There are some new images and details for Oppenheimer, thanks to a new published article
by Entertainment Weekly, which focuses on an interview between director Christopher
Nolan and actor Cillian Murphy.
They talk about their experiences working together, the first person approach to the
script and filming in the real locations with real scientists.
In this video, I'm going to be discussing the interview, the images
and details shared, breaking down the latest info from the film.
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for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
So alongside the tense trailer that was released a few days ago, hearing what the director
and his actor had to say about the upcoming film, is sure to get you even more excited
about what's in store.
In an article from entertainment Weekly, we got an extended interview with Christopher
and Cillian Murphy, where they talk about the films they had done together in the
past, but also, a bit more about their upcoming project.
Alongside this, we got an image of Cillian Murphy's Oppenheimer, surveying the atomic
bomb that he helped to build, likely taking place around a few days before the trinity
test in Los Alamos.
We also got an image of both Nolan and Murphy filming a scene, which looks to be in one
of the rooms at the constructed base in New Mexico, and that's because of the K-6
badge that Cillian's character is wearing, which was just one that the many scientists
and workers had on the ranch.
In the interview that's included, they talk about how Cillian might
have been Bale's Batman, the emotional connection to losing a father having seen what Nolan
did with the end of Inception and also how Cillian
is great at playing the more psychological parts, like seen in his previous Nolan's role
and with Dunkirk.
And that's when they began to talk about Oppenheimer and how Cillian felt when
he was asked to finally play the lead role in a Christopher Nolan movie.
Nolan said, "No one knew what I was up to, no one knew what I was doing.
To be able to pick up the phone, and call Cillian, and be like, 'This is the one where
you carry the movie and really get to show what you can do,' it's honestly one of my
favorite moments in the movie business, when I had that
conversation with him."
Murphy then replied, "It was one of the best days of my life, I'll tell you that, when
you called me.
I'll always turn up for Chris, no matter what the part is,
but, secretly, it's a dream to play a lead part.
The thing was, I had no idea.
There was no preamble or anything, I just got the call.
So it was incredibly exciting, and daunting, and
terrifying, all at the same time."
And this is where they began to go into some more interesting details about the film, and
in particular, the approach that Nolan took with script, which sounds a lot different
to what we've seen before.
Cillian Murphy said it's the best script he's ever read and then Nolan began to detail that
it was completely written in first person.
He said, "I flew over to Dublin to hand Cillian the script, he read it in
my hotel room, I went off to look at the Francis Bacon installation in the Hugh Lane Gallery,
and then came back.
I'm actually curious if the fact that the script was written in first person
will have added to the feeling of responsibility that you were going to have taking it on."
And Murphy replied, "Yes, massively.
That's the only script that I've ever read that's been
in the first person.
It took me a minute, maybe a bit more than a minute, to figure that out.
But then it became clear that you wanted it to be
completely subjective, that everything was to be seen through the character's eyes as
it were, and, again, yeah, that added massively to the terror.
But when it's Christopher Nolan, you just have that confidence.
You believe 100 percent in his vision, as I have always done.
So it was terribly exciting."
So it's really interesting that Nolan has took a first person
approach to the script and in my opinion it's actually quite genius considering how the
source material is written and what the filmmaker has to go on.
The book which I'm a good chunk through now, is mainly written from the perspective
of many, detailing the specifics surrounding what happened and what certain people and
scientists feel towards the twisty events that
took place.
Yes there are many quotes from Oppenheimer and notes towards his feelings in certain
situations but it's not this purely first person perspective throughout the course of
the book.
But Nolan, by probabaly doing his extended research has found a way to centre this through
the eyes of Oppenheimer and in turn make it feel like that much more of a unique biopic
film.
Of course, it helps when you film in all of the real locations with top tier actors too
and really hone in on the authenticity of the story as much as possible.
And the filmmaker and actor did go a little bit more into that
as the interview continued.
Nolan said, "The shoot was very sort of fast and furious and efficient.
Hoyte Van Hoytema and myself — from the technical end — we kind of jumped back to
an earlier point in both of our careers, where we had no Steadicam on set, we had no playback
or monitors.
We were approaching it in a very stripped-down manner which gave us a terrific
energy.
I think it gelled very well with the ensemble nature of the piece.
Even though Oppenheimer is at the center of it, we had this
incredible ensemble of actors bringing so much to the table, and we really wanted to
be able to move fast, jump around, and capture anything that was going to get thrown up by
that."
Murphy added, "Every day, you had these phenomenal actors, who are heroes of mine, coming in.
Every day, you were having to raise your game to work with these legends.
Everybody was so unbelievably well-prepared.
Every single actor, no matter what size their role or the significance of their character
in history, each one of them had this massive depth of knowledge that
they could draw on."
And the final thing they both went into, was about how they filmed at the real Los Alamos
and did so with real scientists.
Nolan said, "I was thinking that it even applied to the extras.
We were in the real Los Alamos and we had a lot of real scientists as extras.
We needed the crowd of extras to give reactions, and improvise, and we were getting sort of
impromptu, very educated speeches.
It was really fun to listen to.
You've been on sets where you've got a lot of extras around and they're more or less
thinking about lunch.
These guys were thinking about the geopolitical implications of nuclear arms
and knew a lot about it.
It actually was a great reminder every day of: We have to be really on our game, we have
to be faithful to the history here, and really know what we're up
to."
Of course, Nolan has always been sucker for making what's on screen as real as possible,
whether it be filming a plane crash for real, recreating the events of Dunkirk at the exact
beach or in general, going to real locations and choosing not to use much green screen.
In Oppenheimer, there's obviously less action and its
more the dramatic tale of this story that carries the weight, but filming at the actual
base and trinity test site, is something that will definitely carry across that realism.
Los Alamos is the big location in the book that both
Oppenheimer chooses as the place to develop and test the bomb, but also somewhere where
he particularly loved to go to when it came to early
camping trips with his friends and family.
So you have to really establish this location as Oppenheimer's place and by rebuilding it
on the actual spot and using real scinetists for the
scenes, is hopefully going to make you feel like you are there as an audience member.
It's going to be interesting to see how it all looks onscreen and also how the filmmaker
captures other integral moments like the actual trinity
test, being able to film and recreate an atomic explosion.
I'm guessing he's going to be doing it on a much smaller level, similar to he
filmed part of the batmobile chase scene in the Dark Knight using minitures, but whatever
route he does take, knowing Nolan, he'll probabaly find a way to make it look incredible on the
big screen.
We'll have to see, but overall, I'm really looking forward to seeing how he captures
Los Alamos and the small details from the book that find their way into the footage.
But they were the main details released from the Oppenheimer interview in Entertainment
Weekly's article.
I will link the article down below in the description if you want to read it
yourself, and I'm sure we'll be getting much more details on the film leading up to its
release this July.
I am going to be posting the next video in my Road To Oppenheimer series next
week too, and that upload is going to be about how they might create the Trinity test scene
in relation to how its described in the American Prometheus book.
Also if you haven't seen it already, I did do an extended trailer breakdown
the other day if you want to know more details about the new footage.
So overall, there's gonna be plenty of Oppenheimer on the channel in
the coming months and these new details really do get me excited to see how Nolan will authentically
show this story on the big screen with his full ensemble of great actors.
But when it comes to the new details and images, I'm interested
to hear what you guys think towards all of it, as well as your theories on how Christopher
Nolan will film some of the other big moments from the book.
So let me know down below in the comments section.
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