![]() It’s a breadth of emotion that needed to be carefully balanced by Nolan and reflected in the blast itself. Each member of the cast is on top of their game displaying a range of excitement, fear, and dread. The scene set prior to the detonation in the vast New Mexico desert is one filled with tension. So let's see if we can produce all of these effects using analog methods, from the very first imaginings that Oppenheimer has of the quantum world, of atoms, and how they would be interacting with strong force between them. “So I first showed the script to Andrew Jackson, my visual effects supervisor, and said, I don't think that tool's going to work for us. It's very difficult to have computer graphics convey threat, which is why they have to be used very carefully in horror movies, for example. But the results tend to feel a little anodyne, a little safe. That's not going to work because computer graphics, they're extremely versatile, and the detail that can be achieved and the variety of imagery that can be achieved is obviously unparalleled. “But when I came to Oppenheimer and I thought, okay, how do we portray the Trinity test? That first atomic device being detonated. ![]() It was actually put further away and made to feel safe.” But, strange to say, in that sequence, it was the release of tension. “So we used computer graphics to do the explosion in Dark Knight Rises. “At the end of Dark Knight Rises, there's a nuclear explosion, the point of which is very, very different from the explosion we knew we had to portray in the real-life Trinity test”, says Nolan. It was me.But, for a director with a long-held passion for practical effects, it was actually one of the rare occasions from his previous films where he embraced CGI methods that made it clear to him that Oppenheimer’s cinematic centrepiece would have to be created without the use of computer graphics. “It wasn’t Luke who destroyed the Death Star. Ignited by curiosity, we had to pick Bruce’s brain about the movies.Īnd explosions in movies. And one of the best detonations of any ship we’ve ever seen. Bruce and pyro-wizard Joe Viskocil used exotic explosives, titanium, gasoline, chemicals and more, lighting off one of the most mega miniature explosions of all time, directly above the camera to give the illusion of zero gravity. ![]() ![]() Turns out, Bruce never needed to use the real Death Star, as frame one of his explosion was bigger than the model. Like most cinematic explosions, from there, things only got bigger. And so did Bruce’s career in special effects. And although that footage was never used in the movie it was shot for, it was finally included in the opening sequence of Blade Runner twelve years later. Then proceeded to the desert where he shot his first explosion. Like most people in the biz, Bruce headed out to California. When 2001: A Space Odyssey touched down for filming in England, the stars aligned and Bruce found himself in the movie industry as an animation artist and photographer. What started as an aspiration to become an animator turned into an expansive mastery of animation, photography, special effects and pyrotechnics. ![]()
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