Oppenheimer
Short description
Oppenheimer is a historical drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who led the scientific effort to build the first atomic bomb. With the United States racing to beat Nazi Germany to a nuclear weapon, the government puts him in charge of the secret Manhattan Project, and he gathers a team at a remote laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the work succeeds. The consequences of that achievement, both for the world and for Oppenheimer himself, shape the rest of the film, including his later efforts to push for international control of nuclear energy and the questions raised about his loyalty.
Christopher Nolan directed and wrote the screenplay, adapting the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The film is the fourteenth of the fifteen he has directed, following Tenet and preceding The Odyssey. Cillian Murphy plays Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt as his wife Kitty, Matt Damon as Leslie Groves, Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence. The production, made by Syncopy, Universal Pictures, Atlas Entertainment and Breakheart Films, cost about 100 million dollars and took roughly 952 million dollars worldwide, a strong return on its budget.
Audiences rate it highly, with 8.4 out of 10 on IMDb from over 534,000 votes and 8 out of 10 on TMDB. Film critics were even more favourable, giving it 8.6 out of 10 across 506 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- The footage of the nuclear bomb test used a combination of real explosions and computer technology. The real explosions used a mixture of gasoline, propane, aluminum, and magnesium – and mock-ups. They were filmed at high speed from different angles, and then the images were layered on top of each other to create the mushroom cloud.
- Matt Damon took a break from acting for his wife, but with the condition that the break would end if Christopher Nolan called him with an offer to star in a film. Nolan called and offered the actor the role of Leslie Groves.
- For the first time, black and white film was used with IMAX motion picture cameras.
- Matt Damon received the script, which was printed on red paper and written in the first person.
- According to Christopher Nolan, the idea to cast Cillian Murphy in the lead role came to him when he was looking at a photograph of Oppenheimer on the cover of Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s book “Oppenheimer: Triumph and Tragedy” (2005), which served as the basis for the screenplay. In an effort to achieve a greater resemblance to the historical figure, Murphy lost weight and followed a strict diet during filming.
- Producer Charles Roven suggested the film idea to Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas, telling them about Bird and Sherwin’s book “Oppenheimer: Triumph and Tragedy.” Nolan was interested and asked to be given the book to read. He was finally convinced by a gift from actor Robert Pattinson at a party celebrating the completion of the action film “Tenet.” Pattinson gave him a collection of Oppenheimer’s speeches.
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