Watch the Opening Scene of ‘Oppenheimer’ | Anatomy of a Scene

hi I'm Christopher Nolan director writer and co-producer of Oppenheimer opening with the raindrops on the water came late did myself and Jen l in the edit Suite But ultimately became a motif that runs the whole way through the film became very important these opening images of the the detonation Trinity based on the real footage Andrew Jackson or visual effects supervisor put them together using analog methods to try and reproduce the incredible frame rates that their technology allowed at the time Superior to what we have today adapting KY bird and mared show and's Book American Prometheus I fully embraced the Promethean theme But ultimately chose to change the title to Oppenheimer to give a more direct idea of what the film was going to be about and whose point of view we're seeing and here we have Killian Murphy with an IMAX camera inches from his nose ho van H was incredible IMAX camera revealing everything and I think to some degree applying the pressure to Killian as Oppenheimer that this hearing was applying yes your honor we're not judges doctor and behind him out of focus the great Emily Blunt who's going to become so important to the film as Kitty alimer who gradually comes more into Focus over the course of the first reel divided the two timelines of deficient and fusion the two different approaches to releasing nuclear energy in this devastating form to try and suest to the audience uh the two different timelines and then embraced black and white shooting here Robert Downey Jr as leis straw being shot on IMAX black and white film first time anyone's ever shot that film made specially for us and he's here talking to alen aronri who is absolutely uh indicative of the incredible Ensemble that our casting director John papsidera put together Robert Downey Jr utterly transformed I think not just in terms of appearance but also in terms of approach to character uh stripping away years of very welldeveloped Charisma to just try and inhabit the skin of a somewhat awkward sometimes venal but also charismatic individual and losing himself in this utterly and then as we come up to this door we go into the Senate hearing rooms and we try to give that as much visibility Grandeur and sort of Glamour to contrast with the Security hearing that's so claustrophobic and takes oppenheim completely out of the Limelight oh

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Length: 2min 33sec (153 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 23 2024