A historical error was uncovered that completely changed the perception of the film for many
Oppenheimer continues to be a hit at both the box office and critics Christopher nolan the best film debut of his career. flattery for Cilian Murphy as a controversial theoretical physicist was not long in coming, and considering all these elements, the tape is proving to be a big favorite for next awards season.
But despite Nolan’s efforts to tell a story as realistically as possible, it seems the famous filmmaker missed a small detail that network users have been claiming “He ruined the movie for them.”
was the user Andy Craig The one who recognized this bug and who was responsible for sharing it on networks, generating thousands of responses and interactions. Craig tweeted an image of the tape, which is part of a scene from Oppenheimer in which the physicist has to give a speech while proudly waving the United States flag to an audience euphoric about the bomb’s success.
User Andy Craig showed that in a scene by Oppenheimer, several people wave the US flag with 50 stars, which was not possible in 1945. Photo: Twitter/@AndrewRCraig
The fault lies in that The flags waved by the audience have 50 starswhich is a historical error since the flag of The American Union has only had this number of stars since 1960. In 1945, when Robert Oppenheimer completed the atomic bomb, the world was at the end of World War II, and up until then The American flag had 48 stars..
How many will know Each star on the US flag represents a state in the country, up until 1945, The United States had 48 states. It would last until 1959 Alaska It was the first non-contiguous country territory to become a state. A year later, during the presidential term Eisenhower, Hawaii It became the 50th state of the American Union, completing the 50-star flag that still represents the country today, 63 years later.
It wasn’t until 1960 that the American flag had 50 stars, when Hawaii was added to the list of states that made up the country (Getty Images)
Before this error was uncovered, many took it with humor and made all sorts of jokes about it, while others tried to justify it by assuring that it was a memory of Oppenheimer and that the flag had already had all the stars in his mind, which doesn’t really make much sense.
“Totally ruined the movie for me‘, ’50 times more stars than Japanese appear in this film’, ‘They had to do it, otherwise modern audiences wouldn’t know which country it was. “Sacrifice of precision for understanding”, “Barbie had no flaws” are some of the comments supporting the publication of Andy Craig It generated.
However, in the conversations that developed around the flag bug, one user pointed to another stumble at Oppenheimer. According to this user, who goes by @jobber10809254, the scene is where Cillian Murphy, who plays a young Oppenheimer, is holding a conference Dutch, really in German.
Another user pointed out that in the scene where Oppenheimer gives a speech in Dutch, he is actually giving it in German. Photo: Twitter/@jobber10809254
“I’m Dutch and German is spoken in the scene in the Netherlands. After it is mentioned several times that he was Dutch, and it was the only point in the film where the audience didn’t make noise. Cillian should have known, he’s our neighbor. (I still love the movie)” wrote @jobber10809254.
This is a very special fact considering that recently Robert Downey Jr. assured that Cillian Murphy was committed to learning 30,000 words in Dutch for this short scene. It’s worth noting that according to users, in the German-translated version of the film, Oppenheimer actually delivers the speech in Dutch.
Robert Downey Jr. claimed Cillian Murphy learned 30,000 Dutch words for that scene alone
Another scene that could be considered a mistake (depending on the outcome of the controversy) is when Oppenheimer has sex with Jean Tatlock (interpreted by Florence Pugh) while the scientist reads a Sanskrit verse from one of the Hindu religion’s most sacred books that has sparked anger across the subcontinent and roused calls for its removal.
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