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The true, dramatic story of Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Oppenheimer' villain
- mitchbob 3y agohttps://archive.ph/7aS7Q https://archive.ph/7aS7Q
- garyiskidding 3y agoThank you for the non-paywalled link.
- tiernano 3y agoApple News version: https://apple.news/APfWbSPYiSvu_2wLUFFVc6Q https://apple.news/APfWbSPYiSvu_2wLUFFVc6Q
- ersamsa 3y agoWhy is Apple News relevant here? Has paywall as well
- Unfrozen0688 3y agoThis site is very Apple friendly and assumes everyone has a macbook, iphone, iwatch, ipad and ivision with all the subscription services available. After all why use anything else! :) PS I will keep using the archive links
- firecall 3y agoProbably because a lot of people have the Apple One subscription tier that gets you Apple News+. Which gets you access to a lot of pay walled media. So a direct link is useful to those that have Apple News+. So that’s why, and I appreciate the Apple News link :-)
- lancefisher 3y agoThanks, I didn’t realize I get these articles with my Apple News subscription.
- ant6n 3y agoThere’s a lot of bits in the Oppenheimer film that seem simplified. For example that Los Alamos appears to be a fairly small operation, a bunch of shacks in the prairie, a kind of physics camp for a team of nerds. In reality the Manhattan project at Los Alamos was a huge operation, like 8000 people living there in 1945, a kind of university/research campus and town, but the movie doesn’t really show the scale. Also, the Trinity test was actually done 4h away from the Los Alamos site, and just the test was also a huge operation. The way Groves and Oppenheimer decide important matters, while standing in the prairie or sitting on a train or on the way out of some meeting makes it seem they‘re planning an Oceans Elevens style heist, not one of the biggest techno-scientific projects of the 20th century.
- bmitc 3y agoEvery picture I have seen indeed shows it was a bunch of shacks and hastily built buildings. I'm not for sure a tour of Los Alamos was necessary. An overhead shot might have worked.
- newsclues 3y agoThat’s an expensive overhead shot unless it’s a model or cgi.
- bell-cot 3y agoIf Peter Jackson could CGI Lord of the Rings two decades ago, then it should be pretty cheap to CGI a zoom shot on a cookie-cutter WWII "boom town" now. And there are probably quite a few WWII-era aerial photographs to start from.
- bmitc 3y agoA lot of the entire military base in Arrival was CGI. https://youtu.be/wxSPdZl5sYw https://youtu.be/wxSPdZl5sYw
- ant6n 3y agoThe few images on Wikipedia look fairly different than the movie to me, for example this overhead shot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Y#Gun-type_weapon_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Y#Gun-type_weapon_desi...
- mapasj 3y agoI did not like this movie. That must be an unpopular opinion, given all the movie’s success. And specifically what I didn’t like was that the film makers could have gone in many directions in telling a story about Oppenheimer, but chose to make the RDJ villain central to the plot. The conflict in the film felt forced and unnecessary for telling a good story.
- jajko 3y agoSome people like watching documentaries, some like a bit of drama. This movie catered to the masses, but it catered very very well. Don't expect movie about scientists with complex story span over decades to get much better than this, they have to cut away important stuff and modify characters slightly.
- DarkNova6 3y agoWhile Nolan is a one of a kind director, his lack of research shows. He essentially adapted the book "American Prometheus" but didn't engage with any material beyond it. Personally, I think the movie is too dramatized to be a documentary and too linear to be true drama. I'd rather have him stick to directing and get an A-class writer instead.
- actionfromafar 3y agoI think Oppenheimer was kept an enigma on purpose. I didn't exactly like the movie but I was somehow very impressed nevertheless. I don't regret seeing it but I might never watch it again.
- sandspar 3y agoEven Nolan's worst movies are impressive. That's kind of his genius. He could make a flight to Cincinnati awe-inspiring.
- tinco 3y agoAs someone with an interest in the history of physics as I'm sure many people here are, I didn't much like the film either. I liked the renditions of the different physicists and the overall arc of the story, but more like I'd be interested in a documentary. What's impressive about the movie is that they managed to create drama, artistry and tension in what's fundamentally something you can't really make a movie about because in the end it's just a story of some physicists that successfully accomplished something without anyone really opposing them in any material way. I think that's laudable and interesting. But if you would judge the movie just based on its entertainment value, I don't think it would score very high. The Barbie movie, which I just saw 2 weeks ago on my TV was clearly a better movie on I'm pretty sure every aspect, and you could tell it was in the first minute.
- agomez314 3y agoHaving read "Now it can be told" by Groves, I can testify to other commenters on how much the Manhattan Project was an enormous logistical problem - Elon's manufacturing prowess pales in comparison to what Groves had to grapple with. On a different note, I liked how the movie portrayed the world of quantum mechanics and somehow didn't try to make Oppenheimer a hero or something more than what he was.
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- SilasX 3y agoSemi OT, but … wow. This is weird. As someone that never saw the movie, I didn’t know RDJ was in it. He wasn’t in the trailers I saw, at least not prominently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg and yet now, everyone is talking about his role therein.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoMaybe you don't recognize him with all the makeup: https://youtu.be/uYPbbksJxIg?si=pk1SD4gnQTzxSlgI&t=161 https://youtu.be/uYPbbksJxIg?si=pk1SD4gnQTzxSlgI&t=161