Oppenheimer is not a biopic, says Nolan

As much as it portrays the historical events of the creation of the atomic bomb during the Second World Warwhich took place between 1939 and 1945, Oppenheimer it’s not a biopic like Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), Marighella (2021) and King Richard: Creating Champions (2021).

Who spoke about it was himself Christopher Nolandirector of the film starring Cillian Murphywho was very critical of the nomenclature “cinebiography” during an interview with Omelet. “To me, that’s a genre that doesn’t exist: if you try to tell someone’s life story on film, whether it’s in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) or Citizen Kane (1941), and it succeeds… no one calls their film a biopic anymore! It becomes an adventure or a drama or something.”

My mission was to get inside his head, to understand what he saw in that quantum world that only he had access to, and that he extrapolated to create this weapon of mass destruction,” continued the filmmaker in the conversation.

In addition, Nolan commented on the motivation to make a film like Oppenheimer: “Part of my fascination comes from the terrible fear of nuclear weapons that I developed as a teenager. Growing up during the 1980s in the UK, this was a very prevalent subject.”

On the other hand, his life story [J. Robert Oppenheimer] it’s one of the most dramatic I’ve ever encountered, so I was drawn to this challenge of bringing the audience into his world, of telling this historic moment through his eyes.

More about Oppenheimer

With direction of Christopher Nolan and premiere scheduled for July 20, 2023 in Brazilian theaters, Oppenheimer has names like Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, jack quaid, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Rami Malek, between others. Read the synopsis below:

the physical J. Robert Oppenheimer works with a team of scientists during the Manhattan Projectleading to the development of the atomic bomb.