Yes, absolutely! Reminds me of good interview books with famous directors (which expand on this approach, of course) such as "Hitchcock/Truffaut" or "Bergman on Bergman" (Bergman became a far more difficult and demanding interview object in his later years but the 1970 interview book is amazing; he's fun, incisive, unguarded, generous with praise for his actors and willing to accept the blame for shortcomings by himself - he seems totally at ease and eager to share his love of films, theatre and filmmaking)
Probably one of the most impactful movies I've ever watched. I'll remember where and when I saw this for the rest of my days, not many movies do that. Thank you Mr Nolan
I'm an avid student of history and actually have a connection however distant with the Manhattan Project. The film really moved me and can hopefully spur thought conversation and real action on nuclear non proliferation . Brilliant movie
@@cejannuzi And who are you ? Oppenheimer's grandson ? The movie is based on a book . It can't be 100% real . As shown in the movie with the color grading
@@Zeeves hmm. My brother got his master's in history with a specialization on WWII at NMSU which is about 1 hour from the Trinity site and he really liked the movie. The movie is meant to tell the story of Oppenheimer himself, not the entirety on the nuclear arms race and WWII . I thought they portrayed the horrors of what was created quite well, I mean the ending of the movie leaves you with a feeling of complete dread of what could one day come. Anyways my brother also transcribed a lot of the papers found at Los Alamos that were in German to archive them at NMSU, he's very knowledgeable on the entire situation and thought the movie was very well done, as did I.
After going to watch it tonight in the theaters Chistopher Nolan has done something in film making that no other filmmaker has done. Oppenhiemer was brilliant and could see it winning many awards in the future.
Great interview Ari. What a timely message this movie is and Nolan's insights run pretty deep. The questions and comparisons you make are on point, Ari.
This host is flirting on the edges of spoiler territory to "push" Nolan on subject matter he hasn't confronted with in other promotional interviews. Bravo sir.
I've been watching interviews about this film for a couple of hours now and this one was the most interesting. I love that Ari Melber pusshed him to explain some points I wondered as well.
Same here, saw movie opening day & have watched a dozen+ interviews then this just came up today..... incredible! I'm in science, space geek really, am sharing with my son far away who saw it & we discussed last night!
I looked at that photo of Truman and Churchill sitting together and thought about how Gary Oldman has played both of them brilliantly now. It’s an incredible movie. Up there with Memento and The Dark Knight among my favourites. Just so powerful, with an ending that’s worth the three hours in the cinema. Do yourselves a favour. Go see it. ✌️
Other films worrying about actors not being able to promote them because of the ongoing strike. Oppenheimer smoking a casual joint because Christopher Nolan is the star.
I really prefer these interviews with directors to those with actors, I hope this becomes more of a trend moving forward even after the strike ends. Not likely though.
I think Nolan is discovering one of the pluses of working with Universal. The parent company owns NBC and MSNBC, both of which have heavily featured Oppenheimer.
OPPENHEIMER will win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Sound SFX, possibly Best Music and Best Supporting Actor (RDJ). I see 8 or 9 of those gold-plated statues for this picture. He feels he's in the "foothills" of his career, not at the summit. Incredible. I can't think of a single director today that can match this kind inspired cinema. After seeing Oppenheimer, those of us making movies are thinking "I'll never, ever get close to this level of filmmaking."
There's still Napoleon and Dune part 2 upcoming. Denis was robbed from best director for Dune part 1, and Joaquin is liked by fans+ he already looks phenomenal in the trailers. Was Oppenheimer one of my fav oat? Yes. But Christopher Nolan isn't loved by the oscars
Pretty close to being spot on, my friend. Only fell short by 1 or 2, but still....it more or less won all the major categories😍. Nolan, is a genius and visionary and is by far the best film-maker out there today, Yeah, his peers respect him (heard the story about Matt Damon with his wife, in therapy?), but i also dont think he gets enough credit he deserves. He is a master of his craft, and for me, he is on Mount Rushmore of the greatest film-makers ever. I certainly cant think of any other director whose multiple movies i've enjoyed (and watch over and over), besides Scorcese. Paul Thomas Anderson, is also a very interesting film maker, and is slowly creeping up on my Mount Rushmore👌
No one can know for sure, but it's very plausible that nuclear deterrence -- and in particular the risk that conventional war would escalate to nuclear war -- has prevented major conventional wars and thus saved many lives. It's the elites who don't risk getting killed or wounded in conventional wars who are relatively less safe due to the risk of nuclear catastrophe.
@@pickitypopsnickitylovejone6558 : How do you define "close?" And how many times do you believe we were "close" to nuclear annihilation? It's undeniable that there haven't been any wars fought between nuclear powers. So how do you prove your claim that deterrence is only a myth? Fear of nuclear escalation has deterred Ukraine's allies from supplying long range weapons to Ukraine.
Nolan: "Yeahhhh, I'm just not sure how we'll be able to get a nuclear explosion in camera without visual effects--how big was the Trinity test explosion?" Physicist: "Well a re-analysis in 2021 showed that the Trinity detonation had a yield of about 104 terajoules, or 25 kilotons of TNT, but at the time they thought--" Nolan: "Wait, 25 what?" Physicist: "Kilotons of TNT, 25,000 tons." Nolan: "Okay then we'll just do that." Physicist: "Wait, do what?"
Slow down dude, the build up was amazing… the explosion scene underwhelming… Nolan didn’t even bothered to replicate the mushroom cloud and scale of the real explosion as accurately as you claim, his love for practical effects just made a random explosion in slow motion, most overhyped moment of the movie…
@@acfan8253The explosion wasn't the point of the movie. Everyone alive knows what that looked like. Also ICYMI he refuses to use CGI. Watch other I reviews & listen. Sorry you missed the actual point of the entire movie. Maybe watch again after listening to actual reason he made it. Or just Google.
@@joanneweiss3864 I know Nolan refuses to use CGI but still was underwhelming given the hype people gave about that trinity scene. I don’t missed the point. There is a lot of buzz about that scene in particular and it is highly overhyped. Denis Villeneuve and David Fincher would have a achieve a bigger sense of scale with half the budget.
@@acfan8253 Where in my comment do I claim any specific level of accuracy he achieved? It's called a joke. Tf are you on about, are you a crazy person?
In the biography American Prometheus, witnesses at Trinity test paint Robert Oppenheimer as super relieved upon reaping a successful result, to the extent of glowing and strutting with pride as he should be. The Los Alamos scientists even held parties celebrating the successful test, as well as ones after successful deployment of a-bombs on Japan. As a director leading the project, Robert had to put up a veil of triumph to encourage and reassure the hundreds of scientists involved at Los Alamos. He was cognizant everyone sacrificed years of their lives for this bomb. Robert left these celebratory venues early, avoiding to bask in cheers knowing the human consequences. As time passed, hearing actual atrocities and seeing footage of burned victims of Japanese women and children after Hiroshima & Nagasaki broke many scientists, including Robert.
Can't wait to see Nolan's latest masterpiece! Here's to hoping for a long and storied career! Nolan has a way of bringing cinema to life and creating depth in an industry that reeks of cheap corporate facades. If he is looking for a new project, I think a movie about a person living in a semi-fictional dystopian society reminiscent of North Korea or other extremely fascist and insane regimes would be a very interesting and ominous film that could really demonstrate the importance of personal liberty and freedom, but I would probably watch anything Christopher Nolan creates and directs
That point about Putin right now really emphasises why this is such an important time for a film like this and how that ending really scares you knowing it could very easily happen very soon
Why name Putin? Surely, Ukraine is the US Uniparty state plot to destabilise Russia with Biden, Blinken and Nuland as key conspirators and the deep state neoCons cheering from the sidelines while Ukraine and EU are fatally destroyed fighting a US proxy war.
Great answer. Asking someone what it feels like to be "at the summit" or saying they are at the "peak" of their career implies that it will be downhill from there. "I'm only in the foothills" he says. Who else can't wait to see what Nolan throws at us next??
Just saw Oppenheimer yesterday and am still shaken. Will see again. I can't believe this doesn't have far more views. I loved Nolan's elucidation of how Oppenheimer 'saw' the nuclear light and his artistic interpretation of that. It makes the soundless, light-filled moments when Oppenheimer is being interrogated so much more meaningful. I look forward to seeing it again.
When I was in jr. High school , President Kennedy, was trying to keep nuclear weapons from being put in cuba by the russians . We had drills to let local authorities determine if any of us could get home from school before an atomic bomb was dropped . My dad laughed and said " kitten , if a bomb was dropped here , your but is toast . And you would be lucky . You would not want to survive to face life after , the bomb ."
"ok what can that tell us about the responsibilities that we bear for the unintended consequences of a technology that we put out there, so they're at least asking the questions" Nolan really knows how to speak to our times, thank you! everyone needs to see this movie. History is about to repeat itself, god speed
I know he's pretty far above this, but it would make so much sense for Nolan to do the Metal Gear Solid adaptation. He thoughts on nuclear disarmament mirrors that of Kojima's. Also, I think deep down Nolan loves a good grounded action flick with Science-fiction woven into it. I mean, Nolan's past works are clear examples of that.
This should be seen as like the modern day "The Day After" and "Threads" about the dangers of Nuclear War. Just like how reagan went to see "The Day After", it was so gut-wrenching, he made a call to gorbachev to sign a nucler non-proliferation to reduce nuclear weapons development and use it for the better of mankind in the name of peace. Too bad we have a bunch of oldheads and warmongers wanting to escalate conflict.
Nah, it's overhyped bs because nuclear sells more media attention. No one will use nukes, Putin's own people would stop him. He and his allies however spend a lot on propaganda to prop up the threats as legit, and major channels jump on it, because as mentioned earlier, it gets attention. But ask any legit international expert: it's a paper tiger.
Movies deserve Oscar in many category. Specially director writer but Now how media & US national security takes these movie easy or bad at the current scenario. Interview shows that symptoms
20:05, "Oppenheimer...was never on the battlefield" Yes he was. He was in a capsized boat at the battle of Dunkirk! And Niels Bohr was a general in charge of the evacuation! /s
To this day, I always thought that ferry scene was a little awkward in Dark Knight. Nobody on those ferries thought to stop and think, what if those detonators triggered their own explosives?
can someone explain to me please, why MSNBC shows pictures of Einstein in the 1940s an '50s while Nolan talks about the presentation skills of Oppenheimer?
It wasn't until I had already watched this til the end that I realized: this is Nolan crossing the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines to promote the film, and MSNBC enabling that. Shame.
This movie made me think about the world and its intended feeling for the movie was to make you feel dread for the creation that was made. I love hownit made me think about how much power each country in this planet hold. That we could end ourselves if we ever had a wring day. It's such a sick but enticing feeling. Not only that but also how we were able to reach such a level to achieve something only stories and fiction once foretold. Hunanity has the power to end celestial objects while also holding that same power to not end ourselves. Honestly Oppenheimer is the greatest movie Chris has ever made. I'm glad he made this film and no matter what anyone says the 3 hours were worth it.
Many of the scientists and engineers who were working on the Manhattan project were young men of draft age , and all of them had their draft status deferred so that they could work on the bomb . So a lot was riding on this thing , and whether it would work , for these guys for this reason . When the Trinity test was a success , there was much relief among those scientists , at all levels . They had just proved that they were can do guys .
I saw another Oppenheimer review tonight and cried for an hour. I'm preparing to see the movie this weekend. But after living in Los Alamos for (on and off) 13 years, I didn't the realize the trauma of living there until tonight. Feeling really heavy about this, but think it will be a healing process for me. Thanks in advance, Nolan. It's a story that needs to be told. This is our history. I so miss New Mexico and my home, and the place. But I had to get away from it. Even Nolan had as no idea of what Los Alamos is, you have no idea what' it's like to live there.
Cool Byline, MSNBC!! I love how on mobile this doesn't look like an interview w Christopher Nolan and, instead, looks like a very scary update on Russian Nuclear escalation against Ukraine. It's funny that this movie releases at a time when like drones strikes are like openly known about really makes you wonder why nuclear weapons would ever be used like at all ever the movie rly got me thinkin great movie
Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft… Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft… Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft… as a Seinfeld fan I kept thinking this, haha.
Putin's nukes don't belong in Russia. In the Oppenheimer movie, Truman tells Robert that the Soviets will never get the bomb. R Oppenheimer explains that he wants the United Nations to follow Roosevelt's example and recognize that this technology must be managed by a world government.
It comes down to a simple question. Nuclear weapons were going to be developed. So would you rather have the US be the first country to make one? Or some other country?
I hope I'm not overstepping here, but is Chris Nolan doing interviews because the actors are on strike? I understand that he wrote it, but he's the director so perhaps that's like a loophole.
I dont think its because the strike necessarily, I think he just genuinely loves his work, and is successful enough to invest in these projects, and is reassuring people that the film industry isn't exactly dead just yet, despite the circumstances. Primarily its just a high demand from people interested in the film who want to hear what he has to say.
Nolan is carrying the movie promotional campaign on his shoulders with the actors strike going on. Nolan is an absolute legend
Tbh it’s working. I can’t wait to see Cillian’s performance, especially, but Nolan was always the real draw for me.
He’s literally showing up everywhere. What a schedule he must have
True, I think he has never given so many interviews for any other movie before. Also, I hope he finally gets an Oscar for best director for this.
@@Stefan_1306 he don't need that woke 💩
I have seen just as many of the main cast doing interviews as Nolan, i think they all have had some excellent interviews to promote the movie.
This is what happens when a perceptive interviewer and an articulate artist meet- a brilliant, thoughtful conversation. Thank you both!
Biden is war monger
Yes, absolutely! Reminds me of good interview books with famous directors (which expand on this approach, of course) such as "Hitchcock/Truffaut" or "Bergman on Bergman" (Bergman became a far more difficult and demanding interview object in his later years but the 1970 interview book is amazing; he's fun, incisive, unguarded, generous with praise for his actors and willing to accept the blame for shortcomings by himself - he seems totally at ease and eager to share his love of films, theatre and filmmaking)
Just came out of the theater. Nolan has definitely broken all barriers and exceeded his talent to an uncharted level.
"We certainly can't rely on the relationship between media, science and politics to produce something of purity of intention"
Speaks volumes
Probably one of the most impactful movies I've ever watched. I'll remember where and when I saw this for the rest of my days, not many movies do that. Thank you Mr Nolan
I'm an avid student of history and actually have a connection however distant with the Manhattan Project. The film really moved me and can hopefully spur thought conversation and real action on nuclear non proliferation . Brilliant movie
It's sad that this is how you get any grasp of history. Sad.
@@cejannuzi And who are you ? Oppenheimer's grandson ? The movie is based on a book . It can't be 100% real . As shown in the movie with the color grading
@@Zeeves hmm. My brother got his master's in history with a specialization on WWII at NMSU which is about 1 hour from the Trinity site and he really liked the movie. The movie is meant to tell the story of Oppenheimer himself, not the entirety on the nuclear arms race and WWII . I thought they portrayed the horrors of what was created quite well, I mean the ending of the movie leaves you with a feeling of complete dread of what could one day come. Anyways my brother also transcribed a lot of the papers found at Los Alamos that were in German to archive them at NMSU, he's very knowledgeable on the entire situation and thought the movie was very well done, as did I.
After going to watch it tonight in the theaters Chistopher Nolan has done something in film making that no other filmmaker has done. Oppenhiemer was brilliant and could see it winning many awards in the future.
Nolan reminds me of Spielberg
Nolan is better than Spielberg imo.
Great interview Ari. What a timely message this movie is and Nolan's insights run pretty deep.
The questions and comparisons you make are on point, Ari.
Bwhahahahaha.
Ari. A paid to manufacture consent msm muppet.
This host is flirting on the edges of spoiler territory to "push" Nolan on subject matter he hasn't confronted with in other promotional interviews. Bravo sir.
This is surprisingly the best interview for Nolan on this press tour
This is an incredible interview. Thank you, Ari.
I've been watching interviews about this film for a couple of hours now and this one was the most interesting. I love that Ari Melber pusshed him to explain some points I wondered as well.
Great interview Ari. So glad i finally found this longer interview. Such a timely release for this film.
Same here, saw movie opening day & have watched a dozen+ interviews then this just came up today..... incredible! I'm in science, space geek really, am sharing with my son far away who saw it & we discussed last night!
I looked at that photo of Truman and Churchill sitting together and thought about how Gary Oldman has played both of them brilliantly now. It’s an incredible movie. Up there with Memento and The Dark Knight among my favourites. Just so powerful, with an ending that’s worth the three hours in the cinema. Do yourselves a favour. Go see it. ✌️
Ironically, he probably visually resembles stalin even more
@@KumoCC : Now you’re just giving him ideas. 😉
Other films worrying about actors not being able to promote them because of the ongoing strike.
Oppenheimer smoking a casual joint because Christopher Nolan is the star.
He's the star director. His name sold tickets. Just like Tarantino and James Cameron
I really prefer these interviews with directors to those with actors, I hope this becomes more of a trend moving forward even after the strike ends. Not likely though.
@@Implicit_Truth most people go to theater for movie star. So it's unlikely to happen in the future.
Great discussion.
I think Nolan is discovering one of the pluses of working with Universal. The parent company owns NBC and MSNBC, both of which have heavily featured Oppenheimer.
Warner has cnn.
And pro-bomb concern in GBN, UK's answer to FOX® - Mr "@@rr.martin5614".
working for Robertses.* There! FTFY 😑
This has to be his best interview for new/upcoming film releases.
Nolan is one of the leading champions of modern filmmaking.
Oppenheimer is his masterpiece.
Dark knight is his masterpiece, this was top 3 for him
OPPENHEIMER will win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Sound SFX, possibly Best Music and Best Supporting Actor (RDJ). I see 8 or 9 of those gold-plated statues for this picture. He feels he's in the "foothills" of his career, not at the summit. Incredible. I can't think of a single director today that can match this kind inspired cinema. After seeing Oppenheimer, those of us making movies are thinking "I'll never, ever get close to this level of filmmaking."
There's still Napoleon and Dune part 2 upcoming. Denis was robbed from best director for Dune part 1, and Joaquin is liked by fans+ he already looks phenomenal in the trailers. Was Oppenheimer one of my fav oat? Yes. But Christopher Nolan isn't loved by the oscars
Pretty close to being spot on, my friend. Only fell short by 1 or 2, but still....it more or less won all the major categories😍. Nolan, is a genius and visionary and is by far the best film-maker out there today, Yeah, his peers respect him (heard the story about Matt Damon with his wife, in therapy?), but i also dont think he gets enough credit he deserves. He is a master of his craft, and for me, he is on Mount Rushmore of the greatest film-makers ever. I certainly cant think of any other director whose multiple movies i've enjoyed (and watch over and over), besides Scorcese. Paul Thomas Anderson, is also a very interesting film maker, and is slowly creeping up on my Mount Rushmore👌
No one can know for sure, but it's very plausible that nuclear deterrence -- and in particular the risk that conventional war would escalate to nuclear war -- has prevented major conventional wars and thus saved many lives. It's the elites who don't risk getting killed or wounded in conventional wars who are relatively less safe due to the risk of nuclear catastrophe.
True. Imagine a world where Russia is the only country with nukes. They would have invaded and subjugated Europe and Asia a long time ago.
Are Atomic Bombs bad = Yes, BUT....
You have no idea how many times we got close to nuclear annihilation. We won't always be that lucky. Deterrance is a myth.
@@pickitypopsnickitylovejone6558 : How do you define "close?" And how many times do you believe we were "close" to nuclear annihilation?
It's undeniable that there haven't been any wars fought between nuclear powers. So how do you prove your claim that deterrence is only a myth?
Fear of nuclear escalation has deterred Ukraine's allies from supplying long range weapons to Ukraine.
@@brothermine2292 look up nuclear close calls. 1995 humanity almost ended
Nolan is as handsome as a hollywood leading man wow
True. Good Chris has a good jawline. These 2 are about the same age ~52.
Nolan: "Yeahhhh, I'm just not sure how we'll be able to get a nuclear explosion in camera without visual effects--how big was the Trinity test explosion?"
Physicist: "Well a re-analysis in 2021 showed that the Trinity detonation had a yield of about 104 terajoules, or 25 kilotons of TNT, but at the time they thought--"
Nolan: "Wait, 25 what?"
Physicist: "Kilotons of TNT, 25,000 tons."
Nolan: "Okay then we'll just do that."
Physicist: "Wait, do what?"
The real question is would anyone complain if he actually captured a real nuke explosion wirh IMAX cameras 🤔
Slow down dude, the build up was amazing… the explosion scene underwhelming… Nolan didn’t even bothered to replicate the mushroom cloud and scale of the real explosion as accurately as you claim, his love for practical effects just made a random explosion in slow motion, most overhyped moment of the movie…
@@acfan8253The explosion wasn't the point of the movie. Everyone alive knows what that looked like. Also ICYMI he refuses to use CGI. Watch other I reviews & listen. Sorry you missed the actual point of the entire movie. Maybe watch again after listening to actual reason he made it. Or just Google.
@@joanneweiss3864 I know Nolan refuses to use CGI but still was underwhelming given the hype people gave about that trinity scene. I don’t missed the point. There is a lot of buzz about that scene in particular and it is highly overhyped.
Denis Villeneuve and David Fincher would have a achieve a bigger sense of scale with half the budget.
@@acfan8253 Where in my comment do I claim any specific level of accuracy he achieved? It's called a joke. Tf are you on about, are you a crazy person?
In the biography American Prometheus, witnesses at Trinity test paint Robert Oppenheimer as super relieved upon reaping a successful result, to the extent of glowing and strutting with pride as he should be. The Los Alamos scientists even held parties celebrating the successful test, as well as ones after successful deployment of a-bombs on Japan. As a director leading the project, Robert had to put up a veil of triumph to encourage and reassure the hundreds of scientists involved at Los Alamos. He was cognizant everyone sacrificed years of their lives for this bomb. Robert left these celebratory venues early, avoiding to bask in cheers knowing the human consequences. As time passed, hearing actual atrocities and seeing footage of burned victims of Japanese women and children after Hiroshima & Nagasaki broke many scientists, including Robert.
@@hundredfireify Loved that tragic animation film, based on Japanese director's real life guilt over the death of his sister when they were young.
Can't wait to see Nolan's latest masterpiece! Here's to hoping for a long and storied career! Nolan has a way of bringing cinema to life and creating depth in an industry that reeks of cheap corporate facades. If he is looking for a new project, I think a movie about a person living in a semi-fictional dystopian society reminiscent of North Korea or other extremely fascist and insane regimes would be a very interesting and ominous film that could really demonstrate the importance of personal liberty and freedom, but I would probably watch anything Christopher Nolan creates and directs
What a brilliant movie idea🎉
if more movies had this kind of gravitas maybe cinema would not be dying
Great interview, Ari! I love how much access we have to Mr. Nolan now.
Score! Great interview Ari 🎉
Excellent show Ari!!!
That point about Putin right now really emphasises why this is such an important time for a film like this and how that ending really scares you knowing it could very easily happen very soon
Why name Putin? Surely, Ukraine is the US Uniparty state plot to destabilise Russia with Biden, Blinken and Nuland as key conspirators and the deep state neoCons cheering from the sidelines while Ukraine and EU are fatally destroyed fighting a US proxy war.
Love, love, love. Thank you very, very much.
Excellent interview Ari♥️
Awesome questions great interview Nolan is best director of our time.
Mr. Nolan's foot-hills are extraordinary.
Great interview! Very thought worthy!
Great answer. Asking someone what it feels like to be "at the summit" or saying they are at the "peak" of their career implies that it will be downhill from there. "I'm only in the foothills" he says. Who else can't wait to see what Nolan throws at us next??
Just saw Oppenheimer yesterday and am still shaken. Will see again. I can't believe this doesn't have far more views. I loved Nolan's elucidation of how Oppenheimer 'saw' the nuclear light and his artistic interpretation of that. It makes the soundless, light-filled moments when Oppenheimer is being interrogated so much more meaningful. I look forward to seeing it again.
Great, professional interview!
Great interview!
Killing interview Ari!!
This is one of his best movies.... and..... not quite like his other ones.
The best interview I've seen in some time.
surprising to see nolan everwhere, usually very reclusive man
With the actor strike happening, the main leads of this film can’t be interviewed, so Nolan is going out on tour instead.
Huge dark knight fan
Great interview !!
❤ I've been watching a lot of these Oppenheimer interviews since I've watched the movie!
At a decommissioned ICBM silo tour,yes, takes 2 service members to turn the keys and only one to "push the button. "
Very insightful interview
Loved this!
When I was in jr. High school , President Kennedy, was trying to keep nuclear weapons from being put in cuba by the russians .
We had drills to let local authorities determine if any of us could get home from school before an atomic bomb was dropped .
My dad laughed and said " kitten , if a bomb was dropped here , your but is toast . And you would be lucky . You would not want to survive to face life after , the bomb ."
After seeing the movie I'm just here following the oppenheimer rabbit hole. But indeed a great interview.
Excellent and insightful interview. I watched it twice, once before seeing the film and, now, after. Very glad I did.
"ok what can that tell us about the responsibilities that we bear for the unintended consequences of a technology that we put out there, so they're at least asking the questions"
Nolan really knows how to speak to our times, thank you! everyone needs to see this movie. History is about to repeat itself, god speed
That was a great show 👍👍
Huge Cristifer Nolan fan especially Memento
RUclips algo keeps feeding me Nolan, and I welcome it.
I know he's pretty far above this, but it would make so much sense for Nolan to do the Metal Gear Solid adaptation. He thoughts on nuclear disarmament mirrors that of Kojima's. Also, I think deep down Nolan loves a good grounded action flick with Science-fiction woven into it. I mean, Nolan's past works are clear examples of that.
100% Agree. And his love for action isn’t even deep down. He recently shot his shot to direct the next James Bond movie.
Wonderful interview! Oh my gosh!
Excellent interview and summary of the movie
This should be seen as like the modern day "The Day After" and "Threads" about the dangers of Nuclear War. Just like how reagan went to see "The Day After", it was so gut-wrenching, he made a call to gorbachev to sign a nucler non-proliferation to reduce nuclear weapons development and use it for the better of mankind in the name of peace.
Too bad we have a bunch of oldheads and warmongers wanting to escalate conflict.
Nah, it's overhyped bs because nuclear sells more media attention. No one will use nukes, Putin's own people would stop him. He and his allies however spend a lot on propaganda to prop up the threats as legit, and major channels jump on it, because as mentioned earlier, it gets attention. But ask any legit international expert: it's a paper tiger.
That Reagan Story Is bs😂
It's not about having won it's about having fought well
I like this a lot
Movies deserve Oscar in many category. Specially director writer but Now how media & US national security takes these movie easy or bad at the current scenario. Interview shows that symptoms
20:05, "Oppenheimer...was never on the battlefield"
Yes he was. He was in a capsized boat at the battle of Dunkirk! And Niels Bohr was a general in charge of the evacuation!
/s
To this day, I always thought that ferry scene was a little awkward in Dark Knight. Nobody on those ferries thought to stop and think, what if those detonators triggered their own explosives?
can someone explain to me please, why MSNBC shows pictures of Einstein in the 1940s an '50s while Nolan talks about the presentation skills of Oppenheimer?
I noticed that too lol
The movie is made to keep you off your cellphone, he doesn’t let any scene breathe, it’s bam bam next scene next scene.
All movies are made to turn your cellphone off.
Nolan is a ‘wise’ guy! Interesting discussion!
Bomb destroying the world was like the odds you get with a lottery ticket
Incredible Movie and am a great follower of Director Christopher Nolan movies 💖
It wasn't until I had already watched this til the end that I realized: this is Nolan crossing the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines to promote the film, and MSNBC enabling that. Shame.
he needs to be in a lex friedman podcast asap
"Can't we just nuke a hurricane?"
- Trump
A Hurricane has much more energy than a nuclear explosion
Love those films. Best Batman films.
Interview starts at 1:42
Such an intelligent and very articulated man… fascinating
What an excellent interview Ari, definitely one of your best ever. Agreeing 100% with @aninjaguardian - Christopher Nolan is a bloody legend!!
This movie made me think about the world and its intended feeling for the movie was to make you feel dread for the creation that was made. I love hownit made me think about how much power each country in this planet hold. That we could end ourselves if we ever had a wring day. It's such a sick but enticing feeling. Not only that but also how we were able to reach such a level to achieve something only stories and fiction once foretold. Hunanity has the power to end celestial objects while also holding that same power to not end ourselves. Honestly Oppenheimer is the greatest movie Chris has ever made. I'm glad he made this film and no matter what anyone says the 3 hours were worth it.
Love seeing a journalist saying you can’t trust the media 😂😂
Amazing movie. Saw it yesterday and it was riveting. Mr. Nolan knows how to make a movie. It did not.feel like three hours.
Many of the scientists and engineers who were working on the Manhattan project were young men of draft age , and all of them had their draft status deferred so that they could work on the bomb . So a lot was riding on this thing , and whether it would work , for these guys for this reason . When the Trinity test was a success , there was much relief among those scientists , at all levels . They had just proved that they were can do guys .
beautiful & amazing movie . 10/10
I saw another Oppenheimer review tonight and cried for an hour. I'm preparing to see the movie this weekend. But after living in Los Alamos for (on and off) 13 years, I didn't the realize the trauma of living there until tonight. Feeling really heavy about this, but think it will be a healing process for me. Thanks in advance, Nolan. It's a story that needs to be told. This is our history. I so miss New Mexico and my home, and the place. But I had to get away from it. Even Nolan had as no idea of what Los Alamos is, you have no idea what' it's like to live there.
brilliant questions with brilliant answers, the interview itself dial up the whole Oppenheimer experience to another level 👍👍
I feel the need to go watch it again
What is Ari writing down?
Cool Byline, MSNBC!! I love how on mobile this doesn't look like an interview w Christopher Nolan and, instead, looks like a very scary update on Russian Nuclear escalation against Ukraine. It's funny that this movie releases at a time when like drones strikes are like openly known about really makes you wonder why nuclear weapons would ever be used like at all ever the movie rly got me thinkin great movie
Christopher Nolan is a fantastic and intelligent film maker who has made awesome films!!
Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft… Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft… Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft… as a Seinfeld fan I kept thinking this, haha.
Might be the most important film of all time
Interviewer is most probably talking about Tenet. Where powerful and evil person decided to use nuclear time weapon.
"Brilliant intellects are capable of incredible rationalizations"
Yup, got his tea flask with him, as usual. This guy is so british, that when he sits down for dinner, any ketchup instantly turns to brown sauce.
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Loved this movie!! Got what I wanted and more!!!!
The Oppenheimer movie is 3 hours long. Bring lots of popcorn. 🍿🍺
He said 'theatricality' 😉👍
Putin's nukes don't belong in Russia. In the Oppenheimer movie, Truman tells Robert that the Soviets will never get the bomb. R Oppenheimer explains that he wants the United Nations to follow Roosevelt's example and recognize that this technology must be managed by a world government.
Film director or philosopher?
It comes down to a simple question. Nuclear weapons were going to be developed. So would you rather have the US be the first country to make one? Or some other country?
Nolan. Is a great filmmaker. In a ten years. He could be with Hitchcock!
I hope he sticks to non CGI shot on film
Does Ari know that nukes were dropped on Japan not Germany?
Wait what so this boom will be created with or without Oppenheimer
I hope I'm not overstepping here, but is Chris Nolan doing interviews because the actors are on strike?
I understand that he wrote it, but he's the director so perhaps that's like a loophole.
Someone have to do it. He's in writter guild, but he can't let his movie without any promotion. He work for 3-4 years to make Oppenheimer
@yohanespaskal9352 he's allowed to promote it as he's a producer on the film too. He's now not writing anything, but he can promote the film.
Yes and the fact that Universal owns NBC.
I dont think its because the strike necessarily, I think he just genuinely loves his work, and is successful enough to invest in these projects, and is reassuring people that the film industry isn't exactly dead just yet, despite the circumstances. Primarily its just a high demand from people interested in the film who want to hear what he has to say.