His face tells of frayed nerves: Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Christopher Nolan’s new film “Oppenheimer” is known to be a kind of cinematic portrait of the “father of the atomic bomb”, Julius Robert Oppenheimer. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and ensured that the Americans were the first nation to develop and use an atomic bomb.
Regardless of the dramatic potential of the story about the physicist, director Nolan impressed even before filming was completed with the public claim that he did not use computer effects to create an atomic bomb explosion. Since then, many fans of the filmmaker, who almost slavishly tries to create a maximum of naturalism and authenticity with hand-made action sequences in his works, have wondered whether it could even be a real atomic bomb explosion.
A few hours before the (German) theatrical release on July 20, the British eccentric spoke up about this basically crazy rumor via the “Hollywood Reporter”. “It’s flattering that people think I’m capable of something this extreme,” Nolan said, “but it’s also a bit scary.”
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What exactly the director means by “scary” he left open (like the possibility of even getting his hands on a nuclear weapon?). However, his answer also seems to express a certain astonishment that film viewers today seriously assume that cinematic craftsmanship apart from computer-generated CGI effects is only possible with the depiction of real processes.
In almost all of his films, Nolan largely refrains from using computer effects, on the one hand to make his images appear more dangerous, but on the other hand to refer to the art of numerous films of the past, which also used analog tricks for their images or had to use them more.
As it became known this week, the filmmaker’s daughter has a small supporting role in “Oppenheimer”. Macabre: She will portray one of the atomic bomb victims.