Timeline for The Emotional Complexity in the 'Oppenheimer' Atomic Bomb Test Scene
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| Dec 1, 2023 at 15:25 | comment | added | OldPadawan | The video has not been added by OP, and is probably a mistake, as it doesn't match the original question ("reaction of the crowd/witness after the test"). I think the proper video that should be linked is before that one (now in the edit, showing the speech after little boy, and not the Trinity test). | |
| Nov 30, 2023 at 6:31 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Does the clip in the question show the actual scene that the question is about, or is the question about a different scene? The text of the question seems to be about the reaction after the Trinity test. The clip of the movie that has been edited is a scene from after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. The answer to the question about one scene is different from the other scene. So which is it? | |
| Nov 30, 2023 at 5:27 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @SkippyleGrandGourou: No, it's a different scene, after bombing Japan, the first time nuclear weapons were intentionally used to kill humans. The question is asking about a scene after the Trinity test (which was just a test, done in the New Mexico.) | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 10:54 | comment | added | Torben Gundtofte-Bruun | @SkippyleGrandGourou see at 3m37s in the clip. | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 9:54 | comment | added | Skippy le Grand Gourou | I didn’t see the movie, but is the clip related to the question ? I don’t see tears, only people cheering ? | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 22:12 | answer | added | Charles E. Grant | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 21:18 | comment | added | Narasimham | There is pride of success and achievement in a project that size when dropping of bomb was felt necessary at that time in war. However no human with the milk of kindness in him can take pride in mass destruction. The guilt of partaking in it is equally overwhelming. Looking at the fireball he said: “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” The line is a quotation from the 32nd verse ,11th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. Such guilt can be overcome in part at least by this comforting religious thought, that after all it is in the nature of things, as per a divine action or consequence. | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 16:57 | comment | added | Tom | Might be tears of relief given the huge amount of work and uncertainty that went into the project, plus the stress and pressure, consequences of failure etc., I think it's just conveying that scientists are humans too and not machines. | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 11:04 | answer | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 5:51 | comment | added | Steve Pemberton | That scene was the reaction after hearing the news that the bomb had been successfully dropped on Japan, not the Trinity test. As a side note, the actress playing the girl whose face is melting off is director Christopher Nolan's daughter. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 17:29 | comment | added | Steve | It's possible that individuals had multiple feelings themselves. This can be expressed as the major reaction to one feeling, or some weird reaction due to cognitive dissonance. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 14:37 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 26, 2023 at 22:33 | vote | accept | Iman Mohammadi | ||
| Nov 26, 2023 at 16:47 | answer | added | OldPadawan | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 26, 2023 at 16:28 | answer | added | F1Krazy | timeline score: 30 | |
| Nov 26, 2023 at 15:29 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2023 at 15:16 | history | asked | Iman Mohammadi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |