nuclear arsenal.
I know it will have to show the mighty super power in a negative angle, but history has proven again and again that decision taken by a powerful leader with the interest of the greater common good has not always been just. Lets not get into a proverbial debate on good and evil. What we are looking here is the possibility of bringing justice to all the infinite suffering experienced by ordinary citizen's in Hiroshima. If any of you remember the brief description of the effect of nuclear bombing in our history text books, you could recall the words used there. The eyes melting into the sockets, the skin becoming one with the flesh and the endless brutality and deformations left behind.
For a commercial viability lets bring in a love story and a chance meeting on the D day and the unfortunate survival of a lover (yes inspired by titanic). I do not mean any disrespect to any of the survivors or to the kith and kin of the perished ones. Let this movie be a beacon of hope for the future and stop more injustice from happening. I know the story is too big and practically non feasible to be made into a 2 hour commercial potboiler. The happening's of the day are too cruel and unjust to be encapsulated into a documentary either. But let there be some effort to revive the nuclear holocaust.
P.S please comment on the possibilty of such a movie and other stories that could have made it to the reel. This post is by no means a trifbute to my political inclinations, this is a post on inhuman history and the injustice that followed.
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i did a bit of research and found this
ReplyDelete"In the face of problems like these, as well as a general lack of understanding of the nuclear tragedy, few Japanese directors have dared attack the subject. Shohei Imamura made Black Rain, about a Hiroshima family trying to separate themselves from a niece who was exposed to radiation in the explosion. Akira Kurosawa told the story of Nagasaki, Japan’s other martyred city, in Rhapsody in August. In this film, Richard Gere plays—rather shallowly—a Japanese-American who comes back to apologize for the nuclear attack."
"Japanese movie is being shot in the martyred city of Hiroshima. Directed by Yoshida and financed by the French National Film Center to the tune of 20 million francs [US$2.7 million], the film tells the story of three generations of women from the fateful day of Aug. 6, 1945, to the present. "
Then there was
Hiroshima Mon Amour [1959] ..(french)
Hiroshima Mon Amour concerns the experiences of a French actress (Riva), referred to as Elle (she), who performs the role of a nurse in a film being shot in post-war Hiroshima. She meets a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), referred to as Lui (him) and, separated from their spouses, they become lovers. The early part of the film recounts, in the style of a documentary, but narrated by the so far completely unidentified characters, the effects of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 1945, in particular the loss of hair and the complete anonymity of the remains of some victims. The man had been conscripted into the Japanese army, and his family were in Hiroshima on that day.
Using flashbacks intercut into the love story set in 1959 - the couple's meetings in hotel rooms and restaurants - the woman relates for the first time her experiences during the Second World War in Nevers, France, where she was involved with a young German soldier during the German occupation. She suffered the humiliation of women who had colluded with the enemy, a severe almost bald haircut, before leaving for Paris, her hair regrown, and her anonymity regained. He urges her to stay in Hiroshima, but the situation is untenable...
sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Mon_Amour
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http://www.worldpress.org/europe/0102arts_liberation.htm
@rijo thank you for the extensive review, i was looking more in the range of the d day scenario with an actual footage of the bomb being dropped and all that follows. lets see if anyone comes up with something like that
ReplyDeletefor a satirical d day scenario, you shud definitely watch Dr.Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb..superb movie..
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