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How Accurate is Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'?

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  • JonJ Offline
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    Jon
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    I read that piece. It’s good.

    Almost everyone here should see Oppenheimer as soon as they can.

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    • MikM Offline
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      We just watched it. So deserving of Best Picture. Totally engrossing. Acting, script, cinematography, themes, history, character arcs, anything you can name was pure excellence.

      "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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      • HoraceH Offline
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        Seems unlikely that something as small as an atom could release that much energy. Color me skeptical.

        Education is extremely important.

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          I will see it eventually.

          I'm pretty familiar with the story.

          I just hope the movie takes place in the 1940s, not the 2020s.

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            #8

            +1 on Mik’s comment. It is an exceptional film. Highly recommended

            They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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              +1

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              • 89th8 Offline
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                Click to enlarge. This visual takes a bit to digest, but overall it gives a glimpse of how Christopher Nolan's mind works. The movie jumps around A LOT but overall it ties together to provide the full story. It's a mature way to structure a biopic, one that makes the film complex and challenging the viewer, without making it too disjointed. Honestly none of this makes sense until you've seen the movie, and then it all makes sense afterwards.

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                  Side note, Nolan's use of sound in his movies is nothing short of exceptional. There are too many examples to go into, but off the top of my head:

                  (And yes I know usually it's Hans Zimmer involved, or Goransson for Oppenheimer)

                  • In Oppenheimer, you can see the foot stomping (red on the chart) make early appearances before it haunts him at the rally
                  • In Inception, he created the "WOMPPPP" sound by having a brass section blow their instruments into a piano, then record the sound off the strings of the keyboard. You should note this sound effect is now over-used in most trailers to hide lazy transitions.
                  • Also in Inception, the main theme is a VERY VERY VERY slowed down version of the Edith Piaf tune that is heard:
                  • In Interstellar (still a MASSIVE travesty this movie didn't win more awards, and didn't win for Best Original Score), how the music was conceived through the use of a "human breath" organ sound.

                  Links below.

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                  • 89th8 89th

                    Click to enlarge. This visual takes a bit to digest, but overall it gives a glimpse of how Christopher Nolan's mind works. The movie jumps around A LOT but overall it ties together to provide the full story. It's a mature way to structure a biopic, one that makes the film complex and challenging the viewer, without making it too disjointed. Honestly none of this makes sense until you've seen the movie, and then it all makes sense afterwards.

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                    @89th said in How Accurate is Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'?:

                    Click to enlarge. This visual takes a bit to digest, but overall it gives a glimpse of how Christopher Nolan's mind works. The movie jumps around A LOT but overall it ties together to provide the full story. It's a mature way to structure a biopic, one that makes the film complex and challenging the viewer, without making it too disjointed. Honestly none of this makes sense until you've seen the movie, and then it all makes sense afterwards.

                    image.png

                    I guess this guy did all of Nolan's movies:

                    All images: https://www.reddit.com/user/Pitazboras/comments/18n0yaf/timelines_for_all_feature_films_directed_by/

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                    • George KG Offline
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                      LOL:

                      timelines-for-all-feature-films-directed-by-christopher-v0-1z28jz8aoh7c1.jpg

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        I thought Inception or Tenet would be crazier on the graph but I guess that's more about reverse time or going into levels of dreams rather than changing the chronology.

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                        • MikM Offline
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                          To be able to jump around in time and still have the story coherent is genius.

                          "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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