"Oppenheimer" clip: Trinity

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Published 2024-03-08
"These things are hard on your heart." J. Robert Oppenheimer (Academy Award-nominee Cillian Murphy), leader of the Manhattan Project's efforts at Los Alamos, prepares for the test of the world's first detonation of a nuclear bomb, in this scene from Christopher Nolan's film, "Oppenheimer." Music by Oscar-nominee Ludwig Göransson.

"Oppenheimer" is nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including best picture.

Watch David Martin's interview with Christopher Nolan on "Oppenheimer":    • "Oppenheimer," the father of the atom...  

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All Comments (21)
  • @avantyurnyy
    I saw Oppenheimer in the theater. It was full of people. When it all went silent at 1:02, I thought someone would be eating chips, drinking cola, talking or whatever. Well, I was very surprised when the entire audience fell into the utter silence for like a minute. Everybody was just amazed by the beautiful shots of the explosion. I'll never forget that cinema experience.
  • Feynman watched through the windscreen of a truck. This actually happened - he knew the glass would block harmful UV and he was the only one to actually witness the explosion without dark filters, but he was temporarily blinded for some minutes afterwards.
  • I can't believe they used that. It looks just like a gasoline fire.
  • @theintunity
    And this is only a fraction of the nuclear power we have to day. Absolutely frightening.
  • @gecko7005
    all for practical effects, but they could have used some cgi to make the explosion look like an actual nuke
  • @Paccyd33
    I image this scene would be so much cooler if I wasn’t blocking my ears in anticipation of a super loud sound the whole time
  • @5CU11Y
    I stand by this. The explosion looked horrible. The split second clips in the opening scene showed the sheer magnitude far better than the final result. This looked like a gas can explosion a hundred meters away rather than a massive nuke miles away. CGI was absolutely needed here. With the same team that made the black hole in interstellar, they could have made a realistic nuke
  • @just_tax
    Am in the only one not amazed by the explosion?
  • @DJFNaFMan
    The silence is actually really disturbing hearing nothing but breathing and a distant hum. It shows how messed up these bombs really are
  • When I saw this scene, I was like “Yep this is winning Best Picture at the Oscars next year!”
  • I can't believe people are saying this scene was amazing. That was a slap in the face to the real team behind the manhattan project.