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"Christopher Nolan's #Oppenheimer explores the work of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer & colleagues to create the atomic bomb.

Yet, the film fails to depict a key part of the story, using 2 female scientists as stand-ins for ALL of the women who contributed."

Hundreds of women were essential to the Manhattan Project, including Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer. But they are largely absent in the #film.

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-manhattan-project-christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-completely-ignored-2023-7 #HistoryRemix #science #history


The women that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored

Women serving in key roles like explosion techs, librarians, and hematologists were essential to the Manhattan Project.
Katie Hawkinson (Insider)
#science #history #Film #historyremix #oppenheimer
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Queen of New York
Queen of New York
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I mean, it’s a Nolan film. Of course it ignores most of the women. Women are only important to Nolan in how they motivate men. It’s my primary criticism of him and why I don’t care for his work.
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Sudhir
Sudhir
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. So sad, not recognising telent of extremely talented women only because of gender! Imagine, how many decades were lost in progress of mankind, just because of traditional mindset!🤔☹️👎
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jannik
jannik
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Yes there are only two women in the movie, but in my opinion "& colleagues to create the atomic bomb." is not a good summary of the film. It is about the inner conflict of a person and the fragmentation of political reality by the bomb.
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beingextorted
beingextorted
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Oh, I guess you didn't get the memo about not including women in any of the important stuff like history or accolades or anything similar.
Ask Rosalind Franklin. Or Nettie Steven's. Or Jocelyn Bell Burnell...and so on.
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Custmzir
Custmzir
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I'm probably too stupid in modern terminology to understand this point. Wasn't the movie about physicist Robert J Oppenheimer? So understandably it would be about Oppenheimer and his contribution to the Manhattan project no?
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SLCW💥
SLCW💥
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Nolan's film was a biopic of Oppenheimer, not the many women who contributed to the project. To maintain a coherent storyline, there were some aspects of reality that simply could not be effectively incorporated into the plot. There are always choices directors have to make, especially when making a film about someone's life. Not everything or everyone is going to make the cut.
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Geralt, Master of Gwent
Geralt, Master of Gwent
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Isn’t Oppenheimer about J. Robert Oppenheimer rather than the Manhattan Project, hence the name? So it would make sense that a biographical movie focuses on a singular person? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)

2023 film directed by Christopher Nolan

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Ellie
Ellie
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Just imaging what this film would look like with only 2 guys as standins for all the men who contributed. 🤔
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Preston MacDougall
Preston MacDougall
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Well, there’s a great way to ‘even the score’. I’d love to see #GretaGerwig direct a movie 🎥 about the “Girls of Atomic City” ☢️ 👉 https://exploreoakridge.com/who-were-the-calutron-girls-of-oak-ridge/

Who Were the Calutron Girls of Oak Ridge?

One of the most iconic photographs from the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN features two rows of women sitting in front of imposingly large machines covered with meters and dials.
oakridgenew (Explore Oak Ridge)
#gretagerwig
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Jeffrey P Burdick
Jeffrey P Burdick
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It might be difficult to follow source material about Oppenheimer and tell a story with more women in it. Women were isolated. Men took credit for their work. Their involvement wasn't well documented.

I believe Nolan made an effort to depict them. It might have been a difficult job.

Here's an article from LLNL about Lilli Hornig. In the article she talks about being isolated from her peers.

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-science/2021-spring/womens-timeline-feature/

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