Episode 176: Oppenheimer

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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The BTS team discusses how Christopher Nolan brings his unique filmmaking style to the biopic genre, when structural complexity can help or hinder a story, and why a strong theme is necessary to hold it all together.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.4	The podcast for each episode we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:14.1	Today we are talking about Oppenheimer, the 2023 film written and directed by Christopher
0:19.4	Nolan.
0:20.4	Since this is our Best Picture Winter finale, it's worth mentioning that it won seven Academy
0:24.7	Awards, including Best Picture.
0:27.1	We orchestrated this finale.
0:28.6	Very well.
0:29.3	Good job team.
0:30.8	Coda all over again.
0:32.2	Yes.
0:33.2	Nailed it.
0:34.3	Speaking of the team, I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Tresha Rand.
0:38.2	Hello, everyone.
0:39.1	Brian Bittner.
0:40.1	Hello, hello.
0:40.9	And Alex Cayetos.
0:42.3	Hi.
0:43.3	Okay.
0:44.2	So we're here.
0:45.9	We're at the end of our Best Picture Winter season.
0:49.5	It's been a fun eight episodes with this being the eighth now.
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