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95. Oppenheimer (w/ Bilge Ebiri)

Cows in the field

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Nolan's Inception

Nolan has become very good at taking heady concepts and turning them into turning them into entertaining action spectacles. He finds ways to sort of keep you on the edge of your seat as it were because he creates these little mysteries like little narrative mysteries in his films. The performances are pitched at a kind of I mean they're very movie performance as that's the other thing  he finds a way to make it real kind of movie dialogue. You don't find out until way later what was the rest of what Teller said you know or you see um Matt Damon testifying right? That is great movie screenwriting.

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