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The ‘Oppenheimer’ Deep Dive

The Big Picture

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Josh Hartnett's Wildliness

The bulk of the film starts orienting around Los Alamos. It's an emotional place for Oppenheimer's, where he went when he was sick with dysentery as a kid. He has this connection to it and so they insist on building the Manhattan Project out there. Some of the scientists that are recruited are like among the most important minds of the 20th century and they get like one line. And all of a sudden we just get introduced to this like overwhelming number of scientists who join the project very quickly.

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