However, some of the movie's dialogue portions are difficult to discern. Nolan tells Insider that he doesn't have his actors come back after filming and do additional dialogue recordings in the film's post-production, known in the business as ADR.
We're left with a tremendous amount of dialogue and very little action. Yet the movie has grossed $950 million worldwide and is now the highest-grossing biographical film of all time. It's also closing in on the highest-grossing 'R' rated film of all time (although here in Canada the film is rated PG14).
Director Nolan, 53, recently told Insider this is because he doesn't have his actors return to the recording booth in post-production to recapture dialogue to make things clearer. This common filmmaking step is called automated dialogue replacement, or ADR.
It's not too complex to understand, it's just not well told enough to be all that understandable. I think it's biggest problem is it doesn't do a good enough job of explaining who Lewis Strauss was, and why he was so motivated to rubbish Robert Oppenheimer.
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH), decibel levels of 100 for 15 minutes can cause some hearing damage. I believe that throughout most of Oppenheimer's three hours, that level was sustained and even exceeded. For this reason, I bring ear protection to movie theaters.
Oppenheimer has a sound mixing problem (SPOILER FREE RANT LEAVING THE THEATER)
Does Oppenheimer have audio issues?
Regardless of being unable to hear two percent of what the characters are saying in the movie, Oppenheimer is a tremendous spectacle worth seeing in theaters (specifically, in an IMAX theater).
Niels Bohr: Algebra's like sheet music, the important thing isn't can you read music, it's can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert? J. Robert Oppenheimer: Yes, I can.
At the Institute for advanced study, Einstein acquired profound respect for Oppenheimer on his administration skills, and described him as an “unusually capable man of many sided education”.
A challenging watch to be sure, but a worthwhile one. One of the most anticipated films of the year for many people, myself included, Oppenheimer largely delivers.
1) Fascination for nuclear bomb and the movie's true story
The words "nuclear bomb" are themselves enough to get any person's attention. What's more is that the movie depicts a true story. The movie is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer."
However, some of the movie's dialogue portions are difficult to discern. Nolan tells Insider that he doesn't have his actors come back after filming and do additional dialogue recordings in the film's post-production, known in the business as ADR.
How many languages did J. Robert Oppenheimer speak?
Always ready to conquer an intellectual challenge or two, Oppenheimer was known to speak six languages - Greek, Latin, French, German, Dutch (which he learned in six weeks to deliver a lecture in the Netherlands) as well as Sanskrit!
Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” It is, perhaps, the most well-known line from the Bhagavad Gita, but also the most misunderstood. Oppenheimer, the subject of a new film from director Christopher Nolan, died at the age of 62 in Princeton, New Jersey, on February 18, 1967.
Oppenheimer is Nolan's simplest film, the easiest to understand and comprehend, with a straightforward plot, clear character motivations, and an unambiguous ending. All this helps prove that the untouchable director doesn't rely on tricks or twists to make a good film, and it helps Oppenheimer be one of his best.
A man envisions a nuclear bomb going off and he imagines what would happen to its victims. We see a woman's skin begin to peel from her face (not as graphic as it sounds), a man vomiting, and a charred corpse lying on the ground that is stepped in.
Oppenheimer's IQ is 135. This estimation assumes he would be among the top 1% of living physicists during his era. The estimation follows the methods and assumptions utilized for Albert Einstein, offering a credible insight into Oppenheimer's intellectual caliber.
Truman did call Oppenheimer a 'crybaby scientist' but not directly or during the depicted event. Events in Oppenheimer film differed slightly from historical reality, adding drama to the scene. Nolan clarified Truman's remark as a response to Oppenheimer expressing guilt post-atomic bombings.
Feynman had elsewhere written, “he was a wonderful man.” But they didn't hold him in high regard as a working physicist. The problem was he still pretended to be one. There was too much pretending. Oppenheimer was an extraordinary man who did a great deal for American physics.
At the pond in 1947, he reminds Einstein of their previous meeting, then worries aloud that he "already did" start the neverending chain reaction that will end the world. It's this dark thought that sends Einstein skulking away, ignoring Strauss. RELATED: Could Oppenheimer's Atomic Bomb Really Have Destroyed the World?
In Shone's book, Nolan also mentions how he got calls from other filmmakers who would say they just saw his film, and the dialogue was “inaudible.” “Some people thought maybe the music's too loud, but the truth was it was kind of the whole enchilada of how we had chosen to mix it," he said at the time.
Summary. The R rating for Oppenheimer was earned through heavy themes, sex scenes, nudity, and mature language throughout the movie. Christopher Nolan ventured into new territory with Oppenheimer by delivering his most adult film, featuring graphic sex scenes and nudity.
Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atom bomb explode and thought, "Now I am become Death." The famous quote is not an Oppenheimer original. The god Vishnu says it in Hindu scripture. Watch the moment Oppenheimer spoke those foreboding words on NBC, below.
