Oppenhaimer Should Take A Lesson From Christopher Nolan's Other Historic Thriller
None other than the great Guillermo del Toro once described English film director Christopher Nolan as «an emotional mathematician.» His work seeks to take the all-too-cold logical language of the ticking clock and reframe it in the discussion of the human experience. That unique and often controversial creative vision is now being focused on the tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer is a biopic of the eponymous theoretical physicist whose work was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb. The man who solved the math problem that could one day kill us all now has the glory of being portrayed by Cillian Murphy in an appropriately weighty production.
Oppenheimer Unveils First Official Teaser Ahead of Jordan Peele's Nope
The first trailer for Oppenheimer dropped out of nowhere with one of the most harrowing displays a historical biopic has ever seen. Apocalyptic flames give way to a ticking timer, counting the moments down to the very second when the film will be released in theaters. Fans who catch the trailer on YouTube will discover that it's a live broadcast repeatedly updating its on-screen clock with current information. Between that intense feeling of foreboding and the film's haunting tagline «The World Forever Changes», Oppenheimer is being set up as an event. This marketing angle also gives away the fact that the film will be sticking closely to one of Nolan's favorite storytelling themes; the mechanics of time. The weighty emphasis, historical importance, and central theme evokes one of Nolan's other works heavily, that being his 2017 film Dunkirk.
Dunkirk is a historical epic about the 1940 evacuation of over 300,000 English and allied soldiers from the eponymous French beach commune. It stars a huge
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