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They didn't show that in Oppenheimer.

I thought this to myself as well after seeing Oppenheimer. As someone else has mentioned, it was shown in Fat Man, Little Boy. Each movie had different things that were or were not shown. FMLB didn't have the football field. There's only so much you can put into a 3 hour film where at least 7/8ths are in focus.

Edit: Diving down a rabbit hole, it looks like the scene in FMLB was based on the Louis Slotin incident from May 21, 1946. So some creative licensing from the producers, and probably why it is not in Oppenheimer

I wish I had something witty to add here, other than - "LOL". Thank you!

There's a saying in the camera department where the AC wants to buy a stop from the DP. I have always wanted to use that line, but I've never had a DP shoot that shallow for those kinds of scenes. In music videos, sure, but man! I haven't had the time to look into what was used to shoot that, but I'm wondering if they were shooting T-.95 it was so shallow.

Oppenheimer wasn't there. This happened in 1946 and he had already resigned many months before

I was surprised they mentioned the bombing of Tokyo. Just short in a sentence, but still ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194...

What’s really interesting is how young everyone involved was.

When I got back from the army, I showed the girl I was staying with a picture of my sergeant and told her that was my boss. She said, "No way, he's too young to be a boss!" FFS, he was at least 25.

Look at the famous photo of the Enola Gay crew the morning of the bombing. Pictured and 12 of the 14 men who would be the first to drop a nuclear bomb. Half of them look like they should still be in highschool and the other half aren't looking much older either.

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