MOVIE NEWS – Oppenheimer’s upcoming epic will break a significant Christopher Nolan tradition, introducing an unusual element from the legendary director.

Oppenheimer is set to break a major Christopher Nolan tradition. The biopic will focus on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb and a major proponent of nuclear proliferation and the fight against war. To make the film authentic, Nolan has to pull a few tricks to tell Oppenheimer’s complicated story faithfully. Including his affair with Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh).

Although Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy is “under strict instructions” not to share too much about the biopic, he did reveal a few things about the romantic side of the film to The Guardian.

In Oppenheimer, Murphy and Pugh are seen naked at length. There will also be a love scene in the film. This is probably the most explicit film of Nolan’s 25-year career. We also get a “heavy” moment with Oppenheimer’s wife (Emily Blunt), but Murphy is tight-lipped about the details.

“I’m under strict instructions not to give away anything… They put two actors in a room to see if there’s any spark and have all the producers and director at a table watching. I don’t know what metric they use, and it seems so outrageously silly, but sometimes you get a chemistry and nobody knows why… You can be immediately vulnerable and open, and try stuff. There were moments where I remember saying, ‘I couldn’t have done that if it wasn’t with [Emily Blunt].'”

Oppenheimer is a unique challenge, even for a seasoned director like Nolan. Not only does he throw a romance in front of a director with little experience of on-screen relationships. It’s also a real artistic feat. Nolan’s films have so far been sparse on romance. Apart from an implied sex scene in Dark Knight Rises, it has rarely gone graphic. Even the nudity was slight. In Insomnia, we see the corpse of a female victim on the autopsy table.

In the end, Nolan went into the project insisting that Oppenheimer would not use much CGI as he tried to show the nuclear explosions, the inner workings of Oppenheimer’s mind and everything else that was needed to recreate the Manhattan Project.

Christopher Nolan also chose new screenwriting techniques for Oppenheimer. He used a first-person point-of-view script to delve deep into Oppenheimer’s mind and dissect his view of the world. Even the other characters have to see the scenes through Oppenheimer’s eyes. This is a unique way of approaching a biographical film. Oppenheimer may be a challenging project in its own right, but it also stands out from the crowded field of World War II films, including Nolan’s Dunkirk.

Source: The Guardian