Christopher Nolan fortæller hvorfor "Oppenheimer" er optaget i 15 perf. / IMAX

"Oppenheimer" facadeplakat ved Vesterport i København. Foto: Thomas Hauerslev

Interviewer "Oppenheimer" London Red Carpet Premiere: Why was this movie in particular for you, something you wanted to shoot in IMAX - wanted to tell this story in IMAX?

Christopher Nolan: Well, my director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema and myself, we have used IMAX for all kinds of things over the years. A lot for action, and we knew coming to "Oppenheimer", that we needed to scale. We knew that we needed to take the audience across the desert vistas of New Mexico, We needed the stormy weather coming in. We needed the extremity. The build up to the test, and the test itself. But we also wanted to experiment with the intimate moments. We wanted to try and take that format and use it as a way to have the screen disappear, and just be living in that space with these characters. Feeling what they are feeling. Experiencing what they are experiencing.

YouTube Fandango Interviewer: Please explain some of the deliberate things you made choosing to film it in IMAX [question shortened, ed]

Christopher Nolan: I've used IMAX for years, and IMAX film is the highest quality imaging format ever devised. What that gives you is access to the audiences’ perception. It takes the screen away. I refer to it as 3D without the glasses. You just look at a crystal-clear sharp image, and we have used it in the past for a lot of action. We have used it for the grand vistas, and my director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, and myself we knew that we would get New Mexico that way. We would get the storms. We would get the desolation where they built Los Alamos. But what we both got very excited about, is how can this format help give us access to Oppenheimer’s thought process? How can it help us really peer into his soul? What happens when you apply that grand format to intimacy? To what these guys are doing. To really seeing the world through his eyes. Try to pick up the different layers of what everybody is thinking and feeling. All the conflicts and the paradoxical situations and ethical dilemmas that is going on. We found the format is a powerful tool for all aspects of cinema really. And cinema is just about storytelling and it's more than anything about the human element.

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"Oppenheimer" og de forskellige filmformater
IMAX 70mm, 70mm 5-perf film, 35mm film, IMAX Digital Cinema, Dolby Cinema, 4K digital
Af: Universal Pictures