Oppenheimer: How Christopher Nolan Built an Atomic Bomb

[@jamestully156]

Nolan is known for his practical effects, like that time he made a real black hole during the filming of Interstellar.

[@gambello1195]

what a madman

[@Riptide__]

😂

[@elmalloc]

@@gambello1195 in a bad way

[@Superfantastictop10]

That's no way to talk about Matt Damon.

[@R0a1]

AI: No, black holes cannot be created by humans using current technology and scientific understanding. Black holes are formed from the gravitational collapse of massive stars, which requires incredibly high mass and density conditions that are beyond our current capabilities to reproduce.

[@11sdownie]

Nolan is just an extraordinary film maker. Every one of his movies has genuinely been so important to me.

[@Felnir]

This is so true, very impactful filmmaker. Hell, since Interstellar every depiction of a Black Hole has the accretion disc and looks like the one in the movie, not like before it when it was just a patch of void on screen. Which is insane if you think about it since 99% of hollywood blockbusters are more or less scientifically inaccurate.

[@MTD369]

all except tenet. kinda reached too far on that one

[@santymonty967]

Tenet was super important to you ? Lol

[@elmalloc]

@@santymonty967 it was!

[@bearpoop720]

Even tenet?

[@illuminous7937]

Really appreciate Nolan actually experimenting for months to get the right shot and see what worked the best rather then most modern Directors with the attitude of "we will fix it in post" just to offload a massive project to the VFX team

[@didget7835]

It's true, but in most cases "we will fix it in post" is something forced by producers, not necessarily directors. Just saying

[@Blisterdude123]

Directors don't always just get to do what they want. They have producers to answer to.

[@eeshangupta6007]

took 57 days to shoot

[@diollinebranderson6553]

​@@didget7835cough *taika waititi* cough

[@space_1073]

Love for practical effects doesn’t have to mean disdain for cg, there is absolutely an art to vfx, Nolan just prefers practical.

[@JPMongeS]

In 'Interstellar', Nolan helped people to understand black holes and other dimensions; now he's helping people to understand how an atomic bomb actually works.

[@Geographus666]

Funny enough even the scientific community. Since they black-hole model used actual physics provided by Kip Thorne, it was the most accurate simulation of a black-hole to that date, partly becasue they had the budget to program a render-engine from scratch just to simulate the black-hole. The data obtained from the model used in Interstellar was the basis for several scientific publications.

[@dd52161]

cool story.

[@djimenez371ify]

@@dd52161 just say youre too dumb to care

[@taharauf7775]

do blackholes have a time portal back to your home's book shelf? while the blackhole might look accurate asf its a farcry to think it explained to people exactly what goes on

[@epicmetod]

more like time dillation, the 4th dimension scene is just for plot

[@EhBah160]

“It’s difficult for computer graphics to convey threat” seeing a real life scale nuke go off up close is going to be the absolute stellar moments of our lives

[@omar619kamis]

They didn't lunch nuke lol

[@FanEAW]

they never built and detonated a nuke lmao the feds would NEVER allow that or it would start a troubling precedent.

[@Holborovv]

This is why LOTR still holds up today campared to the Hobbit films. Real effects are far superior to CGI.

[@mycroft16]

@@Holborovv You do realize that at the time, LOTR was the most CGI heavy film ever made, right? Like a significant percentage of that film has CGI in it. It's not about CGI or practical is better... it's about knowing when to use the tools you have. Nolan isn't anti CGI, he uses it all the time. He just knows when to use it in his style of filming. Too many use it as a crutch. Peter Jackson blended in camera, practical, miniature, and CGI. Hell, LoTR won special effects oscars for inventing software (MASSIVE) that is in use to this day in nearly every single movie.

[@thechosenone9847]

We have the berut explotion for that

[@johnforde7735]

Nolan is very thoughtful and articulate. He really knows how to describe the art of film-making and the thought that goes in behind it to achieve the desired effect.

[@bobby.palacios]

Did IGN really just get the greatest promotional interview ever from Christopher Nolan?

[@natey2290]

nope, its IGN

[@gevu]

Absolutely incredible interview. 7/10.

[@metal6948]

Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite filmmakers, not just because of the movies themselves though. He is directly helping to keep methods of filmmaking alive. In an age where most studios and filmmakers are keen on shooting unfinished movies with the intent of digitally filling in gaps, and in rather uninspired ways, Nolan fights to keep things like film over digital cameras, practical effects, and the labor of flimmaking intact. Aggresively digitzed filmmaking is cold, lifeless, and passionless.The labor, the real tools and techniques give movies life, and an unmistakably real and tangible feeling.

[@jack8831]

Not using CGI for an explosion like this that has a very specific way to explode means trying to use muppets instead of real humans. Let's say it, this film is about the bomb, he had one job and that explosion is not represented at perfection. He failed.

[@AkaSora96]

@@jack8831 Wrong, this film is not about the bomb is about Oppenheimer

[@jack8831]

@@AkaSora96 Would you have watched the movie if there was no atomic bomb involved? 3 hours of dialogues with challenging accents, uncomprehensible whispering, names of people that "who is this one now?" ending up in nothing important?

[@AkaSora96]

@@jack8831Yes, is a historical biopic if its not to your taste just go watch another movie, the stunning practical shots about the atoms and about the bomb are just an extra for me

[@PWN3GE]

​@@AkaSora96 The only reason we know Oppenheimer's name is because he made an explosion. An explosion so important it changed history forever. Had the bomb not exploded, we wouldn't be talking about Oppenheimer, and there certainly wouldn't have been a movie made about him. The least Nolan could have done was depict such an important event convincingly.

[@CollectorCody73]

Christopher Nolan is such an amazing director, and all of his films have explosions, so this film should be his best

[@felipeaguena5289]

You think Michael Bay will masturbate to this movie?

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Yes. He can.

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Sound logic.

[@pogoil7053]

Shush,,, don't let Michael Bay know, Nolan made biggest explosion ever in film

[@jcjohnson0]

@@pogoil7053 If Michael Bay did Oppenheimer, he would cast a few supermodels as leading and supporting actresses.

[@The_Peterson_Archive]

Bro googled Atomic bomb and just checked the shopping section

[@somethingtojenga]

'Faithful' is being extremely kind to the practical Trinity detonation in this film. In the detonation scene at least it looks nothing like the test.

[@MukiMuki688]

This and Napoleon are tied for my most anticipated movies in years

[@НадирТокомбаев]

Don't forget "Killer of the Flower Moon"!!!

[@hdcinemaworld5692]

And Both are great and legendary and Maverick directors Legend Ridley scott And Christopher Nolan is genius

[@flurit]

Oppenheimer, Spider Man 2, Gta 6 tailer (possibly), and More. This year is going be GREAT

[@ProtossHyrdalisk]

@@fluritbut the year is already 2/3rds over :(

[@millennialdoge]

David Fincher's the killer and Michael Mann's Ferrari too... No doubt 2023 is hell of an year for movies with so many great directors coming with their work this year.

[@mikemuponda1781]

Cillian Murphy is casting perfecting man, what an actor! We know already know Nolan is the GOAT so enough said there

[@patrickrodriguez8797]

Just saw this on IMAX and we may not have the 70mm films but the sound design was outstanding!

[@Rock4896]

That explosion filling my entire field of vision is something I'm never going to forget.

[@realSethMeyers]

The film was a masterpiece. But I'll be honest, in theater, on 70mm film, the Trinity explosion looked like black powder, magnesium flares, and lots of gasoline. Not the dazzling light and alien colors described by eyewitnesses.

[@MMMHOTCHEEZE]

It's a shame because there's literally footage of the actual Trinity test. There's no excuse for getting it so wrong.

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

Then it definitely WASN'T a masterpiece. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Styreta]

and it looked nothing like a nuke. Was thoroughly underwhelmed at this in Cinema. The bomb sequences was way overhyped. Honestly wished he'd spiced it up with CGI.

[@subtleprelude2400]

That’s a disrespect to imax filmaking!

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

It looked like a nuke. They're pretty underwhelming between the flash and the mushroom forming. You're just used to the massive megaton footage but smaller kiloton range nukes just look like normal chemical explosions.

[@aarongifford69]

didnt even look like a nuke ngl looked like normal gasoline and that

[@Jack-iu7pw]

The behind the scenes that comes out in a few months will be incredible.

[@teshbek]

Explosion looked like default Mad Max explosion. Too many details indicates how small its scale was

[@OnTheRoad_Lwando]

Next Oscars: Oppenheimer wins - Best Original Script, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Special Effects and best Sound Design.

[@notsorandumusername]

Killers Of The Flower Moon might disagree with that

[@knockouta3811]

ryan gosling as ken is guaranteed best actor 100%

[@abhijiththampi]

No way the tradition-minded AMPAS will award an independent director like Nolan any of the big 5 prizes.

[@criti.calcritic.602]

Best adapted script actually ....its an adaptation of American prometheus

[@jussing]

There's no special effects Oscar, only visual effects, which two of his films have won.

[@anasshahid224]

So excited to watch Oppenheimer, Nolan always makes the best movies 👏👏👏👏🫡

[@hombreerana]

hot take: the explosion was kinda underwhelming, didnt look nuclear at all. but the rest of the movie was great

[@Baghirov.]

Its not a hot take, it was objectively underwhelming, but overall movie was amazing

[@sam23696]

They should've just used CGI. The trend of only using practical effects can't die fast enough.

[@space_1073]

It’s underwhelming if you expected the scene to be about showing a cool big nuke. It was mostly close ups and reactions because that’s what the movie is about. It’s probably the most perfect scene in the film and people didn’t like it because the bomb wasn’t what they were expecting, it’s a shame.

[@sam23696]

@@space_1073 You think it's odd that people were expecting a cool big nuke in a movie about the manhattan project? Alternatively they should have used that actual trinity explosion footage. If you have seen it on youtube then you know it's extremely high quality footage given the time it was recorded, and could have very easily been used in this movie. The director wanted to use practical effects, what is more practical then literally the _real_ trinity test?

[@space_1073]

@@sam23696 The movie isn't about just the manhatten project, it's about Oppenheimer. That's why it's called: "Oppenheimer." And that is a cool idea about the historic footage, but he wanted to do it without cg so he could stick to the 70mm film stock and never have to scan anything into a computer during any step of the process.

[@aditya.khapre]

The actual explosion is mid, but the emotion around it is 10/10

[@Shadow-gm9ct]

We just gotta get Nolan’s take on Tsar Bomba

[@milansvancara]

not even mid... it's like my third climax in a row after a lot of alcohol

[@KK_on_KK]

​@@milansvancara lol

[@final0222]

Mr Nolan is one of the best directors of the last 20 years. If not the best.

[@thatONEmachine]

Of the last 20 years? Yeah hands down. Who else is even close?

[@Toy1er]

Maybe if we pretend Tenet never happened. Now that was a stinker.

[@prajitbanerjee8226]

@@thatONEmachine scorcese

[@Kolderup2]

⁠@@thatONEmachine Paul Thomas Anderson.

[@cubitfilms]

So... how did Nolan build the atomic bomb in the film? Did they use conventional explosives and enlarge it? The video went a little bit into some of the close up fx used, tho not much - but overall, this video fails to answer the question it asks.

[@Elijah-bj4vo]

He faithful recreated a miniature version of the first trinity test

[@LewisMacdonaldMedia]

​@@Elijah-bj4vo*without the nuclear power*

[@Corristo89]

@@LewisMacdonaldMedia Duh xD

[@sordel5866]

Haven't seen the film but, as per this video: shone a bright light at Cillian Murphy's face. Does Nolan's genius know no limits?

[@series1054]

A massive gasoline bomb mixed with magnesium and aluminium oxide.

[@businessclank1564]

Nolan really out here time travelling to give us the best cinema experiences.

[@saileeredkar8061]

Love how Nolan is crediting every member of the team from visual artists to DOP. 👏🏻

[@Robonightthe3rd]

For what? What did they do? The explosion was extremely weak.

[@philspaghet]

@@Robonightthe3rd Did you watch the movie? It's absolutely amazing

[@vamshibhat]

​@@philspaghetthere will always be a attention seeking guy with a negative mindset and nothing can be done about that just let the guy wither out by himself 😊

[@handleonafridge6828]

@@vamshibhat perfect way to respond. Would bet the negative person’s response will be an insult, then saying their opinion with the word “obviously” thrown in a couple times, and probably end it with “lol” as if that were to do something. Obviously won’t be that now, but usually it is (and probably would’ve been)

[@Robonightthe3rd]

also lol and obviously

[@Kostaras4444]

The explosion of the trinity bomb in the film was a bit disappointing to me, it didn't look powerful enough, but the lead up and the sound design were really effective.

[@Мөнхдөл]

nolan is like micheal bay that can actually do his job

[@gansior4744]

He is and will be my favorite directors. He creates masterpiece after masterpiece. Every of his movies is worth watching

[@ruipedroleite]

90% true imo. Tenet was a piece of sh*t, love the rest of his work tho.

[@thatONEmachine]

minus the s

[@skywalk78none94]

@@ruipedroleitefucking hated tenet

[@plusplusplusplusp]

Christopher Nolan is a genius and Oppenheimer is already one of my favourite movies. They absolutely nailed the Trinity test scene. Do yourself a favour and see it.

[@DeShark88]

The scene was brilliant. The explosion was not. It did a sincere disservice to the true magnitude of what these "new" weapons are capable of.

[@plusplusplusplusp]

@@DeShark88 How do you think it could have been done better in movie form?

[@santymonty967]

@@pluspluspluspluspby actually having an ear shattering explosion, the whole nuke scene was the most underwhelming thing of the 2020’s

[@DeShark88]

@@plusplusplusplusp make it look like the actual test footage. If that needs CGI to work, then do it. Whatever it takes to portray to the general public how utterly terrifying these devices are, that's what you are compelled to do. Failing to do it accurately for the sake of artistic purity is exactly what will lead to the total annihilation of humankind.

[@makatron]

Watched Oppenheimer tonight, the film is nothing short of amazing. This will be nominated in every category and I'd say Cillian Murphy already won best actor 2024 for his Portrait as J Robert Oppenheimer.

[@joshmgeni8062]

When Nolan is speaking about the word horrific and entertainment being synonymous another word came to my mind which is spectacle.

[@Denkin_Donuts]

In interstellar, he actually made a real black hole and filmed it from up close. Dude is an actual genius.

[@lucianoluggren]

🤣

[@Nighthawke70]

For the record, THERE WAS NO BIG RED FIRING BUTTON! Everything was clock-driven, with a set of safety switches. If anything went south, the countdown was stopped cold. And during testing, there usually were stoppages due to one fault or another. During the TRINITY countdown, the wiring picked up radio waves from a local broadcast station. That morning, they picked up classical music. That aside, the device contained two sets of explosive "lenses". One set, the slow lens, was closer of the two, designed to fire the harder-to start PU-240. The faster set of blocks was designed to fire the -238 and -239, the former that was prone to pre-ignition.

[@vrygon0]

yeah the famous "big red button" is mostly for theatrical purposes

[@quistador7]

They actually did have a button they made a guy hold. Except it wasn't to make the bomb go off, it was to terminate the test if anything went wrong before the bomb went off. They didn't have much plutonium so they couldn't waste the test with cameras not working and whatnot

[@Nighthawke70]

@@quistador7 Dead Man's Switch. Makes sense now.

[@knwr]

@@Nighthawke70 In this movie, that is a dead man's switch, same as what really happened. They just followed it up with Groves' question about "hitting a button" in the trailer for effect.

[@ConnorwithanO]

@@quistador7 That's the button Josh Peck was holding his hand over.

[@taavikoppel1769]

Summary: IGN does not know HOW he did it and this video does not tell us. Most misleading video title ever.

[@zeeky5192]

Thanks for saving my time

[@josaphcj7199]

People who save other people's time like you are real heroes

[@FloStudios]

Wish I’d seen this before wasting my time, but thanks for telling others

[@irecordwithaphone1856]

Did you actually watch the video? They explained the visual effect process pretty clearly

[@samuelo5052]

It doesn’t start until about 6 minutes in

[@BobSaysWhat22]

He used “silence” in one of the scene and it’s genius.

[@_sarcasmiss2141]

Its actually not him using creative license. The silence after the explosion makes sense because light travels faster than sound.

[@fernandodossantos6619]

He really should've mixed the practical effects with some CGI. While all the other practical effects were great, the atomic bomb did not look like an atomic explosion. It just looked like a large conventional explosion. You cannot faithfully reproduce an atomic explosion with practical effects. CGI must be used to make up for the insane temperatures and pressures.

[@2cerlinda2]

But it won't feel "dangerous" anymore

[@zatharigo7815]

@@2cerlinda2 why not? :D

[@apurbanaskar2240]

Terminator 2, Indiana Jones 4, Watchmen and even Godzilla king of the monsters showed CGI nuke explosion

[@space_1073]

It’s underwhelming if you expected the scene to be about showing a cool big nuke. It was mostly close ups and reactions because that’s what the movie is about. It’s probably the most perfect scene in the film and people didn’t like it because the bomb wasn’t what they were expecting, it’s a shame.

[@MrTomyCJ]

@@space_1073 "Was my scene bad? No. it's the audience who is wrong!". If anything, there is some fault in creating the wrong expectations.

[@SakaarNayak]

Would love to see Nolan direct another World War movie depicting the actual horrors of war.

[@SwordStone55]

Dunkirk

[@twilium1284]

Why? There are SO many out there doing that. Most recently, watch 1917 and All Quiet on the Western Front.

[@naazahs9045]

​@@twilium1284All quiet on the Western front was sh!te. 1917 was better.

[@shubhamer2000]

Nope movie shud be made on THE GR8 DEPRESSION of 30s

[@mycroft16]

Dunkirk, 1917, Saving Private Ryan, and about 6,542 others.

[@piotrd.4850]

They should have just used remastered original Trinity footage and use VFX fro crew shots only.

[@BibleAlivePresentations]

David Lynch. TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN. Part Eight. It would have been nice if this kind of praise when Lynch's way.

[@dot_frost]

honestly, the bomb could have been waaay better, it doesn't have a mushroom cloud like appearance so it doesn't convey that threat and fear we've been acostumed to. the actual test did have a mushroom cloud appearance btw

[@MrRobeStern64]

Nah the people who are gonna critique this is gonna be real Bombers 😂😂😂

[@sam23696]

Honestly they should have just used CGI. They avoided it just so they could get the headline "oppenheimer used practical effects for the nuclear bomb", and that feels cheap. It also was a pretty big let down in the theatre as well when what should've been a massive on screen explosion was just some close up fire effects. The most underwhelming explosion even shown in cinemas. The one in batman was better

[@worthyCap17]

The box office of this movie will not be able to keep the extreme hype it has created. With an obvious reason.

[@apollofell3925]

What?

[@johnstonis7977]

Love how in the background noise of the interview there is a ticking clock.

[@johnwatson3948]

0:35 - As for “faithful recreation” why did Nolan switch to showing men inserting the tamper plug by hand and not like it was really done with a chain hoist? In any case, the tamper plug weighed over a hundred pounds and would be impossible to insert by hand as shown. Movie also does the same with the explosive blocks which were almost the weight of concrete.

[@frankiefisher6110]

It's OK everyone...his movie explosion is only quarter-scale to the actually atomic bomb.👍

[@TheProtagonist555]

Christopher Nolan doesn't make just films.. He's building dreams and motivating minds through cinema.. He uses cinema very well.. He's an alien 👽..

[@HokkaidoSan]

Ehhh, tbh his last movie Dunkirk wasn't that great...This too seems like it's going to be similar. It's going to be very boring.

[@60zar]

@@HokkaidoSan It's a biography, it is supposed to be boring.

[@SQUDSNPR]

@@HokkaidoSanfirst of all; dunkirk was not his last movie, second, it was great you’re just slow

[@marvelfoxmorty5057]

Nolan made this movie in a way audiences can understand how atomic bomb work specifically.... This movie should be at the best picture nomination at the Academy next year

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Nuclear bombs of that era aren't terribly complicated, the issues with it are getting the necessary parts and machining them to a high enough tolerance without killing yourself with radiation poisoning or having it go off unexpectedly. But, the basic principles are ones that a grade schooler could understand.

[@notsorandumusername]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade the people working at Los Alamos and the Manhatten Project were anything but grade schoolers and it still took them years. Don't believe that watching some History Channel documentary about atom bombs makes you an 'expert' and that they 'aren't terribly complicated'. The Soviets stole the literal blue prints and it took them years to replicate the bomb still. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

[@erwinsmith5796]

​@@SmallSpoonBrigadethen tell us how to make a nuclear bomb ?

[@lacasadelvideojuego3880]

@@SmallSpoonBrigadelol at that time no… if that was the case Germans and Soviets or everyone would have built it first.

[@thephoenix4093]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade it is, otherwise he would not be the only one to know how to make it. even we only got this knowledge from him.

[@fasteddie4145]

the "rope tricks" were a very nice touch.....someone did their home work on tower detonated nukes.....in all fairness they were never observed until the Rapatronic camera came into use about 7 years after Trinity.....

[@riptide_w]

5:37 how nolan "built" an atomic bomb

[@Starstreak170]

The explosion was such a let down. He should have used CGI to enhance it.

[@milansvancara]

yup, people are so delusional about this lul... admiring mediocrity because the concept ''sounds cool'' :D

[@mingyuhuang8944]

Nolan never misses. One of the greatest film makers of all time

[@_unqfficial_jim4844]

Ever feel useless? Just remember that Christopher Nolan has got an VFX supervisor.

[@SoundsphereRo]

David Lynch was very creative as well with this topic in the latest instalment of Twin Peaks series, yuppp

[@fornana]

Just realized he's wearing the Hamilton Murph watch, AKA the watch from interstellar. That's really cool he's rocking it.

[@melz2195]

the explosions was underwhelming

[@spearfisherman308]

He should have used cgi for this seen it was pretty underwhelming

[@joshuam.6027]

3:50 seems like we got a small glimpse of the practical explosion

[@buckhorncortez]

The Nixie tube countdown clock is not period correct. Nixie tubes were patented in the early 1950s and did not become readily available until 1955.

[@thedorito5434]

Meanwhile most people can't tell the difference between CGI and real life shots...

[@Alikerry]

this movie was incredible

[@ChaosMarine9118]

Fun fact: Christopher Nolan filmed Tenet after it was released.

[@MrAwesomebassplayer]

NO NOLAN! DON'T DO IT!

[@clikzip]

4:48 How IN TF did they shoot framerates higher than our current understanding in 1945? Im genuinely curious how that is possible. Does the government have superior video tech or is it just not financially possible to film movies at these rates?

[@dreamsofgrandeur]

I'm going to assume (take this with a decent helping of salt!) that Nolan was referring specifically to film cameras. Obviously we have slo-mo digital cameras way beyond anything they had in the 40s. Film cameras just aren't built or used anymore, so maybe there aren't any like those left.

[@Extex_]

The problem with high framerates in film is that it removes the motion blur which can make it look unnatural

[@MrTomyCJ]

Even in 1945 there were techniques to film in ultra slow motion (extremely high framerates). It's just that they were bulky and not practical for most purposes. One technique, for instance, is to have a lot of cameras each one taking a frame very slightly after the other. We still use analogous techniques nowadays, that's how we can ever hope to film things like a beam of light travelling through a bottle (google it!)

[@pizza70123]

It's crazy how Nolan nuked Japan just to make this movie. Bravo Nolan.

[@JoaoSousa-wr3gz]

And it only took two takes.

[@arnie1046]

🙄

[@automan1223]

Favorite documentary is Trinity & Beyond.

[@Thejamescaseyshow]

Why on gods earth has Harry Enfield not done an impression of Chris Nolan? COME ON MAN!

[@muratakcan1299]

Why is youtube flooded with oppenheimer today ?

[@mrsentencename7334]

Because it’s very anticipated

[@Skateandcreate9]

Maybe because it comes out in 3 days and looks like a banger

[@Skateandcreate9]

Pun intended

[@alejandroflores8979]

They aren’t talking about an actual bomb, they are talking about the making of the movie

[@hodge105]

Did you ask him if he has seen the prestige?

[@alexanderdesouza1609]

The question is how Nolan hasn’t aged unlike everyone else 😳

[@Treblaine]

This was the most significant geological event in history, this event and subsequent detonations spread totally uniqye isotopes all over the planet so now all layers of sediment and remains of living creatures can be separated into "pre-bomb" and "post-bomb".

[@sailingsam3815]

It was a privilege to watch it in a 12 story tall Imax theater with a soldout crowd at 11 am in the morning .

[@senshai1267]

This movie could rub the security agency the wrong way , if the academy had any shame they would nominate this movie and it will win

[@sa34w]

If any other movie wins no one would care about academy

[@soumyasinha2783]

@@sa34w well the academy was kind of dead even though it got restored by Will Smith

[@madmanlabs6240]

What lot of people had no idea about is that scientists were taking under considiration scenario where they could set earth atmosphere on fire. Given enough energy that's a possibility. But after doing some math they realized that they would need to deliver much, much more energy to do something like that.

[@phdnk]

The reasoning is not about the ignitor's heat injection required but about the ability of the air to continue burning once ignited. It turns out, that the air is to rarefied and to transparent to keep burning.

[@googleworm2007]

This is going to be a replica movie of the 1980's tv-series on Oppenheimer...starring Sam Waterston as Oppenheimer of Law & Order fame.....if anyone is interested, that tv-series is pretty much all Nolan's movie could be about...and that tv-series had me glued due to the technical nature of its script and also how it showed impact on politics of a nation.....it was a brilliantly directed tv-series....and my respect to Sam Waterston....Cillian better at very least match Sam Waterston with this remake

[@finchi55]

Thats crazy that *They used a time machine and brought a camera back in time!*

[@QuandaleDingle-ps9pe]

love that josh peck is casted in the movie

[@forsaken841]

Oooh, Chris Nolan needs to make a horror movie someday

[@alexwr]

Imagine a Nolan Cosmic Horror film, it would be intense!

[@TimeEchos]

This is it.

[@pratikraut6354]

Hope Nolan is not planning to make a end of the world movie with Asteroids, coz if he is, that will be the last movie ever to be made by this civilization......

[@jordan1862]

How Nolan built the bomb and learned to stop worrying about the effects

[@GRR1MN1R]

If Nolan and Tom Cruise made a movie together , the would be the maximum peak level that world cinema can ever reach

[@AMac-qd6ft]

Though not stated anywhere, I'm convinced the Trinity test of Twin Peaks s3e8 also had a huge impact on the visuals as well.

[@NewMexico1912]

The trinity site isn’t in Los Alamos. The trinity site is about 130 miles south of Los Alamos in the white sands missile range

[@coolzone71]

The bomb going of was kinda over hyped and under delivered, they should have literally blown us a away for atleast 10 seconds instead was just a lil hard gust of wind.

[@euvc1184]

In next video about Nolan´s new movie. Nolan destroys the world to show what a destroyed world would look like on film

[@michelhv]

Who else came here expecting Nolan would inadvertently admit he blew a real one for the camera?

[@JohnLorac]

The atomic bomb explosion in this movie is an absolute flop among other things. Real footage of the actual explosion is ten times more captivating than what was produced for this movie. He seriously should go for digital or combination instead of just practical effects.

[@xXBobbyXx86]

The explosion wasn’t even that impressive lol all the hype for nothing. U get better visual from old archive footage.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

Nolan is up there with Cameron in how he is able to use VFX just absolutely masterfully.

[@Jefnam]

This title is perfect.

[@themysticalwanderer36]

will be watching it without IMAX... its still worth it

[@wordonwatches]

Love that CN is wearing the Hamilton ‘Murph’ wristwatch for this interview. How fitting with its pivotal role in the film interstellar. Hamilton watches also supplied the watches from this film too. This time actually supplying vintage timepieces from the 30’s and 40’s. Top stuff 🕰️

[@hectorgarciarochera1053]

Imagine Nolan doing a 9/11 movie

[@cryptoinu]

He should make a movie on BITCOIN

[@Shreyas-S]

Fortunately, Christopher Nolan is smart enough not to do that.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Never mind the movie, why hasn't someone filmed a nuclear bomb test with an IMAX camera before? 🤣 Couldn't Nolan just try and get permission to film one?

[@ThanosIsUglyGD]

The image of a movie director asking the government for permission to detonate a nuclear bomb is hilarious to me lol

[@PWN3GE]

You know we stopped testing nukes in the 60's right?

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

@@PWN3GE So how do they know if the bombs they make now work then?

[@qanh96]

Michael Bay: Write that down! *WRITE THAT DOWN!*

[@GeraldMMonroe]

Seeking authenticity, first Nolan bought a large quantity of uranium ore. Then he setup a large warehouse of centrifuges...

[@thomasw.eggers4303]

You are describing an uranium bomb. The Trinity bomb used plutonium created atom by atom at a HUGE factory in Hanford, Washington.

[@GeraldMMonroe]

@@thomasw.eggers4303 yes, yes. You're right. Sharp eyed viewers will be able to tell the difference between the flash from a plutonium implosion device and a gun type u-235 device around the same yield. (Sarcasm the difference wouldn't be visible on even imax film at 24 fps.)