Christopher Nolan’s directional movie Oppenheimer, based on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, opened in theaters on July 21 across the world.
The release of “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated biopic is about the physicist. Before becoming “the father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer made a significant contribution to the science of black holes.
‘Black holes’ and ‘World War II’
Robert Oppenheimer was the scientist who predicted black holes in 1939, and he directed the physicists who created the first atomic bombs, which helped end World War II.
Oppenheimer and communism
Oppenheimer was not really a communist, as his persecutors claimed. However, his wife, brother, close friend, and mistress were all communists or ex-communists.
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Arrogant
Oppenheimer was even more arrogant and offensive than he is in the movie, repeatedly humiliating Atomic Energy Commission boss Lewis Strauss — who had appointed Oppenheimer to direct Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where Einstein worked.
Friends with Einstein
Einstein and Oppenheimer both were good friends. They thought the A-bomb was needed to stop Hitler in fact, Einstein urged FDR to develop it (Einstein was so leftist, however, the U.S. didn’t trust him to help build it).
Einstein was behind the times because he refused to believe that the extremely bizarre new quantum physics of Heisenberg, Oppenheimer, and others were true.
Nolan’s longest film
Oppenheimer marks Nolan’s first foray into the world of biopics and is also his longest film at 3 hours, beating Interstellar which was at 2 hours and 49 minutes.
No CGI in the film
A movie about the man who created the world’s first atomic bomb, which will certainly display the bursting of the said atomic bomb, has not used any CGI for effect.
In fact, the internet began far-fetched speculation about whether the director actually dropped a real atom bomb for the Trinity Test segment.
