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Christopher Nolan Reportedly Recreating Nuclear Blast Without CGI Alarms Social Media

December 12th, 2022 - 5:49 PM EST by Brandon Wink

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For those who aren't aware, Christopher Nolan (the director behind The Dark Knight trilogy) has a famous preference for practical effects over CGI.

So much so, in fact, that social media now fears that Nolan will destroy the world in pursuit of an accurate nuclear blast and fallout effects as part of his upcoming film Oppenheimer, which apparently requires such scenes.

It was reported that Nolan, still filming integral scenes for the film, was able to recreate the first nuclear weapon detonation without the use of CGI, which began to spread fast as such a feat seems impossible to do off the simple premise of how powerful nuclear explosions are.

Previous knowledge of Nolan's penchant for doing things as authentically as possible, combined with the source material of the movie being literal nuclear devastation and bombs, led to many social media users fearposting as though Nolan was directly planning on recreating other integral scenes via actual nuclear weapons.

These posts and memes then started to devolve into talking about the cast and crew that would be subject to nuclear blasts, ending with the fear that Nolan would ironically drop two more bombs on Japan as part of the filming process.

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Gumshoe

Dec 13, 2022 at 09:51AM EST

When people say "without CGI", it doesn't mean they're literally going to do the thing in the movie. They're just going to use other practical effects and trickery instead. Usually, that means using miniature models instead of CGI rendering, using more stunt people to do real fighting or tricks instead of animating it, pyrotechnics over CGI flames, animatronics, puppets and elaborate costumes over animated animals or monsters etc.

In terms of a bomb it probably just means the pyro guys onthe movie had to figure out how to make a small regular explosive that will put out the same kinds of flames and mushroom cloud and then zoom in close on it to it appears big.

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PhasmaFelis

Dec 13, 2022 at 02:37PM EST Gumshoe

Indeed, although "small" is relative. You need a very large explosion to make a mushroom cloud--tons of TNT or equivalent--but still not nearly as big as a even a small nuke. Mushroom clouds were reported at least as far back as the 18th century, from the explosion of large gunpowder warehouses.

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baldarek

Dec 13, 2022 at 05:35AM EST

They should seriously let him detonate a real nuke somewhere. With proper screening and safety measures and supervision from scientists and the military, obviously. Nevada is already full of holes left over from literally hundreds of nuclear tests. What's one more gonna do?

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PuntPuntRunt

Jan 13, 2023 at 01:45PM EST baldarek

Make the whole world shit itself and violate a couple treaties.

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