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95. Oppenheimer (w/ Bilge Ebiri)

Cows in the field

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The Importance of Cross Cutting

Bill: I think one of the big achievements of the film is that it takes a book which is very dry and filled with lots of information and told in a very straightforward way. Nolan streamlines the themes that he wants to focus on whereas the book is much more of an information dump, says Bill. "I've heard this movie been described as basically a Wikipedia article or something like that," said bill. 'To my mind it couldn't be farther from the truth,' added nolan."There's a lot of stuff in there that i missed just to be able to sort of make sense of some of this stuff."

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