Oppenheimer: How Christopher Nolan Built an Atomic Bomb
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan explains how he recreated the historic Trinity Test atomic blast without the use of CGI. Through experimentation and experience from his previous work on Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and The Dark Knight, Nolan and his visual effects team conjured up new methods when faced with the daunting task of trying to practically recreate the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Learn more about the Oppenheimer Atomic Bomb Test in this Christopher Nolan interview. Oppenheimer opens in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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Nolan is known for his practical effects, like that time he made a real black hole during the filming of Interstellar.
what a madman
😂
@@gambello1195 in a bad way
That's no way to talk about Matt Damon.
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.
Nolan is just an extraordinary film maker. Every one of his movies has genuinely been so important to me.
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.
all except tenet. kinda reached too far on that one
Tenet was super important to you ? Lol
@@santymonty967 it was!
Even tenet?
Just saw this on IMAX and we may not have the 70mm films but the sound design was outstanding!
That explosion filling my entire field of vision is something I'm never going to forget.
Next Oscars: Oppenheimer wins - Best Original Script, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Special Effects and best Sound Design.
Killers Of The Flower Moon might disagree with that
ryan gosling as ken is guaranteed best actor 100%
No way the tradition-minded AMPAS will award an independent director like Nolan any of the big 5 prizes.
Best adapted script actually ....its an adaptation of American prometheus
There's no special effects Oscar, only visual effects, which two of his films have won.
Summary: IGN does not know HOW he did it and this video does not tell us. Most misleading video title ever.
Thanks for saving my time
People who save other people's time like you are real heroes
Wish I’d seen this before wasting my time, but thanks for telling others
Did you actually watch the video? They explained the visual effect process pretty clearly
It doesn’t start until about 6 minutes in
It's OK everyone...his movie explosion is only quarter-scale to the actually atomic bomb.👍
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.
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.....
didnt even look like a nuke ngl looked like normal gasoline and that
Meanwhile most people can't tell the difference between CGI and real life shots...
NO NOLAN! DON'T DO IT!
Explosion looked like default Mad Max explosion. Too many details indicates how small its scale was
Just realized he's wearing the Hamilton Murph watch, AKA the watch from interstellar. That's really cool he's rocking it.
Thats crazy that
*They used a time machine and brought a camera back in time!*
David Lynch was very creative as well with this topic in the latest instalment of Twin Peaks series, yuppp
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?
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.
The problem with high framerates in film is that it removes the motion blur which can make it look unnatural
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!)
Oooh, Chris Nolan needs to make a horror movie someday
Imagine a Nolan Cosmic Horror film, it would be intense!
This is it.
Oppenheimer and Barbie have people talking about movies with an excitement that has been missing for many years.
Nature is healing
Strange that you mention the Inception explosion and not the hospital explosion from TDK.
That watch Nolan is wearing…!! Interstellar
Duh! He called MacGyver
will be watching it without IMAX... its still worth it
Frame rate is the key to great visual effects without using CGI.
The duality of atomic bombs and Barbie dolls, is that intentional?
Lmfao, they addressing the nolan memes..😂😂 iCANT!
of course he made a bomb
If Nolan direct Avanger the world population will become 3.5billion
4:03 this is not Trinity... again. Amazing how so many channels can't be arsed to either do 15 minutes of research, or just ask someone, to come up with correct footage. This is especially unforgiving as you correctly stated right after, lots of footage exists.
You know for a fact the question came up "what if we just set off a lil tiny nuke?" Haha incredible film!
He brought together some Plutonium and blew it up just to be "real".
People keep saying the scene was underwhelming and should have used CGI or historical real footage. The problem is there's no way to capture the experience of a real nuclear explosion on film. Even real historical footage of actual nukes won't look real, because no camera can capture the true awe-inspiring brightness of the flash and how it lights up the world, and even if it could movie theaters couldn't project it. And if they could, then every moviegoer would walk away with blindness and sunburn. Showing the reactions of the people and focusing on realism of sound really is the only way to realistically portray a nuke.
Absolutely, that's why Nolan shouldn't have cut to a closeup gasoline explosion in the middle of an otherwise fantastic scene. Either don't show that or replace it with a CG generated shot that actually does a decent job replicating the test footage.
So you are telling us that he didn't detonate Hiroshima for the film? You must be kidding IGN.
"Its very difficult to have computer graphics convey threat" Nolan inadvertently trashed half the MCU movies lol
Most of the pub interviews and articles for the movie have been low key dissing the MCU.
Assuming if you've seen all of the MCU movies, Namor felt threatening to me
The trinity test scene had my heart racing, absolutely a cinematic masterpiece
Maybe you just heard other people talk about it, you want to be part of that crowd, so you also chime in about what a “masterpiece” it was.
@@Robonightthe3rdmasterpiece
@@MrDjambronkits mastershit
Look at the actual trinity test, and then see if it holds up
He did this movie just so he could use an atomic bomb
what a title...
No where near twin peak 2 effort!
Frame rates far at what we can do now? What?
Congrats to Christopher Nolan on becoming the second filmmaker to build an atomic bomb (the first being Kim Jong Il of North Korea)
It was so underwhelming
did you see it in theaters? it was not
@@virtual36o95 If you've seen the actual test footage and compare it to the footage in the movie it's absolutely underwhelming. Instead of the plasma ball growing you literally see a gasoline explosion. It's a case of adherence to practical effects to a fault.
நாங்கள் மிகவும் காத்துக்கொண்டு இருக்கிறோம்
Your mother waited 9 months.
The explosion wasn’t even that impressive lol all the hype for nothing. U get better visual from old archive footage.
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.
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.
cool story.
@@dd52161 just say youre too dumb to care
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
more like time dillation, the 4th dimension scene is just for plot
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
It's true, but in most cases "we will fix it in post" is something forced by producers, not necessarily directors. Just saying
Directors don't always just get to do what they want. They have producers to answer to.
took 57 days to shoot
@@didget7835cough *taika waititi* cough
Love for practical effects doesn’t have to mean disdain for cg, there is absolutely an art to vfx, Nolan just prefers practical.
“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
They didn't lunch nuke lol
they never built and detonated a nuke lmao the feds would NEVER allow that or it would start a troubling precedent.
This is why LOTR still holds up today campared to the Hobbit films. Real effects are far superior to CGI.
@@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.
We have the berut explotion for that
Did IGN really just get the greatest promotional interview ever from Christopher Nolan?
nope, its IGN
Absolutely incredible interview.
7/10.
hot take: the explosion was kinda underwhelming, didnt look nuclear at all. but the rest of the movie was great
Its not a hot take, it was objectively underwhelming, but overall movie was amazing
They should've just used CGI. The trend of only using practical effects can't die fast enough.
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.
@@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?
@@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.
The explosion was such a let down. He should have used CGI to enhance it.
yup, people are so delusional about this lul... admiring mediocrity because the concept ''sounds cool'' :D
The actual explosion is mid, but the emotion around it is 10/10
We just gotta get Nolan’s take on Tsar Bomba
not even mid... it's like my third climax in a row after a lot of alcohol
@@milansvancara lol
This is such a bad, bad movie. Horrible story wrapped around congressional and security meetings. yes a movie about the most boring thing in the universe…. a meeting. Editing is wonky and choppy. AND way way to long.
This movie is perfectly executing its goals, which was to show the story of Oppenheimer and the creation of first nuclear bomb. If it was boring to you, then watch Barbie.
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.
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.
It's a shame because there's literally footage of the actual Trinity test. There's no excuse for getting it so wrong.
Then it definitely WASN'T a masterpiece.
🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
He faithful recreated a miniature version of the first trinity test
@@Elijah-bj4vo*without the nuclear power*
@@LewisMacdonaldMedia Duh xD
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?
A massive gasoline bomb mixed with magnesium and aluminium oxide.
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.
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
Cillian Murphy is casting perfecting man, what an actor! We know already know Nolan is the GOAT so enough said there
Christopher Nolan is such an amazing director, and all of his films have explosions, so this film should be his best
You think Michael Bay will masturbate to this movie?
Yes. He can.
Sound logic.
Shush,,, don't let Michael Bay know, Nolan made biggest explosion ever in film
@@pogoil7053 If Michael Bay did Oppenheimer, he would cast a few supermodels as leading and supporting actresses.
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.
It looked pathetic. It was super tiny and didn't look like a nuke... Should've used CGI. The entire movie was boring as hell and the bomb a GIANT letdown...
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.
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.
@@jack8831 Wrong, this film is not about the bomb is about Oppenheimer
@@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?
@@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
@@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.
'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.
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.
But it won't feel "dangerous" anymore
@@2cerlinda2 why not? :D
Terminator 2, Indiana Jones 4, Watchmen and even Godzilla king of the monsters showed CGI nuke explosion
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.
@@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.
Nah the people who are gonna critique this is gonna be real Bombers 😂😂😂
sadly, he wouldnt use any cgi. the test was kind of disappointing in the end
This and Napoleon are tied for my most anticipated movies in years
Don't forget "Killer of the Flower Moon"!!!
And Both are great and legendary and Maverick directors
Legend Ridley scott
And Christopher Nolan is genius
Oppenheimer, Spider Man 2, Gta 6 tailer (possibly), and More. This year is going be GREAT
@@fluritbut the year is already 2/3rds over :(
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.
The box office of this movie will not be able to keep the extreme hype it has created.
With an obvious reason.
What?
They should have just used remastered original Trinity footage and use VFX fro crew shots only.
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
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.
That’s a disrespect to imax filmaking!
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.
It's crazy how Nolan nuked Japan just to make this movie. Bravo Nolan.
And it only took two takes.
🙄
In interstellar, he actually made a real black hole and filmed it from up close. Dude is an actual genius.
🤣
Why is youtube flooded with oppenheimer today ?
Because it’s very anticipated
Maybe because it comes out in 3 days and looks like a banger
Pun intended
Mr Nolan is one of the best directors of the last 20 years. If not the best.
Of the last 20 years? Yeah hands down. Who else is even close?
Maybe if we pretend Tenet never happened. Now that was a stinker.
@@thatONEmachine scorcese
@@thatONEmachine Paul Thomas Anderson.
nolan is like micheal bay that can actually do his job
He should have used cgi for this seen it was pretty underwhelming
In no way was making this film comparable to the real Trinity project. 😅 Sometimes he can be a bit dillusional as a director.
Would love to see Nolan direct another World War movie depicting the actual horrors of war.
Dunkirk
Why? There are SO many out there doing that. Most recently, watch 1917 and All Quiet on the Western Front.
@@twilium1284All quiet on the Western front was sh!te. 1917 was better.
Nope movie shud be made on THE GR8 DEPRESSION of 30s
Dunkirk, 1917, Saving Private Ryan, and about 6,542 others.
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......
David Lynch. TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN. Part Eight.
It would have been nice if this kind of praise when Lynch's way.
Nolan really out here time travelling to give us the best cinema experiences.
5:37 how nolan "built" an atomic bomb
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.
yeah the famous "big red button" is mostly for theatrical purposes
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
@@quistador7 Dead Man's Switch. Makes sense now.
@@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.
@@quistador7 That's the button Josh Peck was holding his hand over.
So excited to watch Oppenheimer, Nolan always makes the best movies 👏👏👏👏🫡
The behind the scenes that comes out in a few months will be incredible.
The explosion was terrible, it looked nothing like a nuclear explosion. They should have used CGI for that, sometimes you just can't be better than thou.
Bro googled Atomic bomb and just checked the shopping section
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.
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.
@@DeShark88 How do you think it could have been done better in movie form?
@@pluspluspluspluspby actually having an ear shattering explosion, the whole nuke scene was the most underwhelming thing of the 2020’s
@@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.
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.
Film was great, explosion was extremely disappointing
The explosion was very weak for atomic, he should of used cgi to make it more believable.
Love how Nolan is crediting every member of the team from visual artists to DOP. 👏🏻
For what? What did they do? The explosion was extremely weak.
@@Robonightthe3rd Did you watch the movie? It's absolutely amazing
@@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 😊
@@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)
also lol and obviously
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.
Too bad his atomic bomb looked like classic Hollywood barrels explosion. It's second time when his obsession about not using CGI, only damaged the movie rather than reinforce, Dunkirk being the first one.
Yeah Dunkirk was cool but he should have filled that beach out with soldiers even if it needed CGI.
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 👽..
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.
@@HokkaidoSan It's a biography, it is supposed to be boring.
@@HokkaidoSanfirst of all; dunkirk was not his last movie, second, it was great you’re just slow
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?
The image of a movie director asking the government for permission to detonate a nuclear bomb is hilarious to me lol
You know we stopped testing nukes in the 60's right?
@@PWN3GE
So how do they know if the bombs they make now work then?
How Nolan built the bomb and learned to stop worrying about the effects
The explosion in the film was so anticlimactic 😂 seen better fireworks
the explosions was underwhelming
I'm just glad Michael Bay isn't directing this one
Next Hiroshima movie from James/Jim Cameron!