American Prometheus, the biography upon which Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is based, is 600 pages long and took its authors 25 years to write. If you asked Nolan, he'd probably be proud he cut it down to three hours.
Actor Cillian Murphy as the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who director Christopher Nolan calls 'the most important man in the world.'
There are few figures in American history as mythologized as J. Robert Oppenheimer — in no small part due to the man himself. So building a cohesive story about him — the physicist who helped define an entire scientific field so new and arcane it was called "boys' physics;" the precocious child-genius who delivered a scientific lecture at 12; the prideful, self-promoting "father of the atomic bomb"; the financial supporter of both communists and Jewish victims of the Nazis; the forgetful and rude philanderer whose first media attention came from leaving a woman stranded in a car on a mountain...
Because as it follows the harried physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer through his early days of self discovery, a successful career in quantum physics, to his management of the Manhattan project and eventual pillorying by the government,Instead, it uses Oppenheimer as a static and ultimately tragic beacon to examine how hopelessly doomed the nuclear age has left us.into something more than just another biopic, and threatens to make it difficult to access.
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