Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Receives R-Rating In The US — Director’s First Since 2002’s Insomnia
Oppenheimer is also Nolan's longest movie to date: it clocks in at almost three hours.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has received an R-rating in the US, Variety reported.
Oppenheimer, a historical thriller about the birth of the atomic bomb, stars Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer. It earned the R-rating for “Some sexuality, nudity, and language”.
The US$100 million (S$134mil) production also stars Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh and Robert Downey Jr.
Oppenheimer is Nolan’s first R-rated film since 2002’s Insomnia; his 1998 debut, Following, and 2000 breakout, Memento, are R-rated too.
In the US, viewers under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian to watch an R or Restricted film.
In Singapore, the film hasn’t been assigned a rating by Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
Oppenheimer is Nolan’s first film for Universal Pictures, after a 15-year tenure at Warner Bros, where he made The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Tenet. It’s also, at nearly three hours, his longest movie so far.
Nolan shot Oppenheimer on the big-screen Imax 70mm film format, and according to Associated Press, the film stock spans over 11 miles (about 17km, slightly longer than CTE) and weighs over 600 pounds (272kg).
Needless to say, catching Oppenheimer on the Imax 70 mm film format delivers the “best possible experience”.
“The sharpness and the clarity and the depth of the image is unparalleled,” Nolan told AP. “The headline, for me, is by shooting on Imax 70mm film, you’re really letting the screen disappear. You’re getting a feeling of 3D without the glasses. You’ve got a huge screen and you’re filling the peripheral vision of the audience. You’re immersing them in the world of the film.”
But that big-screen format isn't widely available: only 25 theatres across North America can play it. In Singapore, the Imax halls can only do digital.
Even if you can't see Oppenheimer on the Imax 70mm film format, you can hear it loud on Imax, notably in the sequence where the first nuke is set off during the Trinity Test.
“We knew that this had to be the showstopper,” Nolan said. “We’re able to do things with the picture now that before we were really only able to do with sound in terms of an oversize impact for the audience — an almost physical sense of response to the film.”
Oppenheimer opens in cinemas on July 20.
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