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Josh Hartnett (Dr. Ernest Lawrence) walks in on Cillian Murphy (Dr. Robert Oppenheimer) using his classroom as meeting place for Trade Unionists recruiting their academic staff.
Lawrence: What are you paid a month? What do any of you have anything in common with laborers and dock workers? (After silence) Fine! Everybody out! No! Not you. [Points to Oppenheimer] What are you doing? Oppenheimer: Trade Union…
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Lawrence: They won’t let me bring you into the project with this. They won’t even let me tell you what the project is! Oppenheimer: I know what the project is. We’ve heard about the Germans wanting to make a bomb and I know, what it means for the Nazis to have a bomb.
Lawrence: What I don’t?
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Oppenheimer: It’s not your people they’re herding into camps. Its mine. Lawrence: You think I’m talking about politics? The next time you’re coming home from a meeting, take a look in the rear view mirror. Listen to the sounds on your phone lines. Stop being so god damned naïve! Oppenheimer: Why do you care what I do?
Lawrence: Because you’re not just self-important. You’re actually important!
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Shot on B&W IMAX
OPPENHEIMER, the epic historical biopic can be seen on IMAX theaters. Locally, that is the SM Mall of Asia IMAX Theater, IMAX SM Aura Premier, IMAX SM City Cebu, IMAX SM City Clark, IMAX SM Lanang Premier, IMAX SM Mall of Asia, IMAX SM Megamall, IMAX SM North Edsa and IMAX SM Southmall. Even if you can’t make it to your nearest IMAX cinema, going to the movie theater is still advisable. Much better than a TV screen or your cellphone.
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The experimental explosion was a real one, according to Director Chris Nolan. They recreated the mushroom effect (without using an actual nuclear device). The whole movie was shot on a combination of different large format films, color and custom black and white. Kodak produced b&w IMAX film to Nolan’s specifications.
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He wanted that epic look of bringing you INTO that place whether it’s Normandy, or here in the Los Alamos nuclear explosion. The superior image size and quality surrounds your peripheral vision. Watching OPPENHEIMER in an IMAX theater is how he intended audiences to see it. Fans in the U.S. drove hours to their chosen IMAX theaters just to faithfully experience this masterpiece. Source New York Times: For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens
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This is Nolan’s sixth film shot on IMAX film cameras following The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). Seeing OPPENHEIMER on an IMAX screen would be well worth it going to SM Mall of Asia.
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Jewish Roots and GOLDA
The scene above reveals a lot about Oppenheimer and the paranoia in the era when he changed the world. First was his concern for the welfare of people in general. That’s why he cared enough to help the academic staff try to earn better pay and benefits. Second, his Jewish roots also played a huge part in motivating him to beat the Nazis in building the ultimate weapon. Third, peers who worked in the scientific community highly regarded his brilliance.
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Although Oppenheimer wasn’t a practicing Jew (referring to religion). He felt compelled to protect his brethren, the nation of Israel. Much like another upcoming biopic in GOLDA. Where Helen Mirren plays one of the most imposing women in modern history: Golda Meir. As Israeli PM she was able to guide them in their wars against Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the 1960s. Another one of my favorite actors Liev Schreiber plays U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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I’m willing to bet both OPPENHEIMER and GOLDA are possible Oscar nominees, especially in the acting categories. OPPENHEIMER may be the masterpiece to give Nolan his first Oscar.
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Stars in Bit Parts
Faith in Nolan and the material drew the best actors of Hollywood. How many times have we heard that phrase of having an all-star cast? This one truly has it. As testament to the story, the famous faces and names seemed to melt into the roles. The trailers show Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh and Kenneth Branagh.
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But I was surprised to find even more stars not in the promos. Such as a powerful performance by Gary Oldman as President Truman. Rami Malek (from BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY) also had a short but pivotal role. Both of them have won a Best Actor Oscar. Oldman for the DARKEST HOUR (2018).
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Benny Safdie known as a director was cast as Edward Teller. Nolan liked Safdie in Paul Thomas Anderson’s LICORICE PIZZA (2021). He shared that Safdie was choosing between Physics and acting in his youth.
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Josh Hartnett is Dr. Ernest Lawrence and Alden Ehrenreich who played a young Han Solo is the Senate Aide coordinating with Robert Downey Jr.. Jason Clarke was a terror in a hearing against Oppenheimer as Special Counsel Roger Robb. Clarke was a villain in TERMINATOR GENISYS and recently played Jerry West in HBO’s WINNING TIME THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY. They all reinforce the belief that ‘there are no small roles only small actors’.
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Cillian’s Blue Eyes
Nolan who also wrote the script based it on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin.
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In an interview with FANDANGO, Nolan revealed how he cast Cillian Murphy (pronounced Killian). He cast Murphy several times before in THE DARK KNIGHT, INCEPTION and DUNKIRK. “The real Oppenheimer was staring from the cover of the book with his blue eyed stare. I thought I knew who could do that (referring to Cillian Murphy). I was lucky enough to write for Cillian for 20 years now. But never in a leading role. This time I could make that call. Yeah, you could take center stage. You can carry the audience with you in this journey.”
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Nolan felt their choice of IMAX was perfect not just for vistas but especially for capturing the nuances of their performances, “I describe IMAX as 3D without the glasses. We shot New Mexico, the storms, the desolations. But we asked how could we show this format (IMAX) show Oppenheimer’s thought process? And peer into his soul? What happens when you apply that grand format to intimacy? To what these guys are doing. See the world through his eyes. Trying to pick up the different layers of what everybody’s thinking and feeling. The conflicts the paradoxical situations… We found out the format is a powerful tool for all aspects of cinema, really. Cinema’s all about story telling. More than anything the human element.”
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Tense Conversations
Among Nolan’s films this may be the best written. He was able to make the dialogue fast paced and efficient. Combining drama with the most popular lines attributed to the character. It doesn’t hurt that Oppenheimer was an intriguing person in real life. He had several extra marital affairs. One of which was with Jean Tatlock played by Florence Pugh.
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After an intense lovemaking scene, Oppenheimer drank in the naked body of Jean as she stood to peruse his bookshelf. Their exchange on the titles revealed a lot of each other’s backgrounds and intellect. She pulled out a book in a text/script she didn’t recognize, found out from him it was Sanskrit. She force him to read out loud a line bookmarked page,
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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