It struck me watching Christopher Nolan’s masterful three-hour epic telling of the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, long labeled the Father of the Atomic Bomb, that this is a period piece with…

  • Omar Khayyám@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oppenheimer was basically canceled by the US military industrial security apparatus. I highly doubt the feds funded a film about an avid left winger.

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      1 year ago

      And I don’t think Nolan has any trouble finding funding for his movies. Funny to see the same cinema packed for a biopic when it was mostly empty for the premier of the new Mission Impossible. Nolan gets butts on the seats.