Oppenheimer : Christopher Nolan further and further away
For several movies now, Christopher Nolan he is talked about for the ambition he shows in his projects. Over time, his feature films have become increasingly impressive with this offer idea a cinematic experience for viewers. With his previous film, principle (2020), his proposal was bold as the sequences are played backwards. The director also had crash a plane for a scene in the same genre, Oppenheimer it’s not bad either.
Indeed, for this biopic dedicated to the “father of the atomic bomb”, Christopher Nolan went all the way reproduce a nuclear explosion without CGI. Its use of IMAX camerasAlso noteworthy is the possibility of obtaining a larger image format and with a better resolution. An expensive and technical process but that allows immerse the viewer even more when the film is projected on an IMAX screen.
Nolan had used IMAX before since The dark Knight (2008) to film some scenes. With Oppenheimergoes even further, since his entire film was shot with IMAX cameras on a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large format film. To which was added another challenge: the use of black and white.
The challenge of the black and white
Indeed, although most ofOppenheimer both in color, several sequences are in monochrome black and white. Sequences that are actually Lewis Strauss’ point of view, opponent of the physicist and embodied on the screen by Robert Downey Jr. To differentiate the two points of view, Nolan therefore makes this choice in terms of colors. A detail that may seem insignificant but in reality it is a real technical feat since when is it first time that the scenes were filmed on black and white IMAX analog film.
Until now, black and white, when appearing in so-called IMAX scenes, was only achieved in edit the image in post-production. The transition from color to black and white is also widespread with traditional formats.
But for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan did not want to go through post-production. The teams of him then had to create a 65mm black and white film, which did not exist before the filming of the film, indicated the press service of IMAX in France in a press release. To get an idea, it is specified that the film is stock measures in total 18 km and weighs 300 kg!
Oppenheimer will hit theaters on July 19, 2023.
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Source: Cine Serie
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