A House of Dynamite

Catherine Bigelow made Strange Days and The Hurt Locker, which made her the first woman to win the Oscar for directing.

She also made last year's House of Dynamite.

For two years, around 1990, they were married to each other, and Cameron actually wrote Strange Days for her to direct.

I asked Dorian about them.

I never thought of this before, but

James Cameron and Catherine Bigelow are kind of like the Mary Shelley and Lord Byron of... hollywood in terms of a house of dynamite the catherine bigelow movie where people were watching videos that were the snuff films essentially that were recorded through other people's brains do you remember this strange days strange days right strange days is dystopian certainly but it's definitely in that end of millennium apocalypse panic era

They both talked about growing up with this great fear of nuclear war and, you know, their memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis when they were kids.

And a lot of the impetus behind the Terminator movies was Cameron's terror of nuclear war.

I don't think people think that or they think if the leaves are falling from the trees, it may be because there's a massive mushroom crowd overhead.

Well, you know, last night I got my daughter to watch House of Dynamite because that conversation we had.

It's a good movie.

It's a great movie.

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House of Dynamite? Get out of here.

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But with this political campaign advertising advertisement that they've just recently gone to market with, Polymarket has enlisted the help of Oscar-winning director Catherine Bigelow.

She is the powerhouse behind films such as The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and most recently, A House of Dynamite.

So, just like...

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Also, since I'm updating you about my life, I watched a movie, House of Dynamite, yesterday, and I don't watch movies often.

You should watch it, Colonel, because as soon as I knew we were speaking today, I wanted to bring it up.

Because it goes through the process of how the United States would respond if a nuke was launched at the country.

Colonel, it's always a pleasure.

I appreciate the conversation.

House of Dynamite.

That's the movie, House of Dynamite.

He was in a beautiful movie, indie film called The Song of Names, which I thought he was just magnificent in.

He was in House of Dynamite recently.

He was in the third section, the one directed by Catherine Bigelow.

He played the guy with the suitcase that holds the codes in the final section.

If you are behind schedule, you need to have consistency.

And same with I mean, what was the he worked on House of Dynamite, which they shot very documentary style.

Yeah.

And I think that was a great example.

Because even for states that don't intend to use nuclear weapons, except by way of deterrence, the risk of retaining nuclear weapons far outweighs any conceivable benefit from them.

Some of you may have seen the Netflix film, House of Dynamite, as that film shown.

showed um having nuclear weapons in the world is like choosing to live in a house of dynamite you never know when it's going to blow up whether by accident or intention and it's not only the populations of nuclear armed states who are at risk it's it's all of humanity and the planet and um just to to talk a little bit just very briefly about the latest science um on nuclear winter shows that even a limited nuclear war, say between India and Pakistan, would cause firestorms that would send enormous amounts of soot into the stratosphere, blocking out sunlight for a decade or more, causing agricultural collapse and the death of more than two billion people through starvation.

And a major nuclear war would mean the end of human civilization as we know it.

So it's pretty grim stuff, but I think that's why it's so important, the work that we're doing.