the thing i love the most about dunkirk fanfic is that every single one of us made the conscious decision to completely ignore the fact that tommy was just trying to take a shit when he met philippe

poetic cinema

Robert Oppenheimer trying in vain to prevent a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union:

aneurin.b: Dunkirk behind the scenes…

'Cillian Murphy revealed in July that Christopher Nolan shot “Oppenheimer” in less than 60 days, no easy feat for a $100 million Hollywood tentpole. But it turns out Nolan was originally planning for a much longer film shoot. In an interview this month on the “Team Deakins” podcast, “Oppenheimer” production designer Ruth De Jong revealed that Nolan slashed around 30 filming days in order to re-allocate the film’s budget to production design and set locations.

“It felt like a $100 million indie. This is not ‘Tenet,'” De Jong said. “Chris wanted to shoot all over the United States…just plane tickets alone and putting crew up all over the place [is expensive]. Not to mention I have to build Los Alamos, it doesn’t exist. That’s where I really felt like it was impossible. Chris said, ‘Forget the money. Let’s just design what we want.’ So that’s what we did, and when construction first budgeted my town it was $20 million. Chris was like, ‘Yeah, no. Stop.’ We had this huge white model and I started pulling buildings out of it, not to mention we want to shoot in New York and New Jersey and Berkley and Los Angeles and New Mexico.”

That’s when Nolan did “the most incredible thing” in order “to achieve all of the desired looks and designs,” De Jong said. The filmmaker told her, “I’ve got to go do my homework,” which she later realized meant re-organizing the film’s shooting schedule in order to consolidate days and free up the budget for the production design. De Jong said “Oppenheimer” was originally set for an 85-day shoot, perhaps even more, but Nolan cut it down by at least 30 days.

“Tom, the executive producer, said, ‘Ruth, you can’t go to Berkley, you can’t do this.’ But we have to go to Berkley. That is Oppenheimer!” De Jong remembered. “The producers were asking what I could do on my end to shrink [the budget]. Tom then comes into my office and says, ‘Chris is going to shoot this in 55 days.’ That is a lot of money we get back! At that point you feel like I have to deliver above and beyond because he just went and gave up his days. He, more than anyone, knows what he wants to get in every single day and how he wants to get it and he goes from 85 to 55 days.”

With the budget freed up due to a limited shooting schedule, De Jong was able to have the finances needed to reconstruct Los Alamos from scratch in New Mexico. One of the only concessions she had to make was shooting portions of the film set in Washington D.C. in New Mexico since Nolan was not permitted to shoot in actual government buildings in D.C.

“We made the movie unbelievably quickly,” Murphy previously said on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast. “The pace of that was insane.”

By comparison, Nolan’s World War II survival thriller “Dunkirk” shot for 68 days, and his massive spy movie “Tenet” shot for 96 days. Murphy is front and center in a majority of “Oppenheimer” scenes, which made the shorter shooting schedule all the more intense for the actor.

“The sets are huge, but it feels like being on an independent movie,” Murphy added about working with Nolan, which he has been doing for over 20 years now. “There’s just Chris and the cameraman — one camera always, unless there’s some huge, huge set piece — and the boom op and that’s it. There’s no video village, there’s no monitors, nothing. He’s a very analog filmmaker.”

“Oppenheimer” is set to cross the $800 million mark at the worldwide box office in the coming week. The film is playing in theaters nationwide from Universal Pictures.'

Christopher Nolan:

“On the cover of AMERICAN PROMETHEUS the real Robert Oppenheimer staring at with his incredible blue eyes, and I thought well I KNOW WHO CAN DO THAT.”

“The cast of Dunkirk fell in love with Cillian Murphy and rightly so”

I mean…

Do I even have to say it?

Cillian Murphy UK Premiere of "Oppenheimer" at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, Englandon July 13, 2023

Cillian Murphy Oppenheimer Premiere at the Grand Rex Cinema in Paris on July 11 (2023)

New highly emotional moodboard for Henry Wilson aka Shivering Soldier and William Killick because they are in pain and they deserved better and I love them.

It's almost midnight. I can hear the waves crashing on the shore. I got the vibes. The night's perfect.

DUNKIRK (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

Tom Glynn-Carney at Dunkirk premiere (2017)

he loooks sooo <3333

H: It was really exciting to explore the relationship between the two characters. And how the tension would build in how each character would obviously react differently to what they thought their role was gonna be in the war, and the reality of what the war was really like. And I think exploring that was kind of the most fun part for us. F: Absolutely.

this is still my favourite thing ever…i like to believe that in the gif where haz first grabs fionn’s hand, fionn’s breath literally catches in his throat and he gets so happy omg im gone

HARRY…DID THAT…HE MADE…THE…CHRISTOPHER NOLAN…LAUGHHHHHH????