Christopher Nolan says he wrote 'Oppenheimer' in first-person perspective.
Christopher Nolan's latest film, Oppenheimer, had such a profound effect on his filmmaking process that he found himself doing something completely alien in the making of it - writing the script from the perspective of the main character. The majority of the film is told from the perspective of Cillian Murphy's Robert J. Oppenheimer, the title character who led the Manhattan Project in creating the atomic bomb.
Speaking with Empire Magazine, the director elaborated on the process - and explained why he felt the need to get so deep inside the scientist's mind, as part of a desire to keep the film as subjective as possible. In order for it to be about Oppenheimer, he had to be Oppenheimer. COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT “I actually wrote in the first-person, which I’ve never done before. I don’t know if anyone’s ever done it before. But the point of it is, with the colour sequences, which is the bulk of the film, everything is told from Oppenheimer’s point of view — you’re literally kind of looking through his eyes.Odd thing to do. But it was a reminder to me of how to shoot the film.
Murphy responded positively: "Yes, massively. That's the only script that I've ever read that's been in the first person. It took me a minute, maybe a bit more than a minute, to figure that out. But then it became clear that you wanted it to be completely subjective, that everything was to be seen through the character's eyes as it were, and, again, yeah, that added massively to the terror.
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