I haven't even seen Oppenheimer and I couldn't stop watching your video! I think your points fill a niche in the wide sea of videos on Oppenheimer's cinematography, historical accuracy, etc. Would you consider making videos on storytelling in general? Like basics and advanced tips for storytellers?
Thank you for watching! I would very much like to make videos on storytelling in general. I just need to figure out how to fit that into my channel going forward. Thanks again, glad you enjoyed it!
I watched Oppenheimer without hearing it (on an airplane, the person next to me was watching it) and I found myself fascinated by the way that it was put together. It is 90% one shots (a camera photographs just one face in a close-up) and they stitched together one shots of actor a and one shots of actor b and volleyed back and forth between them for every scene. They would put in an establishing shot just because that's what you do, but then they switched immediately to television editing. It made me not want to actually see the film.
Finally, thank you for making this. Very thorough and so many good points. After the film ending I kept thinking "thats it?"...for a three hour movie. None of the emotionality landed for me and I couldn't figure out why. Thank you for all of your research, when you said you were still annoyed at having to do that, coffee almost came out of my nose. I was fighting the urge to do the same so I could grasp the whole story that was supposed to be there but really didn't want to just to know how to feel about the movie lol. What a great video! I think for a video this long, some chapters or an overview at the beginning about each topic you'll touch on would be very helpful! I saw that you're a newer channel, so I thought you might appreciate some feedback (apologies if im mistaken cause you seem very professional). Your vocal quality and pacing is wonderful. Your ideas and explanations are excellent. Also i adore your subtle sense of humor. Subscribed!
Thank you very much! I truly appreciate your comments. Your ideas about chapters or overviews are good ones. I'd already been considering chapters for my next video. Thank you so much for watching (and subscribing)!
I feel as though the movie was easy to follow without any previous historical knowledge, i think alot of the movie is supposed to explore character from an objective lens with emotion and judgement creeping up only to be shoved away like the development process of the bomb itself. As the character is flip flopped you surely lose a clear sense of character development but that begins to make you question to core of the man. Our first real introduction to him is an attempt to assassinate his proffessor, but he goes back on it. It paints a picture of a complex man who needs to face judgement and through the rest of the movie your judgement of him wavers back and forth. I believe that for the non-historian the story functions just fine as a character piece set in the tension on WWII. A critical eye is never harmful to a good movie, great video
If Nolan was using an objective lens to explore Oppenheimer's character, he wouldn't have used tracking shots, handheld cameras, or blaring music. Oppenheimer's character development is confusing because a three hour movie can't afford one scene to explain the sudden internal change which caused Oppenheimer to go from having no apprehensions about the bomb to feeling guilty about the death of thousands. In other words, why did he take back the poisoned apple?
I’m around 10 mins in and am not really liking it so I thought Id post my thoughts here to see how my views compare to afterwards. As of now it’s just claim after claim being unjustified and moving on to the next claim without elaboration. I watch a lot of video essays so this frustrates me, but it could be better so I’ll update here after I’m done to complete my thoughts. Don’t want to say the essay is bad until I finish it, but it seems that the essayist holds a very axiomatic view about how stories should be written without explaining or justifying why those axioms exist. Hope it gets better! But either way I have /thoughts/
Interesting opinions and ideas. I especially felt the lack of thematic framing watching the movie a second time. I at least found worth in the individual character performances and the other departments' works. You could do one of these on Tenet, which I found to be one of the least entertaining movies to even sit through.
I completely agree about Tenet; talk about a slog. I also really agree with you about the performances! So much of the acting in Oppenheimer was really exceptional, some of the best of the actors' careers, probably. Thank you so much for watching!
This video is way more lazy and boring to seat through than other on the same topic. I guess you couldn't use your critiques of the movie in your own work.
I haven't even seen Oppenheimer and I couldn't stop watching your video! I think your points fill a niche in the wide sea of videos on Oppenheimer's cinematography, historical accuracy, etc.
Would you consider making videos on storytelling in general? Like basics and advanced tips for storytellers?
Thank you for watching! I would very much like to make videos on storytelling in general. I just need to figure out how to fit that into my channel going forward. Thanks again, glad you enjoyed it!
I watched Oppenheimer without hearing it (on an airplane, the person next to me was watching it) and I found myself fascinated by the way that it was put together. It is 90% one shots (a camera photographs just one face in a close-up) and they stitched together one shots of actor a and one shots of actor b and volleyed back and forth between them for every scene. They would put in an establishing shot just because that's what you do, but then they switched immediately to television editing.
It made me not want to actually see the film.
Shoot. Now I wanna rewatch Darkest Hour.
Finally, thank you for making this. Very thorough and so many good points. After the film ending I kept thinking "thats it?"...for a three hour movie. None of the emotionality landed for me and I couldn't figure out why. Thank you for all of your research, when you said you were still annoyed at having to do that, coffee almost came out of my nose. I was fighting the urge to do the same so I could grasp the whole story that was supposed to be there but really didn't want to just to know how to feel about the movie lol. What a great video! I think for a video this long, some chapters or an overview at the beginning about each topic you'll touch on would be very helpful! I saw that you're a newer channel, so I thought you might appreciate some feedback (apologies if im mistaken cause you seem very professional). Your vocal quality and pacing is wonderful. Your ideas and explanations are excellent. Also i adore your subtle sense of humor. Subscribed!
Thank you very much! I truly appreciate your comments. Your ideas about chapters or overviews are good ones. I'd already been considering chapters for my next video. Thank you so much for watching (and subscribing)!
I feel as though the movie was easy to follow without any previous historical knowledge, i think alot of the movie is supposed to explore character from an objective lens with emotion and judgement creeping up only to be shoved away like the development process of the bomb itself. As the character is flip flopped you surely lose a clear sense of character development but that begins to make you question to core of the man. Our first real introduction to him is an attempt to assassinate his proffessor, but he goes back on it. It paints a picture of a complex man who needs to face judgement and through the rest of the movie your judgement of him wavers back and forth. I believe that for the non-historian the story functions just fine as a character piece set in the tension on WWII. A critical eye is never harmful to a good movie, great video
Thank you. And thank you very much for watching!
If Nolan was using an objective lens to explore Oppenheimer's character, he wouldn't have used tracking shots, handheld cameras, or blaring music. Oppenheimer's character development is confusing because a three hour movie can't afford one scene to explain the sudden internal change which caused Oppenheimer to go from having no apprehensions about the bomb to feeling guilty about the death of thousands. In other words, why did he take back the poisoned apple?
25:16 goon king 😂... sorry.
Great video btw, look into adding some background music 😊
I’m around 10 mins in and am not really liking it so I thought Id post my thoughts here to see how my views compare to afterwards.
As of now it’s just claim after claim being unjustified and moving on to the next claim without elaboration. I watch a lot of video essays so this frustrates me, but it could be better so I’ll update here after I’m done to complete my thoughts. Don’t want to say the essay is bad until I finish it, but it seems that the essayist holds a very axiomatic view about how stories should be written without explaining or justifying why those axioms exist. Hope it gets better! But either way I have /thoughts/
Interesting opinions and ideas. I especially felt the lack of thematic framing watching the movie a second time. I at least found worth in the individual character performances and the other departments' works.
You could do one of these on Tenet, which I found to be one of the least entertaining movies to even sit through.
I completely agree about Tenet; talk about a slog. I also really agree with you about the performances! So much of the acting in Oppenheimer was really exceptional, some of the best of the actors' careers, probably. Thank you so much for watching!
This video is way more lazy and boring to seat through than other on the same topic. I guess you couldn't use your critiques of the movie in your own work.