Christopher Nolan might have been outdone at the box office by "Barbie" and her $1 billion, but the director deserves credit for bringing hordes to the multiplex to watch a drama in 2023. Nolan's adaptation of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's Pulitzer-winning J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus" has enraptured viewers with its sobering look at the titular physicist's development of the atomic bomb. And for the esteemed filmmaker, one of the most important elements, when it came to drawing people in, was putting audiences in the moments before the infamous 1945 Trinity Test, when the bomb was first tested.
Nolan has spoken about how compelling he found the fact that Oppenheimer and his colleagues couldn't be sure they wouldn't destroy the world the first time they hit the detonator. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Oppenheimer's chances of igniting the atmosphere were pretty much non-existent, which...
Nolan has spoken about how compelling he found the fact that Oppenheimer and his colleagues couldn't be sure they wouldn't destroy the world the first time they hit the detonator. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Oppenheimer's chances of igniting the atmosphere were pretty much non-existent, which...
- 8/8/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
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