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Similarities to today: Discarding heroes when they're no longer useful. Name a few.

Interenting: Casey Affleck and Rami Malek playing secondary roles in the film after being leading men in other movies. Work in Hollywood's gotta be hard to come by.

1 posted on 07/27/2023 8:21:52 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Is it Woke like the Barbie movie ?


2 posted on 07/27/2023 8:22:58 AM PDT by butlerweave
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*Similarities to today: Discarding heroes when they’re no longer useful. Name a few.*

Churchill after WW2 was won. Bush ‘41 after Kuwait. Trump. Trent Dilfer-lol.


3 posted on 07/27/2023 8:24:32 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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Teller and Fermi were more vital to the project.


4 posted on 07/27/2023 8:25:55 AM PDT by EEGator
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Why?


5 posted on 07/27/2023 8:27:40 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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if he actually fooled around then I don’t see the problem I prefer the truth. Would have been refreshing to know about JFK and LBJ and Clinton sooner.


6 posted on 07/27/2023 8:28:02 AM PDT by coalminersson
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Casey Affleck was really good in ‘Gone, Baby Gone’ but I like all of Dennis LeHane’s mysteries. He was very much the ‘Patrick’ I had in my head from the books. Easy on the eyes, too. ;)

Rami Malek blew me away as Freddy Mercury.

‘Oppenheimer’ was recommended to me by the 20’s something young man who was my cashier at the grocery store last week. I was going to pass on that recommendation, alone. LOL!


7 posted on 07/27/2023 8:31:49 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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Did the movie address Oppenheimer’s Communist activities, his connection to Soviet intelligence, or his name being mentioned in the Venona decrypts that disclosed Soviet spying? If so, he was probably portrayed as a victim of the “McCarthy Witch Hunt.”


8 posted on 07/27/2023 8:32:05 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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I have not seen the movie, but it looks similar to a movie made about Alfred Kinsey, the sex therapist. Like Kinsey, Oppenheimer is a secular “saint” worthy of a hagiography.


9 posted on 07/27/2023 8:34:07 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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You can’t trust Hollywood to present a reasonable case in any matter anymore. They can be trusted to twist history and constantly piss on your leg saying it’s raining.


10 posted on 07/27/2023 8:36:58 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Work’s not that hard to come by, but Nolan has a high profile, stars will take small rolls just to work with him. Matt Damon had agreed to take a couple years off for his wife, but Nolan was his “hall pass” in their discussion, and then Nolan called. That’s his prestige level.

As for his fooling around, it’s part of why he lost his clearance, so it seemed to be important to somebody.

I thought it was a great movie.


12 posted on 07/27/2023 8:40:23 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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Interenting: Casey Affleck and Rami Malek playing secondary roles in the film after being leading men in other movies.

They probably wanted to work with director Christopher Nolan, in any capacity.

14 posted on 07/27/2023 8:41:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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I saw it in an IMAX theater and wish I had taken my noise-cancelling headphones. I’m no where near as hard of hearing as I thought I was. Jeez, that was loud.


16 posted on 07/27/2023 8:46:33 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Marxist sympathizers are no heroes.


17 posted on 07/27/2023 8:46:41 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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I saw it last night on 70mm.
I’ve been a amateur nuclear historian since before I was in HS.
Technically and historically, the film was very accurate.
Of course visually stunning.

Jean Turlock was actually a Red Sparrow working for the Soviets and was recruiting other women to be come mistresses for other scientists.
Its not widely reported as its a fairly recent discovery from Russian documents.

The casting of Jean was wrong.
No guy would throw away his life for that bi***.
His wife was ok but nothing special.

There were about 15-20 spies either working at Los Alamos or connected to them.
For SURE 4 were working at Los Alamos.
Other than Fuchs, the film ignored the spy issue.

The nudity was unnecessary and added nothing to the story unless you like boobs 10’ tall (on 70mm screen)

I really enjoyed the film and it was much better than “Fatman and Little Boy” for accuracy.


19 posted on 07/27/2023 8:51:46 AM PDT by Zathras
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I would have been surprised if he hadn’t fooled around. People isolated at the Manhattan project site, lots of young secretaries, being the bigshot on the project.

Who did the movie say he fooled with?


20 posted on 07/27/2023 8:53:17 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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we’ll watch at home. 3 hrs is a long sit for me.


23 posted on 07/27/2023 8:55:02 AM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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“Was his foolin’ around with other women important?”

It is if your intent is to discredit the man.

Far be it for hollywood to NOT embellish a story to the point of defamation or slander......also, sex sells so.....


26 posted on 07/27/2023 8:57:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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“Casey Affleck and Rami Malek playing secondary roles in the film after being leading men in other movies. Work in Hollywood’s gotta be hard to come by.”

It’s because it’s a Christopher Nolan film. Actors will do pretty much anything to get a part in a film by a really good director like him, even taking a smaller part, or a lower salary than they normally get.


28 posted on 07/27/2023 8:57:48 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Movies/TV series about the Manhattan Project are plentiful:

1) “Above and Beyond” (1952)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044324/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

2) “Oppenheimer” (TV mini series) (1980)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078037/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_5_nm_3_q_oppenh

3) “Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb” (1980)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080689/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_37_act

4) “Day One” (1989)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097159/

5) “Fat Man and Little Boy” (1989)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097336/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_19_act

6) “Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes” (1990)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099772/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_8_nm_0_q_hiroshima

7) “Hiroshima” (1995)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113309/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_8_nm_0_q_hiroshima


35 posted on 07/27/2023 9:01:45 AM PDT by DFG
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I saw a promotion for ‘Golda’. I hope they don’t monkey with the facts on HER life


44 posted on 07/27/2023 9:27:28 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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