Oppenheimer From Biography to Blockbuster
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- Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas in Conversation with Kai Bird
This event was recorded live on October 11, 2023.
Oppenheimer filmmakers Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas join in a discussion with Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, about the challenges of turning complicated history into film. A highly acclaimed box-office smash, Oppenheimer is based on a historical biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The filmmakers and the author reveal the creative process of bringing Oppenheimer from the page to the screen. Nolan and Thomas’ films, including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, and The Dark Knight trilogy, have been worldwide hits, garnering 11 Oscars and 36 nominations. Bird, who is director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center, has written many acclaimed books, including Hiroshima’s Shadow and The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
For more information about our events, visit: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-programs
RIP to author Martin J. Sherwin, who passed away without witnessing the global reception of Nolan's adaptation of his Pulitzer-winning work. Thank you for an awesome biography with coauthor Kai Bird.
So grateful for this book and their work ❤❤❤
Hearing Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas speak at any length is a blessing and a real treat
Emma Thomas, for those who don't know, is the wife of Christopher Nolan.
So Robert Pattinson “inceptionized” Christopher Nolan to make this film 😎
i believe the correct term would be incepted.
@@systummhanger8216 jaja, pretty sure it's inceptioned
The word you're looking for is impregnated.
My question is, why the f$&@& was Pattinson not in this film!
@@JCChavz schedule conflicts
Nolan is a gift to cinema always love listening to him talking about films
Nolan must be really pleased with the postitive responses to the movie and its success and popularity despite being a complex 3 hours long biopic.
One can never get tired of listening to emma thomas and Christopher nolan. Emma has very good sense of humour and they both complement each other very well. Lovely couple
Nolan mentioning Taylor Swift at 35:30 💪🏼
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THANK YOU!!!
Thakn you bestie lmao
what a shame, i expect better for him
@@dandindan boo hoo
Nolan is an artist plain and simple. A 21st century icon
I’m a simple man. I see Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas for 1:11:37, I click
Same.
Amazing interview. Been a huge Chris Nolan fan for years, Opprenheimer is one of the year's best films I had the pleasure of seeing. Congrats to Chris and Emma on the film's success.
Nolan and Thomas are so well-spoken and talented
Everything Nolan says is deeply profound.
This is the reason why his films are so profound. His works are a reflection of his incredible mind.
calm your pants
@@nestorperena8629easy there, bud
I could listen Chris Nolan talk all day
His voice is very soothing lol
This is what a great interview looks like
Such a privilege to listen to Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas. Thank you for making engaging , extraordinary movies!
what a great interview. didn't skip a second
we are living a golden age of interviews! thank you for this one!
"3 hours of IMAX film is eleven miles long".....just try and get your head around that little nugget 🤔. Could listen to Chris and Emma all day so this was a real treat...many thanks.
Oppenheimer 🔥
33:05 Shout out to Succession
Nolan, Marty,Fincher, Tarantino best directors we have now...👍👍👍
and denis villenueve
Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Villeneuve
Wes Anderson, Paul Greengrass, The Daniels, etc. There are a lot of great directors now; not just Nolan.
@@aninjaguardianAnd Rian Johnson.
…and the master filmmaker PTA😊
That was an awesome interview, I would absolutely love working with Christopher Nolan, I am sure I could learn alot about acting from him and Emma.🎉
What a brilliant conversation!
thrilled to hear so much about the script writing process in this interview. Fascinating conversation!
I saw the movie, now reading the biography, then plan to watch the movie again. By reading the book after the film, I can 'see' the scenes as I read/go. Both master works.
Nolan is so smart.
The conversation is constructive. I hope they can ask and answer even more questions. And the questions the stuff chose from the audiences are good.
Brilliant interview. Not putting the actual bombing footage was the right thing to do. Instead, Nolan did it with the flashing light, the torn face, the charred corpse and the person puking for people to see and imagine what happened on the ground at Hiroshima and Nagasaki on that day. This will really impact you deeply especially if you have visited both cities and the museums.
My deepest gratitude to everyone involved to make this possible.
HE MADE A SUCCESSION REFERENCE!!
Thanks for that Masterclass Kai, Emma and Chris!
I love that Robert Pattinson had a part in this film, even though he didn’t have a part in this film.
From one bomb to the next 🤣🤣
Not a Robert Pattinson stan that wants to attach his name to the success of the film 😂
Great talk.
Was an awesome movie. Nolan is batting 1.000 in my opinion - I’m not sure I’d credit any other working filmmaker with that.
I thought the handling of the title character was brilliant. You follow him through the story and can’t help but admire his accomplishment while, at the same time, shaking your head watching this brilliant scientist/engineer undermine himself with his ineptitude in his second career in politics. The non-linear story telling really serves to hammer home the consequences of promoting a brilliant person to their level of incompetence (Oppenheimer is a great demonstration of the Peter Principal). Truman knew how to handle the bomb and Oppenheimer had no business being in the room
I’d like to see a Nolan Harry Truman film.
Always interesting to hear from Nolan. I didn't see Oppenheimer in the cinema. Can't wait for it to stream.
Did you not watch the interview haha?
Great video and conversation throughout and awesome insight by Enma and Chris too. Loved, loved at the 32:15 mark that Chris, following Emma's piece, talking about the ruinous nature of tech companies to entertainment ones, the complications that Wall Street has set so far in Hollywood and Nolan's quote of "we're Heinz, we make ketchup" is spot on too.
Looking forward to watching more videos from CUNY here.
❤Fermi on hands work made it possible. He was an on hands man who got his hands dirty and trial and error, my great hero.
Christopher Nolan is a humble man. Fact is that his name on the poster will guarantee the movie makes money .
It’s hard to imagine Michael Bay or Jar Jar Abrams giving an interview like this. Nolan comes across as an intellectual, which is surprising considering how commercial his movies are.
Life is a prism. You are the light.
Something about Chris nolan i think most people don't notice is how mindful he is in every moment. Apart from his amazing movie experiences, this is something to take away from him.
The film was stunning and I'm thoroughly enjoying the book. I recommend both! One thing I'm rather shocked about was how incredibly faithful the movie is to the book. Sure, CN created 'his' movie from the book, but nearly every anecdotal bit in the movie is found in the book. For example, the conversation Oppy has with his Jewish friend on the train mentions he looks starved, and the book mentioned the weight he'd lost at that time because of stress and depression.
Nukes are the only reason we haven't seen major wars between military powers in ages.
33:08 Kendall Roy !!!
29:50 strike
16:10 trip with his son
Brilliant Conversation 🙏 Thanks to NY City University Graduate center.🌹3 hrs movie is perfectly fine if you are telling a story about a momentous incident and personality.. The whole world audience will accept it provided the theatre s are able to judiciously manage the screening time as per the geography and culture of the place.
Full mark to the Director for focusing on the mental trauma of the scientist responsible for the most destructive project ever undertaken in the history of mankind..
I request Christopher Nolan to create a movie surrounding the first moon Landing by USA based on the JFK challenge..
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18:40 script
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If we discovered time travel and had to send someone. I would one hundred percent vote for Christopher Nolan to go
Christopher Nolan would make a great AI prompter
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16:55 🤣
Great interview but nolan interrupted emma thomas couple times
Cuny 😭
I have become crab, destroyer of hare
Kai Bird couldn't conceive they could have recreate the bomb effects from moment zero?
just bookmarking my comment
Dam the dude is rude he Keeps interrupting Nolan
Something they touch on regarding the dropping of the bombs, but don’t dive deeply enough into…
We dropped those bombs for two reasons: to save American soldiers from fighting to the death against the Japanese, and (most of all) so the Russians understood to back TF up.
Our alliance with Russia was an alliance of convenience (“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”). We were sorta enemies that had to each make a deal with the devil for the sake of defeating the Germans, Italians, and Japanese. They were developing a bomb as well and were so close. Had we not dropped the bombs then we give them the opportunity to finish developing and then drop it on the Japanese (and maybe us). If the Russians personally cause a nation to surrender then they typically would take that country as their own. Whereas, America will sign a treaty and help that nation rebuild to maintain a new friendship in good faith.
Ultimately, we had to drop those bombs. It’s unfortunate and disgusting, but we had to. Makes me sad to say that, but it’s true.
Such a stupid take
@@clara-nt9rx You can think whatever you want, but that’s the truth. Go read a history book.
This guy is the reason nobody famous wants to do interviews
U2 and Springsteen as writing music...Lucky Nolan got a film made out of that book at all.
Seriously, I like Nolan films but the book is better than the movie. If you have read the book the film will feel very surface and at times silly especially given Nolan's style of sticking together a collage of scenes through different time jumps. The book really delves into what made Oppenheimer make those decisions and how he really felt following the blasts but Nolan gives us only a fleeting idea which does not have the same impact. I know this book vs film thing is an age long debate but I just saw Killers of the Flower Moon and that movie has improved upon its source by many levels in a similar runtime.
Not fair, Nolan is not Scorsese 😂
I have the complete opposite opinion. KOTFM (the book) was much better than the film. The film as an entertaining piece of media failed drastically. As an educational form failed even more. It might have been better to do it as a limited series or a documentary (with actors doing reenactments). Not to mention KOTFM is a best selling book, and very recent whereas American Prometheus came out in 2005, and I know plenty of people who didn't even know Oppenheimer existed, never mind his contribution to history. Oppenheimer (the third hour) also included some stuff that the book didn't, which is mentioned in this video. Oppenheimer is by far the perfect movie, but it allows important conversations to be had. I know in particular it has influenced the younger generation to learn more about the bombings in Japan.
@@rehnumachowdhury3629 KOTFM (the book) has elements more similar to a pot boiling thriller than an actual serious study of the Osage tragedy and the oppression of indigenous culture through the ages. That's why it's a best seller. The author Grann turns his non fiction books into a bit of a Hollywood movie bait which I don't blame him for as everyone wants to be successful. But the movie is a more serious piece of art.
I see them as companion pieces and two different mediums with different points of view. The problem is avid book readers who comes into a movie with their knives out
@@FrancoisDressler I have met diehard fanboys who think he is better.
Make a movie about nuking 2 cities in an instance. Visit the Hiroshima war museum and you'll understand. A great injustice Mr. Nolan barely mentioned their experience. The Japanese that is. But what do you expect from an admittedly talented director. But one so old school white British it hurts...
The story of the two bombing should be told by a Japanese film maker where they can explore it more poignantly.
thats a story that Japanese filmmakers should tell. You can watch Grave of the Fireflies by Studio Ghibli for a start
It is an artistic choice. The film Oppenheimer doesn't go beyond the immediate circle of people Oppenheimer the character surrounded himself with. So, we don't see Germany invade Poland, or the Nazis being defeated by the Allied forces. Oppenheimer was a very contradictory, paradoxical character and I think the film illustrated that well. He advocated for the bomb to be dropped on Japan, more so out of ruthless ambition to demonstrate the true killing power of his engineering. And, then, later, he expressed regret and remorse for being the figurehead of such a murderous invention. I think the ending of Oppenheimer tells you what Nolan really thinks about a nuclear-armed world.
Nolan is so deep in his thoughts which is amazing
that's a long intro! so many accolades!
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