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re: Oppenheimer is a good movie not a great movie
Posted on 4/16/24 at 10:42 am to SammyTiger
Posted on 4/16/24 at 10:42 am to SammyTiger
quote:he had one short scene with him. And then there was one line about them working on it as well. Now compared to the screen time RDJ got and the amount of time they spent on his court hearings and the amount of time it showed him with his wife or lover and the complex relationship they had. The focus was on Oppenheimer the man, not Oppenheimer the scientist who was head of the manhattan project. That was simply a slice of the pie that made the man and so they cover it in the movie. If that’s what you’re into fine, but please for the love of god stop trying to use the point of why the movie was so good was because it goes in detail over the intensity and gravity of the project itself. If it did it would’ve been called the Manhattan project not Oppenheimer.
they made a big point. they talked about it a lot. they introduced the nazis scientist working on it and how Oppenheimer met them before the war.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:08 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
I mean a huge chunk of the movie was about the Manhattan Project itself. the actual logistics and clearance issue.
the relationship with the lover is significant in all that because Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb, almost got booted off the project because he went off and had an affair with a card carrying communist DURING the Manhattan Project.
but the stakes are explicitly stated, multiple times. Oppenheimer talks about the stakes for jews, he talks about how far ahead the Germans would be. they talk about how they’re researching heavy water and how we caught up to the Germans. Then the twist is we beat germany right around the time we develop these bombs.
I would say the concerns about the Nazis were heavily emphasized because the average viewer knows we dropped the bomb on Japan but may not know that our first concern was Germany.
then the last 3rd of the movie is dealing with Oppenheimer’s reaction to the use of bombs and the nuclear arms race.
the relationship with the lover is significant in all that because Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb, almost got booted off the project because he went off and had an affair with a card carrying communist DURING the Manhattan Project.
but the stakes are explicitly stated, multiple times. Oppenheimer talks about the stakes for jews, he talks about how far ahead the Germans would be. they talk about how they’re researching heavy water and how we caught up to the Germans. Then the twist is we beat germany right around the time we develop these bombs.
I would say the concerns about the Nazis were heavily emphasized because the average viewer knows we dropped the bomb on Japan but may not know that our first concern was Germany.
then the last 3rd of the movie is dealing with Oppenheimer’s reaction to the use of bombs and the nuclear arms race.
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