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7th June 2023
10:12am BST

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer[/caption]
Centering around J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy) an American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer features sections filmed entirely in black and white.
Murphy and his supporting cast would have been given the script written entirely in first-person to closer align them with the character of Oppenheimer and to get into his head.
Admitting it was an “odd thing to do,” Nolan added, "it was a reminder to me of how to shoot the film. It was a reminder to everybody involved in the project, 'Okay, this is the point of view of every scene.'"
"I said to [Andrew Jackson, visual effects supervisor on Oppenheimer] 'We have to find a way into this guy’s head. We’ve gotta see the world the way he sees it, we’ve gotta see the atoms moving, we’ve gotta see the way he’s imagining waves of energy, the quantum world.
"And then we have to see how that translates into the Trinity test. And we have to feel the danger, feel the threat of all this somehow."
Oppenheimer releases in Irish cinemas on July 21.
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