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The movie is based on this Pulitzer Prize winning book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus It

The movie is based on this Pulitzer Prize winning book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus It doesn’t get mentioned much but is highly rated on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375412026 https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-O...

josefresco 3y ago
I read it earlier this year and thought it was great. Imagine my delight when I found out there was a movie coming out in July!
- LegitShady 3y ago
  99% of the time when a book I enjoy gets a major studio movie treatment the result is garbage, though. So I imagine the opposite of delight.
  - josefresco 3y ago
    When I first learned of the movie, I thought it would be a small/indi film that I'd have to dig up from my local library archives. Then I learned it was going to be a "blockbuster" and had mixed feelings - still pretty excited! I'm sure there will be about a dozen "that's not how it was in the book" moments but whatever, can't be worse than the last movie I saw at the theater (Dial of Destiny)
  - oittaa 3y ago
    The Martian is an excellent movie based on one of the best scifi books. Gives me a lot of hope for the Project Hail Mary movie.
    - LegitShady 3y ago
      To my understanding the Martian was originally written as web serial, right? I haven’t seen the movie. Not personally my type of film although I’ve heard good things.
- PhasmaFelis 3y ago
  I finished The Martian and then immediately discovered there was a movie coming out in two weeks. That was pretty cool.
  - addandsubtract 3y ago
    No movie was ever going to do the book any justice. The journal-like structure of the book turned every chapter into an adventure, whereas the movie was just a space movie.
    - PhasmaFelis 3y ago
      It was a very good space movie, though. It doesn't replace the book, of course, but I thought it stood fine on its own.
antognini 3y ago
There is also an opera about Oppenheimer called Doctor Atomic by John Adams that came out that year. (I have seen it mentioned surprisingly little.) The finale to Act I has what is probably the most famous aria in the opera, "Batter My Heart": https://youtu.be/uYiokai3FW4 https://youtu.be/uYiokai3FW4
- dreamcompiler 3y ago
  It's quite an experience to see this at the Santa Fe Opera, at sunset, outdoors, right down the road from Los Alamos.
getoffmycase 3y ago
American Prometheus is the first real book I read as a 5th grader doing a book report on a scientist. It inspired me to become a scientist myself.

josefresco 3y ago

I read it earlier this year and thought it was great. Imagine my delight when I found out there was a movie coming out in July!

LegitShady 3y ago
99% of the time when a book I enjoy gets a major studio movie treatment the result is garbage, though. So I imagine the opposite of delight.
- josefresco 3y ago
  When I first learned of the movie, I thought it would be a small/indi film that I'd have to dig up from my local library archives. Then I learned it was going to be a "blockbuster" and had mixed feelings - still pretty excited! I'm sure there will be about a dozen "that's not how it was in the book" moments but whatever, can't be worse than the last movie I saw at the theater (Dial of Destiny)
- oittaa 3y ago
  The Martian is an excellent movie based on one of the best scifi books. Gives me a lot of hope for the Project Hail Mary movie.
  - LegitShady 3y ago
    To my understanding the Martian was originally written as web serial, right? I haven’t seen the movie. Not personally my type of film although I’ve heard good things.
PhasmaFelis 3y ago
I finished The Martian and then immediately discovered there was a movie coming out in two weeks. That was pretty cool.
- addandsubtract 3y ago
  No movie was ever going to do the book any justice. The journal-like structure of the book turned every chapter into an adventure, whereas the movie was just a space movie.
  - PhasmaFelis 3y ago
    It was a very good space movie, though. It doesn't replace the book, of course, but I thought it stood fine on its own.

antognini 3y ago

There is also an opera about Oppenheimer called Doctor Atomic by John Adams that came out that year. (I have seen it mentioned surprisingly little.) The finale to Act I has what is probably the most famous aria in the opera, "Batter My Heart": https://youtu.be/uYiokai3FW4 https://youtu.be/uYiokai3FW4

dreamcompiler 3y ago
It's quite an experience to see this at the Santa Fe Opera, at sunset, outdoors, right down the road from Los Alamos.

getoffmycase 3y ago

American Prometheus is the first real book I read as a 5th grader doing a book report on a scientist. It inspired me to become a scientist myself.