Christopher Nolan’s recent project Oppenheimer has already become of the one most talked about movies of the year. The director is known for his unique and extraordinary vision, which has made fans very excited for the release of the movie in theatres worldwide. Based on the real story of physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film follows the event of the creation of the first nuclear weapons. The film has multiple admirers, and one among them is Oscar-nominated screenwriter Paul Schrader.
The screenwriter of the superhit film, Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader is full of praise for Nolan’s film as he hails it as one of the most important movies of the century.
Paul Schrader hails Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
Ace screenwriter and film director Paul Schrader was among the few people who attended the New York premiere of Nolan’s atom bomb epic, Oppenheimer. The two times Academy Award-nominated director was massively impressed with the film. The Raging Bull director took to social media afterward to praise the film,
“Oppenheimer. The best, most important film of this century. If you see one film in cinemas this year it should be ‘Oppenheimer. ‘I’m not a Nolan groupie, but this one blows the door off the hinges.”
Paul Schrader is a prestigious screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He became widely popular for writing screenplays in collaboration with ace director Martin Scorsese. Their famous collaborations include Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Bringing Out the Dead.
Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird felt overwhelmed upon seeing Christopher Nolan’s film
Bird appreciated Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer adaptation in a conversation at the Institute for Advanced Study. He said,
“I am, at the moment, stunned and emotionally recovering from having seen it. I think it is going to be a stunning artistic achievement, and I have hopes it will actually stimulate a national, even global conversation about the issues that Oppenheimer was desperate to speak out about — about how to live in the atomic age, how to live with the bomb and about McCarthyism — what it means to be a patriot, and what is the role for a scientist in a society drenched with technology and science, to speak out about public issues.”
Oppenheimer is an adaptation of 2005 book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It follows the story of the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, from the viewpoint of theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer. Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy plays the lead role, and the supporting cast includes Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, as well as Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh.
Oppenheimer will run in theaters worldwide on July 21.
Source- Variety
