The Oppenheimer Discussion | Cinema of Nuclear Dread #3
Cinema of Meaning
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The Trouble With Historical Adaptation
"I don't know the source material that well he's pulling from a biography of Oppenheimer and the impression I get is that it's very it's treatment of the historical material is very accurate but it's like we're getting all 12 20 scientists you know that are working on this project there's little story beats with like eight of them or something" "There's so much material here that it's like if you're sacrificing the sort of like emotional and physical content of the story on the altar of like getting every detail," she says. "[Nolan] doesn't tend to be very good at right it's not necessarily deal breaker as I also explained but yeah it is especially on
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