Wish Oppenheimer showed ‘what happened to the Japanese people’, says Spike Lee

In an interview with The Washington Post, Lee said what he said about the film was “not criticism”, but a comment.

“Chris Nolan with ‘Oppenheimer’, he’s a massive filmmaker. Great film… and this is not a criticism. It’s a comment. 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,” the Oscar winner told the publication.

Spike Lee also shared he showed Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic Dunkirk in his New York University film class.

“Understand, this is all love. And I bet (Nolan) could tell me some things he would change about Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X,” he added.

In the same interview, the director also praised Martin Scorsese for his latest directorial venture Killers of the Flower Moon.

“That’s my guy… it’s a great film,” he said.

Lee, also an Academy member, said the film’s breakout star Lily Gladstone could become the first Native American actress to win a lead actress Oscar.

“Lily Gladstone, she’s winning an Oscar. She’s got my vote,” he added.