Israeli movies have a whole genre known as “Shoot and Cry” (it rhymes in Hebrew) basically all about how sad warfare makes the aggressor
Those men were drafted soldiers. That's a fancy word for slaves. They had no choice and many did not want to kill. A neologism entered our language, "fragging" meaning killing your commanding officer.
a weepy biopic about a sniper who feels insecure because he lost the contest to see who could shoot out more children's kneecaps from beyond 200 meters
That’s one of the genre. I think Noah Kulwin talked about them on :citations-needed:
Love too create the most powerful weapon in history for a government that's going to accuse me of being a communist
The Manhattan Project was full of spies. The plans were leaked and thankfully a few years later the Soviets detonated their first bomb.
Can you imagine a post-WWII world in which the US were the only ones with nuclear weapons? Shudder
especially if they make a song about the time The Soviet atomic program ENORMOZ was headed by Beria, who was very paranoid so instead of giving the leaked info directly to the scientists, they were given in the form of asking the scientists to check if the data match with their own experiments.
In other words, the leaked Manhattan Project data served mostly to confirm what the Soviets already knew at the time.
wow this is going to be a fucking garbage navel-gazer whose ultimate message is probably "we had to unleash the most destructive weapon the world has ever seen to save the world from communism"
Kinds weird this hasn't been made by someone else a lo g ways back. Also Nolan is like, really really really not the guy for this. I'm not sure who is pick but bad call there.
That being said I'd love to make it and here's how I'd sort of do it: starts in the style of like a typical space mission/that movie where they break the enigma code or whatever, scientists coming together, overcoming the obstacles in the way of discovery etc. Until the audience forgets it's about the atom bomb. Room full of scientists applaud at mission control as the mission succeeds, this is about 3/4 through. Then hard hard fucking cut to as much actual footage of the blast, the victims and the long term consequences in montage Adam Curtis style. Black screen, I am become quote, Hiroshima/Nagasaki memorial list on total silence. Credits.
Just. Imagine. The. BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM. During the actual bomb going off part.
Some will tremble with Pavlovian ecstacy and I'm already dreading having to hear about it.
I'm actually like, upset over how well I have this visualized now. Tom Hanks as Oppenheimer, total Speilbergian sentimentality the whole works then just HARD FUCKING CUT
I was halfway through responding and it was a good comment. Why delete?
I HATE NOLAN MOVIES I HATE NOLAN MOVIES
Also, I can safely assume if the movie takes off, so will rates of cigarette consumption because cool retro smart nuke man is smoking. Bazinga! :so-true:
cigarette smoke in the shape of mushroom cloud
Bravo Nolan :stuff:
Twin Peaks...Jeez gave up on that one back in the 90s when it became obvious they were just piling mystery on mystery without any resolutions in mind.
Then Lost did the same thing. Copiers.
Finish it, watch the movie and The Return. You're like 30 years behind on stuff
Nah, the moment is long gone. Not interested any more. They had one chance, and they blew it. On purpose.
I am pretty sure I know exactly where you dropped off and everyone including David Lynch hates the middle point of season 2. It gets saved in the end of the season in a way that wipes the bullshit clean and gets back to the core of things in a way that would surprise you how well it does so, the season 2 finale is as good as the pilot. Fire Walk With Me and The Return are somewhat their sons beasts all together. The shitty slump doesn't seem as long when you can watch several episodes in one night. It's not a show for everyone but based on your complaints it's something that was course corrected before a lot of people on here were born
No. David Lynch had one chance. I got all excited for nothing. Never watched anything by him since.
The zeitgeist has long since gone, watching the show wouldn't be the same. It was like Max Headroom, an artifact of its time.
I was born during the second season, didn't see the show until I was 20 and behind the various Star Treks it's my favorite show. If you don't wanna watch it, fine,. It it does have way more going on than you know about and becomes compel again and then goes real fucking weird after. Watch it or don't, but that slump did break, it said it would see us again in 25 years, it did and it fucking ruled hard.
Epic Rap Battles of History: Thanos vs J Robert Oppenheimer.
They got the haunted look down perfectly. His thousand yard stare, the lo-fi 50s TV filter...they nailed it.
Commenter: "It's strangely cathartic to see a stupidly over done internet meme of a fictional character get so absolutely and entirely annihilated by the sheer anxiety inducing, soul crushing weight of actual history. An imaginary destroyer of an imaginary universe against the man who may yet have paved the way to the ultimate end of all humanity as we know it and was VERY much aware of it. Hell, even their stances say a lot. Thanos poses like he's all-powerful and intimidating in most of his scenes, whereas Oppenheimer hangs his shoulders slack, like it doesn't even matter. Like nothing matters. Which lends more impact in making Thanos just feel so hilariously irrelevant here."
"Unlike Thanos who failed because his actions were undone, Oppenheimer succeeded and his actions are irreversible."
Bracing for the sigma meme culture that will follow Cillian Murphy's character from Peaky Blinders and infect Oppenheimer. An ever escalating misunderstanding of messed up, haunted or twisted men as badasses to emulate.
"bro oppenheimers so cool!! he made a huge bomb and totally won the war bro. just look at that grind :))))"
