Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”, was released on July 21, 2024. “Oppenheimer” premiered at Le Grand Rex on 11th July 2024, and was eventually released by Universal Studios on July 21 2024.
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has crossed the mark of 700 USD in the box office. In a schema of all of his movies combined, “Oppenheimer” ranks 2nd with 94% rotten tomatoes, and globally it ranks 4th at the box office. What led to this movie’s huge success? Here’s all you need to know!
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Christopher Nolan and “Oppenheimer”
“Oppenheimer” is Christopher Nolan’s 12th movie. So far along in his career, Nolan’s most movies have garnered a big audience and has been appreciated by his fans as well as people who were not his fans until they saw the movie. You might know the name of Christopher Nolan from his well renowned movie “Interstellar”. While Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar takes his audience into a world of Dystopian fantasy and science-fiction and adventure, his current movie “Oppenheimer” is based on the father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert. Oppenheimer.
Nolan’s movie is based on the Pulitzer-Prize-Winning biography of J.Robert Oppenheimer, titled as “The American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” was filmed entirely on IMAX, on a 65mm large format film, weighing about 600 pounds, with 11 miles of film stock. Nolan’s filming standard and quality rose up to such an extent in “Oppenheimer”, that this movie is acclaimed to be 3d without any glasses. Once, while filming another one of his movies, Nolan had accidentally destroyed one of his IMAX Camera, leading up to a debt of $1,500,000 while filming another one of his legendary and iconic movies “The Dark Knight Rises”.
While filming “Oppenheimer”, and as and when news and information regarding it had started to come out, Nolan’s fan were under the false impression when they heard that he had to recreate the effect of the Trinity nuclear test to film some of the major scenes in the movie, using real explosives. However, later on this misunderstanding was cleared out as and when the officials confirmed that nothing catastrophic had happened to cause any form of violence whatsoever. “Oppenheimer”, despite the use of expensive cameras and other various electronic devices, was successful as it recreated history. Many significant scenes in the movie were filmed in real significant buildings and monuments.
Apart from the amazing filming and the amount of efforts that were put in by the Director and Writer of the movie, Christopher Nolan himself, special emphasis goes to the killer cast of the movie.
Cast
The movie had among it’s cast members, Robert Downey Jr, Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt and Emma Dumont among many other talented members who added greatly to the acting of the movie. Cillian Murphy, someone you may know from his popular series Peaky Blinders, or from the “Disappointed Cillian Murphy meme” is casted as playing the role of J.Robert. Oppenheimer himself. His one line “I am become death” has grown to touch the hearts of many fans and audiences from across the world.
This line is basically from one of J.Robert Oppenheimer’s interview snippets where he himself is seen saying this. An uncanny resemblance can be found in Oppenheimer’s one line with Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” lines, “I am become a name”.
Oppenheimer has been the source of various controversies throughout history. The invention of something as deadly and monstrous as the atomic bomb was not something he was proud or happy about. He fell into a state of depressive demeanor. Something that Dante Aligheri’s Ulysses warns us about. The search for more, the want for more, and the drive for more, often becomes such an obsession that it drives us away from our morality, values and eventually throws us into the deep clenches of Purgatorio.
Controversies
A number of controversies have surrounded the movie “Oppenheimer”. The reference to Bhagavad Gita angered a lot of people as they deemed it disrespectful.
The censor board’s change of the outfit of Florence Pugh’s character, Jean Tatlock, in one of the scenes, was a matter of a bit of controversy as well. None of this though, was much unexpected, as Oppenheimer himself was a controversial researcher and scientist.
