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This one is wow.
Every new shot is like a gulp fresh water on a very hot day for me I really shouldn't watch anymore TV spots, not that they reveal that much... (I just don't want to be in the Tenet situation where they literally spoiled the last act in one of the final trailers)
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This is great, since it came out the same day as the 5 min Trailer: So this tv spot has shots that are the same from as the 5 min one, but in reverse format: color shot of Oppie saying their where no Spys at los Almos at the table with Strauss, instead of the b&w; as well, a black and white shot of surveillance gear which is a color shot in the 5 min one. We are definitely going to go and back and forth at particular moments, full on Roshomon mode.
Sorry if this isn’t the right thread to post but I did a fan made trailer https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz6YLrVL1gG/
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Super interesting to see what they included in the movie and what they didn't include.physicshistoryguy wrote: ↑June 5th, 2023, 11:57 amSomewhat long post, so I put it all in a spoiler tag.Waitedalongtime wrote: ↑June 5th, 2023, 6:33 amIt's gonna be interesting seeing the balance between Oppy as this flawed character who is arguably the architect of his own downfall (as I commented in another thread, chain smoking gave him throat cancer) and also making him this persecuted and sympathetic character. No wonder Nolan called him the most "contradictory" (think that's the word he used) character he's ever tackled. Strauss indeed seems like the "villain" but it's interesting that he apparently did what he did illegally. So he broke laws and rules during this trial process?physicshistoryguy wrote: ↑June 4th, 2023, 9:50 pm
I'd absolutely be onboard with such a thread should you choose to make one. My historical interests focus more on the big picture narrative and the sequence of events, so although I've noticed a couple things in the trailers (the security gate being too close to Los Alamos, CP-1 looking weird), I'd be very curious to see what you and others find. What you list may be "silly visual stuff," but it's the kind of stuff that's always interesting to find and compare with real history, and the more nitpicky, the better, haha (like, I think the stand-in for Stagg Field was filmed at Berkeley).
Personally, I don't think Nolan will spend more than a couple minutes, if any, on the separation/enrichment processes. As much as I'd love for him to show the reactors at Hanford and the racetracks at Oak Ridge, if the focus is on Oppenheimer then I doubt they'll appear (to the best of my recollection, he wasn't involved in the separation business besides endorsing Abelson's method of liquid thermal diffusion). And frankly, despite Strauss' role in pushing forward the detection programs, everything else that Strauss did pretty firmly and rightly secures his role as the film's villain. He was a very unlikeable person who pursued a personal grudge against Oppenheimer to an infuriating and illegal extent, as the book covers in detail. Of course it wasn't just Strauss - Oppenheimer had many enemies in the Air Force, AEC, and among other scientists like Teller and Lawrence - but, more than anyone else, Strauss was the architect of his downfall.