Join Oppenheimer director/writer/producer Christopher Nolan and composer Ludwig Göransson to learn more about the tense and emotive music behind the upcoming thriller movie.
Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, and more.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, the film is produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan. Oppenheimer opens in theaters on July 21, 2023.
Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, and more.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, the film is produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan. Oppenheimer opens in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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00:00 This is a national emergency.
00:02 Detonators charged!
00:04 As soon as I read the script, I'm putting the pieces together in my mind.
00:16 For Oppenheimer, we had a meeting and we started talking about
00:24 different approaches and
00:26 different types of
00:28 musical ideas. The film score grew very organically, very gradually from the smallest elements and I
00:36 had no preconceptions about the music for the film. Sometimes you have an idea for the soundscape of the world or the rhythm of it
00:42 and sometimes you don't and in this case all I had that I gave Ludwig was the idea of basing the score on the violin.
00:47 There's so much in the performance of the violin. Within seconds you can go from something
00:57 beautiful to something completely horrifying. And there's a tension to the sound in a way that I think fits the highly strong
01:04 intellect and emotion of Robert Oppenheimer very well.
01:07 And that's just the organic part of it, that's just the strings and then what comes on later is the production and the synthesizers.
01:26 I think every process of scoring is different if it's to be tailored
01:31 correctly to the demands of a new project and this was a
01:34 type of film I hadn't made before and it was a type of music that I hadn't worked with before.
01:39 A lot of things you do in the beginning is about experimenting and see where you can take things.
01:45 We would take his experiments and we would put them to picture and edit them and try different things and
01:51 show it to Ludwig and he would go and bring more things to the table.
01:55 Oppenheimer is a visual
01:57 masterpiece, you know, I've never seen that kind of intimate portrayal of a character on IMAX.
02:03 That's a six-note Oppenheimer theme. I felt like this movie was really pushing the boundaries in so many different fields.
02:11 So I wanted to see how we can do that with the music as well.
02:14 I think Ludwig's work in the film is both deeply personal and
02:25 historically expansive. I think it really achieves an
02:28 enormous amount of the effect of drawing the audience into the emotional dilemmas of the characters.
02:34 I think he's really put together a very remarkable score.
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