‘A Compassionate Spy’ Director on Making Nuclear War Film Pre-‘Oppenheimer’
The Big Picture Nuclear war is definitely front of mind in the public conscience nowadays. Between Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, tensions between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, and the film event that is Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, it's hard not to be constantly confronted with the frightening concept of atomic warfare.
Speaking to Collider's Chase Hutchinson, he dove into his thought process behind creating a character-driven documentary before any of the aforementioned events were brought to his attention. Although it turned out his documentary would release at the absolute perfect time and, in his eyes, play a perfect companion piece to Nolan's Oppenheimer, James wasn't particularly interested in the nuclear war angle at all.
"Yes, I think that's true. I'm driven by character in virtually every film I've made. I'm not driven by issues. It's not like I heard about Ted Hall, and I said, 'Oh, I think it's time to do a film about the dangers of nuclear warfare.' I mean, frankly, Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, Christopher Nolan hadn't decided to make Oppenheimer; it was sort of like no one was talking about nuclear weapons.
A Compassionate Spy and Oppenheimer Fit Well as Character-Focused Pieces The character-focused nature of A Compassionate Spy makes it an even more fitting pair with Oppenheimer. Nolan's film is less about the bomb and more about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer who changed the world and was forever haunted by the devastation left behind by his creation.
In addition to writing and directing, James produced A Compassionate Spy with Mark Mitten and Dave Lindorff. The documentary is based on a lengthy interview with Hall before his death and his wife Joan Hall with a mix of other archival footage and live-action reenactments. James took the film to last year's Venice International Film Festival where it earned solid reviews from critics, landing it at an 84% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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