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Project Manhattan led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, finally produced good atom terrible. On July 16, 1945, the first trial detonation was held in New Mexico under the code name Trinity.
The test successfully detonated the atomic bomb early in the morning, lighting up the desert and hills of New Mexico. Well in the movies Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan and the special effects team aired the Trinity scene without any CGI assistance at all. How could that be?
“Obviously, we couldn’t create an actual explosion-sized explosion, so we used trickery,” explained cinematographer Oppenheimer. Of course they didn’t detonate real atomic bombs.
quoted detikINET from Yahoo News, the Trinity scene at Oppenheimer lasts about 10 minutes. Nolan and van Hoytema worked with special effects supervisor Scott Fisher and visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson on a number of experiments to figure out how the scene could play out.
“We created science experiments. We built aquariums with forces in them. We dropped silver particles in them. We formed metallic balloons that lit up from the inside. Objects were slammed and bumped into each other like ping-pong balls,” he explained, describing what they did.
According to him, they were like playing on a giant playground, but he did not explain in detail how the scene of the atomic bomb exploding was finally created. How van Hoytema and team reproduced that spectacular moment is still a mystery.
With each trial, Nolan and van Hoytema would judge whether it was appropriate for airing. In total, the Trinity sequence took several weeks to shoot.
Nolan himself has confirmed that there are no CGI effects in Oppenheimer. He admits that without CGI assistance, recreating the Trinity scene is a big challenge to face.
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2023-07-23 23:15:58
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