news culture A blow to Oppenheimer, a major historical error would have been made by Christopher Nolan’s film
Oppenheimer was released in cinemas a few days ago and attracted millions of viewers. He’s a hit. However, some fans have already noticed a mistake in Christopher Nolan’s biography…
A historical error crept in at Oppenheimer and a fan noticed it. As a reminder, the film follows the story of Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.”
That was fine, but I’ll be the guy to complain that they used 50 star flags in a 1945 scene.
Remember the scene from Cillian Murphy’s character speech. This occurs in 1945, shortly after Japan’s first two uses of nuclear weapons. And the viewer sees many people waving American flags. If you pay attention, you can count the stars there: 50 of them represent the 50 states.. So far no problem. On the other hand, only 48 stars really existed there at the time. In fact, Alaska and Hawaii were not part of the United States. A mistake that is not repeated in another scene, which has a flag in the background, this time with the correct number of stars.
A film without CGI
Christopher Nolan is known for not using much CGI in these projects. And that is also the case with Oppenheimer, who staged the test nuclear bomb called Trinity. The director had already expressed his wish to use computers only when necessary. He elaborated on this point in an interview with Collider:
I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography. No matter how sophisticated your computer generated images are, if they are created from any physical element (…) they will look like an animation.
A choice he made in most of those feature films, such as in “Tenet” where he actually crashed a plane in a hangar. As for “Inception,” he recreated an entire corridor that rotated around itself as needed for a sequence. A video of the implementation of the project is available on youtube.
