Christopher Nolan claims the term "biopic" is useless, and that Oppenheimer is a heist movie and courtroom drama.
The Big Picture Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has been an undeniable smash hit of historic proportions, grossing $942 million worldwide to date — fitting for a movie about such a gargantuan subject, the creation of the first atomic weapon. But don't dare describe the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a biopic, or else you'll suffer the director's wrath.
“There is a tendency in biography post-Freud to attribute characteristics of the person you’re dealing with to their genetics from their parents. It’s a very reductive view of a human being,” Nolan answered. “If you’re writing a book that’s 500 pages or 1,000 pages, there’s a way to balance that with their individuality and experiences. When you compress and strip down to the necessary simplicity of a screenplay, it’s incredibly reductive.
“This is where the concept of a biopic fails you completely as a genre. It’s not a useful genre. I love working in useful genres. In this film…it’s the heist film as it applies to the Manhattan Project and the courtroom drama as it applies to the security hearings. It’s very useful to look at the conventions of those genres and how they can pull the audience and how they can give me communication with the audience.
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