OPPENHEIMER Will Change Movies Forever
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- Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer will change movies forever. In this video essay, I discuss why Oppenheimer has the potential to be a masterful biopic film on the real-life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer movie will change the movie landscape through its source material and also its filmmaking potential.
Oppenheimer is an upcoming American biographical film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is based on American Prometheus, a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The film is a co-production between Syncopy Inc. and Atlas Entertainment; Nolan produced the film alongside Emma Thomas and Charles Roven. Cillian Murphy leads an ensemble cast as Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who is among those credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project-the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy, Michael Angarano, Guy Burnet, Danny Deferrari, Matthias Schweighöfer, Gary Oldman, Harrison Gilbertson, Emma Dumont, Devon Bostick, Trond Fausa, Christopher Denham, Josh Zuckerman, Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby.
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0:00 Intro
1:33 Oppenheimer Can Be The Perfect Christopher Nolan Movie
7:58 Oppenheimer Can Evolve Christopher Nolan's Troubled Protagonist
11:39 The Many Genres Of Oppenheimer And Christopher Nolan
14:52 Oppenheimer Can Be Pure Cinema
17:29 Oppenheimer Is The Ultimate Biopic
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It's the year of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and in this optimistic video essay, I talk about the things that give it the potential to be a groundbreaking biopic event film from the auteur blockbuster director.
Agreed. Seems he kept all his quirks in check.
It better be better than tenet, and his previous few films which were wanna be intellectual trash
Man I had use the restroom halfway through this and I tore ass like you wouldn't believe. I blew that toilet out in the movie theater. God damn I feel bad for the next son of a bitch that went in there after me cuz I was ripping ass like you want to believe that baby was echoing when I was going in there baby. I was just ripping ass farted. I thought I was going to just pass out of there. I miss 20 minutes of the movie. Damn good popcorn though!
@@southpawlibranine3511 If Dunkirk was trash you're sewage
@@alanmoreno6330 it was over rated.
I'm just glad that Cillian Murphy finally gets to take the lead after playing background and supporting roles for a lot of Nolan's previous projects.
Me too!
YES
By order of the Peaky Blinders!
Physically, the gaunt and lanky Oppenheimer - he looks like him so much it’s a little scary!
@@brucekuehn4031 and personality wise Cop was a certified genius but also charismatic and also “weird”in his own was that few actors like cillian could pull off
I love how in every Nolan videoessay everybody absolutely ignores "The Prestige" as if it doesn't exist at all. And it was amazingly done. As for "Oppenheimer" I'm just glad for Cillian Murphy. He deserves to be the lead and I hope he gets recognition.
I couldnt agree more. The Prestige is one of my fovorite movies.
The Prestige Is my favorite movie of all time
I'm glad that character focused Nolan is back in business. I note that I did enjoy Dunkirk and Tenet, but I do believe Oppenheimer will hit Nolan's true strengths.
i feel Dunkirk's "character" was the spirit and soul of Britain national patriotism and pride itself as a whole.
@@soulpath1 True, that in combination with more character personality meant Dunkirk was better than Tenet at that aspect. I liked both movies, Dunkirk more as a full picture, Tenet more in certain parts that were just so cool that it was good enough to be even better than Dunkirk.
The prestige >>>>>>
@@Samester48 my favorite movie of all time. Each watch gets better and better
Dunkirk sucked
The only way to really get the sense of guilt, shame, and anxiety that Oppenheimer felt after his creation is to definitely tackle Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The real world horror of entire cities being flattened in seconds. I really don’t think just showing the Trinity test alone is going to create that sense of shame and emotion he feels. Not to mention….if you read the history….he was apparently ecstatic and quite happy after the Trinity test.
I would imagine maybe it will be shown through TV news or radio news (I’m guessing TV wasn’t around then, so maybe film news rolls or something), as that would’ve been how Oppenheimer experienced it himself.
The atomic bombs being dropped were the fault of the Japanese government. Specifically, the three people on the Council for the Direction of War (Supreme War Council) that refused to discuss surrender and wanted to continue the war after receiving the terms of the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. If you're looking for villians in the story, it's the Japanese government and no one else.
I've been reading through American Prometheus, the book the film will be based on, and it has a ton of detail about Oppenheimer's development as a scientist and leader. It draws a fascinating picture of the race against the Nazis and the political intrigue around the bomb project's secrecy. Also, the huge price the scientists had to pay professionally and relationally for being a part of it. I think Nolan is the perfect director for bringing this book to the screen.
Germany was working toward development of the atomic bomb, but did not have the natural resources necessary.
Everyone but ol’ heis , who got to live out the rest of his days teaching and being revered. Makes u feel even worse for Opp
@@marionmarino1616 they had the resources but from what I have read they didn’t put nearly as much money into the project as USA where we spent 2 billion dollars in those days which is like worth….. 9 countries now in todays money , apparently the Germans didn’t have as much faith in the project as USA did and didn’t go “all in”
except nukes are fake
burden of proof is on you. I'll wait. and before you start, bombs are real. nukes are fake. go ahead.
This looks like the one that will get Nolan his first Best Director win and potentially Best Picture if it's truly groundbreaking. This has me on the same level of excitement as I had for Tenet.
I hope se too, but my heart is going to be with Denis Villeneuve on Best Director for Dune Part Two ✨️🔥✨️🔥
The competation will be HUGE 😳😳😳😳😳
He definitely will win his first oscar. Had a dream about it
It’s a lot to say before the film has even test screened. Babylon got claims like that and was called a masterpiece in test screenings. But no best picture or director noms. Tenet was also by far not his best so we will have to wait. Especially considering Scorsese’s new film also comes out this year
Tenet was the biggest disappointment of his career. A mess of a film.
I don’t know. The Academy are a very jealous lot. He may be dismissed simply because of his success.
One of the interesting bits of Oppenheimer's history, is his relationship with Albert Einstein at the beginning, which is something that has never been explored in the big screen.
There's a great scene between them in the IMAX trailer that was released in front of Avatar 2. I can't wait to see that in the film.
@@CortexVideos omg can't wait!
@@CortexVideos it goes like
O- what if the chain reaction doesn't stop
E- it will ignite the atmosphere
I love that exchange if words between two great minds
@@CortexVideos who's playing Einstein?
He was a brilliant astrophysicist who would probably have gone on to win a Nobel prize. He gave up on academia for the Mahattan project and could not go back. I will be interested to see if the film explores his decision making.
My name is Christopher Nolan. Father to a stellar superhero trilogy, director of a snubbed war film, and I will have my Oscar, in this life or the next
Cillian as the lead man in a movie at last. I've been waiting for that since I saw him as the Scarecrow. Hopefully Nolan will let us hear the lines, this time.
Just judging from the trailer, there's several shots where his eyes are flared out wide, and I'm slightly worried how that's going to translate as a feature-length leading performance. It strikes me as bizarre.
I think Cillian Murphy is actually one of the best actors of his generation. But even great actors can over reach and end up doing things that are just odd onscreen.
We'll see when the film is released.
Go watch 28 Days Later and Sunshine.
But, he has been the lead in lots of other films, Red lights, Peacock, Perrier's Bounty, On the Edge, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Breakfast on Pluto...
@@JaceMazama You're right, I totally forgot Murphy was the lead in 28 days later! Sunshine didn't leave a lasting impression on me, but I'm curious to revisit it.
@@montycora I've only seen 28 days later and Sunshine, and never heard of the other ones. I should have said "in a blockbuster movie", as was the case when he was in a Batman movie.
Hanz Zimmer be broken-hearted crying like “bro I thought we were inseparable 😢”
I'm beyond excited for this film's release because of the subject (J. Robert Oppenheimer), the source material (American Prometheus), the actor (Cillian Murphy) and, of course, the director (Christopher Nolan). With the obvious stated, I will admit to a bit of concern over the large number of A-list actors already attached to the project as far too often in the film industry this equals a reduction in overall quality of the released product. Also I'm not particularly keen to note Matt Damon in the role of General Leslie Groves as the tiny examples I've seen with the actor in costume left much to be desired. Ultimately, I suppose I'll simply have to trust the talent of a great director because nothing's keeping me from seeing this movie!
the inclusion of Matt Damon and other A-listers didn't stop Interstellar from being the most epic movie ever
Don't be too worried, there's many examples of films packed with stars still turning out great, going all the way back to "Grand Hotel" during The Golden Age. "The Longest Day", released in the early modern era, being another prominent example.
In the modern era you've got films like Terrance Malick's "The Thin Red Line", or basically everything Wes Anderson's ever made, as examples of films not being compromised by absurd levels of star wattage.
Personally, I'm more wary of Nolan's limitations as a screenwriter than anything. If he'd just work with a collaborator on his scripts I think he could be one of the great filmmakers of all time.
I don’t know if Matt Damon could capture Groves’ cantankerous take no shit doer nature. I hope he likes Hershey’s chocolate;)
Another example of a bunch of A-listers working on a film that ended up working is the first of the new Dune movies, which also had a renowned actor at the forefront
Just saw this in 70mm. Incredible. One of the most beautiful films. We can only hope for many biopic imitators. Amazing performances, Cillian is almost perfect in this role. Matt Damon plays a general, he's great, but it is Matt Damon playing a general.
So looking forward to this movie and seeing Cillian Murphy again in a grand movie !
I think it’s going to be an all time film. But I also do think it’s going to build up to hiroshima bombing, not the trinity test. If we know Nolan, he doesn’t give away a lot in the trailers. I think the trinity test will be in the middle of the movie, and the hiroshima/nagaski bombing will be towards the end. It’s crazy how nobody mentions that this should be included in the movie. I think it will be
Damn
The Hiroshima bomb was a "gun-type" design, and it was never tested in advance of its use, because the scientists were virtually certain that it would work. But the design of the Nagasaki bomb - an "implosion-type" design - was far more complex and had to be tested first - that was the Trinity test. So from a technical and scientific standpoint, Trinity and Nagasaki were really the pinnacle of the Manhattan Project's achievement. Not so much Hiroshima.
@@humanbeing2420 still, both will be mentioned if not shown in the movie even tho everyone is saying it won’t
I'd be surprised if there's no Hiroshima sequence. I imagine Nolan will show the cost of this technology. Oppenheimer's wariness of the violence he's about to unleash on the world is a major focus of the trailer, and I imagine it will be of the film itself.
It'll be interesting to see.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 agreed
History. A great character. IMAX. B&W. Nolan. I expect all you say will actually elevate not only the genre. I hope it will elevate filmmaking AND the teachings for social, technological and science the world desperately needs.
I have been waiting for this film for a long time. The history of the Manhattan Project as well as nuclear physics in general has always been a fascination of mine. Oppenheimer as a historical figure and his role in the development of the first nuclear bombs has also been a great interest of mine. I have high hopes that Nolan will do it justice in delivering a fascinating film about a fascinating historical figure.
Cillian Murphy is excellent casting. He looks eerily similar to Oppenheimer himself
Great casting, great director!
Not to be missed
Thank you for a very interesting and informed analysis! But thank you also for close captions and no ads so we can focus on your insights and content. I’ve had to drop so many good essays due to not being able to concentrate for all the ads cutting the content.
Love your high quality content and your ethics of keeping it clean and easy to focus. Subbed!
Thanks for that! Im glad you enjoyed it ☺️
I'm a little offended that you list all of Nolan's movies but seemingly leave out The Prestige, which I'd say is his most underrated film of them all, as evident by your exclusion.
I was looking forward to this anyway - but you just managed to get me actively hyped.
I am very much looking forward to seeing this film and seeing Nolan’s artistry at work once again.
I dunno if anyone else made this point but i would be really surprised if the “scale” isn’t presented in a way that echoes the way it’s shot and presented where it’s both a tiny intimate portrait biography mixed with a grand scale kind of like how the microscopic splitting of the atom is connected to the most powerful force man has ever harnessed and he will embrace that when telling the story
I made it a big point of this video and I think that's what really gives it great potential to be unique as a biopic film
@@CortexVideos u did? I honestly thought I was paying pretty good attention although I was multitasking while watching it on tv and I kept hearing you talk about the components I’m inferring to not the atom itself maybe or maybe u did but I just don’t remember you making a point to connect them thematically so if you did great job man cuz I couldn’t have come up with my comment without hearing the first parts of your video so great job bringing it all together from nothing I just didn’t hear you do it in the video so I felt compelled to say it but I guess I just missed where you wove it all together - I so badly want my own film channel I love this stuff and since I physically can’t use my film degree to be in the business being a part of movies anymore I left work to care for my very sick parents that I obviously had a very tough decision to make to walk away from my dream and it’s been absolute hell ever since but they really only had me as an option and so I made the decision to care for them knowing at the end would just be sadness kind of like the opposite of raising children and I would get nothing for it I just need a few things to start a channel and it would be a lot of fun joining that community of bright people talking movies, you did a great job making me excited for a movie that I would absolutely have on my radar given who’s involved but you raised that interest a lot by exploring the type of movie we’re getting and some of the content and themes and what it’s based on and everything. Great work
@@steves8580 no offense, but you should use punctuation
@@apuji7555 ur absolutely right that my last post is a rambling expose on my woes
I can't wait for this film! So many talented people involved. Hope they can pull it off!
A fine book finally comes to the screen. It was published 18 years ago.
“I have become the destroyer of worlds”
What a saying what a quote an could come true within the next few years timely made movie looking forward to it well presented 👍
_"I am become death; destroyer of worlds"_
My reaction is "how pretentious". I'm not sure if comparing one's self to a god is a particularly 'good take'.
I am really looking forward to seeing this one. I think it's a very important story and part of our history.
It's amazing to me how many people, young and old, do not know the importance of this part of history.
Very good vid essay!!! I saw the trailer and was intrigued. Now after your analysis I'm amped up to see it. Bravo!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for your lovely comment 😊
Oh wow!?
I had absolutely no idea that this was in the works!! Amazing
Looks terrific cannot wait
Awaiting this movie patiently
Expecting it to be very very good
Cillian AND Nolan? Yes please! For real tho, great video, you got me convinced. Well deserved sub :D
The dream combo! And thank you, I really appreciate that. Lots more Oppenheimer to come in the months ahead!
I don't think we truly understand how dangerously close we are to a nuclear escalation.. one would hope a film like this would humble the viewers!
I've been excited for this movie since it was announced.
The marriage of the well developed bio-pic genre with a dynamic insight into the developing inward struggle and personal transformations within the blending of numerous single historic figures as seen through the well-focused lens of one genius trapped in turmoil promises to offer an unusual realism within the lessons he wrestled with and which our vulnerable world is still trying to come to grips with. I believe that this will be a mature and restrained masterpiece, rich in both entertainment as well as questions of truth to power and our purpose in the cosmos.
I feel that the closest Nolan has gotten to telling this sort of story would be with The Prestige, given that it touches on the themes of invention, obsession, and the limits of ambition. Can't wait for July!
this could be one of my favorite films of all time. Big Nolan fan. Also love physics and history of it as well.
It is going to be about Cillian`s cheekbones, nothing else.
Looking forward to it!
To respond to your question: I wasn't particularly excited about the forthcoming "Oppenheimer", but having seen your video, now I am! Thank you!
Thoroughly relished your take on this project of Chris Nolan that I'm keenly passionate about since childhood after reading about JRO & thrilled to have this released on big screen (specialized iMax of course) by the fab film maker...a tad bit disappointed that while discussing his past work traversing multiple genres, you skipped "The Prestige (2006)"...one of my all time favorites that depicts aspects of complex human nature beautifully e.g. obsession & the lengths we goto defeat our opponent, deceit...eventually yielding disastrous outcomes...having watched most of his major works I was quite deeply touched by the same...!!
July needs to hurry up for that IMAX trip😍😍
we're going big brother
@10:50 Germany in reality was not closer to developing the atomic bomb as they hadn't even mastered a controlled and sustained nuclear fission chain reaction but that was unbeknownst to the Allies and the US in particular. They certainly had the brains in Oppenheimer, Hahn and the likes and when the Nazis conquered eastward they were reaching areas where they could mine their own uranium. But the research during the war was first stalled by reasrching individuals in their own research facilities and universities basically fight against each other who might reach controlled fission first and towards the end of the war, when they were starting to work together, the supply chain and resources (enriched uranium, heavy water etc.)have already been disrupted and diminshed. By the time they had something of a probably ending up to work reactor prototype (with uranium cubes dangling from wires instead of rods), they were hunkering down in a cave in Haigerloch Germany, trying to make it work. But that was all unknown to all the physicists and chemists that have accumulated in the USA, often fled from Europe (Niels Bohr etc.) and even Albert Einstein, sworn pacifist, made the case to Roosevelt to start the US program to develop nuclear weapons. And until the surrender of Germany, the first 2 "production" atmic bombs, FatMan (Plutonium, Nagasaki) and LittleBoy (Uranium, Hiroshima) were actually planned to be dropped on Berlin. I highly recommend the study of the Farm Hall documents and surveillance tapes (Farm Hall Transcripts) that have been made by the British after they have hunted down and captured german physiscists after the war and interned them in Farm Hall (Operation Epsilon). Although they could move quite freely about between interrogations, they were constantly listened to as the whole building was bugged to the brim. And so it's also on record that for example chemist Otto Hahn, who with his assistant Fritz Strassmann and the help of Ilse Meitner has first discovered nuclear uranium fission in 1938, had to be suicide-watched by his colleagues after having heard of the bombs dropped on japan. He was in similar distress as Oppenheimer in later years and Hahn felt like he had brought this over the world with his findings about nuclear fission. So looking forward to that movie!
While there was much uncertainty about German progress on nuclear weapons, there were substantive indications that the effort was bearing little fruit by late 1944. This was due to the first US efforts toward what became known as long range detection (LRD). Missions targeted toward picking up specific isotopes that would be emitted in the processes needed to create fissile material were flown with negative results. There was also a US Army intelligence effort called ALSOS that involved specially trained team who pursued and collected any evidence of Nazi bomb R&D, as well as seizing potential feedstock like Czech uranium, which pointed toward a stalled effort. While highly classified, General Groves had access to their reports and IIRC shared them with Oppenheimer. How much further this info was distributed among the scientists was pretty limited, but by May 1945, everyone involved understood the question of the Nazi bomb was moot.
I'll be looking out for how Nolan puts his unique spin on the flow of time (like he does in all his non-Batman movies). Obviously there's going to be a countdown, and it looks like some Memento-like thing going on with the B/W footage post-test. I wonder if the two will be linked somehow?
This is the most excited I have been for a movie, can't wait.
Looking forward to this like all Nolan films. One thing is that Shadowmakers was already a superb take on Oppenheimer so lets see how this is different.
Finished reading Dark Sun last month. Looking forward to this.
Damn this all sounds so good. I hope it will work on the big screen
Excited for this movie as we are a big Christopher Nolan fan family. Tenet was our favorite movie not least of which because the lead was POC without playing into any of the stereotypes of POC which is ironically incredibly hard to come across in cinema. My son is POC so this movie was everything for him, with it's truly cool, competent and calm leading man. What I find most interesting is how one film sort of leads into the next with some aspect of theme. So thankful to be alive in the time of Christopher Nolan.
I'm curbing my expectations
The question of whether the Manhattan Project scientists had a moral obligation to develop the bomb is highly problematic. The usual rationale-which Einstein laid out in his letter to Roosevelt-was that the Germans had an active nuclear program and we had to get there before they did. However, in November 1944 the Alsos Mission confirmed that Germany had never gotten anywhere with its atomic research and its attempts to build a bomb were confused and half-hearted at best. Once it became clear that there was no Nazi bomb and Germany's defeat was all but assured, many Manhattan Project scientists began to question the necessity of completing the bomb and several of them tried to circulate a petition advocating for it not to be used. Oppenheimer put a stop to it. He's the guy who made sure that bomb was put into the hands of the military, who were already determined to use it on a civilian target. Oppenheimer's later self-reinvention as a peacenik has tended to whitewash his deep complicity in the chain of events that led to Hiroshima. I hope the movie will take note of this.
It was never his to “put into the hands of the military”. General Groves managed the project above Oppenheimer from the very beginning. After Trinity, the technology became part of the military arsenal. Sure, Oppenheimer could have tried to exert more influence to stop production of the bomb, but at that point the scientists were at risk of getting shut out of the discussion. Oppenheimer didn’t want that. There was plenty of complicity to go around, but claiming that Oppenheimer tried to whitewash his role is hogwash.
@@Russell.S After the results of the Alsos report became known, many scientists on the Manhattan Project began to question whether they should continue working on the bomb, since its original purpose was now moot. Oppenheimer dedicated himself to quelling these doubts, which became vocal after Germany's surrender. This was a full two months before Trinity, when it was still possible for the scientists to have some influence over the outcome-Leslie Groves may have held a whip but he couldn't complete the bomb without them. With the support of Einstein and Glenn Seaborg, Leo Szilard circulated a petition calling for President Truman to warn Japan before dropping the bomb. 70 scientists at Oak Ridge signed-but when it reached Los Alamos, Oppenheimer said that the scientists needed to stay out of politics, and most of his staff didn't even find out about the petition until it was too late. It wasn't just that Oppenheimer "could have done more." What he did do was not only an abrogation of his own moral responsibility, it prevented others from acting according to the dictates of their own conscience. Oppenheimer could have said something. He would have been heard. Instead he worked to silence opposition.
My issue with this interpretation is the assumption that Oppenheimer had a clear decision of consequence and chose the amoral path by not championing the petition. I understand how it could be seen that way in 20/20 hindsight, but it ignores the fact that the genie was already out of the bottle, even before Trinity. Many people close to the program (probably including Oppenheimer and the project scientists) believed that the test itself would bring about unconditional surrender of the Japanese Imperial government. The fact that the Germans had attempted a nuclear program coupled with growing concerns about Russia meant that nuclear capability was coming one way or another. The amoral choice would have been to stop the US program. Atomic scientists felt responsible for bringing the bomb into existence and, understandably felt responsible to limit or stop it. I think Oppenheimer had a more expansive view and believed that raising the profile of the petition would do more harm than good to the scientific community. Oppenheimer wasn’t a politician. He had no power to hide the truth or silence dissenting voices, even if it would have made a difference in the outcome. To claim he had that kind of political power is historical revisionism. He did champion giving voice to scientists in US atomic policy up until being blacklisted.
WOW! fantastic video essay. Thank you, you've earned a subscriber.
Really appreciate the kind words man, thank you lots. A lot more Oppenheimer on the way!
This is not a biopic. This is another mind bending Nolan science fiction film. With one change…this time it’s real not fiction 😅
Thank you, your presentation reminded me of an English Literature course. I think you’ve done well presenting this upcoming movie. Very interesting…🎉
Glad it was helpful! Happy you enjoyed it.
Can't wait to see this!
" fat man and little boy" was a great film with Dwight Schultz playing Oppy. a mass money remake like the Nolan version has to be good, but its silly to credit Nolan as starting from scratch.
This film will be a game changer and should bag Nolan a few Oscar's If there's any justice in this world
That really remains to be seen.
@@EmlynBoyle no need for sarcasm
Dis look trash I hope it flop
Missed opportunity to release it on July 16 instead of 21. July 16 would make it the 78th anniversary of the first test of an atomic bomb.
I am SO WAITING for the release of this film.
I wasn't really excited, but this video changed my perspective. I'm sure it's gonna be one spectacular movie.
I find it kinda ironic that the term "blockbuster" originally referred to a type of bomb used in World War II that was capable of destroying an entire city block.
Anyways, great video essay👍👍
So excited for this movie!!
TWO days away. I have not been to a movie since i went to see Saving Private Ryan. Movies to me in a theater, the audacity of concession stand prices just kept me away. Its gonna stream eventually. Not this one. This one is one i will go see at any price. I just know the hype is real.
5:55 "The scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory having to create a nuclear bomb before the Germans do."
There was no race against Germany - it was too encumbered by conventional weapons production to stand a chance. Uranverein had 0.1% the Manhattan Project's budget, for comparison.
The real threat was from Japan, which had the desire and budget, but was unable to source sufficient amounts of Uranium hexafluoride at any point in the war.
At the time, the scientists thought that they were in a race against Germany. They had no idea how far away the Germans were
It would be nice to see a treatment that told his story instead of telling people what they should think about it. What I'd like to see would be a movie on Edward Teller or on Lawrence Livermore.
Exactly my sentiments. Not so much the movie but the profundity of the Project. A no brainer. This effects every living human being
Nice Old 97's reference at 0.13!
Oppenheimer saved The World or at the least the west countries and we would all be speaking German. Born in 1944 and living near Oak Ridge, Tn. We were taught to appreciate The Atomic Energy Commission for the work they did in keeping America safe. My father worked
At Briceville Air Force Base hidden in the mountains for jets ready to protect AEC. Waiting to see this movie because it is a thread in my life.
He was almost Batman in Batman begins. You can look up his test screening here on CZcams. But they couldn’t hide those luscious sex lips 👄 so bale to the lead, and we’ve gotten our best and only scarecrow in modern cinema
Unpopular opinion : Nolan's last truly great film was Interstellar.
I am cautiously optimistic that this film will live up to the hype but for that there is one key thing it MUST nail , And that is The Psychological and Emotional side of the story as the US nuclear program literally ruined Oppenheimer's life.
Incredible practical and digital effects , a great cast , a superb soundtrack and amazing photography are all a given BUT without the Emotional / Psychological toll being properly written and shown this will fall flat given the current times a chilling reminder of what nuclear weapons are capable of is over due.
Dunkirk felt like watching some sort of half documentary and Tenet felt very ..... empty for a Nolan film.
I can’t wait for the Nolan shots that mirror interstellars grand shots of things like a black hole to an atom being split and then the domino effect being done in slow motion but on the tiniest of scales this time instead of the. Biggest like in interstellar
Cillian is such a dope actor.
i would love to see Verner Von Braun docu
You’d think someone on the movie would know that the explosive wedges they lightly put into the bomb were actually almost as heavy as concrete and needed special tools.
Yes that and the Cordex Video's script could have known the difference between a Nuclear bomb and a Atomic bomb. Two very different things.
I am going to watch this in the cinema for sure
The development of the Atomic bomb had no bearing on the war with Nazi Germany, and had the bomb not been developed the suggestion that “most of us may not be here today” is absurd. Many more, primarily US soldiers would have died in the invasion of Japan, but other than the scale and swiftness of defeat, everything else was, by that time, a fait accompli.
Do you think Oppenheimer will have enormous success at the box office, or do you think Greta Gerwig's Barbie will be more successful on its opening weekend?
I think Oppenheimer will be more successful, but I hope both do great as it will be a good win for cinema. When it comes to the level of success, it's hard to judge that as of yet. But I would say that the first trailers have had a good impact. The first oppenheimer trailer on CZcams alone has about 10million more views than Tenet did at this sort of time after that came out a few years back. So it seems theres more interest in this to begin with. Hopefully it keeps building momentum. I guess time will tell.
I'm betting on Oppenheimer. Nolan has a solid fan base, plenty of hype and an excellent track record 👍🙂
Barbie Ftw
I think people (many) have forgotten how important this story and time in history is, so many will not go to see it, unless it's praised by friends and the media. Assuming it's a good movie that gets good reviews.
I am very interested in seeing this story on the big screen and made with Nolan's style and sense of detail.
No. It's too intellectual for most of the mass market.
Some may not know but Josh Peck will be a character in this too! Wild Ik
Let's keep the expectations low, so we dont get disappointed.
This looks very promising.. Nolan no matter what people say is the best director in cinema history I love every single movie he made even the underrated Tenet
Tenet is phenomenal. I watched it again last week, to see if I had recency bias the 6 times I watched it in the theatres, but no. I’m positive that people who jumped on the hate bandwagon are just those who turned their brains off when entering.
@@alexman378 I watched it blind in 2022 without seeing any reviews beforehand and this may sound crazy, but it’s my favourite movie of all time. In my opinion it’s the perfect movie even down to the score which is just tremendous. Underrated is an understatement in my opinion
Nolan isn’t even remotely close to the best director in history. Watch more movies.
@@calebisdisposable I watch a ton, and while I can’t confidently say he’s the absolute best, he’s up there. Top 10 of all time, maybe even top 5.
@@alexman378 Clearly not if you think he’s the best 💀💀 he hasn’t even made a movie that’s better than Kubricks worst.
Looking forward to the movie and learning more about how reknown and comoonist background ;-).
There was a multi-part PBS drama regarding Oppy. Sam Waterston was perfect for this elusive mind and soul. I hope this film can exceed it. The 12 Years A Slave studio film did NOT live up to the PBS drama "the Solomon Northrup Story" produced in the 80's .... which seems to have been "disappeared".
We can expect super loud music that overwhelms the dialogue.
I wonder if this movie might have a backward and a forward story like Memento. I think maybe the majority of the story is going to be going forward toward the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while cutting back and forth to the aftermath that’s going to be told backwards. Kind of like the diabetes story in Memento that’s told forward while the main story is told backwards and meets at the end of the movie.
If I was Nolan it would be how I would direct it symbolising the raw power of the atomic bomb that it pulls gravity and time towards it into the inevitable reality of the atomic bomb being invented.
I just watched a 1965 NBC documentary on CZcams for free about the exact same subject. It was only a black and white film narrated by Chet Huntley, but it did contain actual interviews with many of the actual people who were there, many of whom were still alive in 1965, including interviews with the actual real Oppenheimer. It was good enough. I don't need to pay big money to see some overblown, overly dramatic movie that is essentially the same thing.
Academy is calling… cant imagine that this guy, with his references, disappoints us. So damn hyped!
'Can't wait. 🤗
Does anybody know where to get the trailer that played for Avatar?
We already have the frontrunner for 2023-24 awards season here.
As a man born in the middle of the Cold War, on a US SAC Air Force Base, who recalls Duck and Cover drills from schools, EBS tones on the TV, and air raid sirens the first Wednesday of every month at noon, in the shadow of a B-52 squadron, its funny to me to hear young people refer to the tension around nuclear weapons today as, “growing.”
This movie looks like the bomb. I predict it will blow up.
I’m excited for some sweet nuke effects
2:24 You have misunderstood Christopher Nolan when you say he was unsuccessful for years to make a bio-pic. Nolan always want to make a movie about the set agenda whether it is Inception or Dark Knight, or Interstellar (Tesseract within a Black Hole) or TeneT. His Agenda is fixed and the ending of the movie as cliffhanger for all his movies is also fixed which is based on the Infinite Universe we live in. So I would say that he is a very successful Writer and Director and a great story teller.
Christopher Nolan, Tom Cruise, and Christopher McQuarrie are the only true filmmakers still trying to bring a true big screen spectacle and gravitas to Cinema instead of letting it fade into digital.
Even once great filmmakers like Zack Snyder and Guillermo Del Toro have completely sold out to the streaming trend and gone to Netflix.
Cruise and Nolan are committed to THEATERS
I can’t wait. I even have a car named Oppenheimer.
11:25 Germany had actually surrendered by the time the first bomb was completed. After the fall of Germany several scientists even left the Manhattan project as their sole motivation had been trying to beat Germany to the finish line. It was even discovered from recovered documents that Germany had since given up on their nuclear program in favor of their rocket program long before they ever even got close to enriching uranium. The bomb was primarily a factor in the war against Japan. Such an interesting facet of history. I studied physics and history in college so this era is such a unique intersection of the two.
AFAIK, Germany hadn't given up on its nuclear energy program, but had scaled it back, due to lack of funding and resource. But there was no German nuclear bomb project, to begin with. After the war, the US Army got hold of all 742 (or so) top secret internal research reports, and nothing points towards the intent to develop a weapon (the reports are publicly accessible), and neither does any of the equipment they found. The "Nazi nuclear bomb program" story was permeated by some, likely to sensationalise and sell it (e.g. as book), or to justify the huge budget used up by the Manhattan program.
Aside from the movie, we need to take into account this is just a perspective, part of a narrative. Those living and working in NM (those older ones that’ll talk to you) are not as sympathetic when it comes to the work the state has done. Also, imagine the silliness of a scene where Oppenheimer cries at a bomb that WAS DESIGNED to kill people. Although science is usually intertwined with war, operations underwent in Black Mesa (lol) was strictly made for power and dominance, not physics.
I read American Prometheus. A huge tome, full of detail. I ponder what they'll leave out of the movie? What 'message' will the director feel compelled to send us?
I’m sure that Brie Larson will do an unannounced cameo and stop the bombs from exploding. The message will be “Girls kick ass, yo!”
Personally, I'm mystified about Nolan using IMAX cameras to photograph this film.
If this film *is as intimate as it* seems, primarily a character piece about the *internal* struggles of a troubled man, I have a feeling IMAX audiences- and critics- are going to come out wondering why it had to be on IMAX at all.
Time will tell.
There’s a market for HUGE that’s not in the cineasta’s mindset.
Well, consider what Nolan said when he first started using IMAX for The Dark Knight. He said he thought it would be interesting to use IMAX in a dramatic way.
He also continues to argue the point of immersion.
Yes, a biopic isn't an action film, but this is still a huge scale story and in terms of how to utilize IMAX to create stunning visuals, even in a film like this, is only limited to your imagination.
Consider the idea of using the format to put you in the location..
In Dunkirk, some of the most immersive shots in that were when we were simply flying over the British channel with the spitfires.
You don't have to be watching an action scene to appreciate such a large and immersive format.
It's Just that studios and cinemas would like to reserve it for those action/sci-fi/fantasy type films.
Also consider the nuclear test scene. That'll inevitably be the selling point for it being in this format.
I also recall going to see Joker in IMAX.. No it wasn't shot on IMAX film. It was shot on a digital format because the studio refused to let Todd Phillips use film, but it was shown in IMAX cinemas.. and I don't mean Just totally digital "lie-max" cinemas.. My local cinema has a true IMAX screen with the proper technology, but even those ones rarely get the chance to use it.
Joker similarly isn't an action film. It's a character study. But it utilises the world building to create its big scale.
I just don’t get it, why you’d need a new camera for b&w film.
The idea of film camera is, that you can use any stock available.
Can somebody elaborate?