Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was missing the Human Cost of Life of Japanese Civilians | Frumess

#oppenheimer #film #movie #review #christophernolan #reaction #history Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was missing the human cost of life of Japanese civilians. We needed some sort of narrative running through that part of the story for which makes the stakes what they are. _____________________________________________________ JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! 📹 OR SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL, BUY A CUP OF COFFEE ☕ Questions? Comments? Concerns? EMAIL US: FrumessMAIL@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRUMESS is POWERED BY RIOT STICKERS!! Get 1000 stickers for $79 ONLY HERE - FOR ALL OF YOUR VARIOUS NEEDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We got T-SHIRTS now! 👕 NEW SHIRTS 👕 OTHER SHIRTS 👕 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oppenheimer is a 2023 biographical thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was pivotal in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project, and thereby ushering in the Atomic Age. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine “Kitty“ Oppenheimer; Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer’s military handler; and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a senior member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The ensemble supporting cast includes Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh. Oppenheimer was filmed in a combination of IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large-format film, including, for the first time in history, sections in IMAX black-and-white film photography. As with his previous works, Nolan used extensive practical effects and minimal computer-generated imagery. Its simultaneous release with Barbie led to the “Barbenheimer“ phenomenon on social media, which encouraged audiences to see both films as a double feature. The film has grossed over $180 million worldwide and received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its cast, screenplay, and visuals. Note: The film’s events take place in a nonlinear timeline, alternating between Oppenheimer’s story from Cambridge to Los Alamos, his security hearing in 1954, and Strauss’ confirmation hearing in 1959. For the purposes of this article, the story is summarized in chronological order. Oppenheimer is the first script written by Christopher Nolan in the first person, as he wanted the narrative to be conveyed from Oppenheimer’s perspective and described the “texture“ of the film being “how the personal interacts with the historic and the geopolitical“ with the intention of making it a cautionary tale. A primary theme of Oppenheimer is dealing with the consequences of Oppenheimer’s actions, with Nolan opting to explore how consequences can affect people in a delayed manner as he felt people are not “necessarily confronted with the strongest or worst elements of your action in the moment“. He had also deliberately chosen to alternate between scenes in color and black-and-white, explaining that he wanted the film to be conveyed from both an objective and a subjective perspective. Elaborating upon the dichotomy of color and black-and-white, he said that the majority of the film would be in the color timeline of Oppenheimer’s subjective experiences, while a “more objective view of his story from a different character’s point of view“ would be present in the black-and-white timeline. Desiring to make the film as subjective as possible, the production team decided to visualize Oppenheimer’s conceptions of the quantum world and waves of energy. The story’s framing device had spanned from Oppenheimer’s security-clearance hearing in 1954 to Strauss’s Senate confirmation hearing in 1959 to become President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Secretary of Commerce, with the former being in color and the latter being in black-and-white. Nolan had also noted how Oppenheimer had never publicly apologized for his role in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.