Yes, absolutely! Reminds me of good interview books with famous directors (which expand on this approach, of course) such as "Hitchcock/Truffaut" or "Bergman on Bergman" (Bergman became a far more difficult and demanding interview object in his later years but the 1970 interview book is amazing; he's fun, incisive, unguarded, generous with praise for his actors and willing to accept the blame for shortcomings by himself - he seems totally at ease and eager to share his love of films, theatre and filmmaking)
Probably one of the most impactful movies I've ever watched. I'll remember where and when I saw this for the rest of my days, not many movies do that. Thank you Mr Nolan
I'm an avid student of history and actually have a connection however distant with the Manhattan Project. The film really moved me and can hopefully spur thought conversation and real action on nuclear non proliferation . Brilliant movie
@@cejannuzi And who are you ? Oppenheimer's grandson ? The movie is based on a book . It can't be 100% real . As shown in the movie with the color grading
@@Zeeves hmm. My brother got his master's in history with a specialization on WWII at NMSU which is about 1 hour from the Trinity site and he really liked the movie. The movie is meant to tell the story of Oppenheimer himself, not the entirety on the nuclear arms race and WWII . I thought they portrayed the horrors of what was created quite well, I mean the ending of the movie leaves you with a feeling of complete dread of what could one day come. Anyways my brother also transcribed a lot of the papers found at Los Alamos that were in German to archive them at NMSU, he's very knowledgeable on the entire situation and thought the movie was very well done, as did I.
I've been watching interviews about this film for a couple of hours now and this one was the most interesting. I love that Ari Melber pusshed him to explain some points I wondered as well.
Movies deserve Oscar in many category. Specially director writer but Now how media & US national security takes these movie easy or bad at the current scenario. Interview shows that symptoms
I will not support this film, in support of the actors and writers that are striking presently. This man should not be promoting this film in support of that! Have some honor vs profiteering for the major studio executives 🤑 🤮 and shame on you Ari 😞
The actors and writers that are striking have literally been saying to do the opposite, for now. If the movies bomb, the studios will just take that as an excuse to crush the unions and replace artists with A.I. Do your research
It's a perfect time to talk about this problem we have but after seeing the film. I do believe it's a brilliant film, but it could've done more. I'm left to wonder how much of what Christopher wanted to do was cut. Way too much exposition for my taste. I never felt like a movie or a documentary. It felt like something completely different. So much was left out and not presented for whatever reason. Aside from that. The world now has to contend with basically the Mafia controlling a vast arsenal of these weapons. Putin has long been in dictator status, squashing all attempts at fair elections in Russia. All he's succeeded in doing is showing how weak the Russian military actually was. How ineffective they've been against Ukraine. It's laughable. Gorilla fighters with homemade weapons have held off the mighty Russain military. Word is also that he has cancer and is dying. The world is closer to nuclear Armageddon than we've ever been. Along with setting the atmosphere on fire in the film. It's thought that 3-4 detonations from these megaton warheads simultaneously may throw earth off its axis. That would be bad, Mm-Kay.
The reason he didn't dive deeper is because this is a movie about Oppenheimer, not the atomic bombs. While the a-bomb is the central question, it isn't the main character and stories are always centered around characters
Um ... Nothing about invading Afghanistan because of the fear of Pakistan falling into terrorist hands? "That is not fully achieved, it is close. The second reason for us to be in Afghanistan was to make sure that a country with tens of millions of people and nuclear weapons called Pakistan did not somehow begin to disintegrate or fall apart." ~Joe Biden, 2011
Great interview Ari. What a timely message this movie is and Nolan's insights run pretty deep. The questions and comparisons you make are on point, Ari.
This host is flirting on the edges of spoiler territory to "push" Nolan on subject matter he hasn't confronted with in other promotional interviews. Bravo sir.
After going to watch it tonight in the theaters Chistopher Nolan has done something in film making that no other filmmaker has done. Oppenhiemer was brilliant and could see it winning many awards in the future.
I looked at that photo of Truman and Churchill sitting together and thought about how Gary Oldman has played both of them brilliantly now. It’s an incredible movie. Up there with Memento and The Dark Knight among my favourites. Just so powerful, with an ending that’s worth the three hours in the cinema. Do yourselves a favour. Go see it. ✌️
I think Nolan is discovering one of the pluses of working with Universal. The parent company owns NBC and MSNBC, both of which have heavily featured Oppenheimer.
Can't wait to see Nolan's latest masterpiece! Here's to hoping for a long and storied career! Nolan has a way of bringing cinema to life and creating depth in an industry that reeks of cheap corporate facades. If he is looking for a new project, I think a movie about a person living in a semi-fictional dystopian society reminiscent of North Korea or other extremely fascist and insane regimes would be a very interesting and ominous film that could really demonstrate the importance of personal liberty and freedom, but I would probably watch anything Christopher Nolan creates and directs
Same here, saw movie opening day & have watched a dozen+ interviews then this just came up today..... incredible! I'm in science, space geek really, am sharing with my son far away who saw it & we discussed last night!
Nolan: "Yeahhhh, I'm just not sure how we'll be able to get a nuclear explosion in camera without visual effects--how big was the Trinity test explosion?" Physicist: "Well a re-analysis in 2021 showed that the Trinity detonation had a yield of about 104 terajoules, or 25 kilotons of TNT, but at the time they thought--" Nolan: "Wait, 25 what?" Physicist: "Kilotons of TNT, 25,000 tons." Nolan: "Okay then we'll just do that." Physicist: "Wait, do what?"
Slow down dude, the build up was amazing… the explosion scene underwhelming… Nolan didn’t even bothered to replicate the mushroom cloud and scale of the real explosion as accurately as you claim, his love for practical effects just made a random explosion in slow motion, most overhyped moment of the movie…
@@acfan8253The explosion wasn't the point of the movie. Everyone alive knows what that looked like. Also ICYMI he refuses to use CGI. Watch other I reviews & listen. Sorry you missed the actual point of the entire movie. Maybe watch again after listening to actual reason he made it. Or just Google.
@@joanneweiss3864 I know Nolan refuses to use CGI but still was underwhelming given the hype people gave about that trinity scene. I don’t missed the point. There is a lot of buzz about that scene in particular and it is highly overhyped. Denis Villeneuve and David Fincher would have a achieve a bigger sense of scale with half the budget.
@@acfan8253 Where in my comment do I claim any specific level of accuracy he achieved? It's called a joke. Tf are you on about, are you a crazy person?
Other films worrying about actors not being able to promote them because of the ongoing strike. Oppenheimer smoking a casual joint because Christopher Nolan is the star.
I really prefer these interviews with directors to those with actors, I hope this becomes more of a trend moving forward even after the strike ends. Not likely though.
In the biography American Prometheus, witnesses at Trinity test paint Robert Oppenheimer as super relieved upon reaping a successful result, to the extent of glowing and strutting with pride as he should be. The Los Alamos scientists even held parties celebrating the successful test, as well as ones after successful deployment of a-bombs on Japan. As a director leading the project, Robert had to put up a veil of triumph to encourage and reassure the hundreds of scientists involved at Los Alamos. He was cognizant everyone sacrificed years of their lives for this bomb. Robert left these celebratory venues early, avoiding to bask in cheers knowing the human consequences. As time passed, hearing actual atrocities and seeing footage of burned victims of Japanese women and children after Hiroshima & Nagasaki broke many scientists, including Robert.
OPPENHEIMER will win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Sound SFX, possibly Best Music and Best Supporting Actor (RDJ). I see 8 or 9 of those gold-plated statues for this picture. He feels he's in the "foothills" of his career, not at the summit. Incredible. I can't think of a single director today that can match this kind inspired cinema. After seeing Oppenheimer, those of us making movies are thinking "I'll never, ever get close to this level of filmmaking."
There's still Napoleon and Dune part 2 upcoming. Denis was robbed from best director for Dune part 1, and Joaquin is liked by fans+ he already looks phenomenal in the trailers. Was Oppenheimer one of my fav oat? Yes. But Christopher Nolan isn't loved by the oscars
Pretty close to being spot on, my friend. Only fell short by 1 or 2, but still....it more or less won all the major categories😍. Nolan, is a genius and visionary and is by far the best film-maker out there today, Yeah, his peers respect him (heard the story about Matt Damon with his wife, in therapy?), but i also dont think he gets enough credit he deserves. He is a master of his craft, and for me, he is on Mount Rushmore of the greatest film-makers ever. I certainly cant think of any other director whose multiple movies i've enjoyed (and watch over and over), besides Scorcese. Paul Thomas Anderson, is also a very interesting film maker, and is slowly creeping up on my Mount Rushmore👌
No one can know for sure, but it's very plausible that nuclear deterrence -- and in particular the risk that conventional war would escalate to nuclear war -- has prevented major conventional wars and thus saved many lives. It's the elites who don't risk getting killed or wounded in conventional wars who are relatively less safe due to the risk of nuclear catastrophe.
@@pickitypopsnickitylovejone6558 : How do you define "close?" And how many times do you believe we were "close" to nuclear annihilation? It's undeniable that there haven't been any wars fought between nuclear powers. So how do you prove your claim that deterrence is only a myth? Fear of nuclear escalation has deterred Ukraine's allies from supplying long range weapons to Ukraine.
It wasn't until I had already watched this til the end that I realized: this is Nolan crossing the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines to promote the film, and MSNBC enabling that. Shame.
That point about Putin right now really emphasises why this is such an important time for a film like this and how that ending really scares you knowing it could very easily happen very soon
Why name Putin? Surely, Ukraine is the US Uniparty state plot to destabilise Russia with Biden, Blinken and Nuland as key conspirators and the deep state neoCons cheering from the sidelines while Ukraine and EU are fatally destroyed fighting a US proxy war.
When I was in jr. High school , President Kennedy, was trying to keep nuclear weapons from being put in cuba by the russians . We had drills to let local authorities determine if any of us could get home from school before an atomic bomb was dropped . My dad laughed and said " kitten , if a bomb was dropped here , your but is toast . And you would be lucky . You would not want to survive to face life after , the bomb ."
Great answer. Asking someone what it feels like to be "at the summit" or saying they are at the "peak" of their career implies that it will be downhill from there. "I'm only in the foothills" he says. Who else can't wait to see what Nolan throws at us next??
I know he's pretty far above this, but it would make so much sense for Nolan to do the Metal Gear Solid adaptation. He thoughts on nuclear disarmament mirrors that of Kojima's. Also, I think deep down Nolan loves a good grounded action flick with Science-fiction woven into it. I mean, Nolan's past works are clear examples of that.
Just saw Oppenheimer yesterday and am still shaken. Will see again. I can't believe this doesn't have far more views. I loved Nolan's elucidation of how Oppenheimer 'saw' the nuclear light and his artistic interpretation of that. It makes the soundless, light-filled moments when Oppenheimer is being interrogated so much more meaningful. I look forward to seeing it again.
"ok what can that tell us about the responsibilities that we bear for the unintended consequences of a technology that we put out there, so they're at least asking the questions" Nolan really knows how to speak to our times, thank you! everyone needs to see this movie. History is about to repeat itself, god speed
can someone explain to me please, why MSNBC shows pictures of Einstein in the 1940s an '50s while Nolan talks about the presentation skills of Oppenheimer?
This should be seen as like the modern day "The Day After" and "Threads" about the dangers of Nuclear War. Just like how reagan went to see "The Day After", it was so gut-wrenching, he made a call to gorbachev to sign a nucler non-proliferation to reduce nuclear weapons development and use it for the better of mankind in the name of peace. Too bad we have a bunch of oldheads and warmongers wanting to escalate conflict.
Nah, it's overhyped bs because nuclear sells more media attention. No one will use nukes, Putin's own people would stop him. He and his allies however spend a lot on propaganda to prop up the threats as legit, and major channels jump on it, because as mentioned earlier, it gets attention. But ask any legit international expert: it's a paper tiger.
POSSIBLY-Oppenheimer was chosen due to inexperience-could be manipulated=that’s me giving Grace….but how I really think==“rationalization” after the Fact, is the common denominator…”Opp was the first to witness Nuclear Fire…and still pressed that button” This is where the Film Industry gets high on its own supply for me=and I DIG NOLAN FILMS-thought provokers….but to infer that Science/Media/Policy cannot come w/a SOLID MORAL MESSAGE is NULLSHIT-that Opp witnessed Nuclear Fire-Citizenry that survived=carried the ALL FACETS OF CONTAMINATION- burns/trauma/disfigurement/Cancers “Prometheus-Teacher in every Art, brought the Fire that hath proved to Mortals a means to mighty ends” Hits differently. I appreciate this Summit Series, in going beyond talk/defense/rationalization of our past-but in how we still perceive/act…WE don’t have to cycle. *Unless you are a cyclists, and you get your best ideas mountain biking? I hear Einstein got His best from huffing/puffing beyond his chalkboard-
Putin's nukes don't belong in Russia. In the Oppenheimer movie, Truman tells Robert that the Soviets will never get the bomb. R Oppenheimer explains that he wants the United Nations to follow Roosevelt's example and recognize that this technology must be managed by a world government.
20:05, "Oppenheimer...was never on the battlefield" Yes he was. He was in a capsized boat at the battle of Dunkirk! And Niels Bohr was a general in charge of the evacuation! /s
Cool Byline, MSNBC!! I love how on mobile this doesn't look like an interview w Christopher Nolan and, instead, looks like a very scary update on Russian Nuclear escalation against Ukraine. It's funny that this movie releases at a time when like drones strikes are like openly known about really makes you wonder why nuclear weapons would ever be used like at all ever the movie rly got me thinkin great movie
This movie made me think about the world and its intended feeling for the movie was to make you feel dread for the creation that was made. I love hownit made me think about how much power each country in this planet hold. That we could end ourselves if we ever had a wring day. It's such a sick but enticing feeling. Not only that but also how we were able to reach such a level to achieve something only stories and fiction once foretold. Hunanity has the power to end celestial objects while also holding that same power to not end ourselves. Honestly Oppenheimer is the greatest movie Chris has ever made. I'm glad he made this film and no matter what anyone says the 3 hours were worth it.
It comes down to a simple question. Nuclear weapons were going to be developed. So would you rather have the US be the first country to make one? Or some other country?
