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This is Why Nolan Wrote All of ‘Oppenheimer’ in the First Person

Christopher Nolan certainly knows how to get his reader in the mind of a character.

When you’re reading a screenplay, all the parts written in the action are usually in the third person. That means you read things like: “James walks across the room,” or “She pours herself a coffee.” You’re on the outside imagining what’s happening on screen.

But for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie, Oppenheimer, Nolan took a different route.

We’ll get to that.

In a new conversation with EW, Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy spoke about working on Oppenheimer together and the unique script. But before that could all happen, they had to meet.

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Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.

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