Nolan says he views his movie as a heist film, crossed with a courtroom drama—but never a biopic
Despite having made what is, at least at first blush, a pretty definitive biographical picture about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan says he rejects the “biopic” label for his recent blockbuster historical film, Oppenheimer. That’s per Variety, reporting on a talk Nolan recently gave at a CUNY event, in which he derided the “biopic” label for not being a “useful genre” to work in.
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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