The last days, Some statements made by Christopher Nolan for the latest edition of the magazine were revealed total films (excerpts can be seen here). There, the film artist states that, in his usual eagerness to make ‘practical cinema’, he dispensed with computer animation to recreate one of the central scenes of his next film, “Oppenheimer”. In this, we will be able to see the explosion of the first atomic bomb, as part of the Trinity test.
The artist’s words have been interpreted by the press as if he had caused a nuclear explosion for such purposes, something he never claimed.
Christopher Nolan never claimed he needed a nuclear explosion
In Verifier, we review the latest issue of Total Film magazine, in which the interview with the famous director appears. The exact phrases that he provides regarding the scene of the nuclear explosion are the following:
“I think recreating the Trinity test [la primera detonación de un arma nuclear, en Nuevo México] without the use of computer graphics It was a great challenge.”
Then continue:
“Andrew Jackson, my visual effects supervisor, I brought him in early on. I was looking at how we could do a lot of the visuals in the film in a practical way, from representing quantum dynamics and quantum physics to the Trinity proof itself and recreate Los Alamos with my team on a plateau, in New Mexico, with an extraordinary climate”.
In these excerpts, referring to the expected scene, Nolan never claims that they had to use a nuclear explosion to recreate it. Although he does not rule it out.
We use different search engines (one, 2, 3) to come up with a statement from the filmmaker’s final days that elaborates on the recreation of the Trinity test in the film, and we found no results. All the information uses the interview with Total Film as a source. Nor did we find previous pronouncements.
Why is it speculated that Christopher Nolan would have actually caused a nuclear explosion for his movie?
The film director is famous for doing without computer animation as much as possible. In other films, he replaced this technique with ‘practical effects’. Thus, to give an example, for “The Origin”, in a scene in which a fight takes place over the walls and roof of a house, he used rotating sets together with special technology. For his latest film, “Tenet,” he actually crashed a Boeing 747 plane.
Who was Oppenheimer and what was the Trinity test about?
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was a prominent American theoretical physicist and one of the main scientists in charge of the Manhattan Project, which was aimed at creating the atomic bomb. This weapon would be used by the United States to devastate the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, which left as a consequence the murder of more than 200,000 people and the surrender of the Japanese country.
The first test of this weapon was called Trinity and was carried out in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, three weeks before the debacle in the Asian country. In archival material from the time, you can see its completion.
What are the consequences of such an explosion?
It all depends on the composition and quantity (chemical elements) of what triggers the explosion. All these landmarks, to a lesser or greater degree, produce shock waves, and thermal and nuclear radiation. Lately, countries like the United States and Russia have developed warfare technology that focuses more on precision than massiveness. Even so, the ratio between the size of the device that generates the explosion and this one is quite large.
As the nuclear race progressed, different agreements have been signed between the countries to reduce the tests and their massiveness. The effects that these have on the planet are of great consideration. There are regions on Earth that have been in great danger for years due to explosions detonated nearby. This is the case of the Fiji islands, in whose atolls 67 tests occurred United States nuclear.
The material, likewise, driven into the atmosphere by the milestone, unleashes acid and/or radioactive rain, and can fall in areas over which there is no control and that are not related to the event, generating harmful effects due to its radioactivity. For this reason, the pollution it causes in the atmosphere was one of the main reasons why the United Nations (UN) created the International Day Against Nuclear Testswhich is celebrated on August 29.
Conclution
there is no evidence that allows us to affirm that Christopher Nolan caused a nuclear explosion to record a scene from his next film in which the Trinity test can be seen. Statements he recently gave to Total Film magazine have been misinterpreted. However, the director has not ruled out that he has not resorted to this either.
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