10 Rare Facts About Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ That You Didn’t Know-
Christopher Nolan, a director known for his gripping narratives and deep character studies, has turned his attention to the life of J Robert Oppenheimer. His film focuses on the man who created the Atomic Bomb, and reveals his fascinating personal life.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer and Florence Pugh as his mistress Jean Tatlock. It has a mature rating and depicts some gruesome historical events.
1. The film was shot in IMAX
While the film is based on historical events, it does have some inaccuracies. For example, the film features a scene in which Oppenheimer talks with Einstein, but in real life, they never discussed this topic.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. It also stars Emily Blunt as his wife Kitty and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, a Communist Party USA member.
2. It has a first-person perspective
After tackling superheroes, spies and dreams within dreams in his Batman trilogy, Dunkirk, Inception and Tenet, Nolan has moved on to a very different genre with Oppenheimer. This biographical film about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer promises to be an immersive cinematic experience.
Nolan broke a major screenwriting rule by writing the script in first person. This allowed him to depict events from the perspective of his protagonist, played by Cillian Murphy.
3. It is the longest film Nolan has ever made
Countless critics and fans have debated which of Nolan’s films are his greatest masterpieces. One film that has consistently been mentioned is The Prestige, a neo-noir thriller about a man with anterograde amnesia who leaves clues for himself by recording his experiences on Polaroids and tattooing them onto his body.
The film is a complex tale that features multiple timelines and requires its audience to follow along. But it is also a riveting drama led by Cillian Murphy’s tour de force performance.
4. It is based on a non-fiction book
The film focuses on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who created the first atomic bomb. It stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, and Matt Damon.
The movie also explores his complicated personal life, including a turbulent love affair with Katherine Kitty Puening and his links to communism. It also details his controversial security hearing in 1954. This was part of the McCarthyism era.
5. It is the first film to be shot in IMAX
Shot with IMAX film cameras, Oppenheimer will play on 30 IMAX screens worldwide. The film features sections filmed with IMAX black-and-white analog photography.
Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.) tries to revoke Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which is depicted in a congressional hearing. However, the real-life Strauss was not accused of being a communist sympathizer and was never a party member. He did, however, have a communist ex-fiancee named Jean Tatlock.
6. It is based on a non-fiction book
After a cult film like Following, it was only natural that Nolan would turn to non-fiction for his next project. He collaborated with Sherwin to create a riveting account of the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Nolan tapped Cillian Murphy to play the legendary scientist. His performance combines the right amount of ambiguity and unquestionable charm. Nolan also worked with frequent collaborators like Hoyte Van Hoytema (Dunkirk, Dunkirk) and Ludwig Goransson (Black Panther). They all helped bring this vision to life on screen.
7. It is based on a non-fiction book
Like Nolan’s other films, this one uses IMAX to convey scale and create the sense of cinematic monumentality that makes his work so memorable. It also reveals Nolan as a filmmaker who can make a complicated story feel accessible.
The actors in the film are terrific, especially Pugh and Murphy, who transcend the usual there-goeth-the-great-man cliches of most biopics. And Nolan integrates black-and-white footage with color scenes to capture the intensity of the hearing and confirmation.
8. It is based on a non-fiction book
Few films are more based on a non-fiction book than Nolan’s latest project. It is adapted from Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s sweeping biography of the man who led the Manhattan Project.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as the physicist whose creation led to the atomic bomb.For one, it seems to ignore the real-life tension between the joy of the Trinity test and the horror that followed.
9. It is based on a non-fiction book
After delivering blockbusters like Memento, Dunkirk, and Interstellar, Nolan is back with another World War II film starring Peaky Blinder’s Cillian Murphy. This time, he’s telling the story of J. The film is based on the non-fiction book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. It tells the story of Oppenheimer and his work at Los Alamos.
10. It is based on a non-fiction book
In a movie that is almost entirely based on non-fiction, Nolan manages to distill nearly every bit of the book onto celluloid. Cillian Murphy portrays Oppenheimer as a brilliant man with blood on his hands.
He pushed the creation of the first nuclear bomb. The film also centers around his relationship with Jean Tatlock, who was a dues-paying Communist Party member.