Christopher Nolan's kids told him 'young people aren't concerned about nuclear weapons' while he was working on 'Oppenheimer.'
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"It was very striking to me when I first got involved on the project. I told one of my teenage sons what I was working on, and he actually said to me, 'Well, young people aren’t that concerned about nuclear weapons,'" Nolan said in the press room. "It’s not really in the forefront of their fears, and that did seem to me to be something that this film could to some extent help with.
Nolan also clarified that he never purposefully makes a film to send audiences a message, but rather hopes that it's something they take away more organically from the story's narrative arc. "I don’t like to speak too specifically about messages that films are making because I feel that if cinema is didactic, it tends not to work dramatically so well," he said.from his days as a university student to his role in developing the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project to the 1954 security hearing that effectively ended his career.was the third-highest-grossing film of 2023 and the highest-grossing biopic ever made.
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