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Inside the Visual Effects from Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
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12/12/2023
It's time to go inside the visual effects from the biographical drama movie Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett and Kenneth Branagh
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00:00
This is a matter of life and death.
00:02
I can perform this miracle.
00:04
With our visual effects approach,
00:06
there's one sense in which
00:08
computer graphics is the obvious way to do it.
00:10
But going down that route,
00:12
I didn't feel we were going to get anything
00:14
that would feel personal and unique
00:16
to this character.
00:18
When you do Chris's movies, things that when you read
00:20
a script you normally would think would be
00:22
visual effects, you know that you're going
00:24
to be doing this stuff practically.
00:26
On this show, a lot of the effects work is
00:28
special effects and visual effects
00:30
very much bundled together.
00:32
Andrew, together with Scott Fisher,
00:34
they had to film the world
00:36
of quantum physics.
00:38
Their whole unit was one big science project.
00:40
I was daily very jealous.
00:42
The two of them did a lot of R&D.
00:44
They did a lot of experimentation.
00:46
They came up with some very interesting analog methods.
00:48
You know, it was a little bit
00:50
getting inside of Chris's head to see
00:52
what he wanted to see.
00:54
So we would do tests and play with stuff
00:56
and try to figure it out.
00:58
It was constantly evolving. You show it to Chris,
01:00
he's like, "Yeah, that's the right idea.
01:02
Now we're going to do it in IMAX."
01:04
We used a lot of different traditional methodologies,
01:06
you know, working with cloud tanks,
01:08
water, all different kinds of macro lenses,
01:10
high-speed cameras,
01:12
and some very low-tech approaches
01:14
to some of these concepts.
01:16
The thing that they did in the bedroom with Killian,
01:18
the spinning atom,
01:20
it just allows you to use takes
01:22
and footage where he's actually looking at something.
01:24
You know, Oppenheimer
01:26
sees things in sort of different dimensions,
01:28
so sometimes when his brain
01:30
is going, the background is vibrating,
01:32
and that's all done in-camera.
01:34
That's the beauty of, like,
01:36
stuff that you do in-camera,
01:38
is it can be full-size,
01:40
it can be half-size, and depending upon
01:42
how you photograph it, you know, if it looks right,
01:44
then the scale's right.
01:46
We wanted that Trinity Explosion to be both
01:48
beautiful and mesmerizing,
01:50
but horrifying in equal measure.
01:52
I think for modern-day effects,
01:54
this is kind of bigger than normal.
01:56
Back in the day, a lot of--this was commonplace
01:58
on a lot of movies, but I think now
02:00
they're, well, not quite this big.
02:02
Okay, we're hot. Here we go. Roll cameras.
02:04
Rolling. Rolling, rolling.
02:06
And...
02:08
What we were able
02:10
to come out with
02:12
and get into the finished film, to me,
02:14
is extraordinarily beautiful,
02:16
but also very frightening.
02:18
(whooshing)
02:20
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