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[WanMan]

When I think of films about WW2 and the variety of directors out there in recent times I wonder what kind of story could be behind such a film title. Cameron bought the film rights to a book called The Last Train to Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back, but not haven read the book, the idea of remembering the two days of the event makes me wonder.

While I enjoyed Spielberg in movies of this WW2 sort, I have to wonder if the recounting-style of Cameron might be more applicable, or if by some judgment someone completely different (Eastwood?). I spent a bit of time going over this period of early strategic weapons when I was a teenager, and got fairly deep in the resulting damage, both to humans and not. I've watched shows on the re-telling from the crew, from survivors, from accounts of US servicemen sent in not too long after, etc.

I am not a fan of Cameron. Sure, I've enjoyed some of his movies, but that wouldn't make me a fan. And while Spielberg has done the same to me, I wonder what kind of non-novelty any film treatise can be afford on this historic note. Is it to be a storytelling along the lines of Titanic (god I hope not), of a tear-jerking commercial like Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan, or a sad but true (well, as true as Hollywood cares about) as Flags of our Fathers?

Oh well, I am sure it will get done, but by whom and in what manner is the next set of questions.